Postcards From The Edge

Obama will call for increased oversight of 'executive pay at all banks, Wall Street firms and possibly other companies'...

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Hamas leader hails Obama's new approach...

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Alarm over US moves for punitive taxes...

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Pope decries 'clouds of evil' over Africa...

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WIRE: Resistance grows to Obama's bigger government; mistrust of central control...

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Venezuela, Chavez Seizes Seaports, Airstrips

The takeover, ordered by Venezuela's socialist president last weekend and approved by lawmakers, aims to bring the country's major transportation hubs under federal control this year.

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Michel Chossudovsky -- Centre for Research on Globalization

Preparing for civil unrest in America

The financial meltdown has unleashed a latent and emergent social crisis across the United States. -- What is at stake is the fraudulent confiscation of lifelong savings and pension funds, the appropriation of tax revenues to finance the trillion dollar "bank bailouts", which ultimately serve to line the pockets of the richest people in America....

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Sanctuary cities banned in Texas

The Texas AG issued this advisory opinion yesterday that basically says states, counties, cities, and other localities are forbidden by federal law from establishing illegal alien sanctuary policies. This is a great foothold for other states that would like to go in this direction...

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Washington Post

Illegal alien sex fiend sought

Leesburg, Va. -- Leesburg police are searching for a 21-year-old man charged with sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl last year. -- Carlos Felipe Centeno, 21, was discovered with a partially clothed girl Aug. 5 in a residence in the Potomac Crossing subdivision in Leesburg and then fled the scene, police said yesterday... [More of Obama's pet fiends]

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Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle Editorial

A needless witch hunt

The America most of us knew as children has been turned on its head. -- Today, we even have a speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives -- third in line to the presidency -- who says enforcing immigration laws is "un-American," and that illegal [aliens] are "very patriotic." [See video] -- Meanwhile, a true patriot -- Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio -- is actually being investigated by Washington...

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Chicago Tribune

Pro-Amnesty Tantrum: : Cardinal expected to ask Obama to halt raids

...This week, President Barack Obama told the Congressional Hispanic Caucus that he hopes to sign legislation before the end of the year and plans to introduce a new strategy for "comprehensive Immigration reform" during the next few weeks, those in attendance said. [See Tantrum Watch]

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William F. Jasper -- The New American

Profiling and criminalizing political dissent

...Tradition in Action and The Fatima Crusader/International Fatima Rosary Crusade are included, described by the SPLC as “Radical Traditionalist Catholic.” Groups concerned about the very real crisis involving illegal immigration are falsely labeled as "anti-immigrant." The groups listed include American Patrol/Voice of Citizens Together, Save Our State, California Coalition for Immigration Reform...

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WorldNetDaily.com

Rohrabacher: Dems not 'watching out for American people'

U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., says the Democratic Party is watching out for illegal aliens, not American citizens, after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, condemned immigration raids as "un-American." -- The comments from Pelosi criticizing actions by the ICE agency, which is following laws established by Congress... [More on nutter Nancy]

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Wall Street Journal

US says Union Pacific trains move drugs across border

U.S. rail giant Union Pacific has been accused of transporting illegal drugs, virtually all marijuana, aboard trains it leased coming in from Mexico on 58 occasions since late 2001, according to court papers and evidence filed in a dispute between the company and U.S. Customs and Border Protection...