Michelle Malkin          sc      SEIU thugs vs. the Boy Scouts -- and other related Big Labor antics    Hey, you know all that high-minded talk from President Obama about calling young people to serve their country? -- Well, if it conflicts with Big Labor's interests, children, there's a new message: Knock it off! -- The Purple Shirted-thugs of the Service Employees International Union -- ACORN's alter ego and Obama's most frequent visitor...

Gregory D. Lee -- Family Security Matters      Why are 9/11 killers being tried in New York?    The administration snatched a government conviction from the jaws of victory when it halted military tribunals in Guantanamo earlier this year. Now, Attorney General Eric Holder is giving terrorists another opportunity to get away with murder. -- Seen this before... [See Obama Watch]

Center for Immigration Studies         Daily news from CIS    Bisbee, Ariz. -- To see what can happen when a multimillion-dollar program has limited guidelines and loose oversight, look no further than Bisbee. -- During a 71-day stretch in the fall of 2007, Bisbee Deputy Police Chief Ed Holly, 58, didn't take a single day off...

Prison Planet -- Austin, Texas      Sources say Lou Dobbs was forced out of CNN    Sources close to Lou Dobbs and Insiders at CNN have indicated that the legendary anchorman was forced to resign from the network because his coverage was not "middle of the road" or "opinion-free" enough for the network. -- According to... a spokesman for [Dobbs], CNN was so determined to remove Dobbs, it gave him an $8 million severance package to leave...

Episcopal News Service      Pathetic: Episcopal Church joins holiday postcard campaign for amnesty    The Episcopal Church is joining the Interfaith Immigration Coalition postcard campaign, aimed at sending a holiday message to members of the U.S. Congress. -- The message: "Help keep immigrant families together by supporting comprehensive immigration reform now."

Washington Post      How Do You Like That 'Change?": Report says more Americans going hungry    The number of Americans who lack dependable access to adequate food shot up last year to 49 million, the largest number since the government has been keeping track, according to a federal report released Monday that shows particularly steep increases in food scarcity among families with children... [See Obama Watch]

Dallas Morning News       New meddling Mexican consul wants to strengthen relations with "immigrants"    Mexico's new top diplomat in Dallas says his first priority is to improve relations with Mexican immigrants at his nation's bustling yet troubled consulate. -- Juan Carlos Cué Vega, a 51-year-old lawyer, starts his first day of work in Dallas today, a month after his predecessor left amid an investigation into an alleged skimming scam... [More Mexican meddling]

WXIA-TV -- Atlanta      Gwinnett Sheriff to enforce federal immigration laws    ..."People who are in the country illegally and are taking American jobs are migrating out of those communities. It is not a well intentioned law gone bad it is a well intentioned law now becoming popular to use. It is growing and everywhere across the country where it's being used it works. Enforcement works," said D.A. King...

Michelle Malkin      Far Left's ANSWER goons attack foes of illegal immigration    If the black-and-yellow pro-illegal alien amnesty signs in the photos above and video below [see article] look familiar, they should. The Workers' World Party-staffed ANSWER Coalition first used them during the 2006 nationwide illegal alien marches.

Bloomberg            Equity fund boss: Unemployment at 20%, not 10%     Leo Hindery, managing director of InterMedia Partners LP, talks with Bloomberg's Pimm Fox about the U.S. unemployment rate. Hindrey also discusses ways the U.S. could create jobs.

Sacramento Bee     Law firm's scam reopens hundreds of asylum cases    For years, Sacramento's Sekhon & Sekhon law firm was renowned as a beacon of hope. -- The firm, boasting a 95 percent success rate, helped more than 1,000 immigrants from a half-dozen nations get political asylum in the United States based on a fear of persecution...

Phoenix Business Journal       Arpaio tweets meeting with Vice President Biden    Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said this morning that he met with Vice President Joe Biden. -- Arpaio announced the meeting through his Twitter account Monday morning. He later told the Phoenix Business Journal he had discussed the need for more deputies and resources during a brief meeting with Biden..

East Valley Tribune -- Phoenix      Arpaio launching crime and immigration sweep    Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced Monday he plans to conduct a countywide crime-suppression and illegal-immigration sweep beginning this evening. -- It would be the second such operation since the federal government stripped Arpaio of street-level immigration patrols under the direction of ICE.

Kasey Jones -- The Examiner      sc      Will Lou Dobbs run for public office?     In a report by the Associated Press on Sunday, Lou Dobbs says he's considering a great leap into public office. -- Is it real this time? Back in January he had no comment when the rumors started to spread, including a website by his fans. He gave the cliched "no comment" answer when asked if there was a New Jersey gubernatorial bid looming...

Herald & Review -- Decatur, Ill.      Locals fed up with illegal immigration take it to the street    There was no tea but plenty of cold water Sunday afternoon as TEA Party protesters braved a steady rain to march silently through downtown Decatur to protest illegal immigration. -- The event was organized by Restore Our Constitution, which calls itself the "Decatur TEA Party Group, with TEA standing for "Taxed Enough Already."

