Secret Recordings Shed More Light On Obama’s Gunwalker Program

September 20, 2011 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Eric Holder, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Mexico, President, RightPundits.com, War On Drugs, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

CBS News posted a story on Monday revealing new evidence against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATF) in the Operation Fast and Furious debacle that causes concern that more evidence has been covered up by the agency.

The audio tapes were made by a gun dealer forced by the BATF to help them transfer guns to Mexican narco-terrorists and have been turned over to the congressional investigation being conducted by Rep. Darrel Issa (R, Calif) and Senator Chuck Grassley (R, Iowa)…

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Issa Doubts Holder Could Have NOT Known About Fast & Furious

September 16, 2011 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Eric Holder, Government, Government, Corruption, Guns, Liberals, Mexico, Republicans, RightPundits.com, War On Drugs, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Representative Darrell Issa (R, CA) can’t believe U.S. Attny Gen Eric Holder when he says he knew nothing of the murderous operation called Fast and Furious, a program that put thousands of guns in the hands of Mexican narco-terrorists.

In an appearance on radio talker Laura Ingraham’s show on Monday, Rep. Issa scoffed at Holder’s claims that he was ignorant of the operation….

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Ariz. Gun Shop Owner Suspicious of Fast and Furious

September 12, 2011 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Eric Holder, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Mexico, President, RightPundits.com, War On Drugs, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

An Arizona gun shop owner that was pressed into service by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATF) to illegally sell guns to straw purchasers told the L.A.Times that “Every passing week, I worried” that someone was going to get hurt with the hundreds of thousands of dollars in firearms he was selling to them.

The shop owner, Andre Howard of the Lone Wolf Gun Store in Rio Rico, Arizona, sold guns to people he knew were transporting them to Mexican narco-terrorists for 15 months under orders from the BATF. As time wore on and he never heard of any arrests and saw no announcements of tracking programs made public, Howard’s conscience really began to bother him…

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Eric Holder: Fast & Furious? What is that, a Movie?

September 9, 2011 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Eric Holder, Government, Corruption, Guns, Liberals, Mexico, President, RightPundits.com, War On Drugs, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Remember that old 60s TV show Hogan’s Heroes? If so you’ll remember Sgt. Schultz’ catch phrase, “I know nothiiiing!” Well U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder isn’t quite as fat as good ol’ Sgt. Schultz, but he sure has the catch phrase down pat because Holder now says he knows nothiiiing about Obama’s arming of Mexican narco-terrorists with the policy called Operation Fast and Furious. Or did he?

I’ve always wondered how Hogan’s Heroes was ever greenlighted for a TV series. I mean, can you imagine the pitch meeting? “So, it’s a half hour comedy about hilarious Nazis. Get it? Funny Nazis!” How the heck did that get sold only twenty years after WWII ended? But, imagine the same scenario for Operation Fast and Furious. “See, we’ll give murderers and narco-terrorists a bunch of guns and hand grenades. It’ll really work to help us stop them from getting guns and hand grenades. No I really mean it!”

But Sgt. Eric Schultz knows “nothiiiing”! Yeah, right…

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Illegal Hand Grenade Dealer Let Slip by BATF & Indiana Joins Gunrunner Scheme

September 6, 2011 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Eric Holder, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Mexico, President, RightPundits.com, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Now that Operation Fast and Furious has been finally getting some media coverage — though still not nearly enough for how bad it is — we are seeing other major failures of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATF) in offshoots of Fast and Furious. In one instance, the BATF indulged a failed attempt to use a hand grenade dealer as a way to track Mexican narco-terrorists and in Indiana the BATF also used the ideas of Fast and Furious to track guns in Indiana.

