Friday, September 11, 2009

It's The Fence, Stupid Media Continue to Misinform About Border Fence Washington Times -- September 11 Chart from the video "The Fence and the Mexican Drug War" Pot seizures grow as planting spreads Marijuana market profits from poor economy     Barbourville, Ky. -- Machete-wielding police officers have hacked their way through billions of dollars worth of marijuana in the country's top pot-growing states to stave off a bumper crop sprouting in the tough economy.     The number of plants seized has jumped this year in California, the nation's top marijuana-growing state, while seizures continue to rise in Washington after nearly doubling the previous year. Growers in a three-state region of central Appalachia also appear to have reversed a decline in pot cultivation over the past two years. [...]     The number of plants destroyed in California has increased over the past three years, said the assistant chief of the California Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement, Kent Shaw. The total increased from 4.9 million plants in 2007 to 5.3 million in 2008. Already this year, Mr. Shaw said, California authorities have exceeded last year's total. American Patrol Report Comment: As the above chart shows, the number of marijuana plants eradicated in the U.S. closely followed the construction of border fencing and barriers. The Blackout of American Border Patrol by the Mainstream Media, including the Washington Times, deprives American of the truth about the drug war. Past Features

Center for Immigration Studies  sc       Daily news from CIS    Swansea, SC -- In Washington, Representative Joe Wilson of South Carolina was sharply criticized by both Democrats and his fellow Republicans for shouting 'You lie!' during President Obama’s health care address on Wednesday. But here in his strongly Republican Congressional district on Thursday, he was celebrated by many of his constituents for his outburst...

Michelle Malkin      ACORN Watch: Census Bureau cuts ties    FNC's Major Garrett reports on Twitter that the U.S. Census Bureau has cut all ties to ACORN, which had been named a Census data collection partner for the 2010 Census. -- Census director Robert Groves, an ACORN-approved nominee, reportedly sent a letter to the racketeers today in the wake of Big Government's videotaped stings in Baltimore and DC... [See Obama Watch... ACORN is one of his favorites]

New Zeal      Obama's Axelrod was mentored by Marxist radicals    Few would dispute that Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod are two of President Barack Obama's key advisors. -- I wrote here that Valerie Jarrett's father-in-law Vernon Jarrett, worked with Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis, in at least three communist dominated organizations in late 1940s Chicago...

Federation for American Immigration Reform      A guide to understanding the tactics of the SPLC in the immigration debate    The debate about U.S. immigration policy is a difficult and often emotional one. In recent years, a new component has been added. Shifting focus away from a debate based on the merits of various policy options, some of those advocating open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens have resorted to attacking and impugning the motives of their opponents in a juvenile and uncivil manner...

Terrence P. Jeffrey -- CNS News      Obama won't give health insurance to illegals, he'll make them legal first    In his speech to a joint session of Congress last night, President Obama said that his health care reform plan will not insure "illegal immigrants." The statement instantly became a matter of controversy when Rep. Joe Wilson (R.-S.C.) yelled out in the House chamber, "You lie."

Phyllis Schlafly -- Eagle Forum      Training kids to be Obama's servants    A significant part of Barack Obama's plan to "change" America involves having the federal government take control of public school curriculum, plus compiling a database of personal information about each student. The takeover is planned to be accomplished by talking directly to the kids in their schools...

Fox News      Second video shows ACORN officials helping 'pimp,' 'prostitute' in DC office    One day after two ACORN officials in Baltimore were fired for offering to help a man and woman posing as a pimp and prostitute to engage in child prostitution and a series of tax crimes, another secretly shot videotape has surfaced that shows the same couple getting similar advice from ACORN officers in Washington... [See Obama Watch]

Michelle Malkin      Special report: How Obama cronyism threatens rail security    New Delhi. Mumbai. Chechnya. Madrid. London. The question isn’t whether America will suffer a jihadi attack on our passenger rail lines, but when. So, why has President Obama neutered the nation’s most highly-trained post-9/11 counterterrorism rail security team? [See Obama Watch]

Associated Press      Texas governor sends Rangers to Mexico border    Special teams of Texas Rangers will be deployed to the Texas-Mexico border to deal with increasing violence because the federal government has failed to address growing problems there, Gov. Rick Perry said Thursday. -- "It is an expansive effort with the Rangers playing a more high-profile role than they've ever played before," Perry said...

Bob Ellis -- Dakota Voice      Cass Sunstein supports an Internet 'fairness' doctrine    [Note: This Sunstein wackjob was confirmed as a 'czar' on Thursday] -- You may have already been aware that Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s nominee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), is an animal rights extremist who even opposes hunting and thinks animals should be able to file lawsuits...

