Dave Gibson -- The Examiner     sc Why did Obama close the National Drug Intelligence Center?   On June 15, 2011, the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) officially closed it's facility in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, also on that date, their official website began offering the following message: "This website is no longer maintained and may contain dated information." -- In 1990, President George H.W. Bush announced plans to create the NDIC in order to 'consolidate and coordinate all relevant drug intelligence information...

WBIR-TV -- Knoxville, Tenn.    Immigration fraud ring hits Tennessee   Federal immigration officials are investigating a widespread illegal operation involving the mailing of genuine Puerto Rican birth certificates and other forms of identification to [illegal aliens] living in Tennessee and throughout the U.S. -- A federal magistrate judge in Nashville ruled in a preliminary hearing Thursday that there was probable cause for a grand jury to pursue an indictment against Andy Javier Torrez-Martinez, also known as Ezekial Rico-Mendez, an illegal [alien] living in Smyrna.

KGTV-- San Diego    Border Patrol agent shoots and kills female attacker   A woman rammed a plainclothes U.S. Border Patrol agent with a car on a residential South Bay road on Friday, hurling him onto the hood of the vehicle and prompting him to fatally shoot her through the windshield in self-defense, authorities reported. -- The lawman was in southwestern Chula Vista with other undercover personnel to serve a felony arrest warrant when the dark-green Honda Accord struck him...

New York Times     U.S. move to give Egypt $450 million in aid meets resistance   The Obama administration notified Congress on Friday that it would provide Egypt's new government an emergency cash infusion of $450 million, but the aid immediately encountered resistance from a prominent lawmaker wary of foreign aid and Egypt's new course under the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood. -- The aid is part of the $1 billion in assistance that the Obama administration has pledged to Egypt...

Chuck Baldwin -- VDare.com     Big government Romney as The "conservative" candidate? This is insanity!   I believe Albert Einstein is credited with saying, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Using that definition, it would appear that many of our so-called "conservative" friends are insane. Every four years, they accept a phony conservative Presidential candidate and expect somehow that they are going to achieve a different result...

Bloomberg     Obama cabinet flunks disclosure test with 19 in 20 ignoring law   On his first full day in office, President Barack Obama ordered federal officials to "usher in a new era of open government" and "act promptly" to make information public. -- As Obama nears the end of his term, his administration hasn’t met those goals, failing to follow the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act, according to an analysis of open-government requests filed by Bloomberg News.