Michelle Malkin          sc      Hey, maybe someone should "claw back" Pay Czar's big pay!    My column last week on Pay Czar Kenneth Feinberg spotlighted his declaration of authority to retroactively "claw back" CEO compensation packages offered by TARP recipients that he deemed "excessive." -- Reuters reports today that His Highness the Special Master of Compensation himself has raked in some hefty compensation packages... [See Obama Watch]

Wall Street Journal      Next Year's Census count promises to rejigger political map     The federal government has hired tens of thousands of temporary workers to prepare for the 2010 Census -- a population count that could remake the political map even as the foreclosure crisis makes it more difficult to account for millions of dislocated Americans...

Las Vegas Review-Journal      Valley divide on the invasion/occupation wide     A town hall meeting on a controversial new partnership between Las Vegas police and federal immigration officials drew a bitterly divided crowd Thursday evening. -- On one side of the commission chambers at the Clark County Government Center sat civil rights leaders and those who came to express fears that the partnership -- which facilitates enforcement of immigration laws on those who've been arrested -- could lead to racial profiling...

David Smith -- The Examiner      La Raza protest, counterprotest planned in Houston on illegal aliens    With town hall yelling matches fresh in the minds of Americans, La Raza is planning a protest in Houston tomorrow, Saturday, August 29, 2009. And various pro-enforcement groups are planning a counter protest. -- A group of North Texas pro-enforcement activists are planning to travel to Houston to participate in the counter protest....

Associated Press      Hilarious!: Warning on possible pot growers called "profiling"    Denver -- A federal warning to beware of campers in national forests who eat tortillas, drink Tecate beer and play Spanish music because they could be armed marijuana growers is racial profiling, an advocate for Hispanic rights said Friday. -- The warnings were issued Wednesday by the U.S. Forest Service...

KGNS-TV -- Laredo, Texas     Border Patrol agents come under fire    Border Patrol agents come under fire along the border. -- It happened [Wednesday] night while agents were on patrol along the river at Father McNaboe Park. There, they noticed two people trying to cross the river, into the U.S. -- Someone on the Mexican side of the river opened fire on the agents...

The Day -- New London, Conn.      Usual suspects 'weigh dialogue' with town    In the wake of the recent march protesting alleged racial profiling of and brutality against [illegal aliens] by police, some Latino leaders are considering entering into a dialogue with the town. Mayor April Capone Almon said she welcomes such a move...

Michelle Malkin      Screwball Rep. Diane Watson praises Cuban health system, Castro & Guevara...    Longtime readers of this blog will be quite familiar with race-baiting Democrat Rep. Diane Watson of California. -- She attacked Ward Connerly for marrying a white woman. -- She bragged about Washington, D.C. being a "chocolate city." -- She polluted the Hurricane Katrina aftermath with race card-playing nonsense... [Listen to this wingnut]

Fox News      Limbaugh on attacks on freedom of speech    [Rush Limbaugh on the Glenn Beck Show]: I find the whole [Obama] administration breathtaking, Glenn. -- I mean, you are doing a great job this whole week, I saw Sarah Palin even Tweeted about what you are doing, urging people to watch. This whole administration is as radical and far left as any that the country has ever had... [See Free Speech 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.

Kevin 'Coach' Collins -- Collins Report      An honest obituary of "Sir" Ted Kennedy you'll never see in print    ...This moved Kennedy to commit perhaps his most egregious acts when he sponsored two Immigration reform bills that slammed the door on Europeans who had traditionally brought industriousness and honor to America. Instead they cleared the way for millions and millions of legal and illegal aliens from elsewhere who often bring no skills but palpable contempt for America...

Fox News      ABC, NBC won't air ads critical of Obama's atrocious health care scheme    The refusal by ABC and NBC to run a national ad critical of President Obama's health care reform plan is raising questions from the group behind the spot -- particularly in light of ABC's health care special aired in prime time last June and hosted at the White House...

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....

Agence France-Presse     Watchdog: Ciudad Juarez, deadliest city in the world    Mexico's volatile border city of Ciudad Juarez has the world's highest murder rate, followed by Caracas, Venezuela, and the US city of New Orleans, a Mexican security watchdog said Wednesday. -- Ciudad Juarez -- the scene of regular and brutal score-settling between rival drug gangs -- has 130 murders per 100,000 inhabitants...

KNXV-TV -- Phoenix     DPS: 14 illegals caught on Valley freeway    Surprise, Ariz. -- Fourteen suspected [illegal aliens] were caught after allegedly fleeing from officers during a traffic stop in Surprise early Friday. -- Officers with the Arizona Department of Public Safety said they pulled over a van with undocumented immigrants inside on the Loop 303 at Grand Avenue...

Robert Moon -- The Examiner      Secessionist movement under way in Texas    Fiercely independent and thoroughly horrified at the blatantly unconstitutional explosion of federal tyranny into every aspect of our lives, Texans are set to march on the state capitol in droves on Saturday. They will be delivering a million-strong petition to their elected officials based on the 10th Amendment, demanding an immediate constitutional confrontation with Washington...

Daily Record -- Parsippany, NJ    Mayor says town will join 287(g) immigration program    Morristown (NJ) mayor Donald Cresitello says he likely will launch a program, perhaps as soon as next week, that would allow local police to enforce federal immigration laws, even as critics of the proposal are stepping up efforts to have the program scrapped...

