The Hill -- Washington   sc     Rep. Green to require photo ID at town halls     A Texas congressman, worried about disruptions at his town halls, wants to weed out people who want to attend but don't live in his district. -- Rep. Gene Green (D-Texas) has announced on his website that he will require attendees to show photo identification to get into his town halls to prove that they're his constituents. [Contact this clown]

Agence France-Presse     Obama slams healthcare 'scare' tactics     US President Barack Obama on Tuesday condemned the wild “scare tactics” peddled by foes of his healthcare reform plan in a passionate defense of his signature domestic priority. -- Obama thrust himself into the fierce public debate over his plans to bring health coverage in reach of all Americans in a campaign-style town hall meeting in New Hampshire....

Joseph Farah -- WorldNetDaily.com     Establishing presidential eligibility    Last fall, American voters were given a choice of two major candidates for the presidency – John McCain and Barack Obama. -- Both of them faced questions about their constitutional eligibility to serve. -- McCain was not born in the United States. He was born in Panama to two parents who were U.S. citizens...

Paul Craig Roberts -- VDare.com      Spinning the economic news    Last Friday, a Bloomberg.com headline read: "U.S. Stocks Gain, Treasuries Drop as Unemployment Rate Declines." -- Let's have a look at the reported decline in the rate of unemployment. Do you believe that the U.S. auto industry added 28,000 jobs in July amidst the GM bankruptcy, sell-off and close-down of GM auto divisions...

YouTube     "You have awakened a sleeping giant" -- Arlen Specter Town Hall    A young women tells Sen Arlen Specter that "You have awakened a Sleeping Giant..." to the thunderous roar of applause and a standing ovation at a town hall meeting in Lebanon PA. Aug 11, 2009... [See Obama Watch]

New Republic      Obama awards medal to former open-borders U.N. crackpot    Today, Barack Obama will award [awarded] the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 16 recipients. What should be a joyous affair, however, has been the subject of growing controversy due to the selection of Mary Robinson -- a former United Nations official who presided over the notoriously anti-Zionist 2001 World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa....

Eagle Forum      Town Hall Meetings: Keep an eye on your representatives    Register for Eagle Forum Town Hall meeting alerts so you will always know when your Congressman and Senators are holding an event.

John W. Schoen -- MSNBC     Here's Your Change: Americans working much harder – for less pay    Feel like you're working a lot harder these days, putting in longer hours for the same pay -- or even less? The latest round of government data on worker productivity indicates that you probably are. -- The Labor Department said Tuesday that the American work force produced, at an annual rate, 6.4 percent more of the goods they made and services they provided... [See Obama Watch]

CASA de Maryland       Baltimore pushes Washington to reward foreign scofflaws    Delay may be business as usual in Washington, but Baltimore isn't having it. -- Yesterday evening, amidst news that President Obama now sees immigration reform delayed until 2010, the Baltimore City Council passed a resolution... calling on President Obama and Congress to act swiftly to pass real, comprehensive immigration reform. [See Amnesty Watch]

NewsReal Blog      SEIU/ACORN goons assaulting ObamaCare skeptics    At townhall meetings across the country, militant left-wing thugs are physically assaulting Americans skeptical of President Obama’s plan to nationalize America’s health care sector, according to the "Glenn Beck Program."

Los Angeles Times     Border security not an isolated issue, Napolitano says    El Paso -- One day after President Obama concluded a summit in Mexico, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday that securing the Southwest border required targeting several issues at the same time: illegal immigration, drug trafficking and violence in Mexico...

PressTV -- Tehran      Sonia Sonia Sotomayor and the reconquest of America     When Puerto Rican judge, Sonia Sotomayor took her oath of office on Saturday, August 8th, and was sworn in as a Chief Justice to the United States Supreme Court, she represented, for many Hispanic Americans, not only herself, but the Latino community as a whole...

Infowars.net -- Austin, Texas      NY Times columnist Ben Stein fired for allegedly criticizing Obama    A columnist for the New York Times has publicly stated that he believes he was fired last week simply for criticizing president Obama and his policies. -- Commentator Ben Stein writes in the American Spectator that the real reason for his dismissal was not, as the Times indicated, due to a conflict of interest...

Baxter Bulletin -- Mountain Home, Ark.      Illegals nabbed    Marion County Sheriff Roger Vickers announced Monday that three persons arrested for various offenses in Marion County this summer were residing in the United States illegally and are now in the custody of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Two men from Guatemala were arrested Aug. 2... [See Crime Watch]

Stein Report      Rasmussen Poll: Most oppose Mexican junker rigs on US highways    While President Obama was concluding a mini-summit with the presidents of Canada and Mexico on Monday, a Rasmussen poll found that sixty-six percent (66%) of U.S. adults oppose lifting the congressional ban on Mexican trucks operating in the United States...

Eagle Forum      What came out of the North American Leaders Summit?    The annual North American Leaders' Summit, attended by President Barack Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon, concluded on Monday, August 10. -- The three leaders pledged strong commitments to cap and trade of greenhouse gases in keeping with the "global warming" THEORY to be fulfilled...

