McAllen (Texas) Monitor       sc     Illegal aliens divide discussions on health care reform    ...Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are grappling with how to handle illegal [aliens] -- an issue, along with abortion, that at times threatened to derail reform efforts in the House -- in the health care bill. -- While both chambers seem to agree that taxpayers shouldn't subsidize health insurance coverage for illegal [aliens]...

WJZ-TV -- Baltimore      Sniper John Muhammad has been executed    Richmond, Va. -- The mastermind of the sniper attacks that terrorized Maryland, D.C. and Virginia has been executed. He was pronounced dead at 9:11 p.m. An official said he made no last statement and was "emotionless." -- Eleven state officials were inside the death chamber, according to an observer...

Center for Immigration Studies         Daily news from CIS    Bishop of Derry Seamus Hegarty provided a much needed lift to the plight of the [illegal aliens] during a busy visit to the US last week. Bishop Hegarty, a pioneer in the fight for [illegal aliens'] rights in this country, held masses in Boston and Philadelphia before traveling to Washington, D.C. for meetings with clergy and politicians to discuss reform [read: amnesty]... [More meddling by foreigners]

Gene Healy -- The Examiner     Obama's arrogance of power    Last year's financial meltdown rightfully destroyed former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan's reputation as an infallible "wise man," but he said something wise in his 2007 memoirs, describing a constitutional amendment he'd been "pushing for years." [See Obama Watch]

Associated Press     Senate Dems move to curb Fed's powers    Senate Democrats on Tuesday proposed stripping the Federal Reserve of its supervisory powers and creating instead three new federal agencies to police banks, protect consumers and dismantle failing institutions. -- The 1,136-page bill, released by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, would represent a significant shift in power in federal oversight of the U.S. market...

Dream Activist (Pro-Invasion Zealots)      Philly mayor signs executive order protecting illegal aliens    ...Following the defeat of the Vitter-Bennett amendment, Philadelphia Mayor Nutter wants to make sure everyone in the city of Philadelphia feels safe when filling out their forms. This is why today, he has stepped up and signed an executive order that prohibits any city employee – including the police department – to ask anyone about their immigration status....

KPIX-TV -- Sacramento          San Francisco sanctuary vote sets up fed showdown    The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on an 8-3 vote Tuesday afternoon decided to override a mayoral veto of a measure to extend sanctuary to [illegal alien] juveniles who are arrested for felonies. -- The decision could spark a showdown with the federal government... [Related item] [See Sanctuary Watch and Frisco Watch]

Marietta (Ga.) Daily Journal      Isakson: Little chance health bill passes Senate    U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-east Cobb) thinks the health care bill that passed the House on Saturday has almost no chance in the Senate because Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) has vowed to join a majority Republican filibuster against the measure...

J. D. Longstreet -- Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Ga.     The health care scheme Americans don't want    The US House of Representatives passed a Health Care Bill over the weekend that will never see the light of day. Yes, it will go to the US Senate -- and that is as far as the House bill will go. The Senate Health Care bill will be a different animal, entirely. -- Public Option must go. Public Option will not be a part of a Senate Health Care bill....

Denver Post      Tancredo weighs governor race    Former congressman and presidential candidate Tom Tancredo said he was hit with an avalanche of interest in his possible gubernatorial candidacy after a Douglas County supporter set up "The Draft Tom Tancredo for Governor" Facebook page Monday afternoon... [Also see: Tancredo weighs governor race]

Daniel Pipes -- Family Security Matters      sc     Sudden jihad or 'inordinate stress' at Fort Hood?    When a Muslim in the West for no apparent reason violently attacks non-Muslims, a predictable argument ensues about motives. -- The establishment – law enforcement, politicians, the media, and the academy – stands on one side of this debate...

Connie Hair -- Human Events      Costs involved in Pelosicare power-grab revealed     The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) late last Thursday released a more detailed cost estimate of the Pelosicare bill that shows when the leviathan bureaucracy is fully implemented it will cost taxpayers over $3 trillion over 10 years...

CNS News      NY village gets bizarre voting rules to 'aid Hispanics'    White Plains – A federal judge imposed an unusual election system on a suburban village Friday, nearly two years after finding that the existing system was unfair to Hispanics. -- The village, Port Chester, is run by a mayor and six trustees. Under the new system, called cumulative voting, residents will be allowed to cast as many as six votes for one trustee candidate...

WorldNetDaily.com      Who's watching the watchers?    The Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Agency both recently announced plans for huge new electronic security centers that could monitor, sort and archive e-mails, telephone calls and other intercepted communications... [See Big Brother Watch & NWO Treason Watch]

Roll Call -- Washington      Immigration plan questioned    In the wake of House passage of a sweeping Democratic health care overhaul, conservative Republicans were perplexed and angry Monday that their leaders decided not to force Democrats into a tough immigration vote that they believe could have brought down the bill...

Patrick J. Michaels -- National Review      More 'work' for Obama    In the blame game, the Obama administration isn't about to stop with Fox News. Instead, it's moving on to lowly scientists. -- Last month, President Obama gave a somewhat chilling, if somewhat ignored, speech on climate change at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He stated that any scientific debate about the magnitude of global warming is unscrupulous...

WCBS-TV -- New York      NY Governor says New York will be broke before Christmas    Albany, NY -- Governor David Paterson called an unusual joint session of the Legislature Monday to implore recalcitrant lawmakers to close the state's huge budget gap before New York runs out of money. -- To some lawmakers it's nothing more than a photo op to help Paterson get re-elected. But the governor is dead serious...

