Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Bersin: Thirty Years to Secure Border But they still can't define what it means -- or won't Death By 1,000 Papercuts -- August 16   Alan Bersin -- Advancing the Mexican Conquest of Aztlan Obama Border Czar Alan Bersin: Thirty Years to Secure Border Between Mexico and US US Government to Privatize Facilitated Border Entries? Question: Do you feel we are adequately securing our border? Obama Drug Czar R. Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy: That's a difficult question to ask. I've spent a lot of time now flying, driving, being on the border then talking to a lot of people on the border. It's incredibly difficult when you don't have a clear definition of what secure the border means.    Even though the Obama administration admitted they've yet to find a "clear definition" on what "secure the border" means, they have come up with a "30 year plan" which was discussed at a recent border security conference at the University of Texas-El Paso, UTEP, a conference sponsored by several corporations which the government has awarded multi-million dollar contracts to "secure the border." Glenn Spencer -- American Border Patrol   American Border Patrol has defined what border security means and is devising a means of measuring it. Is the mainstream media interested?  Comment on This Feature     Past Features

Patrick J. Buchanan -- VDare.com            sc    Obama -- Our clueless professor    Have we ever had a president so disconnected from the heart of America? -- On Friday night, at a White House iftar, the breaking of the Ramadan fast, Obama strode directly into the blazing controversy over whether a mosque should be built two blocks from Ground Zero... [More Obama chicanery]

Coming Up AUGUST 18 Lakewood, Colorado -- 6 to 8 PM MDT Fundraiser for Tom Tancredo Campaign

Kerry Picket -- Washington Times      Reid immigration flip followed labor's flip on immigration    Liberal defenders of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are complaining that the "whole story" is not being told about Mr. Reid's flip-flop on birthright citizenship. The Washington Post will point to when Mr. Reid "apologized profusely" on the Senate floor in 2006 for proposing his failed 1993 immigration bill which would have ended birthright citizenship...

Heritage Foundation      ICE union revolts against Obama sanctuary city policies    Recently the Obama Administration hired former Houston police chief Harold Hurtt to coordinate state and local activities for U.S. ICE. As The Heritage Foundation pointed out at the time, Hurtt seemed like an odd choice to head up an important position with ICE. Hurtt is, after all, a well-documented supporter of "sanctuary city polices," which puts him at odds, at least philosophically, with the agency's mission...

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Latest NAFBPO update from south of the border    At least 494 jurisdictions in the United States have laws, similar to SB-1070 in Arizona, which violate civil rights and provide for the detention of people based solely on their race. -- The program called "Secure Communities" created by ICE escapes public scrutiny and allows local officials to detain anyone based on their appearance... [More Mexican Gov't lies, carping, codswallop, and meddling]

Gerald Celente -- The Daily Reckoning     Recovery? How about "relapse?"    Three weeks later [after early June 2010] the celebrated property rebound, along with the stock market, ran out of bounce. After the hefty government tax credits that had propped up sales expired in April, May purchases of new homes fell 33 percent to a record low, the fewest sales since 1963...

Norah Peterson -- American Thinker - Bellevue, Wash.      Feds still ignoring terrorist threat from jihadis based in Mexico    The danger of Islamic terrorists entering the United States through Mexico is a dire concern in a post-9/11 world. Yet, the threat of Islamic terrorists just south of the border existed even before 9/11. A 2003 Library of Congress report entitled...

Wall Street War Zone     Warning: Captain Bernanke's sinking the USS "Titanic-2"    The Federal Reserve is the world's new Titanic... and Bernanke is the egomaniacal captain at the helm. His character reminds me of Bogart playing the paranoid, obsessive Captain Queeg in "The Caine Mutiny." Remember that threatened Navy captain who navigates into a fog, panics, nearly rams a battleship?

Opposing Views      Reconquista Zealot Nativo Lopez: Trial or mental competency court?    Nativo Lopez, Mexican American Political Association (MAPA) National President, appeared on August 6, 2010, in Los Angeles Superior Court Dept. 123, for a hearing regarding his mental competency to stand trial, based upon the opinions of two court-appointed psychiatrists...

Washington Post     Feckless feds threaten to sue Arpaio in "civil rights" inquiry    A federal investigation of a controversial Arizona sheriff known for tough immigration enforcement has intensified in recent days, escalating the conflict between the Obama administration and officials in the border state. -- [DoJ officials] have issued a rare threat to sue Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio if he doesn't cooperate by Tuesday... [Former CASA de Maryland hack Thomas Perez is involved]

El Paso Times      51 people killed in Juárez over weekend    The rampant bloodshed continued today in Juárez with nine homicides by this afternoon, Chihuahua state police said. -- Fifty-one people were slain during the weekend from Friday to Sunday, including 24 on Sunday, making Sunday one of the deadliest days of the year, a police spokesman said...

Rachel Alexander -- Intellectual Conservative      Photos of 2000 attending Tea Party on the Border with Sheriff Arpaio, others    ...The Tea Party rally was organized by Nancy Huzar and Tim Selaty, Sr. of United We Stand for Americans, in conjunction with Keith Sipmann and Eric Odom of Patriot Caucus, and Arizona Taxpayers' Action Committee. It was held at the ranch of Glenn Spencer, who runs the website American Border Patrol...

American Border Patrol        Photos of the day    A Customs and Border Patrol helicopter is seen orbiting Glenn Spencer's ranch is Southeastern Arizona, site of Sunday's Tea Party Rally. Melissa told Glenn that a helicopter had orbited his house earlier when Glenn was in Sierra Vista...