Daniel May -- D.C. Writeup      The best of the Town Hall videos    Angry townhall meeting protesters have gotten plenty of coverage since the start of the August recess. According to Democrats, the meetings are staged by Republican operatives as part of a vast right wing conspiracy to derail health care reform. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi even thinks some of the town hall participants are "un-American"...

Michelle Malkin      The illustrated guide to Obamacare human props    Little Julia Hall is just the latest in-the-tank questioner with Obama campaign/Democrat ties to turn up "randomly" at presidential health care forums. -- Here's your illustrated guide to Obamacare human props...

Michelle Malkin -- One News Now      'Brown Shirts' vs. Purple Shirts    Who are the real thugs? Democrats attack congressional town hall protesters as "Brown Shirts" -- likening taxpayer activists across the country to Hitler's storm troopers. But it's the Big Labor hoodlums clad in identical purple shirts -- the uniform of Service Employees International Union members -- who own the mob label...

Carol M. Swain -- Huffington Post     Mission creep and the Southern Poverty Law Center's misguided focus    ...There is a name for what has happened. It is called "mission creep." Mission creep occurs when an organization strays beyond its original purpose and engages in actions antithetical to its goals. Rather than monitoring hate groups, the Southern Poverty Law Center has become one...

Fox News      Funding stalls plan to deploy National Guard to U.S. border    A proposed government plan to use National Guard troops to help stem Mexican drug violence along the southern border is stymied by disagreements over who will pay for the soldiers and how they would be used. -- Ordered by President Obama in June to help secure the border with Mexico..

Atlanta Journal-Constitution      Georgia "leaders" call for amnesty    Comprehensive legislation is needed so [illegal aliens.... criminals] who are the victims of crime have enough trust in law enforcement to report the offenses, legislative, law enforcement and religious leaders said Tuesday. -- U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington and Atlanta Roman Catholic Archbishop Wilton Gregory... [Related video] [See Amnesty Watch]

Infowars -- Austin, Texas      Chuck Norris slams Stalinist "home intrusion and indoctrination" program    TV star and political commentator Chuck Norris points out in an editorial today that under the Obamacare legislation currently being vociferously opposed in town halls across the country, the government would empower itself to carry out home intrusions and state re-education of children under a Stalinist indoctrination program...

Associated Press      Officials see rise in "militia groups" across U.S.    ...The stress of a poor economy and a liberal administration led by a black president are among the causes for the recent rise, the report from the Southern Poverty Law Center says. Conspiracy theories about a secret Mexican plan to reclaim the Southwest are also growing amid the public debate about illegal immigration....

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Today's NAFBPO update from south of the border    At a press conference closing the recent meeting of the heads of state of Mexico, the U.S. and Canada, Pres. Calderon told Pres. Obama not to forget the impact that Mexican [illegal aliens] have on the US society and economy and stated : "It is unthinkable that the United States could have become the world's leading power in the last century without the collaboration of Mexican workers." [More from this meddlesome gasbag]

GOP Nation      Old Man Dingell, a douche?    Last night, we highlighted the completed ineptness of Rep. John Dingell (the “Dean of the House) of Michigan. Today, he played the race card when criticizing those against socialized medicine. -- Appearing on the ultra-liberal, but seldom watched Ed Schultz’s show, Dingell compared his foes to the Klu Klux clan...

Los Angeles Times      Debate heats up on healthcare for illegal aliens    Chicago -- Pushing around a cart filled with steamed corn, sliced cucumbers and other street food, Omar Castillo is the embodiment of what has become a third rail in the healthcare debate. -- The 19-year-old, who received a kidney transplant last year, is in the U.S. illegally and has no ready access to long-term medical care...

Americans for Limited Government           ALG blasts DHS methodology used in "Rightwing Extremism" memo    Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today condemned the methodology used by the Department of Homeland Security in issuing a controversial “right-wing extremism” threat assessment to law enforcement in April as "complete speculation..." [See Napolitano Watch] southern poverty law center

Newsweek - New York     Feds raid alleged sex worker slave ring (illegals involved)    Two dozen female bartenders at two Suffolk bars raided Monday as part of a federal crackdown on a reputed large sexual-slavery ring were being questioned late Monday by federal agents to determine the extent of the operation, law enforcement officials said... [More of Obama's pet fiends]

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner     Feds still hiding facts in the case against Ramos and Compean    In July 2008, the government watchdog group known as Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against the U.S. State Department, for that agency's failure to turn over certain documents related to former U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton’s prosecution of Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean...

NJ.com      Illegals encouraged to boycott 2010 census    Bridgeton, NJ -- - A national immigrant rights leader on Saturday urged undocumented workers in South Jersey to boycott the 2010 national census. -- Rev. Miguel Rivera, head of the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders (CONLAMIC), made his case to roughly 45 to 50 attendees at a meeting...

Washington Post     Here's Your 'Change': U.S. Web-tracking scheme stirs privacy fears    The Obama administration is proposing to scale back a long-standing ban on tracking how people use government Internet sites with “cookies” and other technologies, raising alarms among privacy groups. -- A two-week public comment period ended Monday on a proposal by the White House Office of Management and Budget to... [See Big Brother Watch]