MEXICO CITY (AP) - Eight journalists were kidnapped in a northern Mexican border city over a period of two weeks in a wave of abductions unprecedented in the Western Hemisphere, the Inter-American Press Association reported.

The group said Wednesday that only three of the journalists kidnapped between Feb. 18 and March 3 in Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas, have reappeared: Two were released alive and one was found dead with signs of torture. Five are still missing.

RICHARDSON - Richardson police are looking for a third suspect in a series of sexual assaults of teenage girls targeted through a social networking Web site.

Two cousins have been arrested in connection with the rape of a 14-year-old last month in Richardson, police said.

Three alleged Ventura gang members were arrested this week following a month-long investigation into alleged animal cruelty, authorities said.  Jose Uriel Zamora, 32, Joshua Mendoza, 19 and Jonathon Gaona, 20 were arrested Thursday on suspicion of animal cruelty and street terrorism after authorities served search warrants at three residences in Santa Paula,

Ventura police said.

Gaona was also arrested on suspicion of possessing a stolen handgun, and Zamora could also face a charge of committing felonies after previously being deported, police said.

Senator Lindsey Graham, ever the faithful follower of uber-RINO John McCain, scored three RINO initiatives in just one week.  Reminiscent of the “the band’s getting back together” scenes from the movie “Blues Brothers”, Graham and McCain reached back to the good old days of bipartisan shafting of conservative judicial nominees and offered the Democrats another “Gang of Fourteen”–this time to shaft the public with a bipartisan Obamacare bill.

MORENO VALLEY, Calif. (KABC) — An investigation is under way on Friday morning into a deadly shooting in the Inland Empire that left two people dead and another injured. Authorities say the shooting may be related to human trafficking.

Moreno Valley police found two shooting victims inside a house on the 21000 block of Bay Avenue at about 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Authorities believe the house was used to hide illegal immigrants.

Last week, John McCain introduced a bill into the U.S. Senate which, if passed, would actually allow U.S. citizens to be arrested and detained indefinitely, all without Miranda rights or ever being charged with a crime.

The stated purpose of S. 3081 (The Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act) reads: “To provide for the interrogation and detention of enemy belligerents who commit hostile acts against the United States, to establish certain limitations on the prosecution of such belligerents for such acts, and for
other purposes.”

A national ID card using biometric data such as fingerprints is at the center of an immigration reform bill being hammered out in the U.S. Senate – a measure that once again probably will pit advocates of homeland security and tough immigration enforcement against civil libertarians, employers and immigrant rights groups.

PHOENIX — The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has uncovered a drop house in the Maryvale area of west Phoenix.
 
Officials responded to the drop house around 59th Avenue and Osborn Road on Friday morning.

On August 19, 2003, two Mexican farm laborers, possibly illegal aliens, committed arguably the most heinous crime in the history of Wisconsin’s Green Bay. They abducted a 26-year-old woman from the parking lot of a Main Street nightclub, drove many miles to a remote area in another county, repeatedly gang-raped her, then doused her with lighter fluid and set her on fire.

Monetary remittance figures for 2009

The graphic below depicts the amounts (in millions of dollars) sent to Mexico, Caribbean countries, and Central and South American countries by means of individual monetary remittances from abroad during 2009. Out of a total of 58.8 billion dollars (the first time there has been a decline in the growth of these remittances since the year 2000,) Mexico was the largest recipient, with 21.132 billion dollars.

This week, Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal signed House Joint Resolution 2 (HJ0002), claiming “sovereignty on behalf of the State of Wyoming and for its citizens under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government or reserved to the people by the Constitution of the United States.”

Famed PLO terrorist-turned-Christian Walid Shoebat is warning that the United States needs to be watching not Iran, Syria or even Hamas and Hezbollah as closely as it needs to follow the actions of the Islamic leaders of Turkey. It was just a few months ago when Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin reported Turkey appeared to be seeking the restoration of the old Ottoman Empire

“Maybe it will take a woman to clean up the House,” Nancy Pelosi boasted before the 2006 midterm elections.

Looks like those XX chromosomes didn’t give her much advantage over the old cleaning crew. The swamp she was supposed to drain is overflowing. And fewer than four years after a sordid sexual predation scandal involving a creepy congressman rocked the Republican Party, a sordid sexual predation scandal involving a creepy congressman is now rocking the Democratic Party.

Freedom lovers the world over have an opportunity to shine a cleansing light on one of the Global Warming Movement’s biggest hypocritical events: Earth Hour.

Earth Hour, which began back in 2007, calls for people to plunge the world into darkness and spread the lie of man made Global Warming

Though Bush 41 and Bush 43 often disagreed, one issue did unite them both with Bill Clinton: protectionism. Globalists all, they rejected any federal measure to protect America’s industrial base, economic independence or the wages of U.S. workers.Together they rammed through NAFTA, brought America under the World Trade Organization, abolished tariffs and granted Chinese-made goods unrestricted access to the immense U.S. market.

President Obama’s attempts to ram health- care reform through an increasingly reluctant Congress are starting to resemble a really eventful episode of “The Sopranos.”

Whether or not you believe former Rep. Eric Massa’s bizarre accusations of locker-room confrontations and conspiracies to drive him from office, there is no doubt that the Obama administration and its congressional allies are willing to use every trick in the book to get this bill passed.

FALCON HEIGHTS - A Mexican navy helicopter was seen doing surveillance in Starr County.  Residents of Falcon Heights, about 14 miles away from Roma, noticed a Mexican helicopter hovering over a home shortly after 6 p.m. Tuesday night.

