Houston Chronicle -- October 25, 2009      Stimulus dollars out there, somewhere (More flimflam out of Obama and cronies)   ...A Houston Chronicle review of the federal government's distribution of $787 billion in economic stimulus money approved by Congress found that the highly touted Web site designed to let the public know how much of their tax money is going to their home congressional districts is misleading and statistically unreliable...

American Patrol Report Feature -- October 25, 2009    The Dark Side of Mexico -- and America: Aztec Culture Surfaces in Mexico -- Americans Betrayed     ...Critics say our CIA and State Department are well aware of the dark side of Mexico and regularly brief U.S. presidents on the reality south of the border. Despite this, President Bush and now President Obama have been secretly working to integrate the U.S. and Mexico into a common political and economic unit.

Dr. Jerome R. Corsi -- WorldNetDaily.com -- October 24, 2009      Insider reveals secrets of North America plot    The integration of the United States with Canada and Mexico, long deemed by many as little more than a fanciful "conspiracy theory," was actually an idea promoted by the Council on Foreign Relations and sold to President Bush as a means of increasing commerce and business interests throughout North America...

Politico -- October 24, 2009      Bernanke to make "trillion dollar decision," not Obama    The biggest decision of the economic recovery will be made in the next six months, and Barack Obama will have almost nothing to do with it. -- Forget the debate over TARP, and never mind the questions about a second stimulus. This decision is about when to pull out $1 trillion...

Devvy Kidd -- NewsWithViews.com -- October 24, 2009      Another citizenship case dismissed -- What next?    The only purpose of this column is to bring forth some of the complicated legal issues swirling around the citizenship cases so hopefully, all of us laymen and women can have a better understanding. Not to play favorites of one attorney over another because I respect Orly, Leo and Mario and am trying to do my part in helping when I can...

Denver Post  -- October 24, 2009     Obama backs Villafuerte, despite Colo. GOP concerns    President Barack Obama on Friday stood behind Stephanie Villafuerte, his nominee for Colorado U.S. attorney, while state Republicans called for her to either withdraw her nomination or answer questions about whether she may have acted inappropriately during the 2006 gubernatorial campaign.

Sultan Knish -- Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Ga. -- October 24, 2009      All trains run through Obama    This week Obama began throwing around his weight around more than usual. In the USSR all the trains ran through Moscow in order to centralize control of the country. In the US today, Obama is pushing to make sure that all the trains run through him...

Gary Bauer -- Human Events -- October 23, 2009     The slippery slope to a state-run media    I have always felt sorry for people who find themselves in the darkness of authoritarian societies where basic freedoms are denied. Imagine not being able to peaceably assemble, worship your God or speak your mind. Imagine if every news outlet merely parroted the line of the government rather than exposing corruption and oppression... [See Big Brother Watch]

London Telegraph -- October 23, 2009      Barack Obama sees worst poll rating drop in 50 years    Gallup recorded an average daily approval rating of 53 per cent for Mr Obama for the third quarter of the year, a sharp drop from the 62 per cent he recorded from April. -- His current approval rating – hovering just above the level that would make re-election an uphill struggle – is close to the bottom for newly-elected president...

Media Research Center -- October 23, 2009      Bozell applauds networks for standing by Fox against Obama and goons    Alexandria, Va. -- Media Research Center President Brent Bozell today applauded ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN for uniting with competitor news network Fox News in response to the Obama White House excluding Fox from an interview with "pay czar" Kenneth Feinberg...

CNS News -- October 23, 2009      White House to keep Obama's 'czars' from testifying before Congress    The White House is not going to allow the president's newly created "czars" to testify before Congress. -- White House Counsel Greg Craig has indicated that he will refuse to allow any of the 18 new "czar" positions created by President Obama to testify before Congress, according to Sen. Susan Collins...

Pajamas Media -- October 23, 2009      Obama and the Constitution; He has his doubts    I missed this first time around. Brian Lancaster at Jumping in Pools reported on Obama's college thesis, written when he was at Columbia. The paper was called "Aristocracy Reborn," and in the first ten pages (which were all that reporter Joe Klein–who wrote about it for Time–was permitted to see), the young Obama wrote...

