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This has been news for a couple of days now, but the reason I held off posting about it is that I wanted to do some historical investigation first. And you know what I found out?

To the very best of my understanding, there has not been a single instance before this week of the United States federal government setting up a hotline or e-mail address asking the public and organizations for information against an individual citizen. Not one. And if anybody reading this does know of one, feel free to write me at theknightshift@gmail.com and better my education on the matter.

George Zimmerman was acquitted this past

Eric Holder:
Roland Freisler would have been proud of him.

Saturday night of all charges against him in the death of Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman had been charged with second-degree murder.

And now, not being content with a jury of his peers finding ...

So it’s coming out that a bunch of Republicans, including senators Orrin Hatch and Mitch McConnell, are expressing concern about President Obama making recess appointments when the Senate was not in session. Former U.S. Attorney General Ed Meese is saying that Obama is committing “a breathtaking violation of the separation of powers.”

Oh please…

The Justice Department headed by Eric Holder is defending the appointments as legal. Y’know, just like the Justice Department under President George W. Bush defended his firing of the United States attorneys as being legal. Just like John Yoo went out of his way to argue why his boss Bush should be given powers of a dictator in everything but name. Just like Samuel Alito sought to increase the power of the President by means of redefining so-called “signing statements”.

But now the shoe is on the other foot. It’s a Democrat in ...

American Inquisition: Holder’s Justice Department demanding “tips” on George Zimmerman

Obama’s recess appointments: I smell hypocrisy