Bloomberg     U.S. incomes fell more in recovery, Sentier says   American incomes declined more in the three-year expansion that started in June 2009 than during the longest recession since the Great Depression, according an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by Sentier Research LLC. -- Median household income fell 4.8 percent on an inflation- adjusted basis since the recession ended in June 2009, more than the 2.6 percent drop during the 18-month contraction...

Daily Caller     Obama crony and union thug bemoans suit against Big Sis   AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka slammed the lawsuit filed by 10 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents against the Obama administration over its deferred deportation plan, Thursday. -- Led by Chris Crane, president of the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council --- the union representing over 7,000 ICE agents and employees --- the agents filed their challenge to the Obama policy in federal court...

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner     The 'war on women' is being waged by illegal aliens   As we are in the midst of what promises to be the nastiest election of our lifetime, Democrats are accusing Republicans of "waging a war on women." -- While one would be hard-pressed to find a case in which any Republican candidate has actually attacked a woman, it is rather easy to find a seemingly endless supply of cases in which illegal aliens have done just that. -- What follows are two recent ones...

John Hayward -- Human Events     Obama regime celebrates 17 percent youth unemployment   Unemployment for Americans age 16-24 stands at a horrifying 17.1 percent, and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis [reconquista cretin shown at left] is pretty darnn happy about it. "As young Americans all across the country prepare to head into a new school year, I’m excited to say that many more will take with them lessons learned through summer jobs," she declared in a press release, as reported by CNS News...

Michelle Malkin - VDare.com    "Clean energy" is Obama-speak for crony government   Breaking news: The Fishwrap of Record has finally discovered that the Obama administration gives its Chicago corporate pals special access to power and regulatory favoritism. On Thursday, The Not-So-New York Times published an A1 story titled "Ties to Obama Aided in Access for Big Utility." -- Everyone, put on your shocked faces!

KRGV-TV -- Weslaco, Texas        No worries... the border has never been more secure...   Hidalgo County, Texas -- A brazen, daytime kidnapping north of Penitas has local residents nervous about an increase in crime in the region. -- Images from a surveillance camera depict the moment when Juan Cantu Jr., 22, was taken at gunpoint from JR Tire Shop along Tom Gill Road. -- "I don't know that we can live here safely in Penitas, because that situation is awful," Manuel Campos said of the incident...

The Dustin Inman Society -- Marietta, Ga.     Statement on the invader bus visit to Atlanta   Today, the proverbial "busload of illegal aliens" has arrived in Atlanta while these criminals fearlessly tour a large part of the U.S. to demonstrate their undocumented, open defiance of American immigration laws, American borders and the American way of life. It is a crime to enter the U.S. without proper inspection and without proper documents. Just as it is a federal violation for an alien to be present in the USA...

Associated Press     2 U.S. gov't employees said hurt in Mexico shooting   Two U.S. government employees were shot and wounded in an attack on their vehicle south of Mexico City on Friday, a law enforcement official said. -- The two were riding in an armored U.S. Embassy sport utility vehicle when they came under fire on a highway leading to the city of Cuernavaca. -- he official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said both were hospitalized, one with a wound to the leg and the other hit in the stomach...

The Blaze     sc  The TSA has some very personal questions about your travel    Muskegon Chronicle writer Steve Gunn was returning home after a few days at a music festival in Colorado. Steve's travel agent had him flying from Denver to Detroit and then connecting to a flight from Detroit to Grand Rapids. This is a common pattern in air travel. Customers fly from one big city to another and then catch a short flight to their regional airport. It happens hundreds of times each day in Detroit alone...

U.S. House Judiciary Committee    Smith: Regime cooks the books to achieve deportation numbers   The House Judiciary Committee has obtained internal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) documents, which show that the Obama administration is cooking the books to achieve their so-called 'record' deportation numbers for illegal immigrants and that removals are actually significantly down – not up – from 2009. -- Beginning in 2011, the Committee has learned that Obama administration officials...

Daily Caller     Eric Holder: Justice Dept., gay advocates united in 'common cause'    Attorney General Eric Holder drew raucous applause when he affirmed that the Department of Justice and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) lawyers and activists share a "common cause." -- In speaking to a gathering of LGBT lawyers in the ballroom of a Washington hotel on Thursday evening, Holder praised "the strength of your passion" in the fight for equality...

KRGV-TV -- Weslaco, Texas        Expert: Cartel violence a threat to south Texas   A Mexican national said he wants the world to know the atrocities perpetrated by cartels in Mexico could bleed onto U.S. soil. -- "The problem in Mexico is the war between cartels, more than the action of the Mexican government, or the government forces, against the criminals," he said. He asked us not to reveal his identity. -- The man said he lives in danger. He sides with the government, and cartels are extremely dangerous.

Mac Slavo -- SHTFPlan.com     Case Dismissed: Feds had no grounds to indefinitely detain Marine vet  After the FBI, Secret Service and local police swarmed Brandon Raub's home because of Facebook posts that were deemed by officials as "terrorist threats" and investigated under the auspices of domestic terrorism, the outcry from proponents of free speech were loud and undeniable. -- As many warned when the National Defense Authorization Act was approved by both Houses of Congress... [Related]

Latin American Herald Tribune -- Caracas, Venezuela     Usual suspects and traitors decry GOP position on invaders   Chicago -- Rep. Luis Gutierrez, United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta and other activists on Thursday criticized the "extremist positions" of the Romney-Ryan Republican presidential ticket against immigration reform and the DREAM Act, which would grant permanent residence to [illegal aliens]. -- The [illegal alien.... criminal] should view "with great sadness, repudiation and even fear"...

Associated Press     College in Massachusetts offers scholarship for invaders   A small liberal arts college in western Massachusetts is offering a new scholarship to illegal [aliens]. -- Hampshire College officials say the endowment and scholarship will finance one student's education every four years. The student will get at least $25,000 in scholarship annually, beginning this fall. -- College spokeswoman Elaine Thomas on Thursday declined to identify this year's recipient... [Related]

Suisun City (Calif.) Patch    CSU to freeze enrollments for state residents   A plan by the California State University system to freeze spring enrollment for most state residents, but not for out-of-state and international students, has raised concerns that the policy is unfair. -- "I am very concerned, and worry at the precedent a policy sets for allowing nonresident admission at the exclusion of California resident admission," Cal State East Bay biology professor Maria Nieto said on Friday...

Associated Press     Some illegals can get Georgia driver's licenses   Illegal [aliens] who are granted permission to stay in the country under an Obama administration policy that was announced in June will be eligible for drivers' licenses in Georgia, the state's attorney general wrote in a letter to the governor. -- "While I do not agree with the actions of the President in issuing the directive, it has been implemented by the Department of Homeland Security, USCIS..."

King World News    John Mauldin: This is going to shock the world   Today John Mauldin stunned King World News when he went into detail about events that will, "...be a shock to the world." Mauldin, President of Millennium Wave Securities, also warned, "Nobody sees that coming." Here is what Mauldin had to say: "The problem is the deficit. We hit the wall, I don't think most people really understand how catastrophic it would be to hit that wall..."