Sunday, December 5, 2010

Winning the Mexican War Finish the Fence Wall Street Journal -- December 4    ~~~~~  Who's Winning the War for Mexico? The cartels are powerful, but they can be defeated. Ending the flow of drugs is another matter.     [...] This continued and still largely unstanched flow of narcotics into the U.S. is only part of the problem. Over the course of the past four years, fighting over turf and control of smuggling routes among the various Mexican drug cartels has made many Mexican cities and towns along the border virtual combat zones. "Amexica: War Along the Borderline," a recently released book by the British journalist Ed Vulliamy, paints a terrifying and authoritative portrait of this violence, in which at least 28,000 people have now died. From "Amexica: War Along the Border Line": (Kindle loc: 929-939)     However, a journey along the map as it stands entails, loosely, three stages. First, the road from Tijuana to Ciudad Juarez, across the terrain of warfare among the Sinaloa, Tijuana, and Beltran Leyva cartels. [...]     The map shows a war caused by fighting among cartels for smuggling routes.... Glenn Spencer -- American Patrol Report     So everyone agrees that the Mexican drug war is being fought over control of smuggling routes, but who is suggesting we cut off those routes? Research by American Border Patrol suggests that the drug war started when fencing interdicted drug corridors. Why don't we finish the job?  Comment on This Feature     Past Features

Tyler Durden -- Zero Hedge      Job losses plague credibility of Obama regime    When we last ran this number, the economy needed to create 232,400 jobs per month to get to the same unemployment rate as last seen in December 2007, just before the depression started, courtesy of today's massive disappointment we can now increase the creation requirement to 235,120... [See "Hope & Change" Watch]

Los Angeles Times      Japanese robot can pick strawberries based on color    The Beatles would have a field day with this one: A Japanese robot can harvest ripe strawberries. -- The bot, created by the country's Agricultural and Food Research Organization, uses a pair of cameras to figure out the fruit's position and judge its color. Only berries that meet an 80% redness standard are selected...

Fox News      WikiLeaks ready to release giant 'insurance' file if shut down    Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has circulated across the internet an encrypted "poison pill" cache of uncensored documents suspected to include files on BP and Guantanamo Bay. -- One of the files identified this weekend by The Sunday Times -- called the "insurance" file -- has been downloaded from the WikiLeaks website by tens of thousands of supporters, from America to Australia... [See Obama Watch]

Joseph Farah -- WorldNetDaily.com   sc      The no-questions, no-proof media    The news media are still at it. -- They are still suggesting we should take Barack Obama at his word about his background and personal history – even though virtually everything he has told the American people has proven false under scrutiny. -- And it's not just the Big Media in New York and Washington that ridicule anyone who dares ask a tough question...

Zack Carter -- AlterNet      The Fed lied about Wall Street    The data from the Federal Reserve audit is full of frightening revelations about U.S. economic policy and those who implement it. When Wall Street went off the rails in the fall of 2008, policymakers told the public we had a certain kind of problem, knowing all along that the actual nature of the problem was very different -- and far more severe. This was a terribly destructive lie... [See Obama Watch]

New York Times      Mounting state debts stoke fears of a looming crisis   The State of Illinois is still paying off billions in bills that it got from schools and social service providers last year. Arizona recently stopped paying for certain organ transplants for people in its Medicaid program. States are releasing prisoners early, more to cut expenses than to reward good behavior... [See "Hope & Change" Watch]

Hispanic Trending      sc     Pro-invasion crowd threatens to revolt    The Senate is set to vote on a controversial immigration bill. If it fails, Rep. Luis Gutiérrez tells Bryan Curtis he's prepared to ditch Obama and the Democrats -- and take the movement to the streets. -- It's zero hour for the DREAM Act, a bit of immigration legislation that has taken on a hulking importance among Hispanic leaders. For two years, Barack Obama failed... [Related item]

KTRK-TV -- Houston      Bush stooge Alberto Gonzales pushing DREAM Act amnesty scheme  It has become a controversial proposal in Congress that potentially affects every school age child in the country. -- It's called the DREAM Act; DREAM stands for Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors, and its basic idea is to provide schooling and legal residency to [illegal aliens] in exchange for public service...

Jim Hoft -- Gateway Pundit     Forget the Trillion Dollar Deficit: Dems' DREAM Act will cost U.S. $6.2 billion Of course... The state-run media is already pushing this latest liberal plan. -- The media wants you to know that illegal aliens have given blood and therefore deserve citizenship. -- The AP reported: [Illegal alien] advocates have staged sit-ins, held rallies and gone on hunger strikes in recent days...

Jim Kouri, CPP -- The Examiner      MS-13 leader sentenced to 35 years' in prison on murder rap    Wilver R. Lopez, also known as "Conde," a 29-year old criminal alien who was a leader in the La Mara Salvatrucha ("MS-13") street gang on Long Island, was sentenced to 35 years' imprisonment for the September 17, 2004, murder of 24-year-old fellow MS-13 member Genaro Venegas in Bethpage, New York...

Doug Bronson -- Canada Free Press -- Toronto      Global warming... no global cooling... no global warming... NO, IT'S COOLING!!    I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm totally confused. Our president speaks of global warming and the need to act, and to act now, before our planet ceases to exist. According to another planet savior, Al Gore, "the Obama administration has taken huge strides towards tackling climate change..." [See "Hope & Change" Watch]

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner      Virginia Court of Appeals upholds illegal alien's conviction    The Virginia Court of Appeals has upheld the convictions against Arnold J. Mancia-Morales, 26, for breaking into an elderly woman's Sterling Park home in 2008 and raping her. During his trial, the woman testified that the illegal alien cut her fingers, repeatedly punched her and sexually assaulted her for "what seemed like forever." [More 'family values' that should have stopped at the Rio Bravo]

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

Marietta (Ga.) Daily Journal      Zebra Construction vacates courthouse job    ...Zebra Construction came under fire early this year for possibly hiring illegal immigrant workers. Members of the watchdog group Jobs for Georgians went before the Cobb Board of Commissioners in February and presented claims that Zebra hired illegal [aliens]...