Source: Alexander Burns / Politico The newly minted Republican nominee for lieutenant governor of Virginia once compared Planned Parenthood to the Ku Klux Klan and bemoaned black voters’ “slavish devotion” to the Democratic Party — past statements that are likely to inflame the culture-war politics of the state’s 2013 elections. E.W. Jackson, a black minister [...]
Source: Krissah Thompson / The Washington Post Michelle Obama encouraged the graduates of Bowie State University on Friday morning to live up to the legacy of their university’s founders and the leaders of the civil rights movement by promoting the importance of education in the black community. “Just think about this for a moment — for [...]
The ousted chief of the Internal Revenue Service Steven Miller is telling Congress that his agency made errors in targeting conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, but he says the mistakes were not the result of partisan views. (May 17)
Source: Aaron Gould Sheinin and Bill Rankin / The Atlanta Journal-Constitution State Rep. Tyrone Brooks Sr., D-Atlanta, was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury for allegedly misappropriating almost $1 million in charitable funds, the U.S. Attorney’s office said. The grand jury had been investigating the Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials’ finances. Brooks has [...]
Source: Major Garrett / CBS News WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama called Thursday for tighter security for U.S. diplomatic facilities to prevent an attack like the one in Benghazi, Libya, last year that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. The Benghazi attack is a political controversy. Republicans claim the administration watered down [...]
Source: John Boyle, The (Asheville, N.C.) Citizen-Times / USA Today BOONE, N.C. — In a blistering letter to President Barack Obama, the Rev. Franklin Graham said the IRS targeted the two non-profits he heads with an audit last year after the organizations took out ads urging people to support biblical principles on marriage and in choosing political candidates. [...]
Source: AP / CBS News WASHINGTON – The White House release of some 100 pages of emails and notes about the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year has failed to satisfy congressional Republicans, who are demanding more information. “Why not release all of the unclassified documents?” said Rep. Jason [...]
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Source: Joel Kurth / The Detroit News Detroit — Monica Conyers is a free and happy woman. She’s just not an especially chatty free woman. The former Detroit City Council president completes a 37-month prison term for bribery today, and let others do most of the talking for her at a Corktown auto body shop [...]
Source: Andrew Kirell / Mediaite During a House Judiciary Committee hearing this afternoon, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) grilled Attorney General Eric Holder over whether his office plans to turn over potential evidence of alleged violations of the Federal Records Act by President Obama‘s new Labor Secretary nominee, former Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez. The resultant [...]
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