KNXV-TV -- Phoenix           sc         MCSO: 24 illegal aliens arrested near Anthem    Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies arrested 24 undocumented immigrants near Anthem Monday night. -- Deputies reportedly made traffic stops near the Interstate 17 freeway and Anthem, which led to the arrests. -- Maricopa County Sheriff's Office officials say that the occupants of the vehicles...

Sand Mountain (Ala.) Reporter      Police chief says 287(g) program would help    Albertville police Chief Benny Womack believes the 287(g) is an important program to help his department handle the illegal immigration situation, but some in the Hispanic community are concerned it may be used as a tool for harassment...

John Stossel -- ABC News      Every Obama critic a racist    During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama’s supporters promised that his election would allow America to "transcend race." Among the headlines: The Boston Globe: "Obama shows an ability to transcend race" -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "Obama’s success suggests we can transcend race"...

Connie Hair -- Human Events     Townhall attendees given George Washington's rules of civility     Just how badly has Obama's political capital shrunk? Bad enough for one of the most liberal pols on the planet -- Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) to bail on the prez. -- As reported yesterday in the Lakeland Times, in a townhall meeting this week the hyperliberal Feingold not only touted his opposition to the "cap and trade" national energy tax...

Carl Braun -- The Examiner      Don't look now. "Immigration Reform" is coming in the back door...    While the activists and the rest of America are waiting for the next move by the Obama Administration on Immigration Reform, some twenty million illegal aliens are quietly waiting at the back door for amnesty. Foolish? Never happen? Think again...

WorldNetDaily.com      College kids recruited to join Obama's 'army'    President Obama's army of citizen volunteers is now actively recruiting college students in states across the country to "build support for President Obama's agenda" – and earn college credit while advocating for "change." -- Obama for America, Obama's 2008 political campaign, merged with the Democratic National Committee...

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.

SPPI Monthly      Scientists debunk U.N. "global warming"    SPPI’s authoritative Monthly CO2 Report for July 2009 announces the publication of a major paper by Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT, demonstrating by direct measurement that outgoing long-wave radiation is escaping to space far faster than the UN predicts, showing that the UN has exaggerated global warming 6-fold...

KGBT-TV -- Harlingen, Texas      Border Patrol: Smuggler hit patrol unit with car    A jailed drug chase suspect has now been charged for allegedly hitting a Border patrol unit with his car. -- U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested Gustavo Hernandez following a July 22 drug chase that started off Rio Rico Road and Military Highway south of Mercedes...

Californians for Population Stabilization      URGENT! Ask Schwarzenegger to veto this bad legislation    Both houses of the California legislature have passed AB 1288, which would prohibit state agencies, local governments, and special districts in California from requiring an employer to use the federal E-Verify system -- even when that employer is a contractor to the government....

Numbers USA      Obamacare: Rep. Lamar Smith challenges Obama's bogus claims    House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Representative Lamar Smith challenged President Barack Obama's radio address from the weekend where the President said that the proposed health care legislation won't cover illegal aliens. Smith released a statement with information from the Congressional Research Service, identifying several loopholes...

UPI      U.S. sees hike in immigration fraud    El Paso -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers are reporting more people are trying to enter the United States without proper documents. -- The number of people caught with fraudulent, fake or purchased documents has increased 20 percent, from about 23,500 in 2006 to more than 28,000 in 2008...

Los Angeles Times      Prosecutors to seek death penalty for alleged killer of football standout Jamiel Shaw    The Los Angeles County district attorney's office will seek the death penalty against the 20-year-old gang member charged with killing 17-year-old high school football star Jamiel Shaw. -- Shaw was several doors from his Arlington Heights home on March 2, 2008, when two men in a car pulled up next to him... [See Crime Watch]

Cliff Kinkaid -- NewsWithViews.com      Glenn Beck closing in on Obama crony Van Jones    "Is Glenn Beck finished?" is the headline over an article on a left-wing website, insisting that a campaign against Beck's Fox News Channel program has cost him 36 advertisers and that his show may be cancelled as a result. The campaign against Beck is being waged by a group called Color of Change, whose co-founder, Van Jones, is now Obama's green-jobs czar.

Brazzil Magazine      The Economist to discuss role of Brazil in New World Order    The Economist. the British group who publishes a business magazine of the same name, is going to promote, on October 21st, The Economist's Brazil Summit, a conference in which existing business opportunities in the country will be among the key subject matters. The meeting will happen in São Paulo, in southeastern Brazil... [See NWO Treason Watch]

The Examiner      Obamacare won't cover illegals? Yes it will, says Congressional Research Service    Among the many claims being made during the August recess by Democrats from President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, to the lowliest back-bencher is that Obamacare absolutely, positively, cannot possibly ever in a million, zillion years provide coverage to illegal [aliens]...

Federation for American Immigration Reform        sc               CRS on Obamacare Scheme: Illegals CAN get health care    Tuesday, the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the "research arm" for the United States Congress, issued a report validating an analysis by FAIR, that illegal aliens would be able to receive benefits under the House health care reform bill, America's Affordable Health Care Act of 2009 (H.R. 3200)...

