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All sixteen new hires to the Voting Section have far-left resumes — which were only released following a PJM lawsuit. (This is the first in a series of articles about the Civil Rights Division’s hiring practices since President Obama took office.) Recently released documents — disclosed by the Obama Justice Department only after a court battle — reveal that the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice is engaging in politicized hiring in the career civil service ranks. Typical Washington behavior, you say? Except the hiring in question is nearly unprecedented in scope and significantly eclipses anything the Bush...

It should be a ripping good show in Sacramento in 2005, since the only place more torn by debilitating race, gender and cultural tension than the California State Assembly and State Senate might be a high school cafeteria seething with rival gangs. I realized this when I saw two lists of recent appointments announced by Republican and Democrat leaders to top jobs and committee chairmanships coveted by state senators and assembly members in Sacramento. To sum up, the Republicans are wallowing in the 1980's, still knuckle-dragging with a crew of white Anglo-Saxon Protestant men, only slowly adding women and minorities....