London Daily Mail      Obama branded 'Groveller-In-Chief' after bowing to Japanese ruler    President Obama has been branded the 'Groveller-in-Chief' after giving an exaggerated bow to Japan's emperor Akihito – the son of the ruler who authorised the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. -- Coming so soon after Remembrance Day, the deep bow caused an outcry in the U.S...

Sacramento Bee     Political battle simmers on counting noncitizens in census    ...Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter wants only legal citizens included in the official count. And the Rev. Miguel Rivera, who heads the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders, wants illegal Latino immigrants to boycott the U.S. census as a way to show their displeasure with Congress' refusal to overhaul national immigration laws...

Associated Press      Open-borders fanatics to push cheap tuition for illegals in Massachusetts    Chelsea, Mass. -- Immigrant advocates are getting ready to push Massachusetts lawmakers to pass legislation that would allow [illegal aliens] to pay in-state tuition at state colleges. -- Lawmakers are expected to revisit the issue three years after House lawmakers soundly rejected a similar bill...

Mike Litwin (Open Borders Zealot) -- Denver Post      With friends like Tancredo, happy Dems are here again    Don't be alarmed. That loud sound you hear louder even than the pop of the Balloon Boy hoax imploding — is just Tom Tancredo crashing another party. -- The noise can't surprise anyone. Tancredo — who won't argue if you call him a bomb thrower or, in the case of certain holy cities, a potential bomb dropper — never does anything quietly...

Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely, US Army (Ret.) -- Family Security Matters      It's Time to Hold All U.S. Government Officials Accountable    The Declaration of Independence states, in part: "...That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it..." [See Obama Watch]

Arizona Daily Star -- Tucson      Border program has vague goals, little oversight    A federal program touted as a model for using local law enforcement to help control our borders is handing out $165 million — but with little tracking of how the money is spent, no clear objective and no benchmarks for success, an Arizona Daily Star investigation has found...

David Codrea -- The Examiner      What did kooks from the SPLC teach the Eugene Police Department?    ...SPLC, of course, has been notorious for its attempts to imply groups like Oath Keepers are "particularly worrisome," going so far as to link to articles about them in their "Hate Watch Headlines." Spokesman Mark Potok's equivocating denial notwithstanding, the intent here is clear. -- Yo, Eugene "law enforcement professionals": You all took an oath to the Constitution...

Peter Gadiel -- Family Security Matters   Is the term 'politically correct' more accurately 'un-American?'    At Fort Hood, political correctness claimed 13 more lives (14 when the unborn child of one of the victims is included). It appears certain that fear of being called "racist" or "nativist" or "anti-Muslim" caused dozens of otherwise sensible people, including many psychiatrists and high ranking military officers... [See Obama Watch]

Thomas Lifson -- American Thinker -- Bellevue, Wash.      Another Botched Bow: Obama proves he's just another servant of the elite    Bad enough that Obama bowed down to another head of state yesterday. Even worse that he did not bother to learn how one bows in Japan, and just winged it. -- I agree with Scott Johnson, Steve Gilbert, Andrew Malcom, and many others that the President of the United States should not be bowing before any head of state...

Associated Press      Chicago officials want to halt deportation of DUI Mexican illegal alien    A Chicago City Council committee wants federal officials to halt deportation proceedings against immigrant students. -- The Human Relations Committed on Friday approved a resolution urging the DHS to allow [illegal alien] students to stay in the U.S. if they would be eligible for legal status...

David Horowitz -- NewsReal Blog      The worst decision by a US president in history    The Obama administration has taken a giant step in its march to throw in the towel in the war against radical Islam. On Fox News this morning, Peter King said of the decision to try the soldiers of al-Qaeda -- who by their own account have no country but their cause -- as civilians "may be the worst decision by a U.S. president in history."

Family Security Matters      Giuliani blasts NYC trials as unnecessary benefit to terrorists    Video clip from This Week with George Stephanopoulos, ABC News. -- Related: This video from 2006 shows the Snake Oil Salesman-In-Chief saying Khalid Sheik Mohammed will get a 'full military trial.' [See Obama Watch and AG Watch] -- More FSM blog entries here.....

Matthew Vadum -- NewsReal Blog     Obama pal Andy Stern of the SEIU denies he's a radical    In a Washington News Observer video, Andrew (Andy) Stern, boss of the radical union SEIU, denies Glenn Beck's frequent accusation that Stern is a radical. -- "Despite what Glenn Beck says, I am a capitalist, not a socialist, communist, or anything else he's called me in the last two weeks."

Washington Times      Environmental laws put gaps in Mexico border security    In the battle on the U.S.-Mexico border, the fight against illegal immigration often loses out to environmental laws that have blocked construction of parts of the "virtual fence" and that threaten to create places where agents can't easily track illegal [aliens]...

Houston Chronicle     U.S.-Mexico "experts" want ban on powerful arms    The U.S. government should reimpose a ban on automatic weapons sales and clamp down harder on the illegal export of guns and cash to Mexico, a binational panel of scholars and former government officials urges in a report released Friday.... [Anything but shut the border down] [See Gun Grabber Watch and Meddling Mexicans]