Carl Braun -- The Examiner      Where does Napolitano stand on illegal immigration? Just look at her record...    DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano is charged with securing our nation’s borders and ensuring the safety of all Americans. Who is this woman that the LA Times called "The Immigration Law Enforcer," the first governor to send the AZ National Guard to the border (at Federal expense)?

Numbers USA     Major news outlets noticing illegals/health care debate    The efforts of thousands of NumbersUSA members forced President Obama to address the issue of illegal aliens and healthcare during his nationally televised address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night. And now the country's major news outlets are taking notice as well...

Cliff Kincaid -- Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Ga.      The "true identity" of Van Jones    Some people are wondering who is next after Van Jones. But the Van Jones story is not over. And we still don't know who hired this "obscure" official, as some on the left are now trying to refer to him. Some of these controversies are currently being investigated by the new media...

Michelle Malkin      Obama's 'Czars': The Cass Sunstein vote    Here's last night's 57-40 Senate roll call vote on the confirmation of Cass Sunstein to be Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget aka "Regulatory Czar." -- Six Republicans voted yes -- Bennett, Collins, Hatch, Lugar, Snowe, and Voinovich... [See Obama Watch]

CNN         Rep. Bilbray talks about Obama's flimflam on Wednesday night    ACNN's Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer speaks with Congressman Brian Bilbray and Congressman Xavier Becerra about provisions in H.R. 3200 regarding health care for "undocumented" aliens. Rep. Xavier Becerra, an open-borders fanatic, also chimes in.

Numbers USA      Congress considering rolling back 9/11 Commission recommendation    After the tragic events of eight years ago, the bi-partisan 9/11 Commission recommended changes to our nation's faulty immigration system that allowed terrorists to obtain identification and board planes. It was the one recommendation that Congress acted on, passing the REAL ID Act of 2005. But Congress, as recommended by... Janet Napolitano, is now considering a repeal of REAL ID.

Dallas Morning News      Texas Democratic Chairman calls teabaggers "fools"    Texas Democratic Party Chairman Boyd Richie told national Democrats on Thursday that anti-tax tea party participants and those who question President Obama's citizenship are "fools" that get too much media attention. Richie said the president's critics are riding a tidal wave of anti-government sentiment...

Stein Report      Backsliding on National Security: The immigration connection    In a public relations campaign that evokes the image of Orwellian "newspeak," the Department of Homeland Security has announced a long list of accomplishments in improving national security while at the same time it has adopted a number of measures that represent a significant backsliding on national security...

Tea Party Express stops in Reno, Nevada

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."  [See Obama Watch]

U.S.. Customs and Border Protection    Latest news releases from CBP    U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Ajo, Ariz. station apprehended two U.S. citizens who were in possession of heroin and marijuana at the Ajo checkpoint yesterday. -- A Border Patrol K-9 team working at the Ajo checkpoint alerted to a vehicle traveling through the checkpoint...

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Latest NAFBPO update from south of the border    Jose Jalil Abraham Santiago, “El Negro”, was an agent of the extinct Federal Judicial Police from 1993 to 1997, and was removed for abuse of authority. -- Santiago was arraigned today. Since the 8th of August he had functioned as the chief of the Gulf Cartel branch in Cancun...

White Plains (NY) Journal-News      Illegal alien fiend admits Port Chester child-molestation    A 28-year-old illegal [alien] admitted in court today that he molested a 3-year-old Port Chester girl last year, according to the Westchester District Attorney's office. -- Saul Peralta, who was living in Hartsdale before his arrest, pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree criminal sex act, a felony... [More of Obama's pet fiends]

Douglas (Arizona) Daily Dispatch     Border Patrol makes several arrests in Douglas area    On Wednesday, September 2, the Border Patrol arrested a male Mexican national west of Douglas. Records revealed he was convicted of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. -- In a separate incident, agents arrested a male Mexican national west of Douglas. Fingerprint records revealed he had been arrested previously on accusations of assault to commit rape and assault with a firearm... [More "family values"]

CNN      Texas school district turns away students from Mexico    For years, children from Ciudad Acuna, Mexico, have attended schools across the border in Del Rio, Texas, but this week that changed for students who cannot prove residency. -- The local school superintendent imposed new regulations to stem what he said is a long-standing problem for the district...

American Patrol Report              Remember IRRCA of 1996 In the debate over whether illegal aliens will be given health care under the Obama plan, no one has yet to point out that sanctuary cities are illegal under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, yet they exist. The reason? No enforcement provision - just as in Obama Care.

San Francisco Chronicle      Illegal aliens draw fire in health debate    ..."If you don't have a provision that clearly requires applicants' immigration status to be verified, just to state that illegals won't be covered is misleading," said Yeh Ling-Ling, executive director of the Alliance for a Sustainable USA in Oakland...