In the case of the hand grenades, we find that the same office in Arizona responsible for so many lost guns through Fast and Furious also allowed to escape a guy selling parts to make hand grenades to Mexican narco-terrorists. And they didn’t just lose him, either. They actually had arrested the guy but let him go imagining they could follow him to his Mexican connections… THEN lost him. Total incompetents…

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Fast and Furious Investigation Expands

September 2, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Congress, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Guns, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Mexico, President, RightPundits.com, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Senator Chuck Grassley (R, Iowa) and Rep, Darrell Isa (R, Calif) promised to continue their investigation into Obama’s disastrously murderous program of selling guns illegally to Mexican Narco-terrorists and now they are stepping up their efforts after the Dept. of Justice tried to shuffle around to other departments those officers responsible for the program likely in an effort to make the investigation harder.

Grassley and Isa have announced that they are expanding their investigation into the Arizona district office involved in Operation Fast and Furious, the failed program that has spread illegally trafficked guns to Mexican Narco-terrorists, guns have ended up in the hands of criminals back here in the U.S., and have already been a tool used to kill a federal border agent.…

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Finally: Gov’t Official Resigns Over Obama’s Arming of Mexican Narco-Terrorists

August 31, 2011 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Barack Obama, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Eric Holder, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Mexico, President, RightPundits.com, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

There is more on the story of Obama’s woefully murderous program of selling guns to Mexican narco-terrorists, the operation called Fast and Furious (also called Gun Walker). We’ve been reporting on this widening scandal for months, now and the latest is that two officials are either removed from their high place of influence or have resigned over the disastrous policy.

We already saw BATF agent Vince Cefalu was fired after he blew the whistle on Obama’s gun running program. But now U.S. Attorney for Arizona, Dennis Burke has offered his resignation…

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New Mexico Officials Arrested, Likely Part of Obama’s Gun Running to Mexican Narco-Terrorists

August 28, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Congress, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Mexico, New Mexico, President, Republicans, RightPundits.com, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Recently the town Mayor, the Police Chief and a Town Trustee of Columbus, New Mexico pleaded guilty to running guns to the Juarez drug cartel using city vehicles and police cars to do so. But now it looks like some of those guns illegally transferred to Mexico by these lawless city officials were connected to Obama’s gun running operation, Operation Fast and Furious.

In March, federal agents arrested former Columbus Mayor Eddie Espinoza, 51, for supplying guns to drug dealers in Mexico. In July he pleaded guilty to three counts of making false statements and three counts of smuggling firearms across the border…

Read the rest at RightPundits.com.

Was Obama’s CIA Behind Guns for Mexican Narco-Terrorists?

August 16, 2011 | Filed Under Barack Obama, CIA, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Mexico, President, RightPundits.com, War On Drugs, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

There was an interesting article in the Washington Times on August 11 that speculated that the CIA was an important participant in Obama’s gun walker/Operation Fast and Furious program that put free guns in the hands of Mexican narco-terrorists. The reason the CIA was so interested in doing this was to lend its support to one violent Mexican drug cartel in hopes it could defeat an even more violent Mexican drug cartel.

Of course, the CIA wasn’t the only conspirator in Obama’s arming of Mexican narco-terrorists. We know that the FBI, the DEA, and the BATF were in this mess up to each of their elbows and all have blood on their hands. But the Times notes that the CIA is one agency that has been left out of the blame game in this mounting scandal…

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Obama DID Lie: Obamacare Now Paying for Illegal Immigrants

August 14, 2011 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Health, Liberals, Mexico, Obamacare, Republicans, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | 2 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Remember when South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson called out “You Lie!” when Obama claimed in his 2009 state of the union address that his Obamacare plan would never go to care for illegal aliens? Well, turns out Wilson was right. We now know that Obama did lie. His latest move has been to turn Obamacare to benefit illegals just like Wilson said it would.

Last week the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it was funneling Obamacare cash to 67 community health centers where the money would be used for migrant farm workers. HHS also informed us that the immigration status of said farm workers would not be ascertained before free care was given meaning that illegal aliens would be given Obamacare funding.
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Memorial Video for U.S. Border Agent Killed By Obama’s Gun Running Program

August 3, 2011 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Mexico, President, RightPundits.com, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

So far, Obama has gotten away with murder… literally. But we haven’t forgotten the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December 2010.

