Michelle Malkin     sc        SEIU and the "persuasion of power;" Update: St. Louis thuggery on tape    In May, I told you how the Service Employees International Union's $61 million investment in Barack Obama paid off with cabinet appointments, executive orders, key personnel slots, and legislative goodies. -- Now, the SEIU thugs are looking out for The Boss. In Tampa, Florida and St. Louis today, the Purple People turned out to give cover to members of Congress...

Prison Planet -- Austin, Texas     The start of the second American Revolution?     For a long time people have been asking why Americans are not up in arms, screaming and shouting about their fast disappearing liberties along with the continuous passage of legislation that they vehemently oppose, from the banker bailout, to the cap and trade bill, to Obamacare...

Connie Hair -- Human Events      Dems assault Obamacare opponents at Tampa Bay Town Hall    The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and other hard left organizations have been summoned by the White House to “Astroturf” the health care debate at Congressional town hall forums around the country. Caught flat-footed by the overwhelming grassroots opposition to Obamacare...

Sher Zieve -- WebCommentary.com      Obama enters full Big Brother phase    In George Orwell's book "1984" the figurehead character who controlled everything surrounding the members of society was known as "Big Brother." Via technology and the help of his police, Big Brother watched and heard everything you did and said -- and eventually knew everything you thought. Dictator Obama seems to agree with these precepts...

Prison Planet -- Austin, Texas         Video Compilation: Town Hall rebellion    A compilation of videos from across the country of Americans standing up against the totalitarian Obamacare agenda...

Family Security Matters         Judge Andrew Napolitano's speech at the Columbus Tea Party    ...I believe that the States created the federal government and not the other way around. And that the power that the States gave to the Federal Government – they can take back. -- When we were colonists, and the King and the Parliament needed money from us, and they always seemed to need money, they devised ingenious ways to tax us...

Tampa Tribune       Fire marshal ordered closing of unruly health care meeting    Tampa -- The Children's Board of Hillsborough County closed its doors to a contentious town hall gathering on health care Thursday night under orders from the fire marshal, the organization said today. -- The meeting, organized by Democratic state Rep. Betty Reed, dissolved in shouting, shoving and fighting outside and inside... [See Obama Watch] [Related item with video]

Associated Press      Democratic senators get tips on handling disruptions at health care events    Top White House officials counseled Democratic senators Thursday on coping with disruptions at public events on health care this summer, officials said, and promised that the party and allies would respond with twice the force if any individual lawmaker is criticized in television advertising...

Real Clear Politics   sc       After 6 months, more view Obama's presidency as a 'failure' than Bush's     A rather surprising finding from the newly released CNN poll. Question three on the national survey of 1,136 adults (which includes an oversample of African-Americans) asks, "Do you consider the first six months of the Obama administration to be a success or a failure?"... [See Obama Watch]

Reuters      Change?: 34-million on food stamps    For the first time, more than 34 million Americans received food stamps, which help poor people buy groceries, government figures said on Thursday, a sign of the longest and one of the deepest recessions since the Great Depression. -- Enrollment surged by 2 percent to reach a record 34.4 million people, or one in nine Americans, in May, the latest month for which figures are available....

Houston Chronicle      Mayor wants to rewrite the rules on illegals    A few weeks ago, when Bill White was stumping in Dallas at an event sponsored by the League of United Latin American Citizens, he was asked about Houston's plan to join the controversial 287(g) program, which typically trains jailers to check inmates' immigration status...

American Border Patrol        Photos of the day    American Border Patrol took delivery of new Challenger light sports aircraft on Tuesday, August 4. People from Skyes the Limit! are seen doing final assembly of the Challenger in ABP's hangar at Bisbee airport....

Prison Planet -- Austin, Texas     Nazi-style denunciation campaign urges Americans to rat out each other    A privately-run informant program operating nationwide encourages Americans to anonymously turn each other in to the authorities for cash rewards in a chilling echo of the Nazi "denunciations" of 1930's Germany, where neighbors would grass their neighbors up to the local Gestapo officer over petty issues... [See Obama Watch]

TODAY Conference Call -- Listen in! -- 11:30 AM PDT  HHS Sec. to Talk Health Care with SEIU

CNNMoney.com      Change?: Fannie Mae needs another $10.7B in federal aid    Fannie Mae, the government-controlled mortgage insurer, said Thursday that it needs another $10.7 billion from the Treasury Department to stay afloat. -- The new infusion means the troubled company has drawn a total of $45.9 billion of its $200 billion lifeline this year. Fannie Mae and its sister firm, Freddie Mac...

Lee Cary -- American Thinker -- Bellevue, Wash.     The Obama resistance grows    Spontaneous, uncoordinated, passionate -- citizen resistance to Obama socialism grows by the day. -- America is no stranger to resistance. The nation was born from citizen resistance that had mixed support among the colonists. About one in five was loyal to the King. Some of the bitterest fighting in the American Revolution was between Loyalists and Patriots...

