Corning (Calif.) Record    sc         Broken taillights lead to chase, immigration hold    A car and foot chase with Corning police through town landed a man in jail. -- Jose Fernando Castillo-Alanis, also known as Fidel Mata, was driving a Toyota Camry northbound on Fifth Street when Corning police Officer Tiffany Hill attempted to make a stop on the car because it did not have tail-lights, said police... [See Crime Watch]

NewsMax.com      Grassley: FCC 'diversity chief' may stifle talk radio    Sen. Charles Grassley is worried that Obama administration’s new federal communications "diversity" director may try to regulate talk radio with a "backdoor" method akin to the Fairness Doctrine. -- The Iowa Republican expressed his concerns because of a paper in which Mark Lloyd, the diversity director, alleged a “structural imbalance” in political talk radio... [See Free Speech Watch]

Dr. Jerome Corsi -- WorldNetDaily.com       Barack's dad had bachelor pad, mother left Hawaii with baby     Additional documents uncovered by WND support a previous report that President Obama's parents did not live together as husband and wife at the Honolulu address listed in birth announcements in two local newspapers. -- Both newspapers, the Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, carried the announcement that...

Numbers USA      125,000 brand new foreign workers with permits each month    Here is the explanation and justification for saying that the federal government brings in 1.5 million new foreign workers each year (125,000 a month) to take U.S. jobs while Americans lose theirs. (This is a key number in our national TV ad campaign.) -- For months, the open-borders blogosphere has insisted that NumbersUSA is telling tall tales when we talk about these numbers...

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Today's NAFBPO update from south of the border    Mexico’s "CIDAC" has published a 16 page Spanish language document which states that Chihuahua, Baja California and the state of Mexico head the list with the most homicides, vehicle thefts and executions in Mexico; it adds that, on a world scale, Mexico ranks 16th with the highest index of violence and crime among 115 nations...

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.

Riverside (Calif.) Press Enterprise     Illegal alien carjacking suspect escapes from jail    A suspect in a series of knifepoint carjackings escaped from a San Bernardino County jail early Tuesday by scaling the roof and apparently leaping off the prison grounds, officials said. -- Joel Maldonado was reported missing from his assigned housing area at the sheriff's Adelanto Detention Center shortly after midnight... [See Crime Watch]

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner      Mexican drug cartels setting fire to our national forests    Investigators have determined that the wildfire burning known as the La Brea Fire, in the Los Padres National Forest, which began on August 8, was actually started by a cooking fire being used by Mexican marijuana growers. -- On Saturday, the Santa Barbara County sheriff's office and the U.S. Forest Service held a joint press conference...

NewsBusters      Photo sharing We site takes down Obama 'Joker' poster    The popular photo sharing website Flickr has taken down the original version of the now famous Obama Joker poster that's been sweeping the nation. -- Apparently, management is concerned about a copyright infringement issue due to the appearance of the Time magazine logo in Firas Alkhateeb's parody that ended up being reprinted with the word "Socialism" at the bottom....

KGO-TV -- San Francisco     San Francisco supervisor disagrees with sanctuary law    The city of San Francisco changed its so-called sanctuary city policy last year to allow more [illegal aliens.... criminals] to be turned over to federal immigration officials. But now some San Francisco lawmakers want to reverse course to prevent these young people from deportation....  [See Frisco Watch]

Connie Hair -- Human Events      End of life kills Obamacare?    Democrats have spent the past two weeks trying to convince elderly American voters that only right-wing whackos could believe that Obamacare will lead to rationed healthcare or “death counseling” to convince those over 65 that they should help cut health care costs by, well, dying...

Karen De Coster -- Lew Rockwell.com      I'm the government and I'm here to lie to you    You don’t have to be a dedicated libertarian, an anarchist, a front porch radical, an anti-government adherent, or a tea party insurgent to take exception to the government’s coercive political process that seeks to master you and crush your independence. All you have to do is recognize how the political system functions and determine the legitimacy of its tactics by applying some really basic analysis and concepts...

Michelle Malkin      SEIU Watch: Obama to rouse Purple Army in special conference call    Tomorrow, President Obama will host a conference call on his health care takeover plans with the SEIU’s Purple Army. -- Here’s the message that went out today from radical leftist and SEIU thug-in-chief Andy Stern...

Paul Craig Roberts -- Prison Planet -- Austin, Texas      Americans: Serfs ruled by oligarchs    Americans think that they have “freedom and democracy” and that politicians are held accountable by elections. The fact of the matter is that the US is ruled by powerful interest groups who control politicians with campaign contributions. Our real rulers are an oligarchy of financial and military/security interests and AIPAC, which influences US foreign policy for the benefit of Israel...

