Dave Gibson -- The Examiner -- January 24, 2012     "This guy shouldn't have been in America" ...Obama's Willie Horton? Is Kesler Dufrene Barack Obama's Willie Horton? He should be. Remember Horton? Furloughed for the weekend from a Massachusetts prison Horton, a convicted killer, brutalized a couple, stabbed the man and raped his fiancé twice. --Presidential candidate Al Gore exposed the furlough fiasco in a Presidential Candidate Debate with Michael Dukakis, who was governor of MA at the time of Horton's release...

CNN -- January 24, 2012   Feds bust 4 cops for allegedly targeting Latinos The FBI has arrested three East Haven, Connecticut, police patrol officers and one sergeant for their alleged role in the mistreatment of Latinos -- the first arrests to stem from a federal investigation into racial profiling in the southern Connecticut town. -- The men allegedly threatened and assaulted detainees, made false arrests -- including one against a local clergy member -- and later conspired to cover up...

Alex Newman -- The New American -- January 24, 2012     Soros warns of violent riots in America, financial collapse    Billionaire investor George Soros, infamous for his lavish funding of big-government and globalist causes, dropped several bombshells during a recent interview with Newsweek including a bold forecast of potential Western economic collapse, massive civil unrest, and the end of what he likes to paint as the "free market." He also sees the emergence of one of the most dangerous periods in modern history... [Related item]

The Hill -- Washington -- January 24, 2012     White House approves of unconstitutional detention of Sen. Paul  The White House is standing by the Transportation Security Administration in its standoff with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and his father, Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas). -- The elder Paul called the TSA a "police state" Monday after Rand Paul was reportedly detained by TSA after he refused to take a pat-down from TSA officials at the Nashville International Airport.

Jim Kouri, CPP -- The Examiner -- January 23, 2012  Probe reveals Obama, Holder, ACORN connection to voting "enforcement" This week, a leading public-interest organization that investigates and fights government corruption, announced that it has received additional documents about meetings held between Estelle Rogers, Director of Advocacy for the ACORN-affiliated organization Project Vote, and officials from both the Obama White House and the Attorney General Eric Holder's Department of Justice (DOJ)...

Miami Herald -- January 23, 2012     ICE released man who went on to kill 3 in North Miami When burglar Kesler Dufrene became a twice-convicted felon in 2006, a Bradenton judge shipped him to prison for five years. And because of his convictions, an immigration judge ordered Dufrene deported to his native Haiti. -- That never happened. -- Instead, when Dufrene's state prison term was up, Miami immigration authorities in October 2010 released him from custody...

Prison Planet / Associated Press -- January 23, 2012     Sen. Rand Paul detained by TSA over pat-down standoff   Kentucky Senator Rand Paul was briefly detained this morning after a standoff incident with TSA officers In Nashville. -- In a telephone interview with AP, Rand Paul confirmed that an "anomaly" on his knee was picked up by a full body scanner. Paul said he asked for another scan and refused a pat down by airport security. -- He said he was then "detained" in a small cubicle and consequently missed a flight to Washington...

Alan Caruba -- Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Ga. -- January 23, 2012     35 reasons why Obama will lose in 2012     One could make a very long list of reasons why Barack Obama will lose in the November election. Here's a short list why Obama has already worn out his welcome among the majority of Americans, including some of those who formerly supported him. -- As Obama delivers his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, his theme will be "economic fairness," but more net jobs have been lost on his watch (1,663,000)...

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner -- January 23, 2012   Another swine flu outbreak in Mexico... Will Obama close the border now? On Saturday, the health secretary of Mexico's Federal District, Armando Ahued told the press that a recent outbreak of A(H1N1) swine flu has killed two people (ages 19 and 21). The deaths occurred early this month in Mexico City. -- Ahued also said that there have now been110 confirmed cases of A(H1N1) in the capitol city alone, with 333 cases having been confirmed throughout Mexico in this most recent outbreak...

Washington's Blog -- January 21, 2012     Is this why they won't prosecute?    Obama's Department of Justice isn't prosecuting any big fish. -- Indeed, the Obama administration is prosecuting fewer financial crimes than Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush or Bill Clinton. This is true even though the big banks – such as Bank of America, Citigroup, JP Morgan and Wells Fargo – committed some fraud, but their entire business model is fraudulent...

