Emanuel A. Winston, Middle East Analyst & Commentator       sc      Obama's ACORN Americans    President Barack Hussein Obama and his staff have tried to imply that Americans at town hall meetings who were protesting his health scare plan were "un-American." -- Some will recall that Obama was drafted into ACORN as a "community organizer" instructor which has been under legal attack for their corrupt practices. It has been reported that the Obama group through such advisors (I suppose) as Rahm Emanuel...

Infowars -- Austin, Texas      Criticizing joker in the White House is 'hate speech?'    A local Texas newspaper has cited the now iconic “Jokerbama” image as an example of hate speech after a military veteran reported the presence of the posters on light poles in his local area to City Hall officials. -- The Hays Free Press carried the headline Freedom... of hate speech? on its front page late last week...

Portland Oregonian       High times for an Oregon business: pot growing    ...Police say Mexico-based criminal organizations are finding it easier to grow marijuana in the United States than to smuggle it across the border. Glerup has found intricate irrigation systems of PVC pipe, hand-dug water reservoirs at natural springs filled with fertilizer to provide nutrients to the marijuana plants, and camouflaged drying racks... [See Crime Watch]

American Patrol Report / Business Insider      JP Morgan bails out California    Glenn Spencer said Obama would bail out California. Turns out, he did.... [See Cal Meltdown Watch]

KCBS-TV -- Los Angeles      Ex-Armenian consul charged in alien scam    A former Armenian consul in Los Angeles has pleaded not guilty to a charge of obstructing immigration proceedings in an alleged document scam aimed at helping [illegal aliens] avoid deportation. -- Prosecutor Sandy Leal said Norair Ghalumian pleaded not guilty to the charge in federal court in Santa Ana on Monday. [See Crime Watch]

American Border Patrol        Photos of the day    Glenn Spencer took this quick photo of part of a group of illegal aliens that had been apprehended near Bisbee Municipal airport in Southeastern Arizona. At that point he was ordered by a Customs and Border Protection agent not to take any more photos....

Nolan Chart -- Warrenton, Va.   sc       Communist style demonization of patriots, military, and police    ...Source (get ready...) Southern Poverty Law Center! -- In case you don't know who this gang is, it is a lefty lawyer named Morris Dees and his radical commie staff in Birmingham, Ala., who make their millions by "watching" the KKK and other groups, then writing newsletters and selling subscriptions to the gullible...

Washington Post      Illegal health reform    President Obama has called for a serious and reasoned debate about his plans to overhaul the health-care system. Any such debate must include the question of whether it is constitutional for the federal government to adopt and implement the president's proposals. Consider one element known as the "individual mandate," which would require every American to have health insurance...

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Today's NAFBPO update from south of the border    State Senator Armando Chavarria Barrera, leader of the Congress of the state of Guerrero, was assassinated by gunfire in front of his home yesterday morning. The Senator was one of the most renowned and respected politicians in the left-wing PRD party and considered a natural candidate for governor in the 2011 elections...

Infowars -- Austin, Texas      Thousands protest Obamacare around the country on Saturday    On Saturday, thousands of Americans opposed to Obamacare demonstrated outside the offices of Congress critters around the country. "The organizers who brought the Tax Day Tea Party to cities around the nation this spring recruited thousands of protesters Saturday afternoon to anti-health care reform rallies staged in front of at least 100 Congressional district offices," the Washington Post reports.

ABC News      Nogales, Arizona flush with drug tunnels    ...Since 1990, the US Border Patrol has found 109 tunnels along the border with Mexico, all in California and Arizona. Sixty-five -- or 60 percent -- have been found in Nogales, with 16 of those discovered in the past nine months. -- Until the 1990s, the international line here was just a chain-link fence that allowed Americans and Mexicans to look each other in the eye...

Anthony Kang -- Campus Report Online     Brookings "experts" admit stimulus a bust    President Obama has now been in office for over six months and despite his signature $787 billion stimulus, unemployment remains above 9 percent. -- "The federal government is the only entity left with the resources to jolt our economy back into life," Obama said back in February...

Sultin Knish -- Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Ga.      Obama offers circuses without the bread    Unemployment is up and the economy is down. The price of flour is up by 5 percent, the price of ground beef is up by 4 percent and the price of wine has gone up a whopping 8 percent. Even the price of bread has gone up from Obama's inauguration. Obama had promised "bread" and in six months in office, he has delivered nothing but circuses.

Don Hank -- Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Ga.     Corporate America sells YOU for profit    WorldNetDaily recently reported that Glenn Beck, one of the boldest and most brilliant talk show hosts on Fox News, has been targeted by a smear campaign headed by an avowed communist now employed by the White House. The goal was to bully Glenn's advertisers into pulling their sponsorship of his show... [See Obama Watch]

Matier & Ross -- San Francisco Chronicle      Poll finds Newsom trailing Brown even in San Francisco    Not only is San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom trailing state Attorney General Jerry Brown statewide in the Democratic race for governor, he's pulling up short with the very voters who know him best - San Franciscans. -- On the statewide level, a poll taken last week of 600 likely Democratic voters... [See Frisco Watch]

Associated Press      US flies illegals caught in Arizona to Mexico City    The U.S. government has begun flying illegal migrants caught in the Arizona desert back to Mexico under a voluntary repatriation program. -- Mexico's Foreign Relations Department says the twice-daily Tucson-to-Mexico City flights began Friday. It said Sunday that the annual summer program will run through Sept. 28...

