George Stephanopoulos -- ABC News      sc        Gingrich defends Palin's 'death panels'    Newt Gingrich and Howard Dean went at it on health care this morning on This Week. Especially over Sarah Palin's claim that Obama's health care plan will create "death panels" that would encourage euthanasia. -- “Communal standards historically is a very dangerous concept,” Gingrich told me... [See Obama Watch]

Houston Chronicle      Shipley Do-Nut pays $1.5 million for hiring illegal help    Shipley Do-Nut Flour and Supply Company Inc. paid the government $1.5 million Friday for conspiring to harbor illegal [aliens]. -- Senior U.S. District Judge Ewing Werlein sentenced the corporation to be under court supervision for three years and fined the company $250,000...

San Jose Mercury News      Illegal alien pleads guilty in hit-and-run that seriously injured 8-year-old boy    The man who smashed his car into a San Jose boy and his father as they walked to school in January and then drove away pleaded guilty for his role in the hit-and-run collision and will spend no more than two years in prison... [See Crime Watch]

New York Times      Pentagon says climate change a threat to national security    The changing global climate will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of military intervention to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass migration and pandemics, military and intelligence analysts say...

Nancy Coppock -- American Thinker -- Bellevue, Wash.     Demolition Man: Building the anti-America    Barack Obama is proving himself to be a destructive nihilist with capitalism, the Constitution, the Rule of Law, and the traditional American experience in his crosshairs. -- In today's American culture there are other sorts of nihilism. Pop culture nihilists much more common, comprising a virtual demographic segment of self-satisfied know-nothings...

New York Times     Mexico and Canada tussle over immigration ahead of SPP soiree    Ahead of President Obama's arrival in Mexico on Sunday night for a summit meeting of North American leaders, immigration was prompting significant behind-the-scenes debate. But it was Mexicans entering Canada, not the United States, that was the contentious issue... [See NWO Treason Watch]

Associated Press     Obama attending first US-Canada-Mexico summit (First?)    ...America's first- and third-largest trade relationships are with Canada and Mexico. All three are partners in the North American Free Trade Agreement, the largest free-trade zone in the world. Closing borders or restricting travel would be very costly for families and businesses on all sides of the borders... [This 'summit' is another SPP meeting, the first of which was in 2005. The feds just re-named it after folks caught on to their game.] [See Obama Watch]

Hot Air       Video: C-SPAN caller blasts media    I'd say this explains the eruption of anger at town-hall meetings fairly clearly. "Leah" from New Hampshire says she "just wants to clarify a few things about these manufactured angered crowds," but instead delivers a manifesto that explains the rise of the Tea Party movement in general.... [See Obama Watch]

Ilana Mercer -- WorldNetDaily.com       Destroying health care for the few uninsured    If the U.S. weren't already insolvent, I'd say that Obama was bankrupting the country, and sending the health care we have to hell in a handcart, for the ostensible benefit of less than 10 percent of the population. But the U.S. is already in the red, courtesy of the current president and his predecessor... [See Obama Watch]

Patrick J. Buchanan -- The American Cause     A GOP that can say no    Reports of the death of the Republican Party appear to have been premature. -- Not since Sen. Bob Griffin derailed LBJ's scheme to replace Chief Justice Earl Warren with crony Abe Fortas, before Nixon got to the Oval Office, has the GOP defied this city and voted to reject a liberal judicial activist for the court...

Auto Blog     U.S. Border Patrol considering Ford F150 SVT Raptor    ...The Customs and Border Protection division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security reportedly wants at least ten of these monsters. Pickuptrucks.com indicates that the government's purchasing agents are requesting bare bones work interiors instead of the fancy leather and Synced up cockpits found in the consumer models...

WITN-TV -- Washington, NC     Hundreds protest in Greenville against Obama's health care scheme     A tour bus criss crossing North Carolina opposing the President's health care plan was in our area Saturday and hundreds turned out in support of the cause. -- About 500 protesters circled around a hands off our health care tour bus in Greenville Saturday afternoon. The organization, Americans for Prosperity made a stop in the Arlington Business Park...

Reuters      Obama sees early 2010 start on illegal alien amnesty    President Barack Obama said on Friday he expects Congress to overhaul the country's immigration system, an issue that fires up emotions on both sides of the political divide, by "early next year." -- Speaking to Hispanic reporters at the White House, Obama said he hopes a bill for comprehensive immigration reform will be drafted by the end of this year... [See Amnesty Watch]

McAllen (Texas) Monitor     Illegal aliens face uncertainty during hurricane evacuations    Federal and state law could make it difficult for illegal immigrants to evacuate during a hurricane, said local nonprofit and community leaders during a public meeting Friday. -- They gathered at the headquarters of La Union del Pueblo Entero — an immigrant advocacy group based in San Juan — to answer residents’ questions...

Sacramento Bee      Recession isn't over for California    The layoffs tapered off in July and the economy seems poised for recovery. -- Except in California. -- Wall Street and the White House celebrated a relatively upbeat national unemployment report Friday, marked by lower-than-expected job losses in July... [See Cal Meltdown Watch]

Mark Steyn -- National Review      The community is restless    ..."The right-wing extremist Republican base is back!" warns the Democratic National Committee. These right-wing extremists have been given their marching orders by their masters: They’ve been directed to show up at "thousands of events," told to "organize," "knock on doors"... [See Obama Watch]

Sierra Vista (Arizona) Herald / Review     Congresswoman Giffords is target of local protest    Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords faces an ultimatum from some local constituents when it comes to national health care. -- The terms given to the Arizona 8th Congressional District U.S. representative: Hold a Sierra Vista town hall meeting on health care. If she does not, then she is asked to resign her seat...

KTLA-TV -- Los Angeles      40 inmates injured in Chino State Prison race riot    Forty prisoners were sent to hospitals, four of them airlifted, after a riot broke out at Chino State Prison Saturday night. --- Unconfirmed reports suggest the riot may have been racially motivated, though there has yet to be official word on how and why the violence at the prison began...

Mark Andrew Dwyer      The misfits, the losers, and the social parasites    I was really appalled by the furry with which the "Liberal" establishment, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), reacted to Rush Limbaugh's comparison of "Liberalism" to Nazism. Not that I was surprised, though. The "Liberals" mastered the art of projection defined as a tendency of projecting one's usually sinister intentions on others...

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TheGruntone -- YouTube     Obama's Union Goons: Are you paying attention now?    Town Hall meeting on government run health care protests and how the Obama Administration deals with people exercising their First Amendment rights...