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John McCain’s presidential campaign has been on the attack against the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now for its voter registration tactics as well as its ties to rival Barack Obama. Today, Acorn fired back at McCain, accusing the Arizona senator of erratic and misleading behavior. “ACORN to McCain: Have You Lost That Loving Feeling?” reads a release by the organization this afternoon, noting that McCain was the keynote speaker at a Feb. 20, 2006 Miami rally cosponsored by Acorn to build support for a comprehensive immigration reform bill co-sponsored by McCain and Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. The...

MIAMI, Oct 13, 2008 /PRNewswire -- Senator Allied with ACORN as Recently as 2006, Now Turns Cold Shoulder U.S. Senator John McCain's recent attacks on the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), are puzzling given his historic support for the organization and its efforts on behalf of immigrant Americans. As recently as February 20, 2006, Senator McCain was the keynote speaker at an ACORN-sponsored Immigration Rally in Miami, Florida at Miami Dade College - Wolfson Campus. The rally, co-sponsored by ACORN in partnership with the New American Opportunity campaign (NAOC), Catholic League Services - Archdiocese of Miami, Florida...

Talk about a smoking pistola! "UNDOCUMENTED (ILLEGAL ALIENS) CAN NOW PURCHASE HOME" (Indocumentados pueden comprar casa)By Delines BatlleTV47 Telemundo, 7 September 2005[TRANSLATION SPANISH TO ENGLISH BY FREEPER]"New York, NY-- Thanks to a private bank initiative, it is now possible for undocumented immigrants to the United States to purchase a home, without having a Social Security Number.A new program, it will now help those immigrants who have not been able to purchase a home, and to help them achieve the American Dream.For a very long time, Elena Hernandez did not have the illusion of being able to buy a home, not...

How Many Non-Citizen Voters? Enough to Make a Difference October 13, 2008 By David Simcox The Impact of Non-Citizen Voting on American Elections Executive Summary The approaching 2008 general elections underscore concern that the growing access of non-citizens to the ballot box could distort the outcome. Groups arguing for easier access to the polls deny there is a problem at all, seeing restrictive registration and identification rules as anti-democratic and even racist. They dismiss non-citizen voting as rare, not criminal in intent or concerted, and more harmful than beneficial to non-citizens. Yet anecdotal evidence persists and grows that non-citizens are...

To the degree that they are engaged in this election, conservatives are motivated entirely by fear of Obama and what he will do as president when backed by a solidly liberal Democratic House and Senate. They are not driven by love of the Republican candidate, and it shows in the anger present at McCain campaign rallies. Most conservatives will probably vote for McCain, but they also realize they are far less likely to persuade others, and they feel a disaster coming. The enthusiasm the Right felt during the 2004 election, which had been framed as a true ideological clash between...

<p>"My friends, I have traveled all over this great country, and one thing I have heard from Americans at every stop is that they are angry. They’re angry. They’re angry. They’re angry about the mess in Washington and Wall Street. They’re angry about the failure of leadership at this hour of national crisis,” said McCain. “Well you’re angry, and I’m angry too, and when Sarah Palin and I get to the White House we’ll turn Washington upside down.”</p>

Mexican marijuana cartels use pesticides, herbicides that pollute US parks, forests National forests and parks — long popular with Mexican marijuana-growing cartels — have become home to some of the most polluted pockets of wilderness in America because of the toxic chemicals needed to eke lucrative harvests from rocky mountainsides, federal officials said. The grow sites have taken hold from the West Coast's Cascade Mountains, as well as on federal lands in Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia. Seven hundred grow sites were discovered on U.S. Forest Service land in California alone in 2007 and 2008 — and authorities say the...

McCain just killed all the momentum and enthusiasm of the last week with this simple sentence in response to an angry attendee at a rally tonight: “I have to tell you, he is a decent person, a person that you do not have to be scared [of] as president of the United States." “No, ma’am. He is a decent family man, citizen"

After days of watching in silence, McCain calms the crowd at his Minnesota town meeting. “I want everyone to be respectful. And let’s make sure we are, because that’s the way politics is done in America.” Tells one supporter who says he’s scared of an Obama presidency: “I have to tell you, he is a decent person, a person that you do not have to be scared [of] as president of the United States.” After a woman calls Obama “an Arab,” McCain interrupts to say: “No, ma’am. He is a decent family man, citizen

Earlier today, Obama remarked on recent outbursts of "Traitor!" "Terrorist!" and "Kill him!" at McCain campaign events. "It's easy to rile up a crowd," Obama said. "Nothing's easier than riling up a crowd by stoking anger and division. But that's not what we need right now in the United States." In response, McCain senior adviser Nicolle Wallace released this statement, NBC's Kelly O'Donnell reports. "Barack Obama's assault on our supporters is insulting and unsurprising. These are the same people obama called 'bitter' and attacked for 'clinging to guns' and faith. He fails to understand that people are angry at corrupt...