Reuters      Drug killings soar as Obama heads for SPP soiree    Cd. Juarez, Chih., Mex. -- Mexican drug gangs are killing rivals in record numbers in a major setback for the government, which will seek more support from U.S. President Barack Obama when he visits the country this weekend. -- Severed heads, burned bodies, daylight shootouts and dead children are daily fare from Mexico's Caribbean to its desert border with the United States... [See NWO Treason Watch]

Michelle Malkin     MoveOn sounds the nutroots mob alarm    MoveOn tells its minions that "this is getting ugly." -- MoveOn knows ugly. And now they’re exploiting the current Obamacare crisis to raise $250,000 and recruit new thugs. -- Here’s the missive the far Left outfit sent out today...

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Today's NAFBPO update from south of the border    The Secretary of National Defense (Sedena) reported that Mexican Army personnel detained a 21 year-old Reynosa, Tamaulipas native with 20 grenades in his vehicle as he was en-route to the Reynosa-Pharr port of entry, intending to enter the U.S...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer      Farmers preparing for strict immigration rules    Farmers in Washington are taking part in special training sessions in preparation for immigration investigations that the Obama Administration says will audit employers suspected of hiring [illegal alien] workers, hoping to avoid the heat of the crackdown...

CNS News       Does this arrogant Congress-clown represent you?      Speaking about health care reform legislation John Conyers (D-MI) said, "What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?"

John Gizzi -- Human Events      Will Jim Smith replace Sen. 'Amnesty Mel' Martinez?    Minutes after word spread today that Republican Sen. Mel Martinez (R.-Fla.) would resign from the Senate during the August recess, a rumor spread like a tidal wave from the Sunshine State: that moderate Gov. Charlie Crist, already a candidate in 2010 .. [Related item] [Resignation letter]

Dana Loesch -- DanaRadio.com      Meet the "mob"    You’ve heard a lot about this crazy, scary, vicious mob on some shadowy GOP payroll. By the way the DNC, Rachel Maddow, and President Obama talk, you’d think it was a motley crue of Hell’s Angels. -- Let me introduce you to the mob...

Michelle Malkin      Who's behind the Internet Snitch Brigade    White House spokesman Bobby Gibbs says not to worry. The health care czar isn’t going to do anything nefarious with the info gathered by the Internet Snitch Brigade. Uh-huh. The Obama bully boys are just going to use it for a scrapbooking project. No biggie. -- My column today gives you more reasons to worry.... [See Obama Watch]

KIRO-TV -- Seattle      577 pounds of pot seized near Canadian border    Border Patrol Agents seized 12 duffel bags containing 577 pounds of "BC bud" marijuana on Monday near Maple Falls, Wash., according to a press release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. -- A 24-year-old Canadian woman was arrested in connection with the seizure and is facing a federal charge... [See Crime Watch]

Reuters      About half of U.S. mortgages seen underwater by 2011    The percentage of U.S. homeowners who owe more than their house is worth will nearly double to 48 percent in 2011 from 26 percent at the end of March, portending another blow to the housing market, Deutsche Bank said on Wednesday... [See Obama Watch]

WorldNetDaily.com      What happened to Michelle Obama's law license?    Why did Michelle Obama give up her license to practice law in 1993? -- Records at the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois list her status as "voluntarily inactive and not authorized to practice law."

D.A. King -- Marietta (Ga.) Daily Journal      Americans, make it clear     It is the last thing the leftist president and the Democrat congressional leaders wanted to happen: An actual debate, an over-informed citizenry and the August congressional break before a rushed vote on government regulated health care... [See Obama Watch]

Moe Lane -- RedState.com          SEIU goons go wild, attack activist outside Town Hall last night    I didn't put up anything on the Gladney Incident (allegedly, a conservative activist at Russ Carnahan's town hall / aging event was sent to the emergency room last night because of an attack by SEIU people) last night because it was at the time single-source. We have gotten another report in, though - and more importantly, what looks to be video from the scene... [See Obama Watch]

Paul Craig Roberts -- VDare.com      The expiring economy    Tent cities springing up all over America are filling with the homeless unemployed from the worst economy since the 1930s. While Americans live in tents, the Obama government has embarked on a $1 billion crash program to build a mega-embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, to rival the one the Bush government built in Baghdad, Iraq...

Associated Press  Translated by Google    Mexican government laments departure of illegal alien-friendly Bratton    The consul general of Mexico in Los Angeles thanked the police chief of the city, William Bratton, for his "willingness to cooperate and its ongoing dialogue with the government of Mexico. -- Bratton announced his surprise resignation on Wednesday after seven years at the head of the Police Department of Los Angeles.... [Good riddance to bad rubbish!]

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Fox16-TV -- Little Rock, Ark.       Congress critters confronted over Obamacare in Little Rock     U.S. lawmakers have a big battle ahead in September. What should they do about the nation’s healthcare system? Those pushing for change say too many Americans are uninsured or not covered for all their illnesses. And they say for those who are happy with their coverage the cost will get out of control in a matter of years... [See Obama Watch]