Phyllis Schlafly -- Eagle Forum     sc        Obama brings Chicago-style intimidation    Obama's staff and retreads from the Clinton Administration are using Chicago-style intimidation to rescue his extravagant health-care bill from its decline in public opinion polls. -- A congressional Town Hall meeting on August 6 reminds us of a memorable political moment when Bill Clinton and his chief aides were in Little Rock celebrating his 1992 election...

Infowars -- Austin, Texas     Globalist snob Rothkopf says Town Hall demonstrators are morons    David Rothkopf, managing director of Kissinger and Associates and CFR member, has published an op-ed in the globalist propaganda periodical Foreign Policy. -- "America has been suffering an outbreak of especially virulent and acute stupidity recently," writes Rothkopf... [Remember... Obama is another CFR minion... as is Napolitano. See a pattern here?]

Associated Press      Change?: Retail sales dip unexpectedly, jobless claims rise    Retail sales disappointed in July and the number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits rose unexpectedly last week. The latest government reports reinforced concerns about how quickly consumers will be able to contribute to a broad economic recovery...

KNXV-TV -- Phoenix     MCSO: 30 illegals found in drop house     The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office discovered a drop house in west Phoenix Wednesday afternoon. -- According to MCSO, 30 suspected undocumented immigrants were found at the home in the 9200 block of West Serrano Street, near Indian School Road and 91st Avenue...

WNYC -- New York      Health Care Town Hall: Who elects nitwits like Rep. Anthony Weiner?    ...Others in the crowd said they're concerned about too much being spent on healthcare for [illegal aliens]. Weiner said covering them is still better than forcing them to get all treatment in hospital emergency rooms. [How about enforcing the law and deporting them?]

Hot Air     Fairness Doctrine rears its ugly head under new FCC "Diversity Czar"    What’s a poor liberal progressive to do when the radio airwaves are dominated by conservative talk and they can’t seem to “get a word in”? Why not diversify it? After Dan Rather got hammered recently for suggesting the news media needs a public handout, now on the horizon is an FCC Diversity Czar... [See Free Speech Watch & Big Brother Watch]

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Today's NAFBPO update from south of the border    U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers working the commercial port of entry at Reynosa-Pharr seized almost a ton of marijuana, valued at $1,700,000. During a routine inspection a drug detection canine alerted on the tractor trailer which was attempting to enter the U.S. Using x-ray equipment...

Huntsville (Ala.) Times      City tells vendors to verify workers    A company that can't verify it doesn't employ illegal [aliens] would lose the right to provide goods or services to the city in a law to be introduced at tonight's City Council meeting. -- Councilman Bill Kling is sponsoring the law, which would require vendors to certify that they follow federal employment rules...

Californians for Population Stabilization      Obama reiterates his support for amnesty!    President Obama has restated his intention to provide an amnesty for illegal aliens. Speaking in Mexico, Obama said he wants to give "an opportunity for those who are already in the United States to be able to achieve a pathway to citizenship so they don't have to live in the shadows."

KGTV -- San Diego     2 shot in Mexico drive past border checkpoint into US    Mexican authorities Thursday fired shots that pierced the windshield of a van carrying 40 people moments before the vehicle crossed into the United States in San Ysidro and ended up in Otay Mesa, authorities said. -- U.S. border authorities called San Diego police for backup at 4:40 a.m. after the van was stopped on northbound Interstate 905 at Picador Avenue...

Anthony G. Martin -- The Examiner      The nation quickly descending into chaos    A very dangerous thing occurred last Thursday and Friday. The Federal Reserve monetized roughly 40% of the nation's enormous debt. This means that the Fed printed money to flow into the economy in order to cover over 40% of the debt burden the U.S. now carries... [See Obama Watch]

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix      Arizona "activist" sentenced for littering, avoids jail time    Tucson -- A judge has ordered an Arizona man to pick up trash for 300 hours after he was caught leaving jugs of water in the desert for illegal immigrants crossing over from Mexico. -- Walt Staton is a member of the group No More Deaths. He was cited for leaving the jugs in the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge...

Washington Watcher -- VDare.com     Obama protecting your right to vote... unless you're white    After Gatesgate turned white voters off of Obama, some Republican Party apparatchiks have started doing something completely out of character -- using common sense. --- Instead of cowering from “racism” allegations, they are using the enormous unpopularity of Obama’s response to Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates’ arrest ...

Washington Post           Former victims mix up an antidote to terror [More invader atrocities]    The three women didn't draw much attention from the lunch crowd at Congressional Country Club. That's only because no one could hear what they were saying. -- "Why did he have to tie us up so tight? We are just old people," asked the 94-year-old... [See Crime Watch]

Infowars.com -- Austin, Texas     Confirmed: No supporting evidence for DHS "Rightwing Extremism" report    A freedom of information act request has revealed that the DHS's now infamous "rightwing extremism" report, released in April, was not based on any reliable supporting evidence whatsoever. -- According to the DHS, the report was compiled based purely on around 50 internet articles, the credibility of which is severely questionable... [See CFR Hack Napolitano Watch]

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix  sc        Traffic stop, raid at drophouse net 32 arrests    Sheriff's deputies arrested 32 suspected illegal [aliens] after an investigation in the north Valley led to a drophouse in southwest Phoenix Monday night. -- The investigation began when deputies detained 17 people in a van, all of whom allegedly admitted to have paid between $1,200 and $3,000 to gain entry into the United States...

