Wall Street Journal           sc     Who's winning the war in Mexico    Last week, U.S. drug enforcement agents uncovered a 2,200-foot tunnel for smuggling marijuana that ran between a private house hard by the border in Tijuana, Mexico, and a warehouse across the border in Otay Mesa, Calif. The tunnel was no crude construction; it had electricity, a ventilation system and a rail track for transporting drugs...

Daily Press -- Newport News, Va.      Suspected illegal pleads guilty to sexually assaulting 6-year-old victim    The oldest of three suspects accused of sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl in their care faces 20 years behind bars after pleading guilty Monday to one felony charge related to the crimes. -- Tito Ubaldo Guirao-Aguilar, 39, was convicted in Williamsburg-James City County Circuit Court of a single count of aggravated sexual battery... [More of Obama's pet fiends]

Amanda Carey -- The Daily Caller       Does Obama's nominee for head of BATFE oppose the Second Amendment?    Things had been looking up for gun-rights activists. In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled in D.C. v. Heller that Washington's handgun laws were unconstitutional. In the summer of 2010, in McDonald v Chicago, the court expanded that ruling to apply to handgun laws in all 50 states... [See Gun Grabber Watch]

Los Angeles Times      Dems will revisit pro-illegal alien bills vetoed by Schwarzenegger    ...The proposals they plan to revisit would give illegal [aliens] access to financial aid at colleges, prohibit the practice of "spiking" in public pensions, require utilities to provide more solar and wind power, ban cell phones from state prisons and require college booster groups to disclose their finances...

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner      Illegal alien caught smuggling drugs in Pinal County, Arizona    On Thursday night, after a long pursuit on Highway 347, Pinal County sheriff's deputies stopped a silver Pontiac Grand Am, at which time both the driver and passenger fled on foot into a residential neighborhood. -- While deputies never found the driver, they did catch the passenger, Jose Alejandro Ramirez-Zaragoza, 39, who quickly admitted that he was in the country illegally from Mexico...

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner          sc     11 children rescued from Phoenix drop house    On Thursday, Phoenix police officers, along with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided a so-called drop house and rescued 11 minors, including a 2-year-old girl, a 6-year-old boy, a 7-year-old girl and at least three teenage girls. Three human smugglers were arrested...

Cliff Kinkaid      SPLC: Phony "civil rights" group dishes out hate for "hate groups"     In a story about the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) accusing conservative Christian groups like the Family Research Council of "hate," The Washington Post described the SPLC as a "civil rights organization." But The Social Contract, a public policy journal, investigated the SPLC in a recent issue and found that it used "ritual defamation" as a weapon...

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner       Dems don't understand relationship between illegals and unemployed Americans    The Republican Study Committee of Colorado (RSCC) met earlier this week to discuss the financial burden being placed on the taxpayers by the state's large number of illegal aliens, and how they can reduce those costs in an effort to balance Colorado's budget...

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WorldNetDaily.com      Why did U.S. warn people to avoid mystery missile zone?    The Department of Defense is slamming the door on questions about the mysterious contrail filmed Nov. 8 by a KCBS television crew near Los Angeles after questions were raised about a warning from the National Geo-Spatial Intelligence Agency that there could be missiles fired in that area at that time... [See Obama Watch]

Associated Press       Court to hear arguments over Arizona immigration law    The impassioned debate over the nation's immigration policy takes center stage at the Supreme Court Wednesday in a dispute over an Arizona law that punishes employers who knowingly hire workers illegally in the U.S. -- Arizona's employer sanctions law has been used just three times in three years...

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner     American-born teenager admits to four beheadings for Mexican cartel    On Thursday, the Mexican army arrested 14-year-old Edgar Jimenez Lugo, a U.S. citizen who goes by the nickname "El Ponchis" (the cloaked one), has apparently been working as a hit man for the South Pacific Cartel since he was 11-years-old. -- The diminutive assassin was captured at the airport near Cuernavaca, as he tried to board a flight, in an attempt to return to the U.S...

Daniel Tencer -- Raw Story           sc     Feckless Feds tracking credit cards, store purchases without warrant: report  Federal law enforcement routinely tracks individuals through their credit cards, cell phones, car rentals and even store customer loyalty programs without obtaining a warrant, an online privacy activist has discovered. -- According to a document obtained from the Department of Justice by online privacy activist Christopher Soghoian... [See Obama Watch - Free Speech Watch - NWO TreasonWatch - Big Brother Watch]

Washington Post      Feckless Feds have repeatedly broken law to spy on Americans     The federal government has repeatedly violated legal limits governing the surveillance of U.S. citizens, according to previously secret internal documents obtained through a court battle by the American Civil Liberties Union. -- In releasing 900 pages of documents, U.S. government agencies refused to say... [See Obama Watch - Big Brother Watch - NWO Watch]

Zero Hedge     Lieberman's campaign to trample 1st Amendment is proceeding on schedule As if it wasn't enough that America's ruling oligarchs were sufficiently happy with abdicating their governing duties to the Federal Reserve, they have now decided to imitate China in every possible way, and in addition to making up economic data as they go (for actual numbers just look around you...) [See Obama Watch - Free Speech Watch - NWO Treason Watch - Big Brother Watch]

Philip Klein -- American Spectator     November jobs report far worse than expected; Unemployment rate up to 9.8%  The economy added merely 39,000 jobs in November, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, far worse than expectations of around 140,000. The unemployment rate edged up to 9.8 percent. -- The economy had 1.3 million discouraged workers in November who gave up looking for work because they don't think there are jobs available to them and... [How's all this 'hope and change' working out for you?]

Brad O'Leary -- Washington Examiner      SPLC aims hate crimes law at First Amendment freedoms    If you are a Christian who believes marriage should be between a man and a woman, the Southern Poverty Law Center has a Christmas message for you: Keep your religious beliefs to yourself, or risk criminal prosecution. -- What else are we to make of the SPLC's recent labeling of 18 Christian groups as "hate groups," including the Family Research Council...

Tom Tancredo -- WorldNetDaily.com     Amnesty agenda is the real lame duck     The congressional amnesty proposal deceptively named the "Dream Act" is dying a slow death in the lame-duck session of Congress. The defeat of the amnesty bill should come as no surprise, but the real victory lies deeper than the vote count. -- The defeat of the Dream Act in the lame-duck closing session of the Pelosi-Reid era signals the end...

POLL	Should illegals be able to get driver's licenses?

Marietta (Ga.) Daily Journal Editorial      Federal Oversight: Secure Communities not coming any time soon     Once again the federal government has shown its inability, if not unwillingness, to enforce the law and deport illegal [aliens]. -- Two of our congressmen, Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Marietta) and Rep. Tom Price (R-Roswell), asked the Immigrant and Customs Enforcement agency to speed up the expansion in Georgia of the fingerprinting program known as Secure Communities...

Edward Schumacher-Matos -- Washington Post      The GOP's Latino base: Real or imagined?    I don't know Lamar Smith, but I feel like I do. The Texas Republican, who is likely to chair the House Judiciary Committee in the next Congress, writes often to disagree with my columns. -- I respect Smith for his consistency, especially on immigration. If all congressmen voted their conscience, I suspect that two-thirds of current House members would legalize most [illegal aliens] in the country. Not Smith...