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Mexico troops enter drug war city Mexico hopes to have up to 7,000 troops in the city in a few days More than 1,500 Mexican troops have moved into a city on the US border being fought over by rival drug gangs.Soldiers moved into Ciudad Juarez to try to regain control of a city in which more than 2,000 people have been murdered over the past year. Officials say they intend to have 7,000 troops and police in position by the end of the week. Rival gangs are battling for control of the city, which is a key entry...

In his message for the upcoming World Youth Day Benedict XVI stresses that youth is a time of hope, warning however that politics, science, technology and economics alone cannot offer much hope, only God can.

After the fifth consecutive down day for the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), commentators from unexpected corners of the political spectrum are starting to scratch their heads over the Obama's administration economic policy responses. Take, for example, former Rep. Harold Ford, Jr., D-Tenn., now a commentator for arguably the most politically left-of-center network, MSNBC. On the network's March 3 airing of "Hardball," Ford said it's time for the Obama administration to get its act together. He said the analogy President Barack Obama and his press secretary Robert Gibbs used - that following the stock market was akin to following a...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — State auditor Mary Taylor on Monday criticized Gov. Ted Strickland's office for not releasing Ohio's 2008 financial records in a timely manner. Taylor, a certified public account, called a news conference to point out the problem, ONN reported. According to Taylor, the state's financial records are typically released in January and then audited by her office. She said that the numbers may not come out until June. Taylor's announcement came as state lawmakers are debating Strickland's two-year, $54 million budget proposal. "We believe that by not providing these audited financial statements, the Governor is not fulfilling the...

Let's be fair. The president needs a safe, lavishly equipped aircraft with unique capabilities. Americans recall how frightened they were on Sept. 11, 2001, and how reassuring it was to know the president was aboard Air Force One. But does the president need to behave like a 9-year-old with a new toy? "Hey, guys," President Obama told reporters accompanying him on one of several flights he has taken during his eventful first month in office, "what do you think of my — this spiffy ride here?" Since the inaugural Jan. 20, he's flown to Virginia, Denver, Phoenix, Chicago and Canada....

NBC's Tom Costello, on duty at the White House today, asked press secretary Robert Gibbs about some comments made by his CNBC colleague Jim Cramer. On the Today show this morning, Cramer called Pres. Obama's budget a "radical agenda," adding, "This is the greatest wealth destruction I've seen by a President." "I'm not entirely sure what he's pointing to to make some of the statements," said Gibbs. "And you can go back and look at any number of statements he's made in the past about the economy and wonder where some of the back-up for those are too." When pressed...

Local senator revives controversy over Matricula Consular card. Mexican citizens living in California could use a controversial identification card issued by the Mexican government for business transactions under legislation introduced by Orange County state Sen. Lou Correa. The Santa Ana Democrat's proposal, Senate Bill 461, would allow notaries in California to accept Matricula Consular cards as valid identification for executing property transfers and other official transactions. The Mexican government, through its consulate offices, issues Matricula Consular photo ID cards to Mexican nationals living outside of their country, regardless of their emigration status. The cards have a reputation for being easily...

Elite members of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, at the end of January were considering a proposal for a new global television network to usher in a state of “global governance.” It sounds authoritarian, even totalitarian, to some. The media proposal, which was included in “The Global Agenda 2009” report, is to create “a new global network” with “the capacity to connect the world, bridging cultures and peoples, and telling us who we are and what we mean to each other.” Several prominent U.S. media figures signed on to the alarming and controversial proposal. Isn’t it...

This is a flash spoof of the coming total control the 0bamabots have in mind for the nation. I got this in an email. It is too close to the truth to be ignored. Ironic that is from the ACLU

A U.S. airline is now selling "penis" on flights, an anchorwoman has declared. The slip-up happened on CNN when anchorwoman Zain Verjee was reporting about Northwest Airlines now selling peanuts on flights. Verjee mentioned the word "penis" three times instead of "peanuts." "Northwest began serving penis this month as its merger partner Atlanta-based Delta airlines has done for years," Verjee said.