John McCain proposed Friday that the elderly be allowed to hang on to the stocks in their retirement funds and not be forced to sell them in a bad market. ADVERTISEMENT The Republican presidential candidate would suspend requirements that people start selling off retirement investments when they turn 70 and a half. "Spare investors from being forced to sell their stocks just in time when the market is hurting the most," McCain said to cheers at a western Wisconsin rally. "We have to protect investors, particularly those who are relying on investments for retirement."

A single report by KFYI radio of Phoenix, Arizona highlights a shocking claim made by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). HUD says that five million illegal aliens hold illegal mortgages. This is just one more example of the lax lending laws put into place by Democrats like Barney Frank that have contributed to this economic crisis. One would think this would be big news. But, so far we have only this one report to cover it. There have been earlier stories of home flipping schemes that made liberal use of illegal aliens as straw buyers and the...

McCain faces conservative backlash over mortgage plan By Alexander Mooney CNN (CNN) -- John McCain is facing a fresh round of anger from members of his own party deeply opposed to the Arizona senator's proposal for the federal government to purchase troubled mortgage loans. John McCain first mentioned his mortgage relief plan during Tuesday's town-hall debate with Barack Obama. John McCain first mentioned his mortgage relief plan during Tuesday's town-hall debate with Barack Obama. The pointed backlash from several economic conservatives -- many of whom already distrust McCain's commitment to free-market principles -- couldn't come at a worse time for...

WEST ALLIS - An illegal immigrant convicted of running down a West Allis mother and daughter faced sentencing Thursday. The child died in a West Allis intersection four months ago Thursday. The maximum sentence for causing death while driving with a revoked license is only nine months. That's what Jose Rodriguez got…but there's a catch. It was an extremely emotional time for the Maddox family. Thursday was the first time Andrea Maddox saw the man charged with killing her daughter and injuring her as the two crossed the street in West Allis

ELECTORAL VOTE October 9, 2008 KERRY 280 BUSH 248 Does anyone remember the Kerry's landslide that came afterwards ? Oh... wait...

John McCain is insane. I’m still voting for him, but he’s out of his freaking mind. I’m talking about his new wrinkle on the bailout fiasco. As if it and its accumulated crud weren’t enough of an offense, he’s figured out a way to make it even worse. He brought it up at the debate. Proud as a peacock, in response to the first question, he popped out his new plan. On the night he needed to draw blood – or make vacation plans for January 20th – the best John McCain could do was try to out-socialist Barack Obama....

The candidates from the two most successful parties are competing for the “change” image. Both Washington insiders, they’re running as outsiders who are finally going to clean things up. It’s a powerful message because most voters want a Washington clean-up. But we’ve heard it all before and would be naïve to expect anything less than business-as-usual no matter who gets elected. Neither has made a substantial comment about what needs to be cleaned up or how it would be done. So, it’s up to the rest of us to open a serious discussion if we want one to happen. ......

I’ve seen debates, read articles, and watched Internet clips of stump speeches. From what I can tell of the character of the contest, from positions on issues, the process has not yet emerged from the Democratic Party primaries. Perhaps more accurately still, it seems we no longer have two distinct American political parties. The donkeys and elephants have been “put to sleep.” The limited democracy of the de facto two-party system has given way to a single predefined political agenda. The only political choice on offer is a more complete transformation to international socialism. The established drivers, including extremism in...

It may be time to re-evaluate your wisdom if you've ever said that all's fair in love and politics. One good thing you can say about Michelle Obama is that she comes right out and says it. An Obama presidency would mean repeal of the Defence of Marriage Act and streamlining adoption for same-sex couples. A more sinister side of the policy debate involves where some of those children will come from – fit and loving natural parents who want to raise their own children. The idea is being pushed by people playing a conservative values game. ... cont.

After Barack Obama's Fathers' Day speech, analysts have been confident in criticizing his tired, old, business-as-usual, anti-father, anti-family stance. For some who didn't get the real message through the flowery rhetoric, his choice of running mate “Old White Man” Joe Biden tipped the scale. If you are in favor of sanity, against bone-crushing arbitrary government intrusion and out-of-control pork-barreling, against the destruction of marriage and family, these aren't your guys. What about the alternative, John McCain? ....