Irish Central -- New York          sc         New hope for Irish lawbreakers    [Illegal aliens from Ireland] have been given new reason to hope that immigration reform [read: amnesty] is on President Obama's agenda. -- This follows a report in The New York Times that the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency has quietly begun preparing for an expected upsurge in its workload...

Dallas Morning News      As crime grows in Mexico, more people flee to Texas    Pabellón de Arteaga, Ags., Mex. -- A peculiar smell lingers at the pink and white home near City Hall: burnt candles lighted hours earlier to pray for the safe return of the latest kidnapping victim. -- Two other families living nearby in this quiet community of 30,000 find themselves in similar circumstances, awaiting word from missing loved ones – or their kidnappers...

Richard F. LaMountain -- Portland Oregonian      Illegal aliens burden Portland-area schools    In 1982, in its Plyler v. Doe ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court obligated America's public elementary and secondary schools to educate children who are illegal [aliens]. Since then, Americans have doled out untold billions to this end...

Paul Harris -- London Guardian      Will California become America's first failed state?    California may be the eighth largest economy in the world, but its state staff are being paid in IOUs, unemployment is at its highest in 70 years, and teachers are on hunger strike. So what has gone so catastrophically wrong?... [See Cal Meltdown Watch]

D.A. King -- Macon (Ga.) Telegraph          sc      Governments rewarding illegals with licenses     ...According to the U.S. Census, between 2000 and 2005, Georgia suffered the highest rate of increase in the population of illegal aliens in the entire nation, at 114 percent -- with Arizona, a border state, being second with 45 percent. -- In December 2005, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution/ Zogby poll showed about 80 percent of Georgians were fed up with the illegal immigration...

Associated Press     "Change?": Health insurance bills could be hardship for many    Many middle-class Americans would still struggle to pay for health insurance despite efforts by President Barack Obama and Democrats to make coverage more affordable. -- The legislation advancing in Congress would require all Americans to get insurance — through an employer, a government program or by buying it themselves...

Politico      RINO McCain's mission: A GOP makeover    Fresh from a humbling loss in last year’s presidential election, Sen. John McCain is working behind-the-scenes to reshape the Republican Party in his own center-right image. -- McCain is recruiting candidates, raising money for them and hitting the campaign trail on their behalf. He’s taken sides in competitive House, Senate and gubernatorial primaries...

Arizona Republic      Obama regime curtails some of Sheriff Arpaio's authority    The controversial agreement that authorized Sheriff Joe Arpaio's deputies to act as federal immigration agents on the streets appears to have ended, Arpaio said late Friday afternoon. -- The sheriff said he signed a new agreement Friday that will allow deputies and detention officers to continue screening every inmate booked into Maricopa County jails...

Soo Today -- Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario      Canadian union leader claims SPP is dead    Toronto -- United Steelworker's National Director Ken Neumann said that union members can take pride in preventing another attack on democracy now that the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) has been withdrawn as an active initiative by Canada, the US and Mexico... [It's been said that the SPP was re-named the North American Leadership Summit once people caught on to this treasonous scam]

Bob Ellis -- Dakota Voice      Obama bashes America even as he argues for Olympics    Though I respect and admire Bill Bennett a lot, I disagreed with him yesterday when he said that one good thing about President Barack Obama going to Copenhagen to stump for Chicago as the city for the 2016 Olympics was that Obama would finally have to say something good about America while abroad...

Peter Schiff -- LewRockwell.com      The recovery that isn't    For those market boosters who are prattling on about the possibility of a "jobless recovery," I offer an invitation to join me for a breakfast of "fat-free bacon," "eggless omelets," and "no-carb bread." As unappetizing as such a meal may sound, it would nevertheless offer more substance than the oxymoronic concept of an economic resurgence without job creation...

CNN      Obama targets journalists    Journalists are blasting President Obama over his stance on proposed legislation that would protect journalists from having to reveal the identity of their sources. -- In an email sent out late Friday, the Society of Professional Journalists expressed ‘outrage’ over President Obama’s proposed changes to the shield bill...

BBC      Here's Your 'Change': U.S. unemployed despair as benefits run out     Americans value self-sufficiency and are generally suspicious of what they call "big government." -- But the worst recession in 50 years has knocked many back on their heels. -- Hard-working people who have lost their jobs are finding themselves embarrassed, but thankful for what government aid is available...

CNS News      Caucus of ethnic hustlers demands end to 287(g) program    The Congressional Hispanic Caucus has asked the Obama administration to "immediately terminate" a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) program that has identified more than 120,000 illegal aliens over the past three years...

American Border Patrol       Deliberate border fence destruction     The Border Patrol cut a 100-ft hole in the border fence in a major smuggling corridor west of ABP's ranch. -- The hole was cut at a wash.  We were told the opening was made to allow for monsoon rains to flow past the fence...

San Francisco Chronicle      Sanctuary scheme should draw crowd    The never-ending immigration debate will rear its head again in San Francisco Monday when a Board of Supervisors committee takes up a controversial proposal that would make it tougher for local police to hand over [illegal alien] juveniles accused of crimes to federal authorities. The meeting is expected to draw a large crowd supporting the proposed law... [See Sanctuary Watch]

Mark Andrew Dwyer      Government-sponsored speculation and the housing market crash    ...This commentary identifies the root causes of the present financial meltdown. It points out the main culprits of the housing market collapse and the downfall of the stock market that followed it: the "affirmative action" in mortgage lending policies that were imposed by some neosocialist-liberal "do-gooders", most notably, by Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton...

Jacksonville (Fla.) Times-Union      15 illegals arrested at Duval courthouse site     Fifteen [illegal aliens] were arrested at or near the construction site for the new Duval County Courthouse in two incidents in September - the second after subcontractors were warned they needed to check all of their workers. U.S. Border Patrol officials arrested eight employees near the job site...