Infowars.com -- Austin, Texas       sc    Obama's "national emergency" violates the Constitution    Drew Zahn, writing for WorldNetDaily, takes issue with Infowars declaring Obama's "national emergency" amounts to martial law. "An article by Kurt Nimmo of InfoWars took the worry a step further, wondering if the White House's declaration engaged certain measures of the National Emergencies Act," writes Zahn... [See Obama Watch]

Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Ga.      The dark side of Mexico on the south side of America    In his groundbreaking book, Wakeup Call from Mexico, Wilson Beck describes how the dark side of Mexico stretches back to the days of the Aztecs when hundreds of thousands of people were sacrificed and eaten each year. He says today many young men in Mexico are enamored with the idea of being descendants of the Aztecs...

David Boaz -- Cato Institute    Support for government health care scheme dropping    Here's a striking graphic of the results of continuing New York Times/CBS News polling on the question, "Do you think the federal government should guarantee health insurance for all Americans, or isn't this the responsibility of the federal government?"

Connie Hair -- Human Events      More government home credit scams    Thousands of people are scamming the First-Time Homebuyer Credit for hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the testimony last week of a Treasury Department Inspector General. Now Congress apparently wants to extend this program again without fixing it.... [See Obama Watch]

New York Times      Hispanic "immigrants'" children fall behind peers early, study finds     Houston -- The children of Hispanic immigrants tend to be born healthy and start life on an intellectual par with other American children, but by the age of 2 they begin to lag in linguistic and cognitive skills, a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, shows...

CBS News      Census: Miami tops U.S. in foreign-born    Miami contains the largest percentage of foreign-born Americans in the country and McAllen, Texas is the most multilingual, according to the latest census data. -- The Census Bureau Tuesday released its American Community Survey results, which charts a range of social, economic and housing data in U.S. metropolitan areas...

Ted Nugent -- Human Events      Light 'em up, Fox News     Our student body president never talks about the books he read as a youth. But I'm betting that before he became an accomplished community organizer, he read Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, because he follows those rules more often than not. -- Obama loves the media as long as it loves him, and not a New York minute longer....

Michelle Malkin      Yes, Newt, the GOP should be "purged" of left-wing saboteurs    Newt Gingrich continues to "Alinsky" his conservative critics and hide behind straw men. -- He took to the airwaves last night to decry what he called a "purge" of the GOP by opponents of his chosen candidate, radical leftist Republican congressional candidate Dede Scozzafava...

John Judis -- The New Republic      End State -- Is California finished?    California is a mess, but I love it all the same -- especially the Bay Area, where I lived for 15 years. I went to Berkeley in 1962--a refugee from Amherst College, which at that time was dominated by frat boys with high SAT scores. I didn't go to Berkeley to go to school, but to be a bus ride away from North Beach and the Jazz Workshop... [See Cal Meltdown Watch]

Redding (Calif.) Record-Searchlight     2 Mexicans arrested after $217,000+ found in car    Two men from Mexico were arrested Friday by drug agents during a traffic stop on Interstate 5 after a drug-sniffing dog allegedly picked up the smell of narcotics. -- But instead of finding drugs, agents found $217,815 in a hidden compartment inside their car, said Lt. Jeff Foster... [See Crime Watch]

Thomas Sowell -- Human Events       Dismantling America     Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many "czars" appointed by the President, could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent? [See Obama Watch]

America's Voice (Open-borders Cheerleaders)     Big Labor makes case for amnesty in new report    Today, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), American Rights at Work (ARAW), and the National Employment Law Project (NELP) are releasing a report, "ICED Out: How Immigration Enforcement Has Interfered with Workers' Rights..."

Jim Robb -- Numbers USA     Big biz, cheap-labor hustlers reveal pro-amnesty strategy in plotting session    ...The "Storming the Hill National Summit" was predictable in its "backstab the workers" sentiment. Nonetheless, the following makes for some fascinating reading. One of the attorneys present took copious notes and turned up with a conscience. We got the notes...

Miami Herald      Employers: Get ready for E-Verify    Employers should start preparing for new immigration enforcement policies under the Obama administration as pressure on employers to prevent unlawful hiring increases. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is working hard to convince Congress to make E-Verify, the voluntary Internet-based employment verification system, mandatory for all employers...

Reuters      Government may block Websites during pandemic    Securities exchanges have a sound network back-up if a severe pandemic keeps people home and clogging the Internet, but the Homeland Security Department has done little planning, Congressional investigators said on Monday. -- The department does not even have a plan to start work on the issue, the GAO said...

