Eric Holder, Barack Obama's attorney general and David Axelrod, his top political adviser had to be separated after squaring up during a furious row over attempts to impose White House operatives in the justice department.
Eric Holder, who heads Mr Obama's justice department, is said to have become "incensed" after being accused by David Axelrod of complaining publicly about political interference in his office.
"That's bull****," Mr Holder said in a confrontation after a cabinet meeting, according to author Daniel Klaidman. He writes: "The two men stood chest to chest. It was like a school yard fight".
The relatively mild-mannered Mr Axelrod is said to have told the attorney general: "Don't ever, ever accuse me of trying to interfere with the operations of the Justice Department", a taboo in US politics.
In 'Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency', Klaidman discloses the struggles within Mr Obama's White House at it mounted its controversial campaign against al-Qaeda.
He writes that Mr Holder and Mr Axelrod were separated by Valerie Jarrett, a White House adviser and confidante to Mr Obama. Ms Jarrett "pushed her way between the two men, her sense of decorum disturbed, ordering them to 'take it out of the hallway'," says Klaidman.
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Dana White should sign them up for a UFC event. It would be the largest PPV audience EVAH! Michele could even by the Card-girl with her fancy dresses!
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Someone hurry, get the Wogdon & Barton's, extra powder and shot! There is only one way to settle this honorably.
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Gromky, not really. While there might be one dead (they are probably both lousy shots), they are both democrats, so it is unlikely they would be prosecuted.
And even if the survivor was prosecuted, O could always pardon him.
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This is the 21st Century. Arms for the gentlemen's dual should be Fast and Furious AR15s with one 30 round banana clip fully automatic for each gentleman.
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Gromky, not really. While there might be one dead (they are probably both lousy shots), they are both democrats, so it is unlikely they would be prosecuted.
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I suspect that if it weren't for the objective of politically interfering in the operation in the justice dept., the attorney general would be someone else.
[Boston Herald] Elizabeth Warren, who has railed against predatory banks and heartless foreclosures, took part in about a dozen Oklahoma real estate deals that netted her and her family hefty profits through maneuvers such as "flipping" properties, records show.
I have to ask: did they merely buy and sell, unimproved, or did they fix up the places, making them actually worth more than their original purchase price? Both are called flipping by the people in the real estate biz.
A Herald review has found that the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate rapidly bought and sold homes herself, loaned money at high interest rates to relatives and purchased foreclosed properties at bargain prices.
Land records from Warren's native Oklahoma City show the Harvard professor was active in the often topsy-turvy real estate market in the 1990s, including:
Purchasing a foreclosed home at 2725 West Wilshire Boulevard from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for $61,000 in June 1993, then selling it in December 1994 for $95,000 -- a 56 percent mark-up in just 18 months.
Buying a house at 200 NW 16th St. for $30,000 in August 1993, then flipping it for $145,000 -- a 383 percent gain after just five months.
Lending one of her brothers money at 9.5 percent interest to buy a home at 1425 Classen Drive for $35,000 in August 2000. He sold the place three months later for $38,500 -- a 10 percent gain in 75 days.
Providing her brother with financing to buy a $25,000 house at 4301 NW 16th St. in 1994. He sold the property four years later for $42,000, a 68 percent increase.
Giving her sister-in-law a mortgage in 1996 to buy a $31,000 home at 2621 NW 13th St. Three years later, the sister-in-law sold the place for $45,000 -- a 45 percent boost in three years.
Providing her brother with a loan in 1997 to buy 901 NW 22nd St. for $90,000. He sold it some two years later for $106,000 -- an 18 percent increase.
Giving her brother a mortgage to buy 3836 NW 12th St. in 1997 for $26,000. Nine years later, he unloaded the home for $45,000 -- a 73 percent jump.
Herald columnist Howie Carr reported yesterday that Warren and her relatives also profited from two additional Oklahoma City foreclosures -- in both cases showing triple-digit percentage gains.
Warren's campaign issued a statement last night: "Elizabeth and (her husband) Bruce are fortunate to be in a position where they can help their family. They have been able to help relatives buy their homes and her nephew -- a contractor -- fix up houses."
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Clearly illustrating the worth of a Harvard education. She'd still be selling blankets and beads without it!
it gets to the point of outright fraud when fabricating an identity offers both career advantages to the employee and diversity quota points for the employer. . . . this weird con is a window into her soul and the logical and ultimate expression of what the entire diversity/affirmative-action industry has become.
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And it gets to the point of outright fraud when fabricating an identity offers both career advantages to the employee and diversity quota points for the employer. At some point, Warrens statement is simply untenable and will have to be withdrawn, because if it is not, then we are essentially saying facts are what we choose to say facts are, and we can write or say anything we want and claim it as truth by reason of rumor, or serial insistence, or good intentions. Warren says all this is a distraction from her otherwise sterling academic record, but an academic career is nothing without allegiance to facts and honest scholarship; in fact this weird con is a window into her soul and the logical and ultimate expression of what the entire diversity/affirmative-action industry has become.
We so enthusiastically accept such behavior from our Worshipful Master POTUS, what grounds can we challenge such behavior from a little ole wanna-be.... American Injun squaw?