Matt A. Mayer -- Heritage Foundation      Controlling Illegal Immigration: State and local governments must do more    In 1980, illegal immigration in the United States was far from the overwhelming challenge it is today. It was only after the 1986 immigration reform bill, which provided amnesty to more than three million illegal aliens, that an ever increasing surge of people entering the U.S. illegally began. As the federal government failed to address the growing crisis...

Stein Report      Sen. Ted Kennedy: Architect of modern America's immigration crisis RIP    There's been little mention in the media over the years of Senator Kennedy's role in promoting radical and extreme changes to America's immigration laws. Today's USA Today has an unbalanced account of his legacy. Among Sen. Ted Kennedy's accomplishments, the paper notes, was the passage of the 1965 immigration law...

Los Angeles Times      Supervisors agree to explore system to check immigration status of employees    Los Angeles County supervisors voted today to explore requiring contractors to participate in a federal program that checks whether employees are legal residents authorized to work in the United States. -- The board voted 5-0 to have county officials review E-Verify and make a recommendation on the use of the program...

Arkady Kamenetsky -- The Examiner      9 trillion deficit? No, 7 trillion! Bad either way...    White House and CBO are arguing over just how bad things are, projecting the ten year deficit to be between seven to nine Trillion dollars - reminds me of an old morbid joke. A doctor tells a patient that he has good news and bad news, patient asks for the bad news first. Doctor tells him that the patient has AIDS... [See Obama Watch]

Chicago Tribune      Illegal faces deportation after DUI charge; whining ensues    A former honor student from the Southwest Side, Rigo Padilla, 21, started classes Monday at the University of Illinois at Chicago. But by Christmas Padilla could end up thousands of miles away in a small town in Jalisco, Mexico -- a place he barely knows. -- He was ordered deported last week by a judge for being in the U.S. illegally... [See Crime Watch]

Agence France-Presse      Kennedy health reform 'dream' will be real this year: Pelosi    US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi vowed Wednesday to push through embattled health reform legislation this year following the death of Senator Ted Kennedy, who called the effort "the cause of my life." -- "Ted Kennedy's dream of quality health care for all Americans will be made real this year because of his leadership and his inspiration," Pelosi said...

MaineBiz Publications -- Oakland, Maine      Logging feud escalates over foreign hires     Maine’s North Woods, usually associated with the deep quiet of remote wilderness, is the site these days of a loud dust-up between local loggers and their Canadian counterparts. -- After hearing reports of questionable practices, officials from the Maine Department of Labor visited northern Maine in June for a loggers’ forum, and made more visits in July...

Stein Report      Illegal immigration and health care: Way past "riled up"    The growing controversy over government sponsored health insurance is getting even hotter thanks to provisions in the legislation that open the back door for illegal [aliens] to receive coverage. The AP covers the dispute, noting that while President Obama has said the legislation isn't intended to cover illegal [aliens]... [Related item from Numbers USA]

Lakeland Times -- Minocqua, Wisc.     Critics say 2010 census is unconstitutional    Every 10 years, the federal government undertakes a constitutionally mandated count of the American population to determine the apportionment of elected representatives among the 50 states, and, given the political stakes, it has always been a lodestone for controversy...

NewsReal     "The seeds of a revolution against the President's radical agenda have been planted"    On Friday night, Sean Hannity continued his look at the unprecedented "health care rebellion" that is sweeping America. -- Watching this now-familiar "town hall" footage once again, anyone not blinded by ideology can clearly see that the anti-Obamacare protesters really are run-of-the-mill citizens expressing genuine concerns, as is their right (and, some would say, their duty.)

American Patrol Report      Examiner agrees with APR     Yesterday's Examiner story about Mexican cartels observes: "However, this new law will undoubtedly bring hundreds of thousands of drug-seeking American tourists to Mexico, where they can now stay stoned for an entire week without fear of arrest. Delivering new customers to the drug cartels." -- Remember, you read it here first.

Raw Story      McCain booed for saying Obama respects the Constitution     Speaking to a town hall in Sun City Arizona on Tuesday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) drew choruses of loud boos from the audience by saying that President Barack Obama respects the Constitution of the United States. -- On the town hall, Arizona Central reports...

Lower Hudson Journal News      Another illegal alien DUI suspect busted    Brewster, NY -- In what is becoming a disturbing and familiar trend in and around this tiny village, police have charged yet another illegal [alien] with driving drunk. -- Jose Morales, 32, of Brewster also was driving without a license when he was stopped by Brewster police at 460 N. Main St. at 11:47 p.m. Saturday after being seen driving without headlights, police said... [See Crime Watch]

WorldNetDaily.com      County grills pastor over 'Where's birth certificate?'    Democrats in Tarrant County, Texas, have launched a campaign to have a local church eliminated as a polling place because the pastor has posted a statement of his own choosing – "Where's the Birth Certificate?" – on the facility's marquee...