Michelle Malkin      More on Obama's staged New Hampshire health care scam BS-fest    As we always like to point out: There are no coincidences in Obama world. -- Via the Boston Globe: Surprise!: A girl from Malden asked President Obama a question at Tuesday's town hall meeting in New Hampshire about the signs outside "saying mean things" about his health care proposal...

Independent Political Report -- Saginaw, Mich.      Green Party works to oppose US-Mexico border wall    ...Lipan Apache woman Eloisa Tamez of El Calaboz, Texas has ongoing litigation that has successfully argued indigenous claims to her three-acre property. Represented by Attorney Peter Schey, Tamez has led the legal fight among local communities impacted by the physical wall....

Herbert London -- Family Security Matters      Healthcare reform and personal freedom    Writing in the pages of the Wall Street Journal (8/4/09) Laura Landro raises the question of how to make ever more complex health decisions when faced with multiple options, each with no clear advantage. According to Ms. Landro this decision making process involves coaching, consultation with a physician... [See Obama Watch]

Infowars -- Austin, Texas      Offensive targeting liberty movement picks up steam     Last month, the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote a letter calling on CNN President Jon Klein to remove CNN host Lou Dobbs from the air because he dared cover the birther issue with objectivity, something MSNBC would never do. -- The intolerant and foundation funded left simply hates the idea they do not completely dominate television news....

Michelle Malkin      Caution: Obama's weird scientists at work    Nature reports that all the president’s science experts met last week "mull priorities." Heading the meeting? Eugenics-embracer and science czar John Holdren. -- Pay attention: An elite group of 21 US researchers met publicly for the first time last week as the new advisory panel to US President Barack Obama on scientific and technical matters... [See Obama Watch]

Los Angeles Times     Wanted: Obama healthcare reform volunteers willing to be paid $15 an hour    It seems that, despite all the media attention lavished on e-mail appeals to his supporters, not everyone pushing for President Obama's embattled healthcare reform plan these warm August days is an idealistic volunteer in it for the sake of helping move the country forward and gaining medical attention for millions of uninsured Americans...

Gerald Celente -- Infowars -- Austin, Texas      The 'Second American Revolution' has begun    Kingston, NY -- The natives are restless. The third shot of the 'Second American Revolution' has been fired. History is being made. But just as with the first two shots, the third shot is not being heard. -- America is seething. Not since the Civil War has anything like this happened... [See Obama Watch]

American Border Patrol        Photos of the day    Hummingbirds are very big in Southeastern Arizona. A morning rain found seventeen of them taking shelter on Glenn Spencer's back porch....

Kathy Shaidle -- NewsRealBlog.com       Steven Crowder: President Obama acts "like a shady car salesman"    For years, conservatives have longed for our own Michael Moore — a politically aware documentary filmmaker with brains, talent and a sense of humor — but without Moore’s habit of comparing Islamist terrorists to the Minutemen, fibbing about his stock holdings to maintain his “everyman” image... [See Obama Watch]

Andy Arnold -- The Examiner      Obama to immigration reform: No mas    President Barack Obama threw in the towel on immigration, at least for this year, Aug. 11, citing the health care road block as consuming too much energy. The president told Mexican President Felipe Calderon immigration reform will have to wait until next year, according to the Mexican ambassador to the U.S. Arturo Sarukhán...

KNXV-TV -- Phoenix     MCSO: Deputies raid Phoenix business, expect 100 arrests    Deputies are reportedly expecting to make 100 identity theft arrests during a raid at a business in Phoenix this morning. -- Deputy Lindsey Smith with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said deputies and posse members are in the process of detaining over 100 employees at the Royal Paper Converting Company...

D.A. King -- Gwinnett Daily Post -- Lawrenceville, Ga.       Illegals aren't owed coverage by Uncle Sam    In the now-desperate rush by the Obama administration to take over American health care, we should be asking how the millions of illegal aliens in America fit in. -- What about the illegals and government-provided health coverage? -- The answer depends on who you can hear...

CNS News      Obama wants total government control over health care, says Phyllis Schlafly    President Barack Obama did not have a “real job” prior to entering politics other than as a community organizer, an experience he is now using to deceive Americans into accepting a new government-run health care system, said Phyllis Schlafly at a National Press Club luncheon on Monday where she received a lifetime achievement award...

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The Wrap -- Hollywood, Calif.     Howard Dean's bro goes after Lou Dobbs    CNN’s Lou Dobbs has never exactly been the friend of liberal activists. -- First there was his campaign to strengthen immigration enforcement, and more recently the on-air time he has devoted to so-called “birthers” who insist President Obama wasn’t really born in Hawaii -- even as Dobbs says they are wrong....