(CBS) -- Illinois politicians may have gotten stymied on the issue of pension reform, a multi-billion-dollar mess affecting every taxpayer in the state.
But at least they managed to pass a bill involving miniature horses.
You heard that right. Under a measure the House sent to Gov. Quinn Thursday night -- the evening members were supposed to consider a cost-saving pension bill -- people with disabilities could use miniature horses as service animals in public places, much like guide dogs are used.
"I have no concerns that we're gonna see any stampede in grocery stores or anything like that," Chicago's WBEZ quoted sponsoring Sen. Dave Koehler, D-Peoria, as saying. "This is an issue that pertains really to the disabled community, and it's something that puts us in compliance to the federal law."
An overhaul of future state pension benefits for retired public employees was the centerpiece of the spring legislative session, but it collapsed late Thursday just before the deadline to adjourn. Illinois government has underfunded pensions by tens of billions of dollars.
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Miniature horses are intelligent, usually gentle; and can be very helpful service animals.
Illinois legislators, however, are not known for horse sense. Or for good service.They are known for horsesh*t.
[Politico] Top national and North Carolina Democrats have taken a series of unusual steps to protect their candidates in the Tarheel State -- and President Barack Obama's I inhaled. That was the point... reelection campaign -- from additional damage after a sexual harassment scandal rocked the state Democratic Party and weakened its chairman.
North Carolina was already an uphill battle for Obama even before the revelation in April that the NCDP's then-executive director, Jay Parmleywho is a man, was accused of misconduct by a young male employee. Parmley resigned. But Chairman David Parker managed to hang on to his job despite calls for his ouster from top state Democrats and pressure from officials in Washington.
The result presents a challenge for the Obama campaign and other Democrats up and down the ballot, who must now find ways to tiptoe around state officials linked to a lurid harassment flap. Complicating matters further, Democrats will hold their presidential nominating convention in Charlotte this summer, an event that was suffering from fundraising difficulties even before the scandal broke.
Rather than backing away from the state, Democrats in North Carolina and Washington say they believe they can work around Parker. The chairman, they say, currently appears more focused on shoring up his own shaky political position and reaching out to local activists than taking operational control of campaign machinery. That leaves room for other national and other state Democrats to try and take charge of the situation -- and most importantly, control the purse strings of the 2012 campaign.
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1st three days of convention at Times Warner cable arena
4th day at Bank of America stadium.
and all four days will have anti big business speeches
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And of course, North Carolina just passed a referendum defining marriage as between one man and one woman.
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...The Democrats' Plan B for NC is to figure out some way to keep anybody from seeing the name 'North Carolina' during the convention. I just spent a few days up there, and here's a serious reality check for the Trunks:
NC IS A RED, REPEAT, RED STATE.
They had a hiccup when they elected Bev Perdue, but mostly because she campaigned a lot more to the center than she was and her campaign was able to mask the fact that she's a power-hungry idiot. The Prop 1 victory - whether you agree with it or not - was a solid one, something that the media tends to overlook as hard as it can. Add to that the fact that Obama's victory there in 08 was a close one (a 1% squeaker), and it is starting to become embarrassingly clear that Charlotte was a very bad choice for the Democrats.
Mike
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This is the state that the Dems got really excited about being destroyed by that hurricane, so that jobs could be created. Even Gov Purdue had to get public and say knock that noise off.
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NC has had a hard time trying to turn blue. It's all the a-holes that taxed themselves out of their utopias in NY and NJ. They F****D us up pretty good. Locusts.
Have some Canadians down here too. They swear by Canadian Healthcare. I kindly remarked they were free to GO BACK and enjoy it there, no need to bring it here.
We lost the State Legislature to the dumbest bunch of imbeciles I have ever seen a few years ago and thought it was totally lost. Luckily, they fixed that.
Democrats are a loathsome creature and must be taught that it's lust for power is immoral.
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Not to mention that Mr. Parmley's ex-girlfriend has accused him of infecting her with HIV. Oh, and the workers of NC are a trifle annoyed with the Democratic Party because NC is a right-to-work state, and the Democratic are importing out-of-state union members instead of hiring the locals. Oh, and we remember Gov. Perdue saying she thought the elections should be postponed as long as the financial crisis continues. Also, 20% of Democratic voters there prefer 'None of the Above' to Obama for President.
You know, 'None of the Above' could win in November. The Party would be wise to nominate him.
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Soros too busy manipulating the Eurocrisis to throw those hundreds of thousands of untraceable card donations to Obama? Or just reminding him who really is the boss?
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gorb, as i understand it, a debit card can also put charges on the user; perhaps a credit card would be the better way to go; they would still have the transaction fees to contend with and the user wouls have none.
but i like, really like your idea. it is lovingly nasty!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Eric Holder, Barack Obama's attorney general and David Axelrod, his top political adviser had to be separated after squaring up during a furious row over attempts to impose White House operatives in the justice department. 
[Boston Herald] Elizabeth Warren, who has railed against predatory banks and heartless foreclosures, took part in about a dozen Oklahoma real estate deals that netted her and her family hefty profits through maneuvers such as "flipping" properties, records show.
(CBS) -- Illinois 
[Politico] Top national and North Carolina Democrats have taken a series of unusual steps to protect their candidates in the Tarheel State -- and President 