This Gunwalker/Operation Fast and Furious scandal should be enough to at least get U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder fired if not having some members of Obama’s FBI, BATF and other agencies sent to jail…

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Obama Mentioned ‘Gun Tracing’ in 2009 Mexico Visit

July 30, 2011 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Guns, Liberals, Mexico, President, RightPundits.com, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

We are getting closer and closer to the truth in this gun walker/fast and furious scandal. Up to now the question had been one of what did the president know about this business? Well, it seem that back in April of 2009 Obama referred to the concepts of this very program when he was visiting Mexico.

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Obama’s Mexican Gun Running Paid For by Stimulus Money

July 8, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Budget, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Government, Corruption, Guns, Liberals, Mexico, President, RightPundits.com, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

This Operation Fast and Furious or Project Gunrunner (also called Gunwalker) scandal just keeps getting worse. Now we find out that Obama funneled stimulus dollars to help fund his plan to arm Mexican narco terrorists with US guns that have ended up killing Americans and Mexicans alike and have ended up in gang activity back here in the US.

That’s right. Obama was so intent on arming murderers in Mexico that he and his minions carved out stimulus money for the project. You can see the notation on page 16 of the PDF document of the Stimulus Bill under the sections marked OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS, STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE…

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Newest News on Obama’s Arming of Mexican Narco Terrorists

July 6, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Congress, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, DOJ, Ethics, FBI, Government, Corruption, Guns, House of Representatives, Liberals, Mexico, President, RightPundits.com, Security/Safety, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

This past weekend there was a very quiet — in fact a secret — meeting between the chief of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATF), Kenneth Melson, and Congressional investigators looking into the gun walker case (also called Operation Fast and Furious) and the results seem to show that the culpability for arming Mexican narco terrorists by Obama’s administration is more widespread than just by the BATF.

BATF head Melson appeared in secret testimony that made matters worse for the Obama administration, showing that the gun smuggling scandal was a shared program among several federal agencies and not just one from the BATF…

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Obama Happily Putting Guns in the Hands of Mexican Drug Dealers, Now Ending Up in Phoenix

July 1, 2011 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Congress, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Guns, House of Representatives, Liberals, Mexico, President, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, War On Drugs, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

If you haven’t heard about the Gun Walker case, it’s time you learned. This was an Obama administration Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms (BATF) program where guns were sneaked across our southern border by Mexican drug dealers. It turns out that these guns were given them by the Obama administration. The idea was that the BATF could trace how guns get disseminated in Mexico. Officials also hoped that the program would help them find where the drug dealers are and if a few people got killed in the process… well, you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs, right?

The BATF program was code named “Fast and Furious.” Naturally it has become quite controversial and has led to much talk that BATF chief Kenneth Melson will be eliminated from that agency – this has yet to occur, though. This scandal is just in the early stages of becoming a major mess to be hung around Obama’s neck so there is no telling where it will end up. Big scandal? Swept under the rug? Could go either way even though it is a major scandal that should sink several members of the Obama admin, if not Obama himself….

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Vote Fraud Paradise in Maryland

June 28, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, DREAM Act, Education, Elections, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Immigration/Immigrants, Liberals, Maryland, Mexico, Regulation, Taxes, The Law, Vote Fraud, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Thanks to SB167/HB470, Maryland is yet another U.S. State attempting to reward illegal immigrants with free or cut rate in-state university educations all at the detriment to the real citizens of the state — and all without the direct vote of the people. But this state version of the DREAM Act has resulted in some other attempted skullduggery, mainly violations of the state’s voting laws.

Here is what happened. Two Maryland legislators, Senator Victor Ramirez and Delegate Sheila Hixson of St. George’s County, introduced the bill in question that gave illegals in-state tuition to the state’s colleges – in other words, illegals will be taking the place of actual citizens at the state’s colleges. Even as the bill became law, the people of Maryland were not too happy with the whole thing. So, in time-honored fashion, the people of Maryland took up petitions to try and have a voice about being rid of this rewarding of illegals.