R. Cort Kirkwood -- The New American      Too many 'non-criminal' foreign invaders deported, Loony Left whines    Left-wing activists are upset that the U.S. Government is deporting too many illegal [aliens] who don't have "serious" criminal records, the Miami Herald reports. "Few deported aliens have serious criminal records, activists say," ran the headline in the paper. Question is, what do the activists and the Herald consider a "few?" The number apparently hovers at about 40,000...

Michelle Malkin      Open-borders / BigGov / Climate Change huckster McCain blames "Eastern press" You have got to be freaking kidding me. Mr. I Was The Nation's Number One Illegal Alien Amnesty Champion Before I Was Against It / Mr. Call Me Maaaaaverick Except When I Need The Right To Get Re-elected is attacking his erstwhile friends in the "Eastern press" for creating the impression that he is a desperate political opportunist clinging to entrenched incumbency...

Ted Nugent   Trade Fedzilla for fair tax     Simpler is always better, especially as it pertains to Fedzilla, whose mission is to complicate things to such a degree that ordinary Americans no longer understand how our government works or who it works for... [See Obama Watch]

The Street      Hindenburg Omen: Is a stock market crash imminent?    It may just be the summer doldrums, or the ominous occurrence of a Friday the 13 in mid-August, but the Hindenburg Omen -- a technical indicator of an impending stock market crash -- is suddenly as important a market mover as testimony from Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke...

Paul Craig Roberts -- Infowars -- Austin, Texas      The ecstasy of empire     The United States is running out of time to get its budget and trade deficits under control. Despite the urgency of the situation, 2010 has been wasted in hype about a non-existent recovery. As recently as August 2 Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner penned a New York Times column, "Welcome to the Recovery."

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner          sc   Despite the spin, the U.S. is under siege from Muslim jihadists    The day after the deadliest example of Muslim terrorism to be carried out inside the U.S. since 9/11, President Obama told us not to "jump to conclusions" about the motives of the alleged shooter, in spite of the fact that several eyewitnesses reported that Maj. Malik Hasan shouted "Allahu Akbar" as he gunned down his fellow soldiers...

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix     Border Patrol catches car smuggling marijuana in Yuma; passenger flees    Yuma police on Sunday said they were still looking for the passenger of a car filled with nearly 500 pounds of marijuana that fled from the U.S. Border Patrol and smashed into an apartment. -- Two adults and two children were uninjured when the car crashed into the apartment in the 2300 block of South Arizona Avenue, police said...

Phoenix Business Journal     Alabama looks at Arizona-style law    Alabama is the latest state to jump on the Senate Bill 1070 bandwagon. BusinessWeek reports Alabama Republicans want to pass new immigration laws similar to the SB 1070 measure approved by the Arizona Legislature and Gov. Jan Brewer...

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner      Chinese nationals charged with prostitution, immigration fraud    On Saturday night, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, along with local law enforcement raided private residences in Monterey Park and San Gabriel, California which were being used as brothels. The arrests were the result of a nine month investigation... [See Crime Watch]

Gary Bauer -- Human Events     Border security bill won't be enough    Among the many polarizing aspects of the ever-raging immigration debate, there is one that should unite all Americans. The violent drug cartels that dominate most of Northern Mexico constitute one of America's greatest security threats. -- A bill passed by Congress Thursday will send more troops to the border. That's good news, but it's only a start...

Dr. Jerome R. Corsi -- WorldNetDaily.com      Scathing Congress report slams Obama's 'covert, criminal activity'    Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the ranking Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued a scathing staff report today charging that the White House has "used the machinery of the Obama campaign to tout the president's agenda through inappropriate and sometimes unlawful public relations and propaganda initiatives." [More Obama skulduggery]

Kelly Holt -- The New American      Constitutionality of anchor babies questioned    On August 12, Devin Dwyer of ABC News wrote that eight percent of U.S. births are to illegal immigrants, each child becoming a U.S. citizen at birth, by virtue of our federal government's application of the 14th Amendment, while one or both of the parents remains undocumented. He referenced a report by the Pew Hispanic Center...

The Editor -- Family Security Matters      The Ground Zero Mosque - What have we not been told?    In a Family Security Matters Editorial on Sunday, it was suggested that President Obama's apparent support of the Ground Zero Mosque, followed less than 24 hours by presidential back-pedaling, was creating a crisis of leadership. The apparent pandering to a project which has never gained widespread public support was predestined to create problems...

Prison Planet -- Austin, Texas      Government using Google Earth to loot destitute Americans     Aerial imaging technology is being used by the government to spy on Americans in an effort to collect revenue and enforce ordinances on swimming pools without safety certificates, junk cars being stored without permission, unlicensed porches, and a myriad of other petty transgressions that the state is feeding off...

Gadi Adelman -- Family Security Matters      Stop enabling stealth jihad and creeping Sharia    On September 17, 2001, just six days after the worst attack on American soil, President Bush gave a speech at the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C. Below is the end of that speech, in which he stated: "These acts of violence against innocents violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith. And it's important for my fellow Americans to understand that..." [See "Hope & Change" Watch]

Wendy Murphy -- Belmont (Mass.) Citizen-Herald     Flawed immigration policy is sinking our ship    Even the staunchest liberals can't deny that Illegal immigration is a monstrous and growing problem that we can no longer afford. Public schools are canceling sports programs – unemployment is at double digits and Obamacare is about to add millions to an already unaffordable public health care system...

Fox News      Border Patrol sees rise in suicides    Fort Hancock, Texas -- U.S. Border Patrol agents are killing themselves in greater numbers, after nearly four years without one suicide. -- Records obtained by The Associated Press show that at least 15 agents have taken their own lives since February 2008...