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Thursday, September 10, 2009
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Did He Lie?
Will Illegal Aliens Be Covered?
Obama Address to Congress -- September 9
Obama: There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants. This too is false. (Yells from the audience) The reform I am proposing would not apply to illegal immigrants.
Rep. Joe Wilson: You lie! (Yells from the audience)
Obama: Not true.
Numbers USA -- September 8
Study shows Obamacare for illegals could cost $30-billion + annually
Because of the lack of immigration verification requirements in the House health care bill, an estimated 6.6 million illegal aliens could be covered because they meet the financial criteria. Those 6.6 million currently cost the public $4.3 billion in emergency rooms and free health clinics but would cost $31 billion under the House health care system.
 Watch 'You Lie' segment | Watch entire speech  Transcript |
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Stein Report
One third of immigrants admit citizenship is about welfare
A survey done by Public Agenda to boost support for amnesty reveals that many immigrants really do want citizenship so they can access welfare benefits. The survey results showed that thirty-six percent of those surveyed said welfare benefits were one of the main reasons they were interested in citizenship... |
San Francisco Chronicle
No death penalty for notorious Bologna family murders
San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris will not seek the death penalty for an alleged gang member accused of murdering a father and two of his sons, a prosecutor said Thursday. -- The announcement in San Francisco Superior Court means that Edwin Ramos will at most serve life in prison without parole if convicted... [See Crime Watch] |
Fox News
2 ACORN employees fired, may face criminal charges
The community organizing group ACORN has fired two employees at its Baltimore office who were seen on hidden-camera video giving advice to a man posing as a pimp and a woman pretending to be a prostitute, as some legal experts raise questions over whether the employees broke the law... [See Obama Watch] |
Ledger-Inquirer -- Columbus, Ga.
Obama's Legitimacy: Hearing scheduled for Friday in Georgia
A federal hearing has been scheduled in the case of an Army captain seeking to avoid deployment based on arguments that President Barack Obama can't legitimately hold office. -- A hearing for Capt. Connie Rhodes is set for 2 p.m. Friday, court records show. Rhodes claims the president is "an illegal usurper" and "an unlawful pretender.." |
Rocky Mountain Foundation
Tancredo: "Obama is a liar"
Former U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo issued the following statement in response to Rep. Joe Wilson’s objection to President Obama's questionable claims about his the Democrat health care plan last night. -- "Joe is right," Tancredo said, "Obama is a liar." |
CNN 
Boehner speaks out on Obamacare scheme
Boehner defies Obama's claims. -- "HR3200 does not contain any restrictions on non-citizens participating in and paying for coverage available." -- Democrats rejected opportunity to restrict access by non-citizens... |
Denver Post
ACORN officials videotaped telling 'pimp,' 'prostitute' how to lie to IRS
Officials with the controversial community organizing group ACORN were secretly videotaped offering to assist two individuals posing as a pimp and a prostitute, encouraging them to lie to the Internal Revenue Service and providing guidance on how to claim underage girls from South America as dependents... |
Center for Immigration Studies
Daily news from CIS
A man accused stabbing a woman with knife 37 times as she opened the door to the Mesa check-cashing business where she worked is being charged with attempted first-degree murder. -- The man, Jorge Luis Miranda Avila, is in the U.S. illegally, according to Mesa police spokesman Ed Wessing... |
Connie Hair -- Human Events
Obama's big gamble
If you were expecting something new from President Obama's speech last night, disappointment abounds. After over six months of hawking nationalized health care, a day of televised interviews broadcast from the White House on a major broadcast network, prime time news conferences, over two dozen speeches around the country... |
Quad City Times -- Davenport, Iowa sc c
Illegal alien sentenced to 5 years in rape
A Kane County judge has sentenced a Crystal Lake man to five years in prison for raping a woman in Carpentersville last. -- The 35-year-old defendant, Mario Lagunes-Rodriguez was convicted in a bench trial in May by Associate Judge T. Jordan Gallagher, who also handed down the sentence Wednesday... [More "family values"] |
Cato Institute
Assessing Obama's speech to school kids
Neal McCluskey, Associate Director of the Cato Institutes Center for Educational Freedom and author of Feds in the Classroom, evaluates the troubling content of President Obamas speech to school students. McCluskey and Cato Vice President Gene Healy, author of The Cult of the Presidency, also dissect the manner in which the president is being presented to schoolchildren... |
Glenn Thrush -- Politico
Joe Wilson's rallying cry
All eyes were on President Barack Obama entering Wednesday night's address to Congress, but a little-known South Carolina Republican may have done more than the president's combative speech to unify besieged Democrats around health care reform... |
Forbes
The dollar collapses
The U.S. dollar reached its lowest point against the euro this year due to a myriad of forces including rising global stocks and commodities prices, low interest rates, and investors diversifying out of Treasury debt and into other assets including U.S. stocks with the Dow Jones industrial average approaching 9500 in late afternoon trading... |
ConservativeNC.com
NCListen encourages support for Dobbs
Below is the text of an e-mail I recently received from NCListen, a NC-based group focused on true immigration reform (i.e. reduced legal immigration, secured borders, and ending illegal immigration). Dobbs can be controversial at times and less than conservative at others... |
John Griffing -- Center for Research on Globalization -- Toronto
Swine Flu: Path to Martial Law?