As it happens the citizens against this Maryland version of the DREAM Act didn’t just collect the requisite 18,579 (or so) petition signatures, they collected 40,000! This made the supporters of illegal immigrants suddenly all upset, as you can imagine, and here is where the lawbreaking came in.
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America’s Unfocused Immigration Policy Hurts American Workers

June 27, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Business, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Countries, Government, Government, Corruption, Immigration/Immigrants, Jobs, Liberals, Mexico, President, Sy Woodsman | Comments Off

-By Sy Woodsman

I work for Customs and Border Protection and witness daily the damage our misguided immigration policy does to American citizens.

Did you know it takes about 4 hours to send each illegal alien back? The report generation and CYA process is staggering. (CYA Cover Your A*s) The CYA process and is due to the multiple and ever vigilant immigration lawyers and is a tremendous waste of manpower. If only they fought for you the American citizen as hard as they do for illegal immigrants!
Do you realize that while real unemployment is listed as 15.8%, today I and my coworkers at Customs and Border Protection will have admitted multiple J1 Visas who will be doing a job that you, or your teenager, or any other actual American citizen might need?

Sadly, I will admit a B1 (business) Visa holder into the country tomorrow that will abuse the limits of said Visa. Educate yourself about the B1 Visa abuse.
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Kinzinger Supports Bill to Increase North American Energy Production

June 25, 2011 | Filed Under Adam Kinzinger, Business, Canada, Capitalism, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Energy, Foreign Policy, Free Trade, GOP, Government, House of Representatives, Illinois, Mexico, Oil, Republicans, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the office of Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R, ILL)…

Washington, D.C. – The House Energy and Commerce Committee, which Congressman Adam Kinzinger (IL-11) serves on, yesterday passed the North American-Made Energy Security Act, H.R. 1938, with bipartisan support by a vote of 33 to 13. Kinzinger issued the following statement:

“What does the Keystone XL pipeline mean for the United States? For starters it means reducing our addiction to foreign oil and creating directly and indirectly more than 100,000 jobs.

“It means 1.3 million barrels of oil from our friends to the North, which means we will need less oil from the Middle East, less oil from Venezuela, less oil from countries we can no longer rely on.

“And, it means $5.2 billion in new property tax revenue for bankrupt states.
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Dem. Party Chair Mad that GOP wants to Make Being an Illegal Alien… er… Illegal

May 31, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Government, Government, Corruption, Immigration/Immigrants, Jobs, Labor Law, Law, Liberals, Mexico, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a Democrat Congresswoman from Florida and is currently the head of the Democrat National Committee. She is also one of the most vitriolic, off base, half informed demagogues of the far left in America today. There are tons of examples of her lies and calumnies out there — it’s an almost daily occurrence now that she is DNC head — but today we have a new one. This time DWS is lamenting how Republicans want to make illegal immigration, well, illegal.

Yes, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is not bright enough to catch the “illegal” part in the phrase “illegal immigrant.” Apparently the question, “what part of illegal don’t you get,” is one she doesn’t get.

Naked Emperor has the video of Wasserman Schultz from May 26 of this year.

Transcript:
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Illinois Legislature Passes DREAM Act Giving Illegals Free College Education

May 31, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Budget, Business, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, DREAM Act, Economy/Finances, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Immigration/Immigrants, Liberals, Mexico, Republicans, Senate, Taxes, Tom Cross, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

In a 61-53 vote in the Illinois House, an Illinois version of the DREAM Act (SB2185) has been passed and will be signed into law by accidental Governor Pat Quinn.

The Illinois DREAM Act will provide free money for the children of illegal immigrants to go to state colleges and universities.

Supporters say that this bill does not use state money, but this is obviously hogwash. While much of the money that will go to illegals for free schooling will come from private sources, the panel that will do this duty is obviously going to be funded by the state.

Once again, the State of Illinois — drowning in debt and losing businesses hand over fist — is creating yet another expensive program to aid people breaking our immigration laws.
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11 Illinois Republicans That Support Illegal Immigrant DREAM Act

May 9, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Children, Democrats/Leftists, Education, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Immigration/Immigrants, Liberals, Mexico, Republicans, Senate, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

When a communist newspaper celebrates the actions of Republicans, well, what more do you need to know how far off base a vote is? The People’s World is all excited about the fact that 11 Illinois State Senators voted to give freebie “scholarships” to illegal aliens to attend Illinois universities and schools.

