WFAA -- Dallas    3 invaders arrested in murder case   The same man Richardson police arrested for a violent break-in at a woman's apartment Wednesday night is now accused of murdering a man during a botched burglary a few days earlier. -- Dallas police are looking at the same man in connection with a sexual assault there, as well. -- Richardson investigators say they got the lucky break they were looking for in the murder of a 63 year old male victim...

Contra Costa Times -- Walnut Creek, Calif.    Pelosi asks Brown to sign bill stopping cops from assisting ICE   A state bill that could lead to fewer deportations from California won an influential endorsement Thursday when House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, and most of California's Democratic congressional delegation sent a letter urging Gov. Jerry Brown to sign it. -- Opposed by most state sheriffs and backed by immigrant advocates, AB 1081, known as the Trust Act...

CNN   Libyan official warned 3 days before the Benghazi slaughter   Three days before the deadly assault on the United States consulate in Libya, a local security official says he met with American diplomats in the city and warned them about deteriorating security. -- Jamal Mabrouk, a member of the February 17th Brigade, told CNN that he and a battalion commander had a meeting about the economy and security.

CNBC / Reuters     US credit rating cut by Egan-Jones... again   Ratings firm Egan-Jones cut its credit rating on the U.S. government to "AA-" from "AA," citing its opinion that quantitative easing from the Federal Reserve would hurt the U.S. economy and the country's credit quality. -- The Fed on Thursday said it would pump $40 billion into the U.S. economy each month until it saw a sustained upturn in the weak jobs market...

Orange County Register -- Santa Ana, Calif.     For invaders, ocean is the new desert   ...In recent years, the United States has tightened land routes long used by people trying to get into California and Arizona illegally from Mexico. Patrols increased. Fencing expanded. As a result, fewer have made successful trips by land from Mexico into the U.S. But as land routes have tightened, the unexpected result has been a spike of illegal immigration by sea...

Associated Press     Another corrupt ICE employee busted  Phoenix -- A Douglas woman who works for a federal immigration agency has been accused of using her home to stash illegal [aliens] being smuggled into the U.S. -- A federal criminal complaint obtained by The Arizona Republic shows Stella Peterson was arrested Aug. 31 after three illegal immigrants were found in her Douglas home. She is charged with harboring illegal aliens for profit. Her son was also arrested...

Associated Press     Brazen invaders in California may get driver's licenses  ...California legislators this month approved a bill that would allow an estimated 450,000 eligible [illegal aliens] in the state to use the federal work permits at the Department of Motor Vehicles as proof of lawful presence in the country. The bill is now headed to the governor. -- For young people like Esquivel, foreign-born but steeped in America's language and lifestyles, the single administrative policy at the federal level...

Anthony Martin -- The Examiner     Gun owners brace for possible catastrophic Obama victory   Statistics have shown that ever since the presidential campaign of 2008, gun and ammunition sales have skyrocketed in the United States. The firearms industry has been one of a tiny group of businesses that not only survived the "great recession" but enjoyed a major boost in sales. Most gun store owners report that a major factor in the surge is President Obama's known anti-firearms views...

ENews Park Forest (Ill.)     Discredited radical leftist group goes after FRC... again   The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and a coalition of human rights groups are calling on public officials not to attend the upcoming Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., because its host, the Family Research Council, has spread demonizing lies about the LGBT community, and because one of its co-sponsors, the American Family Association, has linked homosexuality to the Holocaust...

Kimberly Dvorak -- The Examiner  Mexican official pleaded guilty in corruption case   Mexican Attorney General liaison, Jesus Quinonez-Marquez who worked in the Baja California office pleaded guilty to federal racketeering (RICO) conspiracy today and will serve 97 months behind bars. -- United States District Court Judge William Q. Hayes said after completing his custodial sentence, Quinonez-Marquez would be deported to Mexico where he will serve a three-year probation period...

Daily Caller   Audio Included   Steyn on Obama's Las Vegas 'performance': 'Every American should be ashamed of their president' On Hugh Hewitt's radio show Thursday night, National Review columnist Mark Steyn, author of "After America: Get Ready for Armageddon," said President Barack Obama gave an embarrassing performance Wednesday during his campaign swing through Las Vegas, Nev., in the wake of attacks on U.S. diplomatic stations in Libya and Egypt...

Thomas Sowell -- LewRockwell.com    The brass standard   Politics takes a lot of brass. And Bill Clinton is a master politician. His rousing speech at the Democrats' convention told the delegates that Republicans "want to go back to the same old policies that got us into trouble in the first place." -- That is world class brass. Bill Clinton's own administration, more than any other, promoted an unsustainable housing boom, which eventually and inevitably led to a housing bust...

Full Disclosure     California Backfire: Energy subsidies destroy economy   Here is a 9 minute video news blog featuring International Scholar Alex Alexiev who exposes yet another huge environmental energy scandal where a $1.2 Billion U S loan guarantee that was given to the California Valley Solar Ranch in San Luis Obispo County that will provide only 12 permanent low level-jobs in San Luis Obispo County while Pacific Gas & Electric has a long-term contract with CVSR for solar energy...

Peter Brookes -- Family Security Matters     No time for U.S. passivity   While details trickle in on the troubling and tragic events involving our diplomatic missions in Cairo and Benghazi on Tuesday, one thing is certain: America remains in the cross-hairs of violent Islamist extremists. -- So much for the liberalizing effects of the Arab Spring. -- Unfortunately, some of the Islamist forces (including, potentially, terror groups) that were released by the fall of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak...