Articles in Category: 'Eric Holder'

By: Thomas Sowell | Posted: December 6, 2011 3:55 AM
Thomas Sowell
The joys of Christmas do not include coping with crowds at shopping malls or wracking your brains trying to figure out what to get as a gift for someone who already seems to have everything.
 
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By: David Royse News Service of Florida | Posted: December 16, 2010 4:05 AM
 
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and other federal officials announced Wednesday that the government is suing BP and eight other defendants, seeking to recover damages from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill earlier this year.
 
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By: Kevin Derby | Posted: December 1, 2010 4:05 AM
 
Members of Florida’s congressional delegation are up in arms over the latest round of classified documents released by WikiLeaks, maintaining that the leaked information undermines American security and even calling for federal prosecution of WikiLeaks.
 
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By: John Kennedy News Service of Florida | Posted: October 5, 2010 4:05 AM
Florida officials said Monday they were pleased their steady lobbying helped push federal BP oil spill czar Ken Feinberg to relax a strict standard that threatened to bar many Floridians from tapping a $20 billion compensation fund.
 
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By: Kevin Derby | Posted: September 8, 2010 3:20 PM

Religious and political leaders from across the country and around the world continued Wednesday -- almost unanimously -- to condemn a planned Quran-burning event in Gainesville. "International Burn a Koran Day," to be led by Pastor Terry Jones from his evangelical World Outreach Center, is still scheduled for Saturday -- the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

 
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By: Kevin Derby | Posted: September 9, 2010 10:52 AM
 
President Barack Obama on Thursday offered strong words of condemnation against Gainesville Pastor Terry Jones' planned Quran-burning event to mark the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
 
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By: John Kennedy News Service of Florida | Posted: August 28, 2010 4:05 AM
Attorney General Bill McCollum appealed Friday to the federal government and besieged oil giant BP for help in his battle over the $20 billion compensation fund established for Gulf oil victims.
 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: July 19, 2010 4:05 AM
 

Last week's Medicare Fraud Summit in Miami was reinforced by a record takedown of scam artists who were allegedly bilking the federal health-care program.

 
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By: Kevin Derby | Posted: July 12, 2010 5:00 PM

A new poll reveals Floridians are strongly opposed to President Barack Obama’s administration suing Arizona for its measures of cracking down on illegal immigration -- and want a similar law in Florida.

The Rasmussen Reports' poll of 500 likely voters across Florida found that 60 percent opposed the Obama administration’s legal challenge to Arizona, while 28 percent backed the lawsuit and 12 percent were undecided.

 
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By: Kevin Derby | Posted: July 10, 2010 4:05 AM

Health care executive Rick Scott, leading in the polls over Attorney General Bill McCollum for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, said that he made a financial contribution to the state of Arizona’s legal defense fund to fend off a lawsuit from the federal government over new state immigration laws -- and urged Floridians to do likewise.

 
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By: Kevin Derby | Posted: July 6, 2010 4:00 PM
 

Both health care executive Rick Scott and Attorney General Bill McCollum, competing in a close fight for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, attacked a federal lawsuit against Arizona’s new immigration laws.

 
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By: Kevin Derby | Posted: June 2, 2010 12:38 AM
When U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that he was meeting with attorneys general from states impacted by the Gulf oil spill, one name was conspicuously absent: Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, the favorite for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.
 
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