Last week State Senate President John Cullerton’s Illinois state DREAM Act (SB 2185) passed with a 45 to 11 vote. This program sets up privately funded scholarships to upwards to 95,000 children of illegal immigrants so that they can attend schools in the Land of Lincoln.

Supporters claim that this was a no-brainer vote because no state money is used for this program. This, however, seems to be a falsehood. For one thing SB 2185 sets up a state commission which surely will cost the state to administer. Not only that but the law forces High School counselors to get special sensitivity training on the needs of illegal immigrants. Who the heck is going to pay for all that nonsense if not the local schools that will have to hire consultants to come in for these time wasting training sessions?
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Follow Up: Frightened Mexican Business Owners Look To Immigrate to USA

April 17, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Business, Capitalism, Economy/Finances, Government, Jobs, Mexico, RightPundits.com, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Yesterday I wrote of how stricter immigration laws in the US are scaring away Mexico’s low-skilled, uneducated masses from wanting to come to the USA. I mentioned it was a good thing that the dregs of Mexico are staying in Mexico. Today I celebrate another story that reports that some of Mexico’s business class and members of its upper middle classes are looking to come to the US because of fear of the drug wars raging south of the boarder. They are bringing their wealth and their businesses with them, too. This is also a good thing.

The Monitor of McAllen, Texas reports that Mexicans applying for the federal EB-5 investment program are on the rise as violence and crime rises in Mexico. The EB-5 program is a twenty-year-old federal program created to entice successful businessmen of other countries to immigrate to the US and bring their businesses with them…

Read the rest at RightPundits.com.

Mexican’s Increased Suspicion of USA Over Immigration Laws

April 16, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Budget, Capitalism, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Immigration/Immigrants, Jobs, Liberals, Mexico, Regulation, RightPundits.com, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

According to the Christian Science Monitor Mexicans might be becoming “reticent about taking that midnight train to Georgia” and emigrating to America whether illegally or not. All this because of new, more stringent immigration laws being enacted in the various states, Georgia being only the latest example.

The bill, which Gov. Nathan Deal (R) is expected to sign, is the latest in a wave of immigration reform legislation that is sweeping the US and souring Mexican opinion of America. Prior to the enactment of the Arizona’s controversial SB 1070 one year ago, 62 percent of Mexicans had a positive opinion of the US, compared with 44 percent after the law passed, according to the Pew Research Center.

The Monitor has several examples of Mexicans changing plans and deciding to stay in Mexico. To this all I can say is… it’s about time…

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Mexico: Your Spring Break Death-stination

March 21, 2011 | Filed Under Crime, Mexico, Paul A. Ibbetson | Comments Off

Paul A. Ibbetson

As eager colleges students from around the country prepare to leave school for spring break, many ask the question, where is the best place to go to have the most fun? For parents, the questions that are pondered and even discussed with their children as they prepare to leave are usually somewhat different. Many parents attempt and often stumble through those awkward conversations about the potential dangers of traveling abroad. Common parental concerns for their children on holiday cover the spectrum but often include discussions about avoiding the following: being arrested, impregnating or becoming impregnated by a new intoxicated friend whose name tends to escape recall, all the way down to the embarrassing impromptu left or right-cheeked tattoo. I think you know which cheeks I am talking about. Some of America’s spring breaking youngsters will fail to heed their parents’ well-intentioned advice and the ramifications will range from laughable spring break stories to parents getting late-night phone calls for the need of the family lawyer and a bail deposit. Even in these more unfortunate spring break scenarios, parents of American children expect their kids to return home, straighten-up, and get back to work or school.

