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The uncle of President Obama was arrested here [Framingham, Mass.] on drunken driving and other charges and has been a fugitive from deportation since 1992. Onyango Obama, who is from Kenya and is known as the president's Uncle Omar, was arrested when police said the car he was driving darted in front of a police cruiser, nearly causing the officer to hit his car. Obama is the SECOND relative of the president to have defied a deportation order. This raises questions about how a man who lived in the United States illegally for years managed to secure a job, a...

The ground zero mosque, called Park 51, has applied for a $5 million grant of federal funds from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. The Corporation, set up to rebuild lower Manhattan after 9/11 is actively considering the grant request. Imagine! A federal entity set up to rebuild lower Manhattan giving tax money to a mosque designed to celebrate the attacks that killed 3,000 Americans! The ground zero mosque will offer courses in Sharia Law and will doubtless spawn hundreds of new terrorists eager to pick up where the 9/11 highjackers left off. The sponsors of the mosque have no business...

Imagine if MSNBC gave a TV show to a violent racist who led angry mobs against Jewish and Asian communities and businesses. Mobs that gathered outside a Jewish synogogue chanting "Heil Hitler" and "Death to Jews." Unimaginable, right? Wrong. After years of accusing Fox of racism, MSNBC gave a violent racist his own show. Of course MSNBC would never give a white racist like David Duke his own show. But they have no problem giving one to Al Sharpton.

Republicans accused the Obama administration of instituting "backdoor amnesty" after officials announced they would launch a case-by-case review of illegal immigrants slated for deportation in an effort to thin the list and focus resources on kicking out criminals. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, one of the president's toughest critics on border security, said the move amounts to the administration implementing an immigration overhaul "via executive fiat." "The plan amounts to backdoor amnesty for hundreds of thousands - if not millions - of illegal aliens," the Republican governor said in a written statement.

In his inimitable style The Donald tells it like it is with respect to our part-time president who seldom interrupts his endless vacations to deal with the economic crisis he himself did so much to create.

So now the chickens have well and truly come home terrifyingly to roost. The violent anarchy that has taken hold of British cities is the all-too-predictable outcome of a three decade liberal experiment which tore up virtually every social value. The married two-parent family, educational meritocracy, punishment of criminals, national identity and many more fundamental conventions were all smashed by a liberal intelligentsia bent on a revolutionary transformation of society. Those of us who warned that they were playing with fire were sneered at as Right-wing nutters. What has been fueling all this is NOT poverty, as has so predictably...

The Social Security Administration announced there would be NO cost-of-living adjustment for 2011, which marks the SECOND consecutive year there will be no COLA. This poses a great challenge to seniors who are trying to survive on fixed incomes, many of whom are struggling to make ends meet. In fact, Social Security was the primary source of income for 64 perecent of retirees in 2008, and for a third of them those checks represented 90 percent or more income.

In his own inimitable style Rush tells why the debt deal is a scam and how the Republican House members have been played for suckers in what's really - behind the empty and deliberately vague verbiage - a go-ahead for more Obama tax-and-spend billions. Hello Greece, here we come!

Sen. Jeff Sessions details how the Obama "no plan" for fiscal solvency raises the debt ceiling and his tax-and-spend-policy is leading us into bankruptcy and making the once great nation of America into another Greece and failed socialistic state. By the way, Sen. Sessions is a hero to most FReepers because he was the primary force that led to the defeat in '06 of the Comprehensive Immigration bill (a/k/a amnesty) which RINOs like George Bush and John McCain were strongly promoting. He's tough, he's smart and he's a real Republican. conservative who relentlessly fights the war against RINO's and their...

No comprehensive financial fix can be complete without Congress demanding enforcement against illegal immigration. American taxpayers spend $113 billion annually subsidizing illegal immigration. In some states, reducing this fiscal burden would would be nothing short of an economic miracle. California's budget deficit is $28 billion yet the state spends $21.8 billion subsidizing illegal immigration, or 75 percent of their TOTAL deficit! Massachusetts could almost clear its books by ending illegal alien subsidies; the state's deficit is $2 billion, while their annual cost of illegal immigration is $1.86 billion. Maryland and New York would enjoy much needed surplusses; those state's expenditures...

This urgent message to all citizens on behalf of the Tea Party is self-explanitory. Time is growing very short and there is every indication that the GOP leadership in Congress - from McConnell down is about to cave to Obama and help the Left push us into fiscal collapse and bankruptcy.

The Rev. Al Sharpton was guest hosting on MSNBC during their 6 pm hour. Former sparring partner Bill Press and Sharpton double-teamed Pat Buchanan who asked why the economy the economy was so bad if President Obama's handling of it was so great. Host Sharpton told Buchanan and Republicans "ya'll are losing" at the end of the segment. Watch.

When President Obama started talking at his news conference Monday, I listened intently for 15 minutes or so. Then I got fidgety as his half truths about the debt grew into full-blown whoppers. As he droned on, I did something I never did before during an obama appearance: I turned off the TV. Enough: He is the Man Who Won't Listen to Anybody, so why should anybody listen to him? His presidency is a spectacular failure, his historic mandate squandered by adherence to leftist ideology and relentless partisanship. His policies are crushing the prospects for growth and dooming the hopes...

Polls show there's an anti-Mormon bias among voters - especially Democrats, more than a quarter of whom say they wouldn't vote for a Mormon. But this video of a Memphis Fox affiliate ridiculing Mitt Romney about his religion is a real wake-up call [video]. The whole news segment appears to be about Mormonism and the 2012 election, but skip ahead to the 3:20 mark for the worst of it [video].

Dick Morris defends Bachmann from the criticism leveled at her in the wake of the ABC morning show with George Stephanopoulos.

The viewing audiences of cable TV are daily subjected to a multitude of Republican and Democratic "strategists" but the networks neglect to inform us of their backgrounds, education, political experience or expertise. Many appear to be about the age of college freshmen. Who exactly are they? The paramours of some network executives? People auditioning for a real job? Does the media have an obligation to disclose the backgrounds and qualifications of those purporting to be speaking on behalf of a cause or political party? As things now stand these mysterious people with 'no past' are making a laughing-stock of serious...

Goldman Sachs plans major job cuts in the United States while planning a major hiring spree in Singapore. With profits coming under major pressure in the U.S., Goldman appears to be launching possibly the most aggressive effort among big banks to expand overseas where the business climate is more favorable. A major source of trouble for banks and investment firms is the new regulatory environment. Those regulations, found primarily in the Dodd/Frank financial reform bill sponsored by Senator Chris Dodd and his counterpart in the House, Congressman Barney Frank, have forced banks to hold higher capital reserves and also forced...

For those who may have missed it, Bachmann answered the questions posed by Chris Wallace today on "Fox News Sunday" without any spin or ambiguity. This presents a stark contrast with Romney who's opportunistically all over the map with his reversals and changing ideological positions. Like Kerry, he supported something before he was against it. RomneyCare anyone?

THIS IS THE VIDEO THAT WASN'T CONNECTED TO THE PREVIOUS POST. APOLOGIES!

In any sane society the release of felons and violent criminals from prison, who are here illegally in the first place, would seem to be a societal death wish. But given the desire to pander to the Hispanic lobby with its agenda of open-borders and amnesty, our elected officials could care less about the welfare of citizens -so long as they get the vote from America's fastest growing ethnic minority.