Stein Report      The Times spills the truth about illegals and crime    An interesting statistic appeared in the LA Times concerning the incidence of illegal aliens being found in jails in the new Secure Communities program of ICE. "Nationwide, about 12% of all inmates checked were here illegally and had prior criminal convictions. Of those, about 6,700 had been convicted of violent crimes...

Daniel Griswold -- CATO Institute      Rule of law dies in Massachusetts    Lawmakers in the Bay State are rushing to change state law to make sure the late Sen. Edward Kennedy’s seat is filled as soon as possible with a reliable Democratic successor. -- Never mind that as recently as 2004 the same state legislature had changed state law to mandate that a vacant Senate seat could only be filled...

WBUR -- Boston      Kennedy shaped modern-day immigration system    ..."They created these immigration chains," said Mark Krikorian, from the Center for Immigration Studies, "where one person comes here and then brings his brother, who brings his wife and so on, creating the mass immigration that we have today..." [See America's greatest traitor dies]

WorldNetDaily.com     Obama 'czar' on 9/11: Blame 'U.S. imperialism'!    Jerusalem -- One day after the 9/11 attacks, President Obama's "green jobs czar" led a vigil that expressed solidarity with Arab and Muslim Americans as well as what he called the victims of "U.S. imperialism" around the world. -- WND previously reported Van Jones, special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation to the White House Council on Environmental Quality, is an admitted black nationalist and radical communist...

KNXV-TV -- Phoenix      DPS: 12 illegals, 3 coyotes found at Phoenix drop house    DPS' Illegal Immigration Prevention Apprehension Team (IIMPACT) has arrested three coyotes and rescued 12 suspected [illegal aliens] at a central Phoenix drop house Thursday night. -- A DPS news release stated, "the Phoenix Police Department (PPD) notified the IIMPACT unit about a 9-1-1 call which reported numerous victims being held at a location in Phoenix against their will."

CNET News    Bill would give Obama emergency control of Internet    Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. -- They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors...

Chuck Baldwin      sc      More on internment camps    A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a column questioning why it was necessary for our federal government to be constructing internment camps all over America. -- I felt it was time for someone such as me to publicly broach the subject. Needless to say, the response was overwhelming. Even more interesting is the fact that the web link to the National Guard Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) of "Internment/Resettlement Specialist"... [Related item]

San Francisco Examiner Editorial      Sanctuary policy threatened by misguided fans    Rarely has the fantasy outlook of The City’s more avant-garde social activists been as blatant as in Supervisor David Campos' proposed new ordinance watering down San Francisco’s 20-year-old sanctuary policy. Campos -- apparently backed by a veto-proof Board of Supervisors majority -- wants to prohibit local law enforcement... [See Sanctuary Watch]

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Today's NAFBPO update from south of the border    Security will repatriate illegal Mexican [aliens]  from Tucson, Arizona to Mexico City. The flights are one measure to discourage illegal entries into the U.S. and keep the aliens from the dangerous practice of traversing the deserts in 100 degree weather.... [This is another taxpayer ripoff that benefits the Mexican government and Mexicana Airlines.]

Alex Alexiev -- National Review      Catching up to Mexico     California’s financial unraveling has prompted a long-overdue debate about taxes, regulation, and government spending, but the state’s media and government continue to ignore what could be an even greater problem: the irreparable damage to California’s human capital that nearly 30 years of unrestrained illegal immigration has achieved... [See Cal Meltdown Watch]

The Daily Bell      Have the immoral actions of central bankers precipitated the decline of the West?    The Metastasis of Moral Hazard and its Effect on Gold ... There is accumulating evidence that the Washington - Wall Street moral hazard experiment has gone disastrously wrong, and that just like any other accidental discharge of a deadly virus, the moral hazard virus is now loose and swiftly propagating throughout society...

Michel Chossudovsky      Preparing for civil unrest in America   The financial meltdown has unleashed a latent and emergent social crisis across the United States. -- What is at stake is the fraudulent confiscation of lifelong savings and pension funds, the appropriation of tax revenues to finance the trillion dollar "bank bailouts", which ultimately serve to line the pockets of the richest people in America...

NewsMax.com      Palin defends Glenn Beck    After a much publicized absence from the airwaves last week, conservative cable show host Glenn Beck returned to his program Monday with a wave of support from his target audience, including former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. -- In a post on her Facebook page Wednesday, Palin encouraged her faithful to return to watching the outspoken Beck... [Don't miss today's show]

Yahoo News      Here's Your 'Change': U.S. consumers, retailers in a "death spiral"   Retail maven Howard Davidowitz paid another visit to Tech Ticker this week. And despite signs of improvement in consumer confidence and retail stocks rising, Davidowitz is steadfast in his belief the consumer is dead... [See Obama Watch]

ABC News      Obama Health Secretary pushes KennedyCare: 'What would Teddy Do?'    Democratic efforts to tie health reform to the memory of Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., continued Thursday when President Obama's health secretary visited a senior wellness center which is housed in what used to be the Kennedy Theatre in Washington, D.C...

Michelle Malkin      Meet Obama's newest Census collectors: Your kids!    If Team Obama could send their ACORN foot soldiers into taxpayer-funded schools to collect Census data, they would. -- Instead, they’re turning your own children into proxy Census collectors. Specifically targeted: Bilingual children whom the government is relying on to reach non-English-speaking parents...