Watertown (NY) Daily Times          sc      Newt's pet turncoat RINO drops out of NY23 race, endorses Democrat    Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., was among those who urged Dierdre K. Scozzafava to endorse Democratic congressional candidate William L. Owens, the senator's spokesman said Saturday. -- The spokesman, Maxwell Young, said the senator called a number of north country political leaders after Ms. Scozzafava suspended her campaign...

Public Opinion -- Chambersburg, Pa.      'Undocumented citizen' charged in rape of 11-year-old girl    An "undocumented citizen" is being charged with the rape of an 11-year-old Chambersburg girl. -- Chambersburg Police on Friday announced that a 22-year-old Chambersburg man with no fixed address had alleged sexual contact with a girl he was living with earlier this year...

We Get E-Mail      Congresscritters play solitaire on the job but can't read legislation?    Nothing else needs to be said. This is one of their THREE DAY WORK WEEKS that we all pay for. I am ready to start from the beginning by voting out all elected officials and not letting any of them stay in office for more than two terms....

Agence France-Presse      Mexican natives overtake UN office    Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chis., Mex. -- Some 150 indigenous farmers took over a UN office in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas to demand the release of three jailed leaders, their group said Saturday. -- The Tzotzil Indians, who also sought "refuge as internally displaced persons" during Friday's move...

Fox News         Limbaugh assails Obama's 'radical' agenda, predicts one-term presidency    President Obama is pursuing a "radical" agenda that is putting the economy and national security in peril, talk show host Rush Limbaugh told "Fox News Sunday," giving the young president failing grades across the board and standing by his sustained criticism of the administration...

Andrew C. McCarthy -- National Review      Counterterrorism, Obama style    Five months ago, when al-Qaeda jihadist Ali Saleh Kallah al-Marri pleaded guilty, it was obvious that the Justice Department had given him a sweetheart deal. On Thursday, a federal judge in Illinois dutifully finished the job. Al-Marri, a committed sleeper operative sent by our enemies to carry out... [See Obama Watch and Holder Watch]

Associated Press     Levy suspect accused of threatening witness    Prosecutors say the man charged with killing federal intern Chandra Levy threatened to kill a potential witness in the case. -- At a hearing on Friday in D.C. Superior Court, Assistant U.S. Attorney Fernando Campoamor told a judge that 28-year-old Ingmar Guandique [an illegal alien fiend] and members of the MS-13 gang sent two letters to the witness... [See Crime Watch]

Frederick (Md.) News-Post      Bartlett argues for broad application of local immigration enforcement program    Frederick 's representative in Congress is closely watching efforts to limit local jurisdictions who participate in a federal immigration enforcement program [287(g)]. -- U.S. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, a Republican, joined 53 other lawmakers in sending a letter to President Barack Obama this week...

New Orleans Times-Picayune      Vitter adds state attorney general to census-citizenship effort    Sen. David Vitter, R-La., asked Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell on Friday to examine the state's legal options in the ongoing effort to keep non-citizens from being counted in the 2010 reapportionment of Congress, and sparing Louisiana the loss of one if its seven congressional seats...

Derry Brownfield -- NewsWithViews.com      Obama's Youth Corps    Back in 1980 one of my sons sold books for Southwestern Publishing Company. At that time the book company recruited college students, who went door to door and sold educational type books. It was a great learning experience for the students... [See Obama Watch]

Christian Science Monitor     Dobbs takes lots of flak from many directions... and fires back, too    CNN's Lou Dobbs is a man with a mission: Keep hammering on [illegal] immigration in the United States. -- He's been at it for years, warning that [aliens] (illegal and sometimes legal) are a threat to the country's economic and social well-being, maybe even its domestic tranquility and security...

Investor's Business Daily Editorial     Obama's phantom jobs    The White House says it "created or saved" 650,000 to 1 million jobs through its stimulus. Maybe so, but only if you count the jobs that never existed in the first place. -- The administration's claim is as laughable as any in recent memory. There is no actual count of jobs; it's all based on phony math... [See Obama Watch]

Los Angeles Times     California to withhold a bigger chunk of paychecks    Starting Sunday, cash-strapped California will dig deeper into the pocketbooks of wage earners -- holding back 10% more than it already does in state income taxes just as the biggest shopping season of the year kicks into gear. -- Technically, it's not a tax increase, even though it may feel like one... [See Cal Meltdown Watch]

Delmarva Daily Times -- Salisbury, Md.     Anti-illegal immigration group draws controversy    Brad Botwin has been called an extremist and even a Nazi. -- Others say he is an asset to the discourse on illegal immigration in the state, and Botwin himself maintains he is merely a concerned citizen asking questions about how the government spends his taxes... [Invasion-boosting CASA de Maryland and SPLC smear-artists are mentioned]

Herb Denenberg -- Philadelphia Bulletin     Defending the Obama name-calling    My recent column titled "Obama Taking Us on a Path to Fascism" (Oct. 28, 2009) started an explosion, with both praise and criticism bursting forth. So I thought I'd write a column explaining and justifying some of the uncomplimentary adjectives I've aimed at President Barack Hussein Obama, 'Mm, 'Mm, 'Mm...

Vincent Carroll -- Denver Post      Villafuerte and the truth    Did Stephanie Villafuerte tell the FBI the whole truth and nothing but the truth? -- Will U.S. senators on the Judiciary Committee believe she did? -- Would you? -- To be sure, President Barack Obama's nominee to become Colorado's next U.S. attorney (currently Gov. Bill Ritter's deputy chief of staff) has not actually made any public statement...

Deroy Murdock -- Human Events      Obamacare promises to make medicine cheaper by making it costlier    ObamaCare promises to make medicine cheaper by making it costlier. Case in point: The Senate Finance Committee proposes a brand-new tax on medical devices. -- Manufacturers of pacemakers, stents, heart valves, artificial hips, motorized wheelchairs, and other therapeutic instruments may have lobbied this tax in half... [See Obama Watch]

Bill O'Reilly -- Human Events      Getting radical    In the beginning, there was the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a fire-breathing Chicago preacher who believes America is a bad place. The reverend and Barack Obama were friends for 20 years. -- Radical Catholic priest Michael Pfleger, another Chicago cleric, was also part of the Obama neighborhood gang...