Holder's Wife Linked to 'Fast and Furious' and Abortion Clinic Fraud

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Photo Credit: on.aol.comWhile outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder continues to fend off responsibility for the law enforcement snafu known as Operation Fast and Furious, documents obtained through a judge’s order reveal that not only did Holder know about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), but he discussed it via email with his physician spouse, Sharon Malone, however President Barack Obama is granting those emails to be withheld based on an “executive privilege” claim.

While most media organizations are quick to give President Barack Obama, Holder and others the “benefit of the doubt,” in Holder’s wife’s case they actually turned a blind eye to corruption that included alleged confict-of-interest. For example, Dr. Malone is no stranger to controversy: While Holder had been blasted for his failure to investigate alleged crimes involving abortion clinics, his wife, Sharon, and his sister-in-law co-owned an abortion clinic run by an abortion physician, Tyrone Cecile Malloy, who was indicted by a Georgia grand jury on charges of Medicaid fraud after Holder’s office failed to prosecute the alleged fraud.

The Fast and Furious documents, according to the prolific government watchdog group Judicial Watch, include the emails between the attorney general and his wife regarding a White House statement on the “gun walking” scandal that the White House wanted kept secret.

On July 18, 2014, U.S. District Court Judge John Bates ordered the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to produce, a Vaughn Index of withheld documents regarding Fast and Furious which the DOJ grudgingly released on October 22. When the DOJ asked the court to delay the release day until later in November — a ploy to avoid their release before the mid-term elections — Judge Bates denied the obviously politically-motivated request to delay the release until after the Nov. 4, 2014, elections.

In a Vaughn Index, the government must list each withheld document, state the statutory exemption claimed for it and explain how the disclosure of each document would damage the governmental interests asserted by the exemption. Malone is not a government employee or a member of the Obama White House, and so the executive privilege claim rings hollow with many legal scholars.

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Scientists Predict 130 Ebola Cases in US by the End of 2014

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Photo Credit: AP / John MinchilloTop medical experts studying the spread of Ebola say the public should expect more cases to emerge in the United States by year’s end as infected people arrive here from West Africa, including American doctors and nurses returning from the hot zone and people fleeing from the deadly disease.

But how many cases?

No one knows for sure how many infections will emerge in the U.S. or anywhere else, but scientists have made educated guesses based on data models that weigh hundreds of variables, including daily new infections in West Africa, airline traffic worldwide and transmission possibilities.

This week, several top infectious disease experts ran simulations for The Associated Press that predicted as few as one or two additional infections by the end of 2014 to a worst-case scenario of 130.

“I don’t think there’s going to be a huge outbreak here, no,” said Dr. David Relman, a professor of infectious disease, microbiology and immunology at Stanford University’s medical school. “However, as best we can tell right now, it is quite possible that every major city will see at least a handful of cases.”

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Boko Haram Leader says Kidnapped Girls Married Off, Converted to Islam

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Photo Credit: APThe leader of Nigerian Islamic extremist group Boko Haram announced in a video released Friday that more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls had been married off and converted to Islam, dismissing claims by the Nigerian government that it had agreed to a truce.

“If you knew the state your daughters are in today, it might lead some of you … to die from grief,” Abubakar Shekau sneered, addressing the parents of the girls and young women kidnapped from a remote boarding school more than six months ago.

In the video, the Boko Haram leader also denied there was a cease-fire with the Nigerian government.

“A lie,” Mr. Shekau said, according to The Wall Street Journal. The girls, he claimed, had now been married off and converted to Islam. “They have now memorized two chapters of the Quran.”

“In this war, there is no going back,” he said in the video received by The Associated Press in the same way as previous messages.

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Mexico Police Questioned in Killing of 3 Americans

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Authorities were investigating on Friday a possible police connection to the killing of three U.S. citizens visiting their father in Mexico who were found shot to death along with a Mexican friend more than two weeks after going missing.

Parents of the three siblings, whose bodies were identified Thursday, have said witnesses reported they were seized by men dressed in police gear calling themselves “Hercules,” a tactical security unit in the violent border city of Matamoros wracked by cartel infighting. Nine of the unit’s 40 officers are being questioned, Tamaulipas state Attorney General Ismael Quintanilla Acosta said.

It would be the third recent case of alleged abuse and killings by Mexican security forces.

The country is already convulsed by the case of 43 students from a teachers college in the southern state of Guerrero, their disappearance blamed on a mayor and police working with a drug cartel. Fifty-six people are under arrest, including dozens of police officers.

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'He's Sort Of God': Remember When Obama Was The Messiah?

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Photo Credit: Daily CallerPresident Barack Obama had an approval rating of just 38 percent as of late September and he is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year.

This week, the man who once filled arenas like a rock star suffered the indignity of Wisconsin Democrats walking out on him as he stumped for another struggling Democrat, Mary Burke. Obama’s visit to Wisconsin coincided with the disappearance of Burke’s modest lead in statewide polls. She now trails her opponent, Scott Walker, by seven points.

The very same thing happened in deep-blue Maryland last week, where the bleachers reportedly began emptying while Obama was giving a speech. The Republican gubernatorial candidate then enjoyed a nine-point polling boost.

Adding still further to Obama’s misery, a new nationwide poll from Harvard’s Institute of Politics shows his Svengali-like hold over America’s 18-to-29-year-old voting cohort has finally loosened.

And in Kentucky, Democratic Senate candidate Alison Grimes won’t even admit she voted for Obama.

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Now Pro-Life Groups Told to Pay for Abortions

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Photo Credit: WNDGovernment advocacy for unlimited access to abortion has surged under Barack Obama’s administration, and at one point the National Right to Life Committee uncovered documents revealing the president was even more dedicated to abortion at any time for any reason than even the National Abortion Rights Action League.

