Peter J. Thomas -- Highland (Calif.) News    Will "Fast and Furious" show that cover-ups work?   Have you heard about Operation Fast and Furious? -- Most people haven't. And the Obama administration and its media allies would like to keep it that way. -- It's a scandal that has the potential to be Obama's Watergate. -- A program that began as an intelligence operation to track guns to Mexican drug cartels apparently morphed into something else entirely, perhaps an effort to gin up support for...

Tom Tancredo     California to become nation's first illegal alien sanctuary state   State lawmakers have moved to limit the deportation of illegal [aliens] with a measure that has passed the Senate and likely faces approval in the Assembly. Dubbed the Trust Act, Assembly Bill 1081 would limit local law enforcements' compliance with federal policy requiring them to check the immigration status of people taken into custody. AB 1081 is a first-in-the-nation measure...

Rick Oltman -- The Examiner    Gabby Douglas - USA gold and the Egg McMuffin   Little Gabby Douglas did a hellofa job at the Olympics in London. Her Gold Medal winning performance was fantastic. She is young and charming and I hope she finds success in the world beyond the Olympics. -- She was great on the Jay Leno Show. She cheerfully recounted her Olympic victory and how she celebrated, by eating a McDonald's Egg McMuffin...

Sacramento Bee     DNC promotes L.A.'s ethnic-hustling anti-American mayor   When Antonio Villaraigosa said this summer that he would like someday to be governor of California, he acknowledged an ambition that appeared until recently to have slipped beyond his reach. -- The mayor of Los Angeles, beleaguered by the weak economy, an extramarital affair and a series of shortcomings at City Hall, was re-elected by an underwhelming margin in 2009... [Check the comment section in this article]

American Patrol Report       sc   Glenn Spencer -- California activist   Before moving to Arizona in 2002, Glenn Spencer spent ten years trying to save California. Besides his weekly two-hour nationally broadcast radio show. Spencer headed up an activist group that held rallies and demonstrations all across the country. For a summary of this work in 2001 - just prior to his departure for Arizona...

GreenWave.com     Peter Schiff: "Washington is the biggest national security threat"   Despite the seemingly endless string articles citing Iran as an existential threat to both Israel and the United States there is concurrently a growing and more compelling consensus forming: that US national debt and Washington's profligate spending is actually more threatening than an ostensible Iranian nuclear weapons program. As of right now we definitely have more evidence of the former...

New York Times     Congressional fund-raiser charged with immigration fraud   A former rabbinical aide who may hold the fate of a United States representative in his hands has been arrested on immigration-fraud charges, federal authorities said on Friday. -- According to a criminal complaint unsealed on Friday, the aide, Ofer Biton, 39, who used to work for Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto of Manhattan, schemed to commit immigration fraud and other illegal acts with other people...

Dan Joppich -- The American Thinker     You're a racist and you didn't even know it   This week the Progressive Leftist media, in an attempt to further distract voters from Obama's economic and jobs record, has continued to add new layers to the Republican=Racist claim. They've now included the words "golf" and "Chicago" to their examples of GOP racism. -- Michelle Malkin has a great article on NRO - That's Racist: A guide to what's off limits. -- It's a very inclusive list including the following terms...

Michelle Malkin -- VDare.com     The condensed liberal handbook of racial code words   Thumper the Rabbit's parents always taught him, "If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all." If the left's self-appointed Omniscient Diviners of True Meaning have their way, conservatives in the public square won't be left with anything at all to say. Ever. -- It's a treacherous business exercising your freedom of speech in the age of Obama...

Patrick J. Buchanan -- VDare.com     The 'large purpose' of Romney-Ryan   "The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose," said Woodrow Wilson in his first inaugural, 100 years ago. -- The Republican Party of Richard Nixon was called to power in 1968 to bring an honorable end to the war in Vietnam and restore law and order to campuses and cities convulsed by crime, riots and racial violence...

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Washington Post     ICE chief of staff resigns amid allegations of sexual misconduct  A senior Obama administration political appointee and longtime aide to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano resigned Saturday amid allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior lodged by at least three Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees. -- Suzanne Barr, chief of staff to ICE Director John Morton, said in her resignation letter that the allegations against her are "unfounded."

Californians for Population Stabilization      Stop invader driver's licenses in California   Obama served up some bad new for Americans with his administrative Dream Act amnesty. Now Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, wants to make matters worse by ensuring that amnesty recipients receive California drivers' licenses. -- A last minute amendment to AB 2189 changes the bill to make aliens eligible for California driver's licenses...

Michael Cutler -- CAPS.org     Mexican drug cartels fight turf battles in Chicago   A disturbing news report aired on CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley on August 23, 2012 began: (CBS News) CHICAGO – Gun violence is out of control in Chicago. Just last night, there were eight shootings, two of them deadly. -- That pushes the total so far in 2012 to 351 shooting deaths -- up 30 percent from last year. Drug gangs are a big reason...