White Plains Journal News      Suspected illegal alien in Brewster sexually abused boy, 8    Brewster, NY -- A 24-year-old village man suspected of being in the United States illegally was arrested on a felony charge after he was accused of sexually abusing an 8-year-old boy, police said. -- The boy told a doctor during an Oct. 30 appointment that he had been sexually abused, according to a release from the Putnam County Sheriff's Office... [More of Obama's pet fiends]

Michelle Malkin      'Climate Change' Hoax: EPA lawyers speak out    The EPA has two more whistleblowers in its own ranks calling out the agency's flawed agenda and the cap-and-trade monstrosity. -- You'll recall the case of Alan Carlin, whose research critical of the outdated data used in EPA's "public endangerment finding" on greenhouse gases was stifled by EPA... [See Obama Watch]

Associated Press     Over 1,200 janitors fired in Minnesota immigration audit    Roughly 1,250 Twin Cities janitors with suspect employment documents were fired from their jobs in October as their company carried out an audit prompted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an immigration attorney said Monday...

John Birch Society      Radical Left-wing fanatic calls for more global regulation of currency    In an October 23, 2009 interview with Chrystia Freeland of the Financial Times, George Soros advocated a "new global currency system," and called the decline of the dollar necessary. Under Soros' new system, China would figure prominently in the creation of a new world financial order... [Related item]

McClatchey Newspapers         Arrogant illegals mobilizing to push 'DREAM Act' amnesty     ...It's been just more than two years since the last version of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act failed to pass the Senate. Reintroduced in both chambers of Congress in March, the most recent incarnation of the DREAM Act would provide a path toward legal U.S. residency for students such as Mateo [an invader illegally working in the U.S.]... [See Amnesty Watch]

Patrick J. Buchanan -- VDare.com      Diversity is strength! It's also... Major Hasan and the unravelling of America    Nidal Malik Hasan was two men. -- One was the proud Army major who wore battle fatigues to mosque; the other, the proud Arab who wore Muslim garb in civilian life. -- What brought Hasan's identities into fatal conflict was his belief that Iraq and Afghanistan were unjust wars...

Fox News      Health Care Scam: White House spent 'weeks' courting Louisiana RINO Cao    Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao, the only Republican to back the health care bill in the House Saturday night, says he had several meetings with President Obama and White House staff in the weeks leading up to the vote. -- The White House spent weeks trying to convince Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao to support the House health care reform bill ...

Newsweek      Imam Anwar al Awlaki calls Hasan 'hero'     A radical imam who was investigated by the FBI for his ties to the 9/11 hijackers has posted an Internet message praising Nidal Hasan -- the suspect in the Fort Hood shootings -- as a "hero" who performed his "Islamic duty" by killing American soldiers...

Dr. Jerome R. Corsi -- WorldNetDaily.com      U.S. troops' continental insignia bears U.N. colors    Troops in the United States' USNORTHCOM ranks appear to have adopted a shoulder patch showing a North American continental design, with an emphasis on United Nations colors, giving evidence of the strength of a plan to integrate North America... [See NWO Treason Watch]

Associated Press           Mexican clergy seek global help as violence grows      Gunmen shoot a priest and two seminary students in the back. Federal police storm a Mass to capture a suspected drug kingpin. Priests pray with the families of murdered men, then face killers in the confessional....

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner      Army officer escapes violence of Juarez only to be murdered on his own base     One of the shooting victims of the Fort Hood massacre which now appears to be another instance of Muslim terrorism, was Maj. L. Eduardo Caraveo, 52. He grew up in the extremely violent city of Juarez, Mexico, and became a psychologist and by all accounts, a pillar of the community...

Peter Hannaford -- Human Events      ACORN's calling     In its heyday, ACORN sent platoons of voter registrars out into urban neighborhoods all over the land. They seemed to be everywhere -- and so did their cell phones. You probably saw clips on the evening news of them coordinating their routes of march with one another by cellphone....

San Francisco Chronicle     Feds, courts may step in if San Francisco supes shield illegal youths   San Francisco supervisors' effort to shield immigrant youths from deportation when they're arrested on felony charges comes to a head today when the board votes on an override of Mayor Gavin Newsom's veto - a vote Newsom says he'll disregard because the ordinance would violate federal law... [See Frisco Watch & Sanctuary Watch]

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Latest NAFBPO update from south of the border    ...Referring to the topic of migration, she [Janet Napolitano] said President Barack Obama wants to move ahead with that in 2010. She anticipates changes will be presented to Congress in the first half of next year. She said that there is a better system for finding those who have crossed the border illegally and for identifying the businesses that give them employment... [See Amnesty Watch and Meddling Mexicans]

Francis Rice -- Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Ga.      Obama's socialist stake in the heart Of America     Unfazed by the damage caused to our nation by out-of-control spending, President Barack Obama and the Democrats in the US House of Representatives passed a massive, trillion-dollar government-run healthcare revamp bill...

Federation for American Immigration Reform   Latest Legislative Update    Last week, the latest House health care bill (H.R. 3962) raised a number of concerns over the direction the bill was taking with respect to immigration policy. Earlier this summer, FAIR had raised concerns over the language of the bill with respect to Section 342(d), which would waive the current 5-year waiting period...

Allan Wall -- VDare.com     Ft. Hood Massacre: Napolitano frets "backlash" in the UAE    On foreign soil, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano expressed concern about "backlash" in response to the Ft. Hood Massacre. -- Some people seem more concerned about "anti-Muslim backlash" than Muslim violence against non-Muslims... [This multi-culti idiocy is PC gone mad]