Connie Hair -- Human Events    sc       Holder throwing a bone to radical Left    Here we go again. What is it about a radical liberal that commands the inner child to seek and destroy America’s national security apparatus? What is it that continually drives them to leave America vulnerable to her enemies? You would think September 11, 2001, was devastating enough to keep them on the side of American security for at least a decade. -- Not so..... [See AG Watch]

Michelle Malkin -- VDare.com      Corporate shills for hope and change    Money from pharmaceutical firms and health care companies is dirty, evil and corrupting -- except when key members of Team Obama are pocketing it. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs derides grassroots opponents of socialized health care as industry-funded lackeys with questionable motives and conflicts of interest. But what about the corporate shills at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?

Chicago Sun-Times      'Most significant drug conspiracy' busted in Chicago     Usually drug busts in Chicago begin and end at the street level. -- But on Thursday, federal authorities announced they disrupted a massive drug operation by ensnaring notorious Mexican drug lords, cutting off shipments of cocaine by the ton into Chicago and knocking out a major distribution network that operated out of the city... [See Crime Watch]

Los Angeles Times      Illegals nabbed on Carlsbad beach    Twenty-three illegal [aliens] were caught by U.S. Border Patrol agents on a Carlsbad [Calif.] beach this morning after wading ashore from a suspected smuggling boat, according to authorities. -- The Mexican [illegal aliens], five of them females, were spotted by a patrol boat about 4 a.m. off of Ponto Beach in Carlsbad. The boat got away, heading south... [See Crime Watch]

Atlanta Journal-Constitution       Feds put 2 big drug groups out of business    Two major Mexican drug trafficking organizations in metro Atlanta have been dismantled, Justice Department officials announced Friday. The federal indictments and arrests followed a two-year investigation dubbed "Operation Four Horsemen."

Victorville (Calif.) Daily Press      Minutemen to protest "ObamaCare" scam Saturday    Activists opposed to illegal immigration said they plan to protest plans for nationalized health care that would include coverage for illegal aliens. -- Minuteman project spokesman Raymond Herrera said his group plans to protest anticipated immigration amnesty and health care benefits for illegal aliens during a 6:30 p.m. rally on Saturday... [See Obama Watch]

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Hollister (Calif.) Free Lance      Mexican illegal alien held on rape charge    Federal immigration authorities have confirmed the man suspected of kidnapping and raping a Watsonville woman last weekend is an illegal [alien] from Mexico, the San Benito County Sheriff's Office has confirmed. -- With U.S. ICE placing a hold on 36-year-old Roberto Carranza, he no longer is eligible for bail... [More 'family values' that should have stopped at the Rio Bravo]

America's Voice (Cheap labor hustling cartel)         Know Your Enemies: Sharry, others chat about secret meeting about illegals     Several video clips featuring some of the worst open-borders zealots in the country (the notorious cheap labor hired gun Frank Sharry, representatives from the 'Tan Klan,' the UFW, etc.) sharing their thoughts on their private meeting with Janet Napolitano and cronies on Thursday, August 20... [Related hooey] [See Amnesty Watch]

Dallas Morning News Editorial     Mexico's ongoing corruption battle    Considering Mexico's long history of nearly unbridled corruption, there were no surprises this week when separate reports emerged of illicit activities within that nation's customs service and even at the Mexican Consulate in Dallas. President Felipe Calderón's administration appears to be moving quickly to attack the problem at its source...

McAllen (Texas) Monitor      Suspected smugglers attack Border Patrol agents with rocks    A group of suspected drug smugglers attacked two U.S. Border Patrol agents with rocks during a chase near the Rio Grande on Thursday evening. -- Agents were following a vehicle loaded with marijuana when the driver stopped at the riverbank and fled on foot, Border Patrol spokesman John Lopez said... [See Crime Watch]

Associated Press      Man charged in beating of 78-year-old woman, flees home to Mexico    A former Redwood City man is facing the possibility of at least 20 years in prison after being charged with the 2008 beating of a 78-year-old woman. -- Jose Perez-Gonzalez is being held without bail after pleading not guilty to attempted murder and other charges Thursday...

WSB-TV -- Atlanta      Likely illegal alien accused of molesting 6-year-old    Canton police arrested and charged Rolando Ajanel Tayun Tuesday after investigating allegations that he molested a 6-year-old girl. -- Police said Tayun, 25, who also goes by the name Anthony C. Borrero Gutierrez, was taken to the Cherokee County Adult Detention Center...  [More "family values"]

War Stories -- Fox News     sc      Coming Up Saturday: Drugs, money and narco-terror    It's a drug-fueled war right next door. -- Mexican drug cartels are fighting for supremacy along our 2,000 mile-long border. Since December 2006, more than 11,000 people have been murdered by the cartels as they try to dominate the multi-billion dollar drug industry and its smuggling routes into America....

Associated Press      California unemployment rate climbs to 11.9%    California's unemployment rate climbed to 11.9 percent in July, the highest number in modern record-keeping. -- That's an increase from 11.6 percent in June and considerably higher than the jobless rate of 7.3 percent a year ago. -- The U.S. Department of Labor also reported Friday that 87,000 Californians lost jobs last month... [See Cal Meltdown Watch]

Earth Times      Obama vows to push for amnesty, "immigrants" demand changes    ...Barack Obama on Thursday reiterated his commitment to immigration reform [read: amnesty], but [illegal aliens' "rights" hustlers] demanded concrete moves and dates. Obama dropped in on a meeting of about 130 representatives of [pro -illegal alien] organizations, trade unions, police associations and religious groups with US DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano in a White House annex... [See Amnesty Watch]

Sierra Vista (Arizona) Herald / Review      Garza leaves Minuteman Civil Defense Corps    Bisbee -- Al Garza resigned as vice president of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps last month and has formed a new group that calls itself the Patriots Coalition. -- Garza, who previously served the Minuteman organization as Texas state director and national executive director, said his decision to leave “had nothing to do with animosity..."

