Kimberly Dvorak -- The Examiner    sc    Subversive feds admit Border Patrol agents outgunned along border   As reported in [a column published in] column in March 2011 and by other fellow Examiners, confidential sources indicated U.S. Border Patrol's agents' primary weapons while on duty were non-lethal bean bags when they operated in notorious trafficking corridors along the U.S./Mexican border. Seventeen months later, that report has been confirmed by DOJ's unsealed indictment...

Doug Powers -- MichelleMalkin.com     Obama wants to improve the economy... by raising taxes?   Hot on the heels of a dismal jobs report and with manufacturing falling for the first time in almost three years, it's clearly time to start talking about raising taxes on some people. -- From CNN: President Barack Obama revitalized his push for holding down middle class tax rates Monday, calling on Congress to pass a one-year extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for people earning less than $250,000 a year...

John Rocker -- WND.com     Speak English   Over the last several years, immigration, whether it be legal or illegal, has become an enormous issue of national debate in our country. Undoubtedly, it will continue to be addressed by liberals and conservatives alike, well into our future. Obviously, immigration is not a new concept to America. We all at some point in our lineage have immigrants that make up our ancestry and were responsible for giving us the opportunity...

Stephen Dinan -- Washington Times     Poll: Voters want Arizona-style immigration laws for their states   After the Supreme Court upheld Arizona's law allowing police to check immigration status of those they stop in the course of their duties, an overwhelming majority of Americans say they want to see their own states enact the same kinds of laws. -- The latest The Washington Times/JZ Analytics survey, released Monday night, found about two-thirds of all likely voters would like to see their own police be able to check status...

Bloomberg     Low-paid grads on tight budgets switching to discounters   Michael Baum took every substitute teaching job he found and has sent out hundreds of resumes since graduating from college two years ago. He never got a full-time offer and works as a waiter in a pizza parlor in Chicago, earning $650 on a busy week. -- "It's discouraging," said Baum, 25, who is certified to teach in Texas and North Carolina as well as his native Michigan...

We Get E-Mail     Don't re-elect globalist Obama if you enjoy your freedoms   I was sitting at my keyboard halfway through my writing a letter to you about how Barack Obama was fulfilling his pledge to "Transform America" by "Changing the fundamentals of America", so that our government would become the plantation, he the owner, and we the slaves, when this article by Steve McCann appeared in my inbox. After checking it for accuracy, and finding it so, I put my writing on hold...

Daily Caller     Report: 83 percent of doctors have considered quitting over Obamacare  Eighty-three percent of American physicians have considered leaving their practices over President Barack Obama's health care reform law, according to a survey released by the Doctor Patient Medical Association. -- The DPMA, a non-partisan association of doctors and patients, surveyed a random selection of 699 doctors nationwide. The survey found that the majority have thought about bailing out of their careers...

Daily Caller    Retaliation against Fast and Furious whistle-blowers investigated  Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz has launched an investigation into the apparent retaliation from inside the DOJ and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives against whistle-blowers who brought information about Operation Fast and Furious to congressional investigators. -- In a July 5 letter, Horowitz told Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley...

KNTV -- San Jose     2nd man arrested in connection with Bologna killings   A second man has been arrested for the killing of a father and his two sons in San Francisco's Excelsior District in 2008. -- Wilfredo "Flaco" Reyes, 31, was arrested this morning in North Carolina in connection with the fatal shooting of Anthony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16, on June 22, 2008, according to sheriff's officials in Rowan County, N.C...

American Center for Law and Justice      sc       Senior DOJ officials knew of, and facilitated, Fast and Furious   Overshadowed the past two weeks by the Supreme Court's ObamaCareTax decision and the Fourth of July holiday was an important revelation that, since at least March 2010, senior Department of Justice officials knew about the gun-walking tactics used in Operation Fast and Furious and did nothing to stop it. -- As a result of Operation Fast and Furious, hundreds of people have been killed...

Deroy Murdock -- Cherokee Tribune -- Canton, Ga.   Remembering the Mexican victims of Fast and Furious'   The American people finally have heard of Brian Terry. He is the best-known victim of "Fast and Furious," the Obama administration's de facto conventional-weapons proliferation program. Between November 2009 and January 2011, Team Obama arranged for licensed firearms dealers to sell guns to straw buyers, who transferred them to known violent criminals in Mexico...

Kevin Foley -- Marietta (Ga.) Daily Journal    Crackpot Foley continues whining campaign against D.A. King   D.A. King who promised to ignore me, seems instead to have become fixated on yours truly. Should I be honored, threatened or just amused? I do appreciate the extra readers! -- Let's take it from the top. Some weeks ago, I invited Mr. King to elevate the immigration debate and refrain from using a slur many Hispanic and Latinos find offensive to describe [illegal aliens]...

Washington Examiner     Agent Terry's family not satisfied with Holder announcing murder charges   The family of slain U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry hailed the murder charges in the case announced by the Justice Department today, but faulted Attorney General Eric Holder for "stalling]" a congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious. -- "Today's developments certainly mean that the criminal prosecution of Brian Terry's killers is moving forward," said Patrick McGroger, the Terry family attorney.

NewsMax.com     Issa: Holder Fast and Furious indictments politically motivated   The Department of Justice on Monday unsealed an indictment charging five people in connection with Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry's death, and offering for more than $1 million in rewards to capture the suspects that remain at large. -- Authorities made the rare disclosure Monday, linked to the botched gun-smuggling investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious, in the wake of pressure from U.S. House Republicans...

WND.com     Obama invites Egypt's Islamist leader to U.S.   President Barack Obama has invited Egypt's newly elected Islamist president, Mohamed Mursi, to visit the United States in September, an Egyptian official said on Sunday, reflecting the new ties Washington is cultivating with the region's Islamists. -- Washington, long wary of Islamists and an ally of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, shifted policy last year to open formal contacts with the Muslim Brotherhood...

Breitbart.tv / Fox News     DOJ reveals Brian Terry was shooting bean bags at men who killed him   The Department of Justice unsealed documents today showing that Brian Terry was shooting bean bags at men who returned fire with assault rifles.

Allan Wall -- VDare.com     Get the message, people! Demography is destiny!   I think we would all agree that the U.S. faces many problems today. -- Our national debt is enormous, about the size of our Gross National Product. We have a high unemployment rate and growing gap between rich and poor. -- We have many social problems, including crime and family disintegration. We have a high abortion rate, and a movement afoot to completely redefine the institution of marriage...

Katie Pavlich -- Townhall.com     Majority of Americans approve of Holder contempt vote   According to a new CNN/ORC poll, the majority of Americans believe the vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress after his refusal to turn over subpoenaed Operation Fast and Furious documents was justified and the right decision while a vast majority believe President Obama should come clean about the program...

Edward Cline -- Family Security Matters     A clash of supremacies over Obamacare   Before Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, wrote the majority opinion upholding the alleged constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (on one hand, denying its constitutionality under the Commerce Clause, but, on the other, sanctioning the individual mandate as a tax Congress has the power to impose), otherwise known as Obamacare (ADA), several states had announced...

NAFBPO   Disturbing photos       Latest NAFBPO update from south of the border    Hinsdale, Ill. -- This city less than an hour from Chicago is so white it could be Norway or Sweden. it is home to politicians, major league baseball players and television actors attracted by the tranquility of a village as American as apple pie. Almost as if to reaffirm, dozens of stars and stripes flags fly continuously from the porches of his many mansions. The Ferraris , BMWs, Hummers and Jaguars passing at all hours through the streets confirms their privileged status...