Could a form of martial law be imminent? Obama appears ready to cross the Rubicon, and all he needs is a killer virus. -- Let's connect some dots. -- Remember President Obama's Executive Order basing 80,000 active troops at home for the first time in the history of the peacetime military establishment... |
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Border Invasion Pics
New invasion videos posted
Border Invasion Pics has been posting hidden camera video of border intruders walking unchallenged into the U.S. since November 2008. An ever increasing number of Washington DC visitors to the website indicates that national politicians and their appointees are viewing the action.... |
Stein Report
Illegal border crossings contribute to environmental problems
Carl Braun with the Examiner details some of the environmental problems caused by uncontrolled illegal immigration along the southern border. He notes that based upon Border Patrol apprehension numbers, the agency says there could be at least 1,200 tons of garbage left in environmentally sensitive areas... |
WWL-TV -- New Orleans
Nagin to Illegals: You're welcome in New Orleans
[Illegal aliens.... criminals] who are victims or witnesses to crimes won't risk deportation if they come forward, Mayor Ray Nagin and Police Superintendent Warren Riley said Wednesday. -- The two city leaders have joined a national effort by a group called the Law Enforcement Engagement Initiative encouraging comprehensive immigration reform [read: amnesty] in the US. [See Sanctuary Watch] |
Joshua Sabatini -- San Francisco Examiner
S.F.'s GOP speaks out on Sanctuary City
San Francisco's Republican Party has sent out letters to city officials, including Mayor Gavin Newsom and members of the Board of Supervisors, denouncing Supervisor David Campos' legislation that would change the city's Sanctuary City policy... |
Ramesh Pommuru -- National Review
Obama's false witness
Count on it: If liberals lose on health care — either because no major legislation passes or because they consider whatever legislation does pass inadequate — they are going to blame the loss on a campaign of deception by their critics. While liberals have more political power now than at any point in at least three decades... [See Obama Watch] |
Westworld -- Denver
Peter Boyles' birther billboards coming to a highway near you
Last month, we told you about KHOW talk-show host Peter Boyles' plan to put up a billboard questioning the native-born status of President Barack Obama. This notion had a major roadblock to overcome: In June, the outdoor advertising wing of Clear Channel, the Texas mega-corp that owns KHOW and seven other Denver-area stations... |
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Rick Oltman -- CAPS
Hallelujah. Somebody finally got emotional
The highlight of President Obama's address to the joint session of congress on Wednesday night was Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) yelling out, "You lie!" after the president said, "The reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally." [More from Rick Oltman] |
Nashville Tennessean
Report: Three illegals sentenced on pot conviction
Three men in the country illegally have been sentenced to prison on marijuana charges, according to a Channel 4 report. -- Authorities arrested Jose Castillo, Julio Luna-Puga and Osvaldo Galvan-Robles in April 2008 after officers caught them with 500 pounds of marijuana in their possession... [See Crime Watch] |
Financial Times
Obama to chair UN Security Council
Barack Obama will cement the new co-operative relationship between the US and the United Nations this month when he becomes the first American president to chair its 15-member Security Council. -- The topic for the summit-level session of the council on September 24 is nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament... [See NWO Treason Watch] |
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