Numbers USA      NumbersUSA members respond to Obama's "demagogue" comment    Earlier this month, Pres. Obama took a shot at the opponents of Amnesty by labeling them as demagogues. Roy responded by requesting a meeting with the President, and NumbersUSA members responded with their own thoughts as well...

Associated Press      Court panel lets "immigrant" rights case proceed    Pasadena, Calif. -- A federal appeals court gave the green light Thursday to a class-action lawsuit brought by immigrant detainees who claim the government unfairly denied their right to a hearing. -- A three-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that an immigrant's case against ICE can go ahead as a class-action...

Sierra Vista (Arizona) Herald / Review      Minuteman chief under investigation in alleged scam    The state attorney general’s office is investigating a Minuteman Civil Defense Corps leader in Tombstone over suspected involvement in an alleged property assessment scam. -- Steve Wilson, public information officer for the attorney general’s office, confirmed Wednesday that Carmen Mercer registered a Phoenix post office box in her name where checks were mailed...

Los Angeles Times      Assembly OKs bill that prohibits businesses from refusing to serve non-English speakers    There could soon be a new protected class of citizens in California: business patrons who speak a language other than English. -- Today the state Assembly approved a measure that would prohibit restaurants and other establishments from refusing to serve patrons because they're speaking a different language....

Syracuse (NY) Post-Standard     Farm bureau in tizzy after Border Patrol busts illegals    Wolcott, NY -- The Wayne County Farm Bureau is requesting a federal inquiry into the U.S. Border Patrol stop and subsequent detention of four Mexican farm workers Monday on Route 414. -- The border patrol officer in charge of the scene told the men's employer their car was stopped because the men "looked suspicious at us" as they passed the border patrol sedan...

Omaha World-Herald      Immigration plea brings probation     Council Bluffs, Iowa -- The owner of a chain of thrift stores will serve three years of probation for hiring illegal [aliens]. -- Daryl Leise, 40, pleaded guilty to reckless disregard in the hiring of undocumented workers at his company, American Clothing Co., 3211 Nebraska Ave., U.S. Attorney Matthew G. Whitaker announced Wednesday...

PhillyBurbs.com -- Philadelphia      Suspected illegal alien accused of raping boy, 17     "That's him," the boy said, crying. "That's him ." -- The 17-year-old was in tears as he identified the 48-year-old man he was accusing of raping him at the Bucks Landing Apartments in Warminster, according to court records. -- Police arrested Emigdio Asencio, who lives at the apartment complex on Saturday... [More of Obama's pet fiends]

Janet Porter -- WorldNetDaily.com      Forced vaccines: Ready for yours?    Former Republican Majority Leader Dick Armey, made a prediction: "In September or October there will be a hyped up outbreak of the swine flu which they'll say is as bad as the bubonic plague to scare the bed-wetters to vote for health care reform. … That is the only way they can push something on to the American people that the American people don't want.." [See Obama Watch and NWO Watch]

Fox News      Gunmen kill leading lawmaker in drug-plagued Mexican state    Acapulco, Gro., Mex. -- Gunmen have killed the presiding lawmaker of the state legislature in a drug-plagued Mexican state, in what is the latest violence in Mexico's raging war on drugs. -- Guerrero state's public safety department says the body of leftist congressman Armando Chavarria was found early Thursday in the passenger seat of a vehicle in the state capital of Chilpancingo...

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Today's NAFBPO update from south of the border    According to DEA (Drug Enforcement Admin.) investigations, narcotraffickers supervised the shipment of cocaine and enormous quantities of heroin to the U.S. -- Thursday, federal prosecutors presented ten documents in which they accused the capos Joaquin Chapo Guzman, Ismael El Mayo Zambada and Arturo Beltran Leyva...

Linda Valdez -- Arizona Republic -- Phoenix   Hogwash Alert     Immigration countdown    Sonia Sotomayor won’t be enough. -- Sixty-seven percent of Latinos helped put Obama in the White House, and they expect immigration reform, according to Frank Sharry, Executive Director of the advocacy group America’s Voice. -- In an e-mail sent to news media today, [Sharry] pointed to a weekend column in the Spanish language version of the Miami Herald...

Salisbury (NC) Post      Posters of Obama in clown makeup show up in China Grove    Posters showing President Barack Obama in clown makeup showed up Tuesday on telephone poles along Main Street and surrounding neighborhoods. -- The posters have been promoted by Alex Jones, a syndicated radio talk show host in Austin, Texas. He has been distributing the flyers on his Web site and urging listeners to videotape themselves as they post the pictures in public places...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger      Cash for clunkers.... California style    California is so broke that the Governator has stooped to this... [See Cal Meltdown Watch]

Michelle Malkin     Cone of Shame Award: Democrat Rep. Melissa Bean    She billed her $25/person Chamber of Commerce pow-wow as a “town hall,” then had it changed after getting smoked out. -- Then she hastily convened a telephone town hall, but didn’t notify constituents until the last minute. -- Reader Mary in Johnsburg, Illinois e-mailed last night....