The idea of an American citizen’s child being abducted, raped, tortured, shot, beheaded or otherwise murdered for the most part still remains outside the typical parent’s pre-vacation precautionary mindset. Unfortunately, an untimely death does potentially await traveling Americans on vacations such as spring break. What does that mean? It means that there is always of element of danger traveling as a tourist abroad. The American public still has fresh in their minds the case of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway, the young girl that went missing on May 30, 2005, during a chaperoned high school graduation trip in Aruba. Most viewers of this travel tragedy were likely to have been absorbed in the Holloway family drama, or the bizarre statements and actions of the suspect Joran van der Sloot. One of the important lessons almost lost within this national story was that all tourists when abroad are potential victims. The best that can be hoped for is that one maximizes the likelihood of survival with the same vigor that is put into plans for fun and entertainment. Then there is the subject of Mexico.
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Multicultural Suicide

February 25, 2011 | Filed Under Alan Caruba, Britain, Democrats/Leftists, EU, Europe, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Mexico, Nanny State | Comments Off

-By Alan Caruba

In his famed poem, Mending Wall, the American poet, Robert Frost chided the rock wall that he and his neighbor would mend each spring, replacing fallen rocks. “He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’

You can see the Great Wall of China from outer space. It is an astonishing piece of work

Begun in the fifth century B.C. and added to by later dynasties, it succeeded in defending China from invasions by northern tribes. In 1600, it helped the Ming dynasty defend against the Manchu, but when the gates at Shanhaiguan were opened in 1644 by a dissident Ming border general, the Manchus quickly seized Beijing and that was the end of the Ming dynasty.
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Kinzinger to Offer Amendment to Block Taxpayer Funding for DOJ Lawsuit against Arizona Immigration Law

February 19, 2011 | Filed Under Adam Kinzinger, Anti-Americanism, Congress, Constitution, DOJ, Foreign Policy, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Immigration/Immigrants, Mexico, Regulation, Republicans, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the office of Congressman Adam Kinzinger (11th District)…

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Adam Kinzinger (IL-11) will offer an amendment on the House floor that would eliminate taxpayer funding for the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit filed against Arizona last July over its immigration enforcement law (SB 1070).

Washington’s failure to secure borders, has led states like Arizona to take matters up themselves. Kinzinger says it is unfair to ask hardworking citizens to fund the DOJ’s agenda.

“Rather than wasting time and taxpayer dollars suing states, the DOJ must turn its focus toward enforcing current immigration laws,” said Kinzinger. “The federal government should be working to make Arizonians feel secure rather than using money from their own paychecks to fund an attack against them in federal court.”
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Analyzing The Open-Border Mentality

February 17, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Foreign Policy, Government, Government, Corruption, Immigration/Immigrants, Liberals, Mexico, Paul A. Ibbetson, Taxes | 1 Comment

Paul A. Ibbetson

How special is America? Is it truly a unique place where people can find opportunities for a better life that surpass those of other countries? Many think this to be true and the country has had a long history of being a welcoming place for people from all across the world. From 1892 to 1924 the port of New York at Ellis Island processed over 20 million foreign immigrants to legally enter the country. According to the National Park Service’s Ellis Island site, as many as 11,747 immigrants legally entered America in a single day in 1907. It is estimated that as many 100 million Americans are descendants of the process of legal immigration that took place at locations such as Ellis Island.

Unfortunately, the mentality that gave America such a large infusion of hopeful and hardworking immigrants to this country has vanished and has been replaced with something much different. For one, immigrants entering America through Ellis Island came in with no preconceived beliefs that the United States owed them anything. Instead, immigrants entered the country with gracious humility to seek out the “American Dream.”

Traditional immigration encompassed a mutually respectful exchange between country and immigrant for the right of admittance. Foreigners had to show that they had a trade or other ability that would be useful to the country in order to be allowed in. Also, immigrants had to show that they were not carrying harmful communicable diseases that would be a detriment to the American people. Some immigrants were held for observation due to fear of disease and about two percent of those seeking to enter the country were turned away. America’s policy at that time was most certainly pro-immigration but it also encompassed a secure border element that is sorely lacking today. The next time you’re faced with an argument for open borders by someone who declares we are all descendants of immigrants, remember that a majority of this country’s classical immigration was conducted legally.
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DREAM Act Passes House: The Eight Republicans that Voted for it

December 8, 2010 | Filed Under Budget, Business, Children, Congress, Democracy, Democrats/Leftists, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Immigration/Immigrants, Liberals, Mexico, President, Republicans, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Want to dispense some bile? Well here are the names of the eight Republicans that just voted “yes” on the DREAM Act (HR 6497). Even worse are the eleven that didn’t vote at all.

