The Hill     Obama regime warns of $1,600 tax hike on 114M middle-class families   The White House has launched a new offensive in its fight with congressional Republicans over taxes, arguing 114 million middle-class families will see their taxes rise without action by Congress. -- A report from President Obama's National Economic Council released Monday contends the families would see their taxes rise by an average of $1,600 if the George W. Bush-era tax cuts expire as scheduled at the end of the year...

Washington Post    Returning illegals boost Mexico's middle class   Santa María del Refugio, Gto., Mex. -- For a generation, the men of this town have headed north to the land of the mighty dollar, breaking U.S. immigration laws to dig swimming pools in Memphis and grind meat in Chicago. -- In the United States, they were illegal aliens. Back home, they are new entrepreneurs using the billions of dollars earned "on the other side" to create a Mexican middle class...

Arizona Republic     4 arrogant invaders arrested at Arpaio protest  As Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was defending himself in a racial-profiling case, dozens of anti-Arpaio protesters took to the streets Tuesday outside a courtroom, resulting in the arrests of four Phoenix residents who refused to leave an intersection. -- Those arrested are [illegal aliens] from Mexico who came to the United States with their families...

Associated Press     Joe Arpaio takes the stand in witch hunt fiasco   Phoenix -- Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says his "dirty" immigrant comments were taken out of context. The Arizona sheriff faces allegations that he encouraged racial profiling of Latinos in his trademark immigration sweeps. In a civil trial on Tuesday Arpaio testified on his own behalf and was asked about a statement in which he called [illegal aliens] "dirty"...

Patrick J. Buchanan -- Financial Times -- London    America needs no more neo-imperial nonsense   Triumphant in the first Gulf war, George H.W. Bush, in October 1991, went before the UN to declare that the US's goal was now to build a "New World Order". -- Rejecting this as Wilsonian utopianism, my 1992 presidential campaign called for an end to US military intervention where no vital interest was imperilled, for federal action to secure our southern border and for a halt to the outsourcing of US manufacturing jobs....

Walter E. Williams -- LewRockwell.com    Stubborn ignorance   Academic intelligentsia, their media, government and corporate enthusiasts worship at the altar of diversity. Despite budget squeezes, universities have created diversity positions, such as director of diversity and inclusion, manager of diversity recruitment, associate dean for diversity, vice president of diversity and perhaps minister of diversity. This is all part of a quest to get college campuses..."

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul -- LewRockwell.com     Security and self-governance   The senseless and horrific killings last week at a movie theater in Colorado reminded Americans that life is fragile and beautiful, and we should not take family, friends, and loved ones for granted. Our prayers go out to the injured victims and the families of those killed. As a nation we should use this terrible event to come together with the resolve to create a society that better values life. -- We should also face the sober reality that government cannot protect us...

Fox News    Obama's DOL opens investigation into Pennsylvania voter ID law   The Department of Justice is investigating whether Pennsylvania's new voter ID law is discriminatory, according to a letter released Monday. -- Specifically, the department is reviewing Pennsylvania Act No. 18 (2012), which establishes the requirement to show proof of identity to be able to vote, according to the document. -- The Justice Department requested data on the state's registered voters...

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner     Illegal alien fiend going to prison   Reno, Nevada -- On Thursday, Washoe Chief District Judge David Hardy sentenced Bulmaro Torres-Alvarado, 25, to between two and six years behind bars for stalking and groping female joggers at Virginia Lake Park. -- Torres-Alvarado was arrested in March when he was spotted once again, at the lake by one of his victims. -- The Mexican national was charged with coercion and open and gross lewdness...

Patrick J. Buchanan -- VDare.com     Obama's America... and ours    "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." Mitt Romney fell on this Obama quote like an NFL lineman on an end zone fumble during the Super Bowl. And understandably so. -- For this was no gaffe, said Romney, this is what Obama believes. This is straight out of the catechism. Obama thinks that had not the government created the preconditions, none of us could succeed...

Daily Caller     'Beleaguered' agency wastes $57 million on failed computer contract   A scandal involving $57 million in government contract dollars is set to rock the Federal Protective Service, a small agency within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. -- Congressional Democrats and Republicans have criticized the service in recent years, and both law enforcement reform organizations and labor unions have excoriated its managers for their handling of a 2008 project plagued by scheduling delays...

End of the American Dream     NYT: Subversive feds to censor all major news agencies   In one of the most shocking articles that the New York Times has ever put out, a New York Times reporter has openly admitted that virtually every major mainstream news organization allows government bureaucrats and campaign officials to censor their stories. For example, almost every major news organization in the country has agreed to submit virtually all quotes from anyone involved in the Obama campaign...

USA Today    Usual suspects bellyache about Alabama's immigration law    When Natividad Gonzalez's 3-year-old daughter fell off the stairs at their home in Implausible, Ala., the panicked mother raced to the local hospital. -- She carried her daughter into the emergency room and scanned the room for help, but came to halt when a doctor approached them. -- 'Instead of asking me what happened to my daughter, he asked me what her (immigration) status is,' said Gonzalez, 27, who emigrated from Mexico illegally...

Tom Tancredo     Rep. King questions Big Sis on DREAM Act policy   Congressman Steve King (R-IA) questioned Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, in the Judiciary Committee on the DREAM Act Policy in accordance with his lawsuit against the President -- July 19, 2012.

Brenda Walker -- VDare.com     Obama Immigration Enforcement: Fewest apprehensions since 1972   As has been known for a while, the alleged tough immigration enforcement as measured by "record" deportations claimed by the current administration was nothing but an accounting trick Obama himself admitted to a Hispanic audience that his high repatriation numbers were "deceptive." -- Now there is evidence that Obama was implementing stealth amnesty from the beginning of his Presidency...

Terence P. Jeffrey -- CNS News     Feds' debt jumps more than $1T for 5th straight fiscal year   -By the end of the third quarter of fiscal 2012, the new debt accumulated in this fiscal year by the federal government had already exceeded $1 trillion, making this fiscal year the fifth straight in which the federal government has increased its debt by more than a trillion dollars, according to official debt numbers published by the U.S. Treasury. -- Prior to fiscal 2008, the federal government had never increased its debt...

American Border Patrol        Photos of the day    American Border Patrol is making good use of the back of its border banner. It has placed the first of a series of graphics on the back of the banner that can only be seen by the U.S. Border Patrol (with rare exceptions). -- Each day agents drive by the banner and can see the message placed there by ABP...

Mychal Massie -- WND.com     Shame on McCain and Boehner!   We don't expect leftist-liberals to be pro-national security, and they seldom if ever prove us wrong – but we do expect it from those claiming to be conservative Republicans, and conversely, they seldom if ever prove us right. -- So-called conservative Republicans are excoriating Michele Bachmann, with John McCain and John Boehner leading the assault. She is under attack for daring to put the security of our country over political correctness...

Fox News Latino / Efe     Reconquista zealots accuse Border Patrol of abuses   Humanitarian organizations in Arizona on Monday accused the Border Patrol of continuing to implement a "culture of cruelty" that includes destroying water stations placed in the desert with the aim of saving the lives of [illegal aliens] crossing the border illegally from Mexico. -- Danielle Alvarado, a volunteer with the group No More Deaths (No Mas Muertes), told Efe that the organization is constantly receiving complaints...

Judicial Watch     Mueller secretly meets with terrorists   Washington -- Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and fights government corruption, announced today that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Obama Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation seeking access to records detailing a February 2012 meeting between FBI Director Robert Mueller and Muslim organizations....

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