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As reported by CNS News, the Obama Administration has created a categorization system for illegal immigrants. This system is designed so that law enforcers may only target illegal aliens guilty of serious crimes, while leaving others alone. "Instead of allowing local police to arrest people simply for being in the United States illegally, the Obama administration has now established categories of illegal aliens who are a 'priority for arrest and detention.' Those priorities include aliens convicted of or arrested for major crimes, including drug offenses and murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery, and kidnapping; aliens convicted of or arrested for minor drug...

The New York Times has an interesting article today. Apparently, Paganism is growing, and that's just fine, at least according to the NYT. Paganism has always been seen as the "alright religion" by the left. It's hip, cool, different. Not at all like those stuffy christians. "In several ways, though, Paganism was waiting for modernity to catch up with it. The emphasis on the worship of nature in virtually all variations of Pagan faith, and the embrace of a female divinity in many, situated the religion to mesh with the environmental and feminist movements that swept through the United States...

Over the years, I have spent a great deal of time studying psychology. To be specific, I've studied how psychology is often used to manipulate people. I first gained an interest in this subject years ago as it pertained to cultists (LONG story), but eventually I started to notice the same tactics used in the media, in political debate, and in general conversation with left-leaning people. In this post I will go over some of the basic tactics often used by those who wish to manipulate you, and how you can defend against them. ...

Earlier today, Liberal news makers and bloggers such as the Huffington Post rushed to their keyboards to make another attack on Conservatism. They were responding to a rumor going around that Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia had claimed he would have been against the decision of the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education. ...

While our country is being strangled by its massive debt, President Obama is launching a new plan to donate money to Muslim countries to fund technological development. Shouldn't he be trying to deal with the financial troubles of the US first? ...

At the launch event for his latest book, Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago attacked the bible, saying that the world would be better off without it. The writers latest book "Cain" is an ironic retelling of the story of Cain and Abel from the book of genesis. Looks like President Obama is in great company. ...

Belief in the myth of Global Warming has dropped 20 points in the last 3 years according to polling done by the Pew Research Center. Obama has followed this up by opening a polar bear habitat in Alaska, which will make drilling for oil and natural gas there much more difficult. ...

A biological attack will occur "more likely than not before 2013," according to this Washington Post article today. "The Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, created by Congress in 2007, said in an interim report Wednesday that the administration and lawmakers have underfunded efforts to develop vaccines and drugs and have not named a high-level National Security Council appointee to improve biodefenses." "The task force criticized President Obama for requesting $305 million in 2010 for the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, which it called 'insufficient by a factor of 10.'" ...

A new online "game" called Internet Eyes is about to be launched in the UK. The game allows the "players" to connect to CCTV cameras in the UK to monitor for criminal activity. If a resident witnesses a crime, they can then report it for a reward of up to £1000.

Goldy Gopher, the mascot for the University of Minnesota football team the Golden Gophers, made news today for mocking Penn State player Jerome Hayes. Jerome had knelt down in prayer before the game when the mascot decided make fun of him. Take a look at the video below. ...

A group called The Big Apple Coalition of Reason has started a monthlong ad camaign on the New York City subway system. The group aims to convince people that there are many atheists in New York, and that they are still moral without religion. ...

In a recent change, the Obama Administration has ordered federal authorities to not go after medical marijuana facilities in states where they are allowed under state law. This comes after a recent Gallop poll showing that support for legalization has reached a new high. So what will this do to America? ...

As we covered in a previous post, the Muslim advocacy group CAIR is currently in the midst of a scandal on Capitol Hill, and the mainstream media has done its best to ignore it. And now Paul "Dave" Gaubatz, the co-author of "Muslim Mafia", the book that started this whole thing, is being accused of "islamophobia" by CAIR. ...

As reported by wnd.com today, in 2004 a congressional committee deliberated on a plan to allow immigrants to run for POTUS. A major supporter of this plan was Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass. "We do have now this major obstacle in the way of the voters, and we say to them, 'We don't trust you, you could get fooled, I mean, they might, some foreign country might sucker you by getting some slick person and mole him into the United States or her and get that person citizenship and then years later have that person get elected president and you'll be...

On Wednesday, four congressmen accused the muslim advocacy group CAIR of planting spies on Capitol Hill. Even more questions about CAIR have been raised with their recent actions, including inviting several radicals to their annual banquet. While looking into this story, I popped it into google and found... Nothing. Go ahead, try it yourself. There has been almost no coverage of this story at all by the mainstream media. Neither on television, nor on the internet.

Recently, the Obama Administration has made quite a few comments on its relationship with the media. From complaining that the media as a whole is out to get them, to accusing Fox News of being an underling of the Republican Party. The left wing has followed its lead and continued these attacks. Could this be leading somewhere? ...

A chapter on global warming in the soon to be released Superfreakonomics, sequel to the bestseller Freaknomics, has been leaked, and the left isn't happy about it.

Recently, the left has been turning up the heat on Obama on Afghanistan, even calling for Vice President Biden to resign over it. And now Obama's views on national security is making the cracks in the left grow even more.So how will this affect the Obama Administration? It seems unlikely that democrat politicians will challenge Obama on any of this, so it most likely won't have any effect on policy creation in the future. However, if it continues, it could cause some real problems for democrats in 2010 and Obama in the 2012 elections.