Bob Chapman -- The International Forecaster -- October 23, 2009      Federal Reserve runs the United States    ...The charade in NYC and Washington goes on. There is no question that our government is controlled by the unelected that lurks behind the scenes or are appointed as bureaucrats to run our country. It was never more evident than when administrations changed last January...

Joe Weisenthal -- Business Insider -- October 23, 2009      Democrats dismayed by White House's idiotic war on Fox News    Will someone please stand up and defend The White House's thinking in going after Fox News. We've talked to several people about this, most of whom are Obama supporters, and not one can muster even a vague defense of his office's decision to shun and ridicule Fox News. It's just a terrible, terrible decision...

Denver Post -- October 23, 2009      Questions raised by Obama nominee's FBI chat    President Barack Obama's nominee as Colorado's next U.S. attorney told the FBI two years ago that she never spoke to anyone in the Denver District Attorney's Office about an illegal [alien] who became a controversial figure in the 2006 gubernatorial race...

Yahoo! News Blog -- October 22, 2009      Secret Service strained to protect Obama    An internal congressional report questioning the ability of the Secret Service to continue fulfilling its duties was leaked to the Boston Globe. The report says the Secret Service is strained by a drastic increase in threats to President Obama, coupled with deep budget cuts. Some are speculating that the agency may need...

Bloomberg -- October 22, 2009      Here's Your "Change": Jobless claims rise more than expected   More Americans than forecast filed claims for unemployment benefits last week, a reminder that the labor market will be slow to recover. -- Initial jobless applications rose by 11,000 to 531,000 in the week ended Oct. 17, from a revised 520,000 the prior week that were the fewest in nine months...

Ann Coulter -- Human Events -- October 21, 2009     The grating communicator    The Obama administration has attacked Fox News in order to prevent government corruption stories broken on Fox from bleeding into the other media, which are all-consumed with daily updates on Levi Johnston's Playgirl spread and Carrie Prejean's breast implants...

Ways & Means Republicans -- October 21, 2009      Here's Your "Change": 49 out of 50 states have lost jobs since "stimulus" scam    The table below compares the White House's February 2009 projection of the number of jobs that would be created by the 2009 stimulus law (through the end of 2010) with the actual change in state payroll employment through September 2009 (the latest figures available)...

Hot Air -- October 21, 2009      Revealed: Who else was at that secret Obama briefing with Olby and Maddow?    Tantalizing but frustrating, as it's only a partial list; without the full attendance sheet, it's impossible to say definitively that the most transparent administration evah was playing only to its cheerleaders. Even so, while Gloria Borger isn't particularly ideological as far as I know, there's little question where Robinson, Dowd, and especially Ifill stand...

Roger Pilon -- Cato Institute -- October 21, 2009      Obama's fall offensive    ...Obama is losing it. His increasing moves to marginalize his critics, richly detailed this morning at Politico, mark him as an amateur. America is not Chicago. Nor are those who oppose his agenda synonymous with the Republican Party. They're far more numerous than that, and their numbers are growing....

Michael Barone -- The Examiner -- October 21, 2009      Obama hits opponents with Chicago brass knuckles    "His father was a great friend of my father." The reference to William Ayers' father was how Mayor Richard J. Daley began his defense of Barack Obama for his association with the unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist. Daley's father of course was Richard M. Daley, mayor of Chicago...

Terence P. Jeffrey -- Human Events -- October 21, 2009      Can Obama and Congress order you to buy broccoli?    Can President Barack Obama and Congress enact legislation that orders Americans to buy broccoli? If so, where did they get that authority? What provision in the Constitution empowers the federal government to order an individual to buy a product he does not want?

Washington Times -- October 21, 2009      Here's Your "Change": Watchdog says TARP repayment 'unlikely'    The auto industry, AIG and other struggling recipients of the government's $700 billion Wall Street bailout will make it "extremely unlikely" that taxpayers will receive a full return on their investments, says a new report by the Treasury Department's independent watchdog...

Bruce Drake -- Politics Daily -- October 21, 2009      Four in 10 Americans fear Obama will ban gun sales    Sales of guns and ammunition soared when Barack Obama became president because of fears that he and the Democratic-controlled Congress would pass anti-gun legislation, and that concern still shows up in a Gallup poll conducted Oct. 1-4... [See Gun Grabber Watch]

Michelle Malkin -- October 21, 2009      Americrooks: The volunteerism scandal Hollywood won't be broadcasting    Hollywood hearts Obama. Obama hearts government-directed national service. That is why you won't be able to change the TV channel all week without getting lectured about the need to get off the couch and Do Something. (After your favorite shows are over, of course.) Creeped out? You should be....

