The Examiner      sc     San Diego Minutemen vindicated, win lawsuit against Caltrans    In a First Amendment victory for California, the San Diego Minutemen won more than $150,000 in damages for a lawsuit filed against Caltrans for revoking the groups Adopt a Highway permit. -- “We are very pleased with the settlement which ends the 18-month attempt to discriminate against our political views that began in January 2008 by local illegal alien activists..."

Michelle Malkin         Revolt against AARP in Dallas    Watch the senior citizen "hooligans" and "civic vigilantes" in Dallas question a condescending AARP representative about Obamacare. Dues-paying members are speaking up about the organization's sellout of its members -- and the AARP brass is not happy...

Brownsville Herald     Woman charged with transporting illegals     A Brownsville woman was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol agents for transporting three [illegal aliens], who had just crossed the Rio Grande, according to court documents. -- Jennifer Lee Rivera, 31, was charged with knowingly transporting the illegal aliens by means of a motor vehicle with intent to further their unlawful presence... [See Crime Watch]

Fox News -- Tampa        Tensions flare at Florida town hall meeting    More than 1,000 people showed up in Ybor City Thursday to attend a town-hall style meeting on health care and insurance reform. -- But the meeting took place where there was only room for about 250 people. As a result, a large crowd gathered outside, and tensions were high among people who couldn't get in... [See Obama Watch]

San Jose Mercury News        sc     Fed judges order California to devise plan to slash prison population    In a decision that could dramatically reshape California's criminal justice system, a panel of federal judges Tuesday ordered Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state legislators to find ways to cut the prison population by 40,000, or about one-quarter of all inmates...

U.S. Senator John Cornyn      Cornyn sends letter to Obama over his outrageous snitch scheme    Dear President Obama, I write to express my concern about a new White House program to monitor American citizens' speech opposing your health care policies, and to seek your assurances that this program is being carried out in a manner consistent with the First Amendment and America's tradition of free speech and public discourse....

Douglas (Arizona) Daily Dispatch      Douglas Police apprehend 61 illegals    A high speed vehicle pursuit along Highway 191 led to the discovery of a 61 undocumented aliens at a stash house in Douglas. -- Mark Gonzalez of the Douglas Police Department said DPD detectives were first alerted to a white 2001 Ford F-250 pickup bearing an Arizona alternative fuel license plate...

Gallup     Americans return to tougher immigration stance    With some U.S. lawmakers and immigration rights activists stepping up calls for the Obama administration to pursue immigration reform, Gallup finds Americans less favorable toward immigration than they were a year ago. Half (50%) say immigration should be decreased, up from 39% last year...

Minnesota Independent      Senate confirms Sotomayor    By a vote of 68-31, with Sen. Al Franken sitting in as the body's president, the U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. The vote followed spirited arguments for and against Sotomayor in the final hours of debate...

KRQE -- Albuquerque      Roswell may soften immigration policy    Roswell (NM) police may change a controversial immigration policy which sparked racial tension in the city in 2007 when a pregnant high school student was deported after being ticketed for a parking violation. -- The change would mean Roswell police could not contact or detain a person on the sole basis of investigating their immigration status...

Frank J. Fleming -- Pajamas Media      Is Obama really like the Joker?    Posters started appearing in Los Angeles depicting Obama as the Joker with the word "socialism "below his face. The image quickly spread throughout the internet, gaining knee-jerk liberal condemnation and making people ask things like "What does Obama have to do with the Joker and "What does the Joker have to do with socialism and "Is this racist somehow? I'm pretty sure it has to be racist."

American Border Patrol        Tecate scandal        From NAFBPO: Tijuana has only a few miles of smuggling routes, but Tecate, with almost one half of the 265 kilometers (160 miles) of border, along with Mexicali, is the most problematic....

Michelle Malkin      Thug life: Enter the unions    Speaking of mobs... Here comes SEIU to Obama's rescue. -- And here comes the AFL-CIO. -- Jim Hoft says: Be careful. -- No kidding...