Now, the District of Columbia is proposing a Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Amendment that would prohibit employers from “discriminating” for any reason over the issue of “reproductive health,” including abortion.

It “is intended to force employers to provide health insurance for elective abortions regardless of the employers’ beliefs or convictions,” according to the Alliance Defending Freedom.

ADF has joined with the March for Life, Susan B. Anthony List, Charlotte Lozier Institute, Concerned Women for America, National Right to Life Committee and Family Research Council to write a letter to D.C. officials strongly urging them to drop the plan.

Earlier this month, a formal protest developed in California on behalf of several churches whose leaders charge the state simply changed its health insurance practices to force them to pay for abortions. Casey Mattox, an attorney working on the California case, said forcing a church” to be party to elective abortion is one of the utmost-imaginable assaults on our most fundamental American freedoms.”

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EPA Director on Environmental Laws: ‘Enforcement Really is Democracy in Action’ (+video)

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Photo Credit: APEPA Director Gina McCarthy has praised environmental lawyers for their work, telling them “enforcement really is democracy in action.”

“When I think about how effective we’ve been I keep coming back to the same reason for that effectiveness, it’s because our laws have teeth, it’s because EPA is empowered to enforce them,” McCarthy told attendees at the American Bar Association Fall Conference.

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Keep Moving in the Red Direction

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Photo Credit: Arthur ChapmanWhile Alaska has had brief spurts of liberty and conservatism over the years, it has steadily moved forward to being a red state. This year we’re threatened with a leap backwards to the democrat’s dream of the dark ages of government control.

In the past, Alaska has had great moments that highlighted the desire for liberty. The libertarians who got rid of the income tax, conservative independent Wally Hickel winning the governorship and even the campaign and victory of Sarah Palin, who ran on a conservative populist platform even though she didn’t carry that through once elected.

In 2008, the conservative Ron Paul supporters had a large presence at the Republican State convention, but were unable to form the two-thirds majority needed to oust the corrupt chair of the party. In 2010, Joe Miller won the primary with his conservative liberty-minded principles, and narrowly lost the general election against the liberal write-in candidate Lisa Murkowski, but garnering 90,000 votes in the process.

In the spring of 2012, the conservatives were able to win all the offices in the Republican state party before the liberals illegally kicked them out. That fall, the conservative voters came together and ousted the democrat-led spending coalition that had tripled the state budget. Finally achieving a conservative majority in both houses, and having conservative Sean Parnell as governor, we were able to get oil tax reform, a history-making LNG project and they cut the budget by billions.

Alaska is finally coming out of decades of liberal dominance, but a new threat has arisen. The democrats realizing that they are on the losing end of history have made a last minute Hail Mary attempt to thwart the conservative steamroller. They have allied with moderate Bill Walker to combine the democrat and liberal independent votes to try and retake the governor’s office. This will put an immediate halt to development around the state and further their dreams of making Alaska into one big park. Currently, the tickets are polling so close they’re within the margin of error. This election will ultimately rest on who gets out and votes. The liberals have three propositions that they want to pass that will get them to the polls. I would just like to encourage conservatives to not ignore the election Tuesday; the fate and direction of Alaska and your future hangs in the balance. Please don’t let the liberal machine win be default. Vote Tuesday.

Lance Roberts is an engineer, born and raised in Fairbanks. He is a member of the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly. The views expressed here are his own and do not represent the assembly or borough administration.

Alabama Incest Ring Unravels Following Teen's Disappearance

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Photo Credit: APA teen’s mysterious disappearance helped prompt the deciphering of an alleged sex ring, involving numerous family members in the back woods of Alabama. 19-year-old Brittney Wood is thought to have been with Donnie Holland — her uncle, who was being investigated for disturbing sex crimes — in May 2012, the night Holland died from a gunshot in his car. Wood has not been seen since, and many questions remain surrounding rampant incest in her family, which is being described by investigators as “the largest sex ring ever uncovered in Alabama.”

Eleven individuals — eight of whom are adult relatives of Wood — have been charged with sex crimes related to the alleged ring, according to the Associated Press (AP). The adults allegedly shared their own children for group sex.

According to prosecutors, incest has gone on, unchecked, for at least three generations in the family. Holland was thought to be one of the group’s leaders; he was scheduled to be questioned about his role in the incest ring the same day that his body was discovered.

Mobile County Assistant District Attorney Nicki Patterson told the AP, “Donnie was the manager. He’d say, ‘I’ve got this child and this adult, come on over.'”

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Lt Gov Dewhurst Asks For Cost Estimates To Expand Border Security

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Photo Credit: Breitbart Lt. Governor David Dewhurst asked the Texas National Guard (TNG) and Department of Public Safety (DPS) to provide cost estimates to expand the current border security operations underway along the Texas-Mexico border. In addition to expanding the operation to covering more of the border, the governor is asking for estimates to carry the operation through 2016.

“While defending our borders is, without question, a federal responsibility, Texas has an obligation to defend itself independently of the federal government when Washington fails to fulfill its Constitutional duties,” Dewhurst said in a letter to the DPS and TNG obtained by Breitbart Texas. “As policymakers continue discussion on how to fill the void left by Washington, it is important that the debate be informed by sound strategy and honest budgetary considerations.” Dewhurst’s letter is attached below for reference.

Dewhurst wrote the request to Colonel Steven McCraw, Texas DPS Director and Major General John Nichols, TNG Adjutant General. He requested the department leaders to provide cost estimates for the Offices of the Lt. Governor, Governor and Speaker of the House along with other lawmakers who are involved in the process.

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