Federation for American Immigration Reform -- October 20, 2009      FAIR legislative update    As President Obama teamed up last week with former President George H.W. Bush to encourage Americans to perform more community service, FAIR's staff has discovered that a search for "immigration" volunteer opportunities on the administration's Serve.gov website – which describes itself as "your online resource for not only finding volunteer opportunities in your community, but also creating your own" – has a distinct bias in favor of organizations that support amnesty.

Galen Institute -- October 19, 2009 -- October 19, 2009       Poll shows Americans overwhelmingly opposed to Obama health care power-grab    Alexandria, Va. -- The Galen Institute today released new survey results showing overwhelming opposition to the individual mandate and other key components of health reform legislation Congress is considering. -- "These findings illustrate strong opposition to fundamental aspects of the bills moving through Congress," said Galen Institute President Grace-Marie Turner...

Brian Darling -- Human Events -- October 19, 2009      Congress and Obama show contempt for Americans    Congress is showing contempt for the American people by excluding them from the crafting of Obamacare. The president promised in his campaign he'd deliver transparency, saying, "I'm going to have all the negotiations around a big table" with everybody involved...

Patrick J. Michaels -- Townhall.com -- October 19, 2009      Deafening silence on real climate change    Where's the headline? Where's the television camera? Anyone out there? -- It's right there in the September 24 issue of the refereed journal Geophysical Research Letters. The senior author is Marc Tedesco of City College of New York, not exactly off the mainstream media's beaten path. The work was sponsored by NASA...

Denver Post -- October 19, 2009      Colorado insurers say health care bill would lead to "system collapse"    Colorado insurance executives, cautious supporters of health care reform throughout the past year, are now warning that current proposals could cause a "system collapse." -- At issue are what insurance companies consider absurdly low penalties for people who choose not to buy health insurance...

Michelle Malkin -- October 19, 2009     Obama's Fox News policy: Isolation over engagement    President Obama's New Era of Engagement does not include Fox News: Senior Obama administration officials took to the airwaves Sunday to accuse Fox News of pushing a particular point of view, one week after the administration fired its initial salvo to try to isolate the news network by accusing it of being a GOP mouthpiece...

Dick Morris and Eileen McGann -- Human Events -- October 19, 2009      Here's Your "Change": How much Obamacare costs the average family    Whether or not you now have health insurance, Obama's health care bill will cost you dearly. -- If you don’t have insurance, you will be required to buy it. The legislation specifies how much you will have to pay for the coverage before any subsidy kicks in...

WorldNetDaily.com -- October 19, 2009      White House boasts: We 'control' news media    President Obama's presidential campaign focused on "making" the news media cover certain issues while rarely communicating anything to the press unless it was "controlled," White House Communications Director Anita Dunn disclosed to the Dominican government at a videotaped conference...

CNN -- October 19, 2009      Gregg: U.S. could be on path to a 'banana republic' situation    A leading fiscal mind on Capitol Hill and a one-time Obama Cabinet pick sounded the alarm Sunday over the projected long-term financial challenges the country faces. -- "This deficit is driven by us," New Hampshire Republican Sen. Judd Gregg candidly said Sunday on CNN's State of the Union...

Darren Weeks -- NewsWithViews.com -- October 19, 2009      Unemployment: Now, that's sustainable    Every time the media reports the unemployment numbers, it reminds me of George Orwell's book, 1984. In the legendary book, a governmental organization referred to as the "Ministry of Truth" would report through the telescreens that the price of chocolate was going down...

Who's Your Nanny? -- October 19, 2009      The Obama administration continues to strangle the US economy    It is not enough for the Federal Reserve Bank to destroy the currency unabated or the Obama Administration to continue two wars or propose an $863 billion ($863,000,000,000) health care package while increasing the deficit to $1.42 trillion ($1,420,000,000,000). This will not destroy the US economy quickly enough...

Tom Tancredo -- WorldNetDaily.com -- October 18, 2009      Obama's submission to radical Islam    In a speech in Egypt this June, President Obama proclaimed, "I have come here to seek a new beginning between the U.S. and Muslims around the world, one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect." Obama's "new beginning" is a euphemism for the first steps in the Islamification of America...