Fox News      Feds to change immigration detention oversight    The Obama administration plans to place federal employees in the largest immigration detention facilities in the country to monitor detainee treatment. -- This oversight role is currently handled by private contractors. But under the new plan, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials would be placed at the largest jails to directly supervise how the detention centers are managed... [Related item]

American Border Patrol        Border fence? CBP is reporting that "drug smugglers dismantled a portion of the international border fence early Tuesday morning." The location given is 60 miles east of Yuma. Problem is there is no fence 60 miles east of Yuma. Click here to see for yourself....

Dallas Morning News       Program will let Carrollton police check immigration status    A program that allows for greater cooperation between local law enforcement officers and federal immigration authorities is almost ready for action in Carrollton. -- The program is named after a section of immigration law, 287(g). It establishes agreements and training...

Associated Press      Groups preparing for more immigration enforcement    [Illegal alien] "rights" groups are taking measures to prepare for the implementation in Gwinnett County (Ga.) of a program they say will lead to racial profiling by allowing the sheriff's department to enforce federal immigration laws...

Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise      Illegal alien boosters sue Riverside police for records    A day laborer group has sued the Riverside Police Department for records about the agency's arrests of [illegal aliens.... criminals]. -- The National Day Laborer Organizing Network first requested the documents in May and did not receive all it wanted, so it sued in July, according to court documents...

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Today's NAFBPO update from south of the border    They operate with impunity, protected by the police, controlling the migratory routes into the U.S. The assaults and sexual molestations experienced by the migrants are minor compared to the ever-increasing kidnappings and homicides...

Joseph Farah -- WorldNetDaily.com      The emperor has no birth certificate    A few months ago, I stepped beyond my role as a journalist and media entrepreneur to become an activist, a crusader, some might even say a "birther." -- I announced it publicly. I made no bones about it. I explained that I had become so frustrated by the lack of earnest media coverage...

Daniel Greenfield -- Canada Free Press -- Toronto      Race, class and Henry Louis Gates in Obama's America    In the wake of the Gates arrest heard ‘round the world, the media, Obama and of course Henry Louis Gates himself, have done their best to position this as a black and white incident, the collision of two men divided by race. But in fact the arrest of Henry Louis Gates was not about two men divided by race, but two men divided by class...

David Hahn, Publisher -- Nebraska State Paper      Obama should produce original birth certificate    At StatePaper.com, we know by making this statement we will be instantly tagged as "racist," "birther," or other pejorative terms by those who defend the President of the United States. We often defend the President and the job he is doing and are regularly lambasted for being "too liberal" or an "Obama lover" by some of our most prolific critics. -- But, here is the issue... [See Obama Watch]

Associated Press      Rhode Island State Police to enforce immigration law    State police detectives will function as federal agents with the power to arrest immigration violators under an agreement that's part of Gov. Don Carcieri's crackdown on illegal [aliens]. -- The deal with ICE, announced Wednesday, will allow the four detectives to become immigration officers...

The Big Feed Blog     E-Mail: Obama siccing his propagandists on America?    I got this in my email today. If I didn't know any better, I'd say this is a directive from the President to "get in people's faces", organize a mob, astroturf, etc. I don't know. This seems like agitating to me. -- Let me see. Opponents of the President's health care plans are "mobs" but these people are what? Minions? Dupes? Stooges? Blackshirts? [See Obama Watch]

Ben Shapiro -- Family Security Matters      Obama threatens freedom of the press    ...It turns out that President Obama and his hatchet man, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, are not averse to using their bully tactics on political allies as well as political enemies. Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post reports that when networks began fussing over broadcasting yet another Obama snoozefest, Emanuel called not the programming chiefs...

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CBS News      Obama's 'Rat Squad': Cornyn accuses White House of creating "enemies list"    The White House in recent days has taken pro-active steps to combat the misinformation spreading about the president's health care plans -- but one Republican senator thinks they are going too far. -- The White House in recent days has taken pro-active steps to combat the misinformation spreading about the president's health care plans -- but one Republican senator thinks they are going too far...

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner      Has the time come for another Mexican Punitive Campaign?    In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson ordered General John J. Pershing to lead an invasion into Mexico, against Pancho Villa's forces. Villa's bandits were making constant incursions into the United States and regularly robbing, raping, and killing Americans living in towns along the border. These criminals operated openly due to rampant corruption...