Business Week      Latest 'Stimulus' Scam: "Cash for refrigerators"    A $300 million cash-for-clunkers-type federal program to boost sales of energy-efficient home appliances provides a glimmer of hope for beleaguered makers of washing machines and dishwashers, but it's probably not enough to lift companies such as Whirlpool (WHR) and Electrolux out of the worst down cycle in the sector's history... [See Obama Watch]

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.

New York Times      Your Gov't At Work: U.S. helps Spanish company to buy Texas bank    Guaranty Bank, a deeply troubled Texas lender, was sold on Friday to Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria of Spain in one of the largest government-assisted deals offered to a foreign firm. -- Federal regulators seized Guaranty Bank and simultaneously brokered the sale of its branches as well as most of the deposits and assets to BBVA Compass...

Ventura County (Calif.) Star      Arrogant baby-waving illegal alien still hiding out in Simi Valley church    Two years ago today, an illegal immigrant threatened with deportation found sanctuary at a tiny church in Simi Valley. The news is there is no news. -- A deadlock that once involved television cameras, city officials who wrote to the Department of Homeland Security, and protesters with bullhorns continues, although few people pay attention...

Joe Kovacs -- WorldNetDaily.com     Fed-up Marine has guns blazing to oust Democrats    "Send a warrior to Congress." -- "Does this look like a Rino?" -- In the battleground of American political power, candidates for office tend to use every weapon at their disposal to be heard above the din. -- Now, a U.S. Marine who helped lead the initial charge into Iraq to oust Saddam Hussein is taking that approach literally...

Alexsandra Kulczuga -- The Examiner      Employee verification program could renew immigration battle    President Barack Obama pushed back his immigration reform agenda until 2010, but a little-known initiative requiring employers to verify the legal status of their workers may ignite a political powder keg. -- The E-Verify system was established as a pilot program in 1997 to allow employers to quickly check the immigration status of prospective workers against federal databases...

Larry Flynt -- Huffington Post      Common sense 2009    The American government -- which we once called our government -- has been taken over by Wall Street, the mega-corporations and the super-rich. They are the ones who decide our fate. It is this group of powerful elites, the people President Franklin D. Roosevelt called "economic royalists," who choose our elected officials -- indeed, our very form of government... [See Obama Watch]

Atlanta Journal-Constitution       Firms focus on worker documentation    Faced with what one Atlanta immigration lawyer calls an “enforcement tsunami,” more local companies are running legal checks on their hiring practices and documentation of employees. -- The chief concerns, according to Atlanta attorneys: training human resources personnel and hiring managers to spot problems on documents...

Boston Globe      Illegal alien arrested in Coolidge Corner attack    Brookline Police arrested a second suspect last night in the brazen abduction and rape of a 30-year-old woman who was walking in Coolidge Corner early Tuesday when she was attacked. -- Police said 26-year-old Ismael Martinez of Waltham was arrested at his home Friday night, following Thursday’s capture of 25-year-old Jose Arita, a Guatemalan construction worker... [More of Obama's pet fiends]

Burlington (NC) Times News      Policy would allow illegals to attend community colleges    Community colleges in North Carolina would be required to admit students who are not legal residents of the United States if the state approves a proposed policy. -- The state Board of Community Colleges will consider a proposal that would admit students who aren’t in the country legally and require them to pay the out-of-state tuition rate...

United Press International     Obama denounced at Miami health rally    Hundreds of Miami healthcare reform protesters, gathered at a “Recess Rally,” compared U.S. President Barack Obama to communists, witnesses said. -- At the Saturday protest, people opposed to Obama’s healthcare proposals carried signs that superimposed the president’s portrait over the silhouette of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara...

Michelle Malkin      Good News: Harry Reid is "on the ropes"    Signs of real Hope and Change from Nevada! -- Via the Las Vegas Review-Journal: It's the highest stakes ever for a Nevada election, and former boxer Sen. Harry Reid is on the ropes early. Either Republican Danny Tarkanian or Sue Lowden would knock out Reid in a general election, according to a recent poll of Nevada voters... [Related item]

KTAR -- Phoenix     Arizona authorities condemn Mexico drug law    Mexico's decriminalization of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin has been condemned by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the head of the Phoenix police union, who say its effects will spill over into Arizona...

Associated Press      Here's Your 'Change': Millions face shrinking Social Security payments    Millions of older people face shrinking Social Security checks next year, the first time in a generation that payments would not rise. The trustees who oversee Social Security are projecting there won't be a cost of living adjustment (COLA) for the next two years. That hasn't happened since automatic increases were adopted in 1975...