Edwin S. Rubenstein -- VDare.com    sc       Legal Immigration: The bigger Obamacare problem    Health care a divisive issue? No way. Not when you ask the right questions. -- Fully 80 percent of Americans say they don’t want illegal aliens to be covered by government subsidized health insurance. A Rasmussen Poll shows only 11 percent supported it. A full 70% said that it would be a deal breaker...

Gwinnett County (Ga.) Government      Gwinnett checking businesses for immigration status    More than 26,000 Gwinnett-based businesses soon will get a letter from the County's license and revenue office asking for compliance with a new state immigration law. The County is required to check the immigration status of all applicants for a business/occupation tax certificate, commonly called a business license....

Roll Call -- Washington      Kyl says concerns over illegal immigration are valid    Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday defended critics of Democratic health care reform plans who claim the proposals would provide subsidized health care to illegal [aliens]. Kyl said Democrats have long sought to block curbs on public services for people illegally in the country. [Cheap-labor pimp Frank Sharry also chimes in]

The Daily Citizen -- Dalton, Georgia      Suspected illegal alien held in vehicular manslaughter case    A man accused of vehicular homicide had a bond of $50,000 set in Whitfield County Superior Court on Tuesday, and by day’s end had a hold placed on him by ICE -- Ismael Lopez-Rodriguez, 36, of 119 Gay St. in Dalton, was charged with second degree vehicular homicide in the death of motorcyclist Audie Burnette... [See Crime Watch]

Wall Street Journal     Hogwash Alert   Immigration out of sight     President Obama continues his quiet retreat from a campaign pledge to make comprehensive immigration reform [read: amnesty] "a top priority in my first year as President." Following a summit meeting in Guadalajara last week with the leaders of Mexico and Canada, Mr. Obama said that an immigration overhaul will have to wait until next year... [See Amnesty Watch]

SF Weekly -- San Francisco      Usual suspects think unlicensed illegals should be above the law    This week, advocates for undocumented immigrants are scheduled to meet with new Police Chief George Gascon to discuss a problem for city residents without Social Security numbers: having their cars impounded by police after routine traffic stops because they don't have valid driver's licenses...

Carolyn Cooke -- Family Security Matters     Deputy shot dead by illegal alien during traffic stop    A decorated Kenosha County Sheriff’s Deputy was shot to death during a routine traffic stop by an illegal alien with four prior arrests in four different states. -- Local law enforcement is “doing the job the federal government just won’t do” by being the first line of defense against illegal alien crime in America...

American Patrol Report      Simcox group folding tent?     According to reliable reports, the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, the group founded by Chris Simcox, will soon cease operations, if it hasn’t already.  Simcox left the group earlier to run for the Republican nomination for the Senate seat now held by John McCain...

Michelle Malkin     All aboard the Astroturf bus!    Chris Gautz of the Jackson (MI) Citizen Patriot reports that the SEIU and Organizing For America chartered buses from nearly 200 miles away to plant Obamacare supporters at a town hall meeting held by Democrat Rep. Mark Schauer....

KNXV-TV -- Phoenix     DPS: 11 coyotes, 29 illegals found at 3 Valley drop houses    Phoenix -- DPS announced Tuesday that 11 human smugglers and 29 [illegal aliens] were found at three drop houses in the Valley this past week. -- The most recent incident happened at about 3 p.m. on Friday, August 14 at a home near 55th Avenue and Thomas Road, according to a DPS news release... [See Crime Watch]

Carl Braun -- The Examiner      The Feds and the Southern Poverty Law Center target patriots    First it was “right wing extremists” and now any Patriotic American who doesn’t buy off on the left’s view of things may find themselves lumped in with Tmothy Mcveigh in this new SPLC Intelligence Report. -- The Southern Poverty Law Center, fierce protector of all things left, has published an August 2009 special report entitled “The Second Wave---Return Of The Militia’s."

Los Angeles Times     Pot farm fire reveals a troubling trend (Mexican criminals in the U.S.)    Santa Barbara, Calif. -- Narcotics agents said Tuesday they had little doubt that the nearly 90,000-acre La Brea fire was started by Mexican drug traffickers who were tending a large, sophisticated marijuana farm planted on the side of a mountain... [See Crime Watch]

KUOW-FM -- Seattle    Charges filed against raided Bellingham company    Federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against a Bellingham company. It was the site of an immigration raid earlier this year where 28 people were arrested. -- The business is Yamato Engine Specialists — a small company that rebuilds car engines. It's charged with conspiring to encourage undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States...

Courthouse News Service      Immigration raid brings $450K fine    Kansas City, Mo. -- Federal prosecutors say George's Inc. employed 136 illegal aliens at its Cassville, Mo. poultry plant. Prosecutors seek a $450,000 fine and other sanctions for the May 22, 2007 immigration raid. -- The United States says that after the raid, George's promised to comply with federal employment and immigration laws....