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Sunday, November 16, 2008
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Bad Omen
Obama Names Lawyer Linked to Chicago Scandals
Washington Times-- November 16
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Valerie Bowman Jarrett (NY Times photo)
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Obama team taps three for key positions -- Jarrett will be adviser
President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday morning said that Valerie Jarrett, a longtime family friend and close counselor with a long history in Chicago politics, will serve as a senior White House adviser.
Judicial Watch-- November 14
Obama Advisor Valerie Jarrett Linked to Real Estate Scandals
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents linking Valerie Jarrett, an advisor to Barack Obama and the co-chairman of the President-Elect's transition team, to a series of real estate scandals, including several housing projects operated by convicted felon and Obama fundraiser/friend Antoin "Tony" Rezko. [...]
"Like Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett is a product of the corrupt Chicago political machine. And it is no stretch to say that she was a slumlord," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "We have real concerns about Jarrett's ethics. Washington already has plenty of corruption. We don't need to import more of it from Chicago." |
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Shelbyville (Tennessee) Times-Gazette sc
Refugee program stayed after feds confirm fraud
A fact sheet released this week from the U.S. State Department reported widespread fraud in the refugee program that has brought tens of thousands of people from Somalia and other African nations to the United States. -- The reported fraud spurred the State Department to suspend a humanitarian program in August... |
CNN
GOP senator: McCain betrayed Republican principles
Myrtle Beach -- South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint on Friday became one of the first high-profile Republicans to publicly criticize John McCain following his electoral defeat, blaming the Arizona senator for betraying conservative principles in his quest for the White House... |
Arizona Republic -- Phoenix
Another American teen killed in DUI crash, illegal alien arrested
Mesa police say an impaired driver triggered a crash early Saturday that killed a 16-year-old girl and injured her 17-year-old brother as they drove to a school band event. -- Manuel Contreras-Galdean, 32, was arrested and booked into a Maricopa County jail on suspicion of manslaughter and aggravated assault... |
Fox News Houston
Texas scraps plans for checkpoints after usual suspects whine
Austin -- Plans to create driver's license checkpoints on Texas highways have been scrapped in the face of strong lawmaker opposition and suspicions that the proposal targeted [illegal aliens]. -- Allan Polunsky, chairman of the Texas DPS Commission, said Friday he would withdraw a request for an attorney general's opinion... |
Los Angeles Times
Mexico drug wars spill across the border
Reporting from San Diego and Lilburn, Ga. -- The drug violence that has left nearly 4,000 people dead this year in Mexico is spreading deep into the United States, leaving a trail of slayings, kidnappings and other crimes in at least 195 cities as far afield as Atlanta, Boston, Seattle and Honolulu, according to federal authorities... |
Sierra Vista (Arizona) Herald / Review
Jurors saw 'gaping holes' in case against Border Patrol agent
Bisbee -- A sloppy investigation by the Cochise County Sheriff's Office was a significant factor that led a majority of the jurors to feel Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Corbett was not guilty of a crime, according to two of the jurors. -- Corbett was charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and negligent homicide... |
Washington Times Editorial
No open-borders mandate
...A recent Zogby poll showed that a majority of Americans would like to see a crackdown on illegal [aliens], but voted for Mr. Obama in spite of his support for amnesty. It is important to note that 60% of voters would like to reduce illegal immigration and crack down on employers who hire illegal workers. Only 21% of voters would support creating a legalized pathway to citizenship for illegal [aliens]. |
Associated Press
Sanctuary cities now want taxpayers to bail them out
Mayors of three cities hit hardest by the economic crisis — Philadelphia, Atlanta and Phoenix — asked the federal government Friday for a piece of the $700 billion bailout package, saying they need help just like financial institutions...  |
Los Angeles Daily News
Illegal alien-bloated LAUSD halts most spending in effort to save $300 million
Facing a midyear budget cut of up to $300 million, the Los Angeles Unified School District has issued an immediate halt on filling open positions, using district credit cards and spending on a variety of contracts. -- While the cost-saving measures are temporary for now, they could lead to closing small schools... |
Arizona Daily Star -- Tucson
Chertoff hopes his 'gains' will stick
Secretary Michael Chertoff of the Department of Homeland Security has plenty of ideas about how to move forward with border security efforts, but said Friday that he won't be the man to lead that effort. -- "My plan is to go on Jan. 20," Chertoff said at a press conference at the University of Arizona. "I've had four good years here." [Related item about this lying menace] |
Houston Chronicle sc
Latin American pols already badgering Hussein Obama
...Nearly two weeks after a historic presidential election, Latin American diplomats are already pleading for attention from advisers to President-elect Barack Obama, hoping that the next president will pay more attention to a vast array of pressing issues left on the table by Bush, including free trade agreements, energy policy, immigration and drug trafficking... [More meddling by foreigners] |
Berkeley (Calif.) Daily Planet
"Gimme gimme" crowd wants Hussein Obama to enact absurd 'DREAM Act'
UC Berkeley students joined the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights, and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary Thursday to launch a national campaign urging President-elect Barack Obama to enact the federal Dream Act, which would legalize federal financial aid and open a path of citizenship for [illegal alien] college students... |
New York Times
California bankruptcies jump 80%
The economy's deep troubles are pushing a growing number of already struggling consumers into bankruptcy, often with far more debt than those who filed in previous downturns. Plummeting home values, dwindling incomes and the near disappearance of credit have proved a potent mixture. [See Cal Meltdown Watch] |
Nolan Chart -- Warrenton, Virginia
Executive Orders and the New World Order
Because of fears of an accidental total annihilation of the world during the Cold War era, laws were put into place for national security reasons, that forbid the President or any other person to take it upon themselves, action(s) or make national security decisions by themselves let alone without authorization from the Congress... |
North County Times -- Escondido, Calif.
Protest held against driver's license checkpoints
About 200 people attended a candlelight vigil Saturday at Grape Day Park to protest the Escondido Police Department's use of driver's license checkpoints. -- Rights activists, many from the [illegal alien.... criminal] community, spoke out against the checkpoints, which they called unjust and a ploy to check immigration status... |
New York Daily News
Pro-invasion zealots plan tantrum to demand amnesty from Hussein Obama
On his first full day as President, Barack Obama will be greeted by salutes, good wishes - and throngs of protesters on the National Mall demanding immigration reform. -- It will be a thunderous welcome, delivered mostly by Hispanic voters who - having provided a critical edge to Obama on Election Day in several key states - are looking for payback... |
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Californians for Population Stabilization
Tell Obama that Americans want enforcement, not amnesty!
The new Congressional session will include a major push to pass an amnesty, so it is especially important for President-elect Barack Obama to hear that that is exactly what voters do not want.... |
Associated Press
500K illegals defying deportation orders
Zeituni Onyango came to the United States seeking asylum from her native Kenya but was turned down and ordered to leave the country in 2004. -- Four years later, she is still here. And her nephew is about to become president of the United States... |
Reuters
Insanity: U. S. wants to expand visa-free entry
Brussels, Belgium -- The United States wants to increase the number of countries enjoying visa-free entry after opening the door to citizens from six new European Union countries and South Korea, U.S. officials said Friday. -- From Monday, travelers from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia... |
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