Tuesday, May 15, 2012

WND.com   sc   'Existential threat' to Western U.S. states     The Obama administration has launched a new battle over water rights that threatens not only the the economies of arid Western states, which largely voted against him in the 2008 election, but their very existence. -- WND reported last month that the federal government was creating obstacles for Tombstone, Ariz., to restore its water supplies following last year's forest fire and monsoon-triggered floods...

Sara A. Carter -- Washington Examiner  Border agents dispute claim that illegal alien tide is slowing     The once red-hot issue of illegal immigration has cooled considerably in recent months, in large part because of studies like one from the Pew Hispanic Center that said the flood of people entering the U.S. from across the Mexican border has slowed, and that the number actually returning to Mexico from the U.S. has increased, reversing a decades-long trend. -- But federal law enforcement agents on the border are skeptical...

WND.com  'Existential threat' to Western U.S. states     The Obama administration has launched a new battle over water rights that threatens not only the the economies of arid Western states, which largely voted against him in the 2008 election, but their very existence. -- WND reported last month that the federal government was creating obstacles for Tombstone, Ariz., to restore its water supplies following last year's forest fire and monsoon-triggered floods...

Reuters  2 Mexican illegals admit to 27,000-round ammo cache in Texas     Two illegal [aliens] pleaded guilty in Texas on Monday to possessing 27,000 rounds of assault rifle ammunition along the U.S.-Mexico border, where cross-border weapons smuggling has increased in recent years, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. -- Police in Laredo, Texas, discovered the ammunition after they stopped a Dodge Ram pickup truck that failed to stop at a stop sign in March...

Judicial Watch  DOJ refuses to ID drug-ring operators as illegals     The Obama Justice Department and the mainstream media have conveniently failed to identify as illegal immigrants more than two dozen people arrested in a major drug-trafficking ring near the capital, but a conservative newspaper stepped up to the plate and revealed this important fact. -- The sophisticated operation for years smuggled cocaine from Honduras to northern Virginia...

Arizona Daily Star -- Tucson   BLM ends plan to ban shooting at monument     After heavy protests from gun-rights' groups, the federal government is dropping a proposed ban on target shooting at the Sonoran Desert National Monument. -- The decision to continue allowing such shooting at the 487,000-acre monument northeast of Gila Bend has spurred hope in a National Rifle Association activist and concern among some environmentalists that the feds could also back off on a similar proposal...

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner  sc   Mexican newspaper office hit with grenade attack     On Friday, the office of El Manana in Nuevo Laredo was hit with grenades and small arms fire, in an attack that lasted a harrowing five minutes, according to El Universal. -- The gunmen left behind a "narco-banner," the text of which has not been released to the public. -- There were no reports of injuries or deaths. -- Nuevo Laredo is currently the scene of an ongoing turf battle between Los Zetas and the Sinaloa and Gulf Cartels...

The Dustin Inman Society -- Marietta, Ga.     D.A. King needs your help     Illegal aliens getting bigger tax "refunds" than you are! - Please sign the online petition to be sent to U.S. Senators Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson to VOTE YES on bill to end illegal alien child IRS scam using child tax credits for children living in other nations! WHAT WOULD THE MEXICAN SENATE DO?...

Orange County Register -- Santa Ana, Calif.   Illegals and cohorts sue U.S. Senate over DREAM Act     ...Anti-illegal immigration activist Barbara Coe, who heads a group in Huntington Beach, said she's not too worried about the suit. -- "I would be very, very surprised if a lawsuit against the Senate is going to be successful because they are pretty much protected," said Coe, who leads California Coalition for Immigration Reform. -- She and other anti-illegal immigration activists have called the Dream Act bill a provisional amnesty, stating that it was flawed and contained major loopholes...

The Economic Collapse Blog   If you live in California things just got a whole lot worse     Why does the state of California seem to be so incredibly hopeless? These days California can't seem to do anything right, and if you live in California things just got a whole lot worse. -- Governor Brown has announced that the state budget deficit for this year is going to be much larger than projected, that more government services are going to be cut and that voters are going to vote on another round of tax increases...

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner   Myth: Illegal aliens contribute to the economy     In February, Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich announced that his county's Department of Public Social Services paid-out more than $646 million in welfare and food stamp benefits to the children of illegal aliens in 2011 alone. -- The press release from Antonovich's office stated: "The $646.2 million consisted of $258 million in CalWORKs (welfare) and $388 million in Food Stamps)..."

Alex Thomas -- The Intel Hub   Feinstein: "Get ready for more invasive TSA searches to save us from Al Qaeda"     Despite widespread negative coverage of the now proven to be manufactured CIA underwear bomb plot, influential Senator Diane Feinstein has warned Americans that more invasive TSA searches are coming in order to keep us safe from al Qaeda. -- Appearing on Fox News, Feinstein literally chided Americans for complaining about invasive sexual molestation type searches in airports throughout the country...

Daily Caller   Homeland Security stalls Florida voter clean-up effort     The Department of Homeland Security is stonewalling Florida's effort to clean up its voting rolls 12 years after George W. Bush won the state's electoral votes by a razor-thin margin. -- The state asked DHS in September to check the citizenship of 180,000 registered people who have Florida driver licenses but may not be citizens, Chris Cate, communications director for the Florida Department of State, told The Daily Caller...

Fox News     Illegal alien security supervisor at Newark airport arrested     A longtime New Jersey airport security supervisor -- arrested on a charge of impersonating someone else to hide his illegal [alien] status -- was carrying the identity of a victim in an unsolved murder case, authorities said. -- Nigerian Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole was known by his co-workers as Jerry Thomas. He was arrested Monday at his home in Elizabeth...

Greta Van Susteren -- On The Record        What's the hold-up in 'Fast and Furious' contempt for Holder?  Video and transcript from the May 14 edition of On The Record with Greta Van Susteren where Greta interviewed U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa concerning the ongoing chicanery in the subversive Obama regime.

Patrick J. Buchanan -- VDare.com   Are the good times really over for good?     When the April figures on unemployment were released May 4, they were more than disappointing. They were deeply disturbing. -- While the unemployment rate had fallen from 8.2 percent to 8.1 percent, 342,000 workers had stopped looking for work. They had just dropped out of the labor market. -- Only 63.6 percent of the U.S. working age population is now in the labor force, the lowest level since December 1981...

New York Times   NYC mayoral candidates oppose S-Comm program     The expected Democratic candidates for mayor may have their differences, but they are unified in their opposition to New York City's participation in Secure Communities, a controversial fingerprinting program meant to identify illegal [aliens]. -- Last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials announced that they planned to extend the program across New York and Massachusetts on Tuesday...

Fox News Latino   Arpaio still popular amid Obama regime scrutiny     Most politicians would buckle and fall amid the heavy scrutiny that has been heaped upon the self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in America. -- But despite a mountain of legal troubles, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio remains popular with voters and has more than $3.4 million in the bank for his November re-election campaign. -- The Justice Department sued the five-term sheriff on Thursday on allegations that...

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