Stephan Dinan -- Washington Times -- January 21, 2012     Arizona Strikes Back: State investigates feds over gun-running Arizona's state legislature will open its own investigation into the Obama administration's disgraced gun-running program, known as "Fast and Furious," the speaker of the state House said Friday. -- Speaker Andy Tobin created the committee, and charged it with looking at whether the program broke any state laws — raising the possibility of state penalties against those responsible for the operation...

Tom Fitton -- Judicial Watch -- January 21, 2012     ACORN group implicated in massive voter registration fraud With the 2012 elections just months away, the ACORN-connected group Project Vote (and Obama campaign ally) is redoubling its efforts to undermine the integrity of the 2012 elections --- and they are evidently doing it with the participation of the Obama White House and the Department of Justice (DOJ). -- In January, Judicial Watch obtained additional documents about meetings held between Estelle Rogers...

Chuck Baldwin Live -- January 21, 2012     Obama Regime "rigging" US Census by counting illegal aliens     The Barack Obama administration is quietly in the process of rigging use of the US Census of 2010, which deliberately counted millions of illegal aliens, for the purpose of restructuring the apportionment of the US House of Representatives. Accordingly, as candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor of one of the negatively affected states (Montana), Mr. Bob Fanning and I have joined with several others...

End of the American Dream -- January 21, 2012     1.4 million gangsters and more pour into the U.S. daily    A vast army of heavily armed criminals has embedded itself in every major city in the United States. In fact, nearly every community in America is now affected by these thugs. Drugs, theft and brutal violence are all part of the every day lifestyle of the members of this army. They aggressively recruit our young people and floods of illegal immigrants are joining their ranks. Once civil unrest erupts in America...

Saman Mohammadi -- Infowars -- Austin, Texas -- January 21, 2012    NDAA: DC's totalitarian response to political dissent and economic collapse  "volutionary change which was to see the complete restructuring of the state, the collapse of the monarchy, and its replacement by a republic. By 1793, France was riven by civil war and factional struggles and had also opened hostilities upon several neighbouring states. At home, political dissent and economic collapse were repressed by the use of political terror. For many contemporaries, as for later historians..."

Alex Newman -- The New American -- January 21, 2012     Top "Fast & Furious" official pleads the fifth; refuses to testify  A senior official with the U.S. Department of Justice involved in the growing "Fast and Furious" federal gun-trafficking scandal told Congress that he would be invoking his right — protected by the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution — not to testify because it might incriminate him. -- The chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona, Patrick Cunningham, was issued a subpoena...

Jim Kouri, CPP -- The Examiner -- January 21, 2012    Obama's Border Patrol chief blasted by agents    While lamenting the disinterest in the Obama Administration for border security and immigration enforcement, Local 2544 officials said,"Now, [Attorney General Eric] Holder and DOJ apparently have found resources to challenge SB1070. This is an obvious political ploy, and Americans should be outraged if they actually go after a state for trying to do something about the out-of-control illegal immigration mess."

Virgil Goode -- Townhall.com -- January 21, 2012     La Raza's lobbyist in the White House    When Barack Obama campaigned for president, he claimed "I am running to tell the lobbyists in Washington that their days of setting the agenda are over. They have not funded my campaign. They won't work in my White House." Despite this promise, Obama hired over 50 lobbyists in his administration. Among them, was Cecilia Munoz, previously vice president and lobbyist for the National Council of La Raza...

Jeannette Golubovic -- The Examiner -- January 20, 2012     'His Highness' issues executive order on immigration    Earlier this afternoon, President Obama issued an executive order establishing visa and foreign visitor processing goals and the task force on travel and competitiveness. -- In this executive order, President Obama called attention to the fact that in the last decade, the U.S. has had more than a 30 percent decrease in share of the global market. The President called for more efficient and new initiatives to better enable...

Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Ga. -- January 20, 2012     Congressmen call Obama's decision on Keystone foolish and extreme Washington -- Congressman Allen West (R-FL) released this statement today upon learning of the State Department's decision not to issue a permit to begin construction on the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada, before the February 21st deadline: "It is absolutely irresponsible that the President would block a project such as the Keystone XL pipeline - a project that industry experts say would create..."

Infowars -- Austin, Texas -- January 20, 2012     Internet Wars: Anonymous attacks DOJ after feds shut down Megaupload  Following a wildly successful protest against SOPA and PIPA internet censorship legislation on Wednesday, the Department of Justice “conducted a major action” on Thursday and shuttered MegaUpload, a popular file-sharing site accused of trading in copyrighted movies and television shows. -- Following action by a grand jury, the feds arrested four people and executed more than 20 search warrants in the United States...