Rev. Michael Bresciani -- Canada Free Press -- Toronto -- October 18, 2009     Obama versus the law of sooner or later    Everyone knows that in America we cannot honestly convict a person for a crime as long as there is a 'reasonable doubt' that they are innocent. It is a facet of our system of jurisprudence that is unique to America and was born out of repulsion for past tyrannies...

Lori Stacey -- The Examiner -- October 17, 2009      Global government is in the global climate treaty     Perhaps only approximately 10 million Americans are fully aware of the deliberately orchestrated and incremental move toward creating a World Government that has been progressing over the last several decades. -- It has not mattered if we had a Republican or a Democrat in the White House... [See NWO Treason Watch]

Atlas Shrugs -- Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Ga. -- October 17, 2009      Obama preparing to sell out America's sovereignty!    On October 14, Lord Christopher Monckton, a noted climate change skeptic, gave a presentation at Bethel University in St. Paul, MN. In this 4 minute excerpt from his speech, he issues a dire warning to all Americans regarding the United Nations Climate Change Treaty... [Related item] [See NWO Watch]

Connie Hair -- Human Events -- October 16, 2009      Next step as Obamacare goes nuclear    The House of Representatives yesterday set into motion the nuclear option for H.R. 3200 that would make it possible for the Senate to pass government-run health care with only 51 votes. -- House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) held the mandatory hearing yesterday...

Oliver North -- Human Events -- October 16, 2009       Protecting Obama's image    The U.S. dollar isn't the only currency headed to new lows. After months of drifting along in "the winds of change," America's diplomatic credibility is sinking alongside the greenback. The Obama White House and the so-called mainstream media -- preoccupied with hoopla over "health care reform," meaningless drivel about the 2016 Olympics and the vacuous award of a Nobel Peace Prize...

Paul Craig Roberts -- VDare.com -- October 16, 2009      The rich have stolen the economy    Bloomberg reports that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's closest aides earned millions of dollars a year working for Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and other Wall Street firms. Bloomberg reports that none of these aides faced Senate confirmation. Yet, they are overseeing the handout of hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer funds to their former employers....

Judicial Watch -- October 16, 2009      The 'Transparency' Lie: Obama administration denies Judicial Watch FOIA request    Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that the U.S. Secret Service (under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security) has denied Judicial Watch's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for access to Obama White House visitor logs from January 20, 2009 to present...

Stein Report  -- October 16, 2009     Obama picks U.S. Attorney who worked for sanctuary city    President Obama has picked Stephanie Villafuerte as the next U.S. Attorney for Colorado. But as Michelle Malkin notes, Villafuerte worked for Bill Ritter, the district attorney for Denver who gave sweetheart plea agreements to illegal aliens so they could remain in the U.S. to commit more crimes...

Michelle Malkin -- October 16, 2009      Nobel Peace Prize winner now increases tension in Louisiana    It's been quite a week on the homefront for the world's noblest Nobel Peace laureate. -- The world may have "less tension" as a result of Obama's accomplishments -- er, rather, his aspirations. But here in the good old USA, tensions are rising...

Gun Owners of America -- Springfield, Va. -- October 16, 2009      Anti-gun ObamaCare now moves to the Senate floor     Well, there's good news and bad news. -- If you've been listening to the media, you know the bad news. Senators voted the Baucus version of the ObamaCare bill out the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday, and the legislation now moves to the Senate floor...

A.W.R. Hawkins -- Human Events -- October 16, 2009      Fox News locked out by petty Obama administration    On September 20, 2009, Obama appeared on five Sunday morning news shows in one day -- Fox News Sunday was not included. Two weeks later, following what the New York Times referred to as a "Fox Summit" between Roger Ailes, chairman of Fox News, and David Axelrod, senior adviser to President Obama, Fox News was told they wouldn't get to conduct any Obama interviews...

Michelle Malkin -- October 16, 2009      An ACORN-friendly, big labor-backing, tax-and-spend radical in GOP clothing    Yes, it's time for the upside-down elephant. The Stupid Party is at it again. The subject of today's column: An abomination in the NY23 special congressional race to replace former GOP Rep. John McHugh, who accepted President Obama's Army Secretary position. Way to go, Beltway GOP establishment...