Irish Central -- New York     More Irish illegals getting the heave-ho    The numbers of [illegal alien] Irish people being deported from America have risen again over the past 12 months. -- A total of 117 people were deported in the year to September 2009, up from 94 the previous year. -- In addition, some 456 people were denied entry to the U.S. in the same 12-month period...

Gene Healy -- The Examiner      Read the bills? How about reading the Constitution?    You can live in this town for years and still occasionally find yourself gobsmacked by what counts as "normal" by Washington standards. Take the ongoing debate over whether it's fair for us to expect our elected representatives to read the laws they pass and expect us to follow...

NPR     Audio Report      Rep. Gutierrez spins more yarns on NPR, pushes amnesty..... again    Open-borders-obsessed gasbag Luis Gutierrez (D-Il.) tells sad tales of illegal alien woes, as usual: Obama says he wants to change United States immigration policy. But so far, immigration has taken a backseat to other pressing issues, like health care, the economic recession and the ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.... [See Amnesty Watch]

Associated Press     Nebraska Supreme Court to hear city's immigration case    Fremont, Neb. -- The Nebraska Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case stemming from Fremont's proposed illegal-immigration ordinance. The city is appealing an April ruling from a Dodge County district judge. It concluded the city must hold an election on a proposal to ban renting to and hiring illegal [aliens] in the city...

Las Vegas Sun      More welfare going to parents here illegally    Jose Silva had just obtained an appointment in three weeks to see whether his family would be eligible for monthly welfare benefits. -- "Now I just have to not eat until then," he joked, standing with his wife on the sidewalk outside the state office on Flamingo Road...

Denver Post    Colorado GOP presses Senate on Villafuerte    Colorado GOP chairman Dick Wadhams on Monday asked the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington to demand answers from Colorado U.S. attorney nominee Stephanie Villafuerte about whether she may have acted inappropriately during the 2006 gubernatorial campaign...

Fox News      Are our crime fighters becoming Mexicanized?    Beheadings and amputations. Iraqi-style brutality, bribery, extortion, kidnapping, and murder. More than 7,200 dead -- almost double last year's tally -- in shoot-outs between Federales and often better-armed drug cartels. This is modern Mexico, whose president, Felipe Calderón, has been struggling since 2006... [See this feature]

Washington Times      Here's Your "Change": Gov't may say recession over but not job losses    It's about to become official: The recession is over -- but not the pain. -- The government will release figures this week expected to show that the economy has awakened from its deepest slump since the 1930s and is in the early stages of a recovery... [See Obama Watch]

New America Media      Over 100 Dems push Obama on amnesty    Is immigration reform [read: amnesty] back? -- Hoping to jump-start a major legislative drive on immigration reform in the U.S. Congress, more than 100 pro-reform House Democrats signed a letter reminding President Obama of his administration's commitment to overhaul immigration... [See Amnesty Watch]

Federation for American Immigration Reform   Latest Legislative Update    FAIR has learned that – with unemployment at its highest rate in more than 25 years – Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) is prepared to introduce legislation that would double the number of visas available annually for foreign workers under the H-1B visa program...

One News Now      Good News!: Congress unlikely to progress with amnesty this year    An immigration reform activist doesn't think Congress is likely to move forward with amnesty legislation this year, despite the wishes of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. -- On October 13, Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-Illinois) outlined the "core principles" of an amnesty bill that he plans to introduce in Congress later this year...

Phoenix Business Journal      Mexican gets 15 years in federal prison    A Mexican national living Phoenix was sentenced to federal prison Monday for harboring illegal [aliens] and sexually assaulting an ["immigrant"] girl kept at his house. -- Feliciano Rojas-Vivar, also known as Ruben Lopez-Lopez, 53, of Pueblas, Mexico, received a 15-year term... [More of Obama's pet fiends]

Numbers USA      Sen. Sessions offers E-Verify amendment to unemployment extension    Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is offering an amendment to the unemployment extension bill that would require new applicants for unemployment compensation to have their citizenship status verified using E-Verify. The amendment is being offered to H.R.3548, which would extend unemployment benefits for 14 weeks...

CBS TV -- Atlanta      "Hispanic grocery store" nailed in drug bust    Lawrenceville, Ga. -- Police say a street level drug operation has been dismantled with another big drug raid in Gwinnett County. -- According to Gwinnett County investigators, a Hispanic grocery store east Grogan Street near downtown Lawrenceville was just a cover for a drug operation... [See Crime Watch]

Associated Press      Activists press for homosexual 'rights' to be included in amnesty scheme    Two amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act introduced in the House of Representatives' current session would add language allowing "permanent partners" to sponsor their foreign-born "spouses" to become naturalized citizens....