Post & E-Mail -- January 20, 2012    Judge in Georgia denies Obama's motion to quash  Atty. Orly Taitz informed The Post & Email moments ago that Georgia Administrative Hearings Judge Michael Malihi has denied Obama counsel's request to quash subpoenas requesting original documentation of Obama's birth, aliases and social security number application, school records, and other records. -- Taitz will be posting the order from the judge on her website shortly...

Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Ga.-- January 20, 2012    Senate moves on bill to "muzzle the Web"     By now, you are no doubt aware that several websites have either gone totally or partially "dark" [on Wednesday] in protest of the pernicious internet legislation that will be coming to a vote next week. -- Wikipedia and Google are just two of the websites which are protesting in this manner. And while you may have not paid much attention to this story, you need to know that the "muzzle the web" legislation...

Kurt Nimmo -- Infowars -- Austin, Texas -- January 20, 2012     SOPA and PIPA part of effort to domesticate politically incorrect Internet  The Megaupload takedown is dominating headlines, but there is something the incident has overshadowed – large internet corporations and government have censored political websites for years as part of a plan to domesticate the internet. -- On Thursday, Paul Joseph Watson pointed out the hypocrisy of Google as the transnational corporation shouldered its way into the limelight by opposing SOPA...

Fox News Latino -- January 20, 2012   Subversive Obama Regime recommends closing 1,600 deportation cases  The Obama administration recommended Thursday to close deportation proceedings for over 1,600 [illegal aliens] in Denver and Baltimore who are not considered a national security or public threat, a DHS official said. -- The recommendations come after a review of 11,682 pending cases involving [illegal aliens] not jailed by federal authorities as part of an Obama administration pledge....

Daily Caller -- January 20, 2012     Blackburn on SOPA: 'It's time to scrap the bill'    Tennessee Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn, an early co-sponsor of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), delivered a statement Thursday evening on Facebook renouncing her support of the bill in its current form. -- SOPA, and its counterpart in the Senate, the Protect IP Act (PIPA), caused an uproar in the Internet community, which inspired a day of protests by prominent websites Wednesday...

Fox News -- January 20, 2012    Federal official to plead the fifth and not answer questions on 'Furious' The chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona is refusing to testify before Congress regarding Operation Fast and Furious, the federal gun-running scandal that sent U.S. weapons to Mexico. -- Patrick J. Cunningham informed the House Oversight Committee late Thursday through his attorney that he will use the Fifth Amendment protection...

Sam Rolley -- Poor Richards Blog -- January 20, 2012   The Real 2012 Doomsday: U.S. falls to tyranny    The past year has been a bad one for democracy, and the Republic that once was the United States seems to live in name only. Because of the extreme abuses of power the Federal government has exercised just in the past year, the people of the Nation have been broken, discouraged and must now only be controlled. -- A recent report in the state-run Russia Today cites an instructional military book...

Michelle Malkin -- VDare.com -- January 19, 2012     The Bank of (Democratic Party) America    Well, isn't this rich? And I do mean rich. President Obama, man of the people, will deliver his presidential nomination acceptance speech at the Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C. --- so that Democratic Party fundraisers can reward big donors with skyboxes and other lavish perks. -- As usual, the White House and its allies are trying to camouflage naked partisan money-grubbing in populist garb...

WorldNetDaily.com -- January 19, 2012    Obama argues against appearing at eligibility hearing    Barack Obama has outlined a defense strategy for a multitude of state-level challenges to his candidacy on the 2012 presidential ballot in a Georgia case that is scheduled to come before a judge later this month – simply explain that states have nothing to do with the eligibility of presidential candidates. -- "Presidential electors and Congress, not the state of Georgia, hold the constitutional responsibility for..."

Gaye Levy -- Activist Post -- January 19, 2012     Freedom of speech, Internet censorship and SOPA    The First Amendment to the Constitution states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." -- Whoa boy. I don't want to imply that there has been the wholesale disregard...

Texas Tribune -- January 19, 2012    Border Coalition: Security strategy falling short    After narcotics seizures surged 45 percent in 2010, the Laredo Customs District saw a relatively minimal increase in contraband that was intercepted at its ports in 2011. -- Although the amount of methamphetamine and heroin seized by agents jumped, marijuana and undeclared cash remained steady while cocaine dipped. Inspectors credit the figures to an increased enforcement effort that has curbed the flow of drugs...