Customs officials are telling Congress that Mexican drug cartels are infiltrating federal law enforcement agencies along the southwest border. And those charged with weeding them out say they don’t have the money to catch all the corrupt agents.

James Tomsheck, assistant commissioner with U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Internal Affairs, told a Senate panel Thursday that only about one in 10 of the new hires for agency jobs are given polygraph tests. And of those who take them, 60 percent are deemed unsuitable for employment.

On Saturday morning, 13-year-old Kendrick Owens was walking with a friend along the road in New Caney, TX, when police say the 1998 Dodge Dakota driven by Javier Correa, 28, struck and killed him.  Correa sped away from the scene, and drove to his nearby home. A tow truck driver who saw him hit Owens, followed Correa and alerted police to his location. A few minutes later, Texas Department of Public Safety Troopers arrived and took him into custody.

Laredo, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Laredo port of entry seized an array of narcotics this past week and intercepted more than $212,000 in undeclared currency before it left the country into Mexico. CBP officers seized a ton and a half of marijuana in a commercial truck, two pounds of cocaine and two pounds of heroin in a commercial bus, and 41 pounds of cocaine in an SUV, all worth more than $5 million, in four separate enforcement actions at two of Laredo’s international crossings.

click for hi-res CBP officers find 12 packages of cocaine valued at $1.3 million.

The most recent of the four seizures occurred March 6 at the Lincoln-Juarez International Bridge. CBP officers referred a 2001 Isuzu Trooper SUV driven by a 23-year-old U.S. citizen from Houston, Texas for secondary inspection. Using a non-intrusive imaging system and a canine, CBP officers found 12 bundles of cocaine within the cargo area of the SUV. The cocaine weighed a total of 41 pounds and is valued at $1.3 million. The SUV and the cocaine were seized by CBP officers.

A new battle over illegal immigration is rapidly shaping up in the nation’s capital. Supporters of comprehensive immigration reform are demanding immediate legislative action from the Obama administration with a planned mass demonstration in Washington scheduled for March 21, billed as “March for America: Change Takes Courage.”Meanwhile, Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., have been meeting with the White House to reintroduce immigration legislation. The bipartisan effort is reminiscent of twice-failed attempts by Sens. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., and John McCain, R-Ariz., during the administration of President George W. Bush.

WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) - A growing number of Americans, nearly half the country, think global warming worries are exaggerated, as more people also doubt that scientific warnings of severe environmental fallout will ever occur, according to a new Gallup poll.  The new doubts come as President Barack Obama is pressuring the Congress to produce legislation significantly cutting smokestack emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases blamed for climate change problems.

Would House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow House Democratic leaders try to cram the Senate version of Obamacare through the House without actually having a recorded vote on the bill?

Not only is the answer yes, they would, they have figured out a way to do it, according to National Journal’s Congress Daily:

This showdown on Obamacare is a war between those who fight to enslave us under Marxism and genuine Americans who want to live in freedom.  Vladimir Lenin, an expert on Marxism, thinks so. A recent Communist Workers Party publication described Lenin’s position on the “value” of socialized healthcare as “… the keystone to the arch of the socialist state.” American socialists have been fighting to enslave us since at least 1927 when socialist skunk Norman Thomas predicted America wouldn’t vote for socialism, but would adopt every aspect of socialism if it were presented under the banner of liberalism.

The Southern Policy Law Center recently released their so-called annual “Intelligence Report,” labeling groups which oppose illegal immigration as “Nativist Extremist.”  Heidi Beirich, director of research for the SPLC says that they consider these groups to be extreme because they tend to be confrontational with illegal aliens, “where they gather and protest right in their face and scream at them.”

A cell phone application that will help illegal immigrants find water and key landmarks as they cross into the United States is an inappropriate use of taxpayer funds and an irresponsible use of technology, critics say.

The Transborder Immigrant Tool (TBT), the brainchild of three faculty members at the University of California-San Diego and a colleague at the University of Michigan, is a software application that can be installed into a GPS-enabled cell phone. In addition to helping immigrants locate water and landmarks, it also could alert them to Border Patrol checkpoints. And to make the trek a little less arduous, it also plays recorded poetry.

COL John “Jack” Sallee was a good man. Witty, charming, and decisive, he had a way of cutting through the BS. He was my Commanding Officer in the Army. I was sorry to hear of his passing.  He prominently displayed a sign on the wall of his office in the headquarters building. Perhaps it was a warning to his troops, but I think it was an endearing, sort of self-deprecating reminder.

In big, bold letters it read:  “DON’T DO DUMB THINGS”.  It was simple, eloquent, and said it all—good advice for all of us. I wish Sarah Palin had met COL Sallee, or at least read his sign.

A handful of taxpayers in a small community north of Wickenburg, Arizona are being targeted by the local school district in a lawsuit that asks a judge to declare they have no right to request public records, sue the district, or complain to outside agencies.
 
The Congress Elementary School District claims that past efforts by these residents to obtain documents such as minutes of board meetings and spending reports amount to harassment that should not have to be tolerated.

A little–noticed law could soon result in smaller Social Security checks for hundreds of thousands of the elderly and disabled who owe the U.S. money from defaulted loans and other debts more than a decade old.  Social Security benefits are off–limits to creditors, such as credit–card companies and banks. But the U.S. can collect debts to federal agencies by “offsetting,” or withholding Social Security and disability payments.

Utah has become the third state to adopt a law exempting guns and ammunition made, sold and used in the state from massive federal regulations under the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and supporters say about 30 more states have some sort of plan for their own exemptions in the works.

Officials in Utah say they expect a lawsuit over their direct challenge to Washington if the federal government succeeds in its current case against Montana’s law.