Ahn “Joseph” Cao, Louisiana
Mike Castle, Delaware
Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Florida
Mario Diaz-Balart, Florida
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida
Charles Djou, Hawaii
Vern Ehlers, Michigan
Bob Inglis, South Carolina

Of course, we may not be able to squawk too much. Of these reps, Cao, Castle, Djou, and Inglis were not reelected to Congress and Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Ehlers are both retiring and will also not be returning. Of the eight only Mario Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen are going to be there to kick around next year and to possibly primary next election.

Worse is the whopping eleven craven Republicans who didn’t even bother to vote:

Brian Bilbray, California
Roy Blunt, Missouri
Steve Buyer, Indiana
Mary Fallin, Oklahoma
Phil Gingrey, Georgia
Kay Granger, Texas
Parker Griffith, Alabama
Kenny Marchant, Texas
Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Washington State
George Radanovich, California
Marlin Stutzman, Indiana

You folks in the districts of those that didn’t vote have to ask why their representative was not voting.
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Coalition of Hispanics Against the DREAM Act Rally in Washington

December 8, 2010 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Harry Reid, Immigration/Immigrants, Liberals, Mexico, Senate, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

On the steps of the Cannon Building in D.C. a group of Hispanic leaders gathered to express their opposition to the Democrat’s Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act of 2010, the DREAM act.

As this coalition explained it, “The DREAM Act would provide certain minors who are illegal immigrants a path to citizenship if they attend college for two years or join the military. There are an estimated 12-20 million illegal immigrants residing in the United States. Proponents and Democratic leaders have pushed hard for the bill’s passage and a House vote is expected later this week.”

According to congressional statements and the Migration Policy Institute, if passed, the bill could potentially grant amnesty to as many as 2.1 million illegal immigrants. With unemployment officially at 9.8% this is a huge mistake. “I think progressives and conservatives alike can agree on the need to support working and middle-class citizens during a depressed economy,” said Leah Durant, Executive Director of Progressives for Immigration Reform. “This bill would provide in-state tuition rates and residency benefits to illegal immigrant students when many Americans are hurting the most. What makes sense is for America’s jobs and tuition benefits to be reserved for people who are legally entitled to compete for them.”

Rosanna Pulido, Chicagoan and one-time candidate for Congress (5th District) was in attendance and said the following:
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UN Climate Summit, Cancun, Mexico: Climate Conmen Sending You Back 100 Years

December 6, 2010 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Budget, Business, Climate Change, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Environment, Foreign Policy, Free Trade, Global Warming, Government, Government, Corruption, Law, Liberals, Mexico, Nanny State, President, Regulation, Science, Society/Culture, Taxes, UN, Unions, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | 2 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

As most of you know last week I was down in Cancun, Mexico reporting on the U.N. Climate Change Summit (officially called COP16/CMP6). It was several days of sun, surf, and U.N. conmen. I am back in the saddle here at home but Friday I went from the warm white sands of Cancun back to the cold white snow of Chicago. Where’s all that global warming when you need it?

At least I have the modern conveniences of natural gas to keep my house warm and coal and nuclear-fired electric to power my electronic entertainment and work devices both. Unfortunately, if the con in Cancun is successful we may no longer have such luxuries.

One of the last places I visited in Cancun was the Villa de Cambio Climatico — or in English the climate change village. The exhibit was sponsored by the Mexican federal government and was set up in order to indoctrinate Mexico’s school children in the ways of environmental hokum.

At the exhibit we found what was presented as the ideal eco-friendly house. Of course, it was suitably small as the enviro-Nazis most certainly don’t want anyone enjoying a bit of elbowroom in their homes though it did have space for a few modern niceties. It had a tiny computer area, an actual flush toilet, and a four-foot-tall refrigerator that looks like it might be able to store enough food for two or three days.
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