Allan Wall -- VDare.com -- January 19, 2012    Is Hispandering necessary?    ANTI-IMMIGRATION TONE ALIENATING HISPANICS declares the title of an Associated Press article, dispensing the conventional wisdom on the All-Important-Hispanic-Vote-and-Why-Republicans-Must-Kowtow-To-It. Here's how it begins: "The Republican Party is beefing up its minority outreach nationwide and preparing to put its rising Latino stars on the campaign trail amid concerns that tough immigration rhetoric..."

Prison Planet -- Austin, Texas -- January 19, 2012     Rand Paul vows to block Internet censorship bills    Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul has promised to do everything within his power to ensure the draconian Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are not brought to a vote. -- Paul says he will filibuster PIPA in the Senate owing to the fact that the bill is a direct threat to the First Amendment. -- "Both PIPA and SOPA give the federal government unprecedented and unconstitutional power..."

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner -- January 18, 2012    Will "prosecutorial discretion" result in food stamps going to illegal aliens?  On June 17, 2011, Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a memo announcing that immigration officials no longer have to deport illegal aliens if they are enrolled in any type of education program, if their family members have volunteered for U.S. military service, if they have filed a civil rights lawsuit or even if they are pregnant or nursing. -- Then in August, the Obama administration announced that...

The Corbett Report -- January 18, 2012     Police State International: The globalization of control    With the National Defense Authorization Act, the Enemy Expatriation Act, and other startling measures by the US government to crack down on their own population making headlines around the world at the moment, the idea of an American police state is becoming all too familiar a tale. -- Less examined, however, are the international aspects of this encroaching police state, a high-tech 21st century control grid...

Prison Planet -- Austin, Texas -- January 17, 2012   Journalist sues Obama over indefinite detention law     Journalist Chris Hedges has filed a class action lawsuit against President Barack Obama over his signing of the National Defense Authorization Act, claiming that the 'indefinite detention' provision of the bill could see him sent to Guantanamo Bay simply for doing his job. -- The controversial legislation, signed into law by Obama on New Years Eve, allows American citizens to be abducted and held in a detention camp...

Paul Craig Roberts -- VDare.com -- January 16, 2012     Washington moves the world closer to war    Since my January 11 column and the news alert posted on January 14 , more confirmation that Washington is moving the world toward a dangerous war has appeared. The Obama regime is using its Ministry of Propaganda, a.k.a., the American media, to spread the story that President Obama, Pentagon chief Panetta, and other high US officials are delivering strong warnings to Israel not to attack Iran...

George Picard -- The American Thinker -- Bellevue, Wash. -- January 16, 2012     How Obama betrays Martin Luther's King's dream    ...Most recently, Obama chose Cecilia Munoz to be in charge of his Domestic Policy Council. For the past two decades, Munoz has served as the chief lobbyist for the National Council of La Raza ("The Race") and has devoted herself to promoting its agenda of in-state college tuition breaks and drivers' licenses for illegal aliens as well as opposing enforcement of immigration laws and border controls...

Brian D. Hill -- USWGO Talk Radio -- January 16, 2012      The Enemy Expatriation Act, no different than the Nazi Nuremberg laws The Enemy Expatriation Act (H.R. 3166; S. 1698), an act that the U.S. Congress is now considering, that will allow the U.S. Government to take away citizenship of anybody that is considered a hostile enemy or supporting hostility towards the U.S. Government, is similar to the Nazi Factions Nuremberg laws where Adolf Hitler took away Germans citizenship based on race, bloodtypes, and those against the Hitler regime...

One News Now -- January 16, 2012     Open-borders advocate promoted    ...According to Chris Farrell, a spokesman for Judicial Watch, [La Raza mole Cecilia] Muñoz is highly regarded -- by government officials in Mexico."She received an award from the Mexican government, which is pretty extraordinary -- not for anything that she did for our country, but for theirs," he notes. "So here's this woman with this pretty radical resume, [and] now she's going to be in charge of the overall policy of the whole country."

Global Research TV -- Toronto -- January 16, 2012     Indefinite Detention: The NDAA and the Enemy Expatriation Act    With the signing of the National Defense Authorization Act into law, more Americans than ever before are wondering how the country could have descended so quickly into a police state. Far from a unique or isolated act, however, the NDAA is just the latest entry in a long list of steps toward the codification of outright martial law...

The Hill -- Washington -- January 15, 2012    Obama hopes to win Latino voters in face of GOP candidates' immigration debate The Obama administration has unveiled several key decisions aimed at bolstering ties to the immigration reform community as the president’s campaign has stepped up efforts to woo Latino voters ahead of the 2012 elections. -- The moves come as Republican presidential contenders have begun staking out positions on immigration, making it a focal point of political attacks leading into the South Carolina...