DELAWARE, Ohio — A Powell woman who was called the "queen" of mortgage fraud pleaded guilty on Tuesday and was sentenced to prison. Gihan "Gigi" Zalat faces deportation upon completion of her sentence, according to the Delaware County prosecutor's office. Zalat, 41, pleaded guilty to eight felony charges, including three counts engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity and five counts of money laundering. On Monday, alleged ring member Scott McCann, 46, of Upper Arlington, pleaded guilty to charges of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity and money laundering. He is scheduled for to be sentenced on April 13....

China is to increase official military spending by almost 15 per cent this year as it seeks to upgrade its smart technology and improve the living standards of its soldiers. The 14.9 per cent rise to 480.7 billion yuan (£50 billion), up 62.5 billion yuan from 2008, was announced in advance of the annual meeting of the rubber-stamp parliament, the National People's Congress. It is slightly smaller than the increase in recent years, suggesting that the government is focusing its spending on boosting the wider economy. But after rises of 17.8 per cent in 2007 and 17.6 per cent in...

Obama explains his secret letter to Russia, offering to drop our missile defense of Poland (wonder what the Poles think about that idea?) and Eastern Europe, if Russia would only help us keep Iran from weaponizing it's new nuclear capabilities. The letter came to light when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev blew up Obama's spot, saying sure, we'd love to talk about ditching the missile shield, but we don't know nuthin' bout no Iran nukes. Is this some kind of clever foreign policy trick by Obama? Or is it as dumb as it seems on it's face?

When hard times reached the Schneider household in central Oregon, the longtime stay-at-home mom took action — getting a job at a Subway sandwich shop to offset a drop in her husband's earnings. What she didn't do was also notable: She didn't stop homeschooling her three teenage children.

CNN wants President Obama’s socialist agenda to succeed so badly that they’ve given up any pretense of objective polling. Here’s question they asked at CNN.com yesterday: Obama says he can cut the deficit in half. “Can he do it?” • Yes, he can • Not if the Republicans get their way • The world won’t let him ...more

Yesterday evening, Leo Donofrio, Plaintiff in Donofrio v. Wells, reported that he has agreed to get together with Mario Apuzzo, attorney for the Plaintiffs in Kerchner v. Obama, to begin exploring the ramifications of challenging the President’s authority via a prerogative writ known as quo warranto: Today I had a five hour meeting with New Jersey attorney, Mario Apuzzo. The meeting was entirely focused on the issue of Quo Warranto. Bottom line: we’ve identified a subset of plaintiffs who have a much easier path to standing to institute an action in Quo Warranto than active military. This subset of plaintiffs...

American International Group Inc. (AIG), responding to a lawsuit filed by former Chief Executive Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, said he was "directly responsible" for the creation of financial products that led to the company's near collapse. The insurance giant called the suit, alleging securities fraud tied to misrepresentations of billion of dollars in losses on credit default swaps, " utterly without merit." "It strains common sense to accept Greenberg's allegations that he was misled or did not appreciate the risks from the multisector CDS book written by AIG," the company said. Greenberg, who led the insurance giant for almost 40 years,...

MOSCOW — If you're inclined to believe Igor Panarin, and the Kremlin wouldn't mind if you did, then President Barack Obama will order martial law this year, the U.S. will split into six rump-states before 2011, and Russia and China will become the backbones of a new world order. Panarin might be easy to ignore but for the fact that he is a dean at the Foreign Ministry's school for future diplomats and a regular on Russia's state-guided TV channels. And his predictions fit into the anti-American story line of the Kremlin leadership.

Over the last forty years, Republicans, Conservatives, and anyone that believes in and loves America has been increasingly under attack by the left wing in this country who want to remake it. These attacks have been based on the foundation built by Antonio Gramsci and the works of Saul Alinsky. Among those works is a book called “Rules for Radicals“, in which Alinsky outlined a set of tactics that could be used by socialists to infiltrate all areas of our society and work to bring about their ends. The dirty little secret is that President Obama is one of the...

As our economy experiences one of its most dramatic downturns in decades, the American worker is bearing much of the pain. According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, 4.1 million people joined the ranks of the unemployed in the last year. That brought the national unemployment rate up to 7.6 percent -- and of course that number is much higher in many parts of the country. If you're one of the people who has lost their job --or whose job is in jeopardy -- the key is to take action. Here are some things you can do to...