Michelle Malkin -- October 15, 2009      Anita Dunn: A corruptocrat flack and a Mao cheerleader    Earlier this week, I spotlighted White House interim communications director and chief Fox-basher Anita Dunn's career-long commitment to flacking for one of the Beltway's most entrenched and crooked creatures, Tom Daschle. -- I also noted that Dunn is married to Obama thug lawyer Robert Bauer, who tried valiantly to get the DOJ to prosecute conservative critics...

Connie Hair -- Human Events -- October 15, 2009      Dems go nuclear on Obamacare     House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) held a hearing this morning to certify that H.R. 3200 -- the main House Obamacare bill which was the subject of all the town hall rage in August -- has met all requirements to pass as a "budget reconciliation" measure...

Wall Street Journal -- October 15, 2009      Obama spending program creates 30k jobs at a cost of $526,610 per job    About 30,000 jobs have been directly created or saved by contractors who received money from the federal stimulus program, according to new reports today. -- The reports cover only a small portion of the $787 billion package: spending on infrastructure and social programs being carried out by contractors...

New York Post -- October 15, 2009      Dollar loses reserve status to yen & euro    ...Currently, dollars account for about 62 percent of the currency reserve at central banks -- the lowest on record, said the International Monetary Fund. -- Bernanke could go down in economic history as the man who killed the greenback on the operating table...

Wall Street Journal -- October 15, 2009      ACORN's ally at the National Labor Relations Board    One of Big Labor's priorities in Washington is to place allies in key government jobs where they can overturn existing labor policy without battles in Congress. This is a very good reason for the Senate to hold a hearing on the nomination of Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). -- Mr. Becker is associate general counsel at the SEIU...

Tom Fitton -- Judicial Watch -- October 15, 2009      Obama hostile to immigration law enforcement    The Obama administration is once again undermining the enforcement of our nation's immigration laws. -- Last week I told you about the administration's attempts to undermine 287(g), a highly successful federal program that trains local law enforcement officers in illegal immigration enforcement techniques...

Dennis Prager -- Townhall.com -- October 14, 2009      Why Obama was awarded the Nobel Prize    ...The Oslo committee's view is, tragically, true. Thanks to Barack Obama, America is for the first time is aligning its values with those of "the majority of the world's population." If you think the world's population has had better values than America, that it has made societies that are more open, free, and tolerant than American society...

Michelle Malkin -- October 14, 2009     Obama's Treasury money men: "Counselor" is the new czar    If you read Chapter 6 of Culture of Corruption, you know all about President Obama's Wall Street money men — who look an awful like President Bush's bailout-happy money men from the world of Government Sachs and CITI. I’ll include an excerpt below.... [See Geithner Watch]

Ted Rall -- State Journal-Register -- Springfield, Ill. -- October 14, 2009      If Obama keeps it up, we're headed for Hooverville    When the economic collapse began a year ago, many Americans took comfort in the historical parallels with the Great Depression. As it had in 1929, the current crisis began under the clueless reign of a Republican, George W. Bush. -- Universally reviled since his non-response to Hurricane Katrina had exposed him...

CNS News -- October 14, 2009      FCC Commissioner find 'Diversity' Chief's free-speech ideas "troubling"    Federal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell said Tuesday that statements about regulating freedom of speech in broadcasting made by FCC Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd are "troubling." Everyone should be concerned when federal regulators have the power to impact freedom of speech, McDowell added. [Lloyd is one of many disturbing Obama pals] [See Free Speech Watch]

John Nichols -- The Nation -- October 14, 2009      Whiner-in-Chief     The Obama administration really needs to get over itself. -- First, the president and his aides go to war with Fox News because the network maintains a generally anti-Obama slant. -- Then, an anonymous administration aide attacks bloggers for failing to maintain a sufficiently pro-Obama slant... [How do you like your 'change' now?]

WorldNetDaily.com -- October 14, 2009      White House blasted for assault on Fox News    The White House's recent frontal assault on the Fox News Channel is drawing criticism from some unexpected sources, including members of the left-leaning media. -- "Cutting off a media outlet can be a risky strategy. It can reduce the voice and effectiveness of a politician or a party," Doug Heye, a blogger for U.S. News and World Report, wrote today...