Paul Craig Roberts -- Infowars -- Austin, Texas -- January 15, 2012     America's last chance    America has one last chance, and it is a very slim one. Americans can elect Ron Paul President, or they can descend into tyranny. -- Why is Ron Paul America's last chance? -- Because he is the only candidate who is not owned lock, stock, and barrel by the military-security complex, Wall Street, and the Israel Lobby. -- All of the others, including President Obama, are owned by exactly the same interest groups.

Judicial Watch -- January 14, 2012     Obama Regime skews deportation figures    The Obama Administration drastically inflated statistics to show that it has deported a record-high number of illegal [aliens] with criminal records, according to federal data obtained by a nonprofit university group dedicated to researching the government. -- The new documents reveal the figure is actually at an all-time low and rapidly decreasing, leaving the Obama Administration with egg on its face...

Talking Points Memo -- January 13, 2012     Snit over Obama's'Auntie Zeituni' continues    Three years, two months and a week --- more than 1100 days --- after the 2008 presidential election, internal investigators at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are still probing who leaked the immigration status of then-Sen. Barack Obama's aunt Zeituni Onyango just three days before voters went to the polls. -- Relevant files from ICE's Office of Professional Responsibility are "part of an ongoing investigation" and...

Pat Shannan -- American Free Press -- January 13, 2012     Obama Has Georgia on His Mind: Court will hear eligibility case   When Georgia's State Administrative Court opened its doors on Jan. 3, Judge Michael Malihi's first order of the year was to deny defendant Barack Obama's motion to dismiss the case against him that demands the sitting president's name be removed from the November ballot unless he can prove himself constitutionally eligible. Trial is set for Jan. 26, 2012...

Chuck Baldwin -- Infowars -- Austin, Texas -- January 13, 2012    First NDAA, now Enemy Expatriation Act    On the heels of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), otherwise known as the "Indefinite Detention Act," comes another draconian bill designed to give the federal government the power to turn American citizens into enemies of the state for virtually any reason it deems necessary. Stephen D. Foster, Jr. has the story...

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner -- January 13, 2012  Obama cites 2001 earthquake for allowing 217,000 illegal to stay here   The Obama administration has just quietly issued another extension of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) originally granted to 217,000 illegal aliens from El Salvador. -- According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), due to two earthquakes in 2001, "El Salvador remains unable, temporarily, to handle adequately the return of its nationals."

RT -- January 13, 2012    Class war coming to America    Never mind the budding war between America and Iran. A skirmish could be coming a lot closer to home and it might even be as centrally located as your own city. In only two years, tensions have grown greatly between the upper and lower classes. -- The results from a recent survey out of the Pew Research Center reveal that 66 percent of the adults studied believe that there are either "very strong" or "strong" conflicts existing...

Boston Herald -- January 13, 2012     Cops rip Obama uncle's defense    Defense attorneys digging for something to latch onto in a Framingham cop's driving past are being bashed by the police brotherhood who argue the bust of President Obama's half-uncle on a drunken-driving charge is the issue, not the officer's history behind the wheel. -- The Framingham cop who arrested Onyango Obama has about a dozen on-duty accidents --- mostly minor --- to his name, according to records...

Los Angeles Times -- January 13, 2012    Another ATF weapons operation comes under scrutiny    In the late summer of 2010, the ATF agent leading the failed Fast and Furious gun-smuggling operation in Arizona flew to Mexico City to help coordinate cross-border investigations of U.S. weapons used by Mexican drug cartels. -- Hope A. MacAllister wanted access to police and military vaults for American weapons recovered by Mexican authorities in raids and at crime scenes...

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner -- January 13, 2012 DOJ reports cartels targeting local cops in Arizona as Guard leaves   The Obama administration has been quietly withdrawing the majority of the 1,200 National Guard troops assigned to the U.S./Mexican border in 2010. After January, less than 300 troops will reportedly remain in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas combined. -- According to Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), only 14 troops will remain along California's border with Mexico...

Michelle Malkin -- Family Security Matters -- January 13, 2012    Obama's "Razist" lobbyist moves up    With public attention focused on the GOP primaries, the White House quietly promoted another self-dealing lobbyist to serve as President Obama's top domestic policy adviser. Promises? What broken promises? -- Cecilia Munoz, the current director of intergovernmental affairs at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., will now serve as head of the Domestic Policy Council. She'll wield heightened influence...