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Video from KVOA Tucson. Puts some pictures to the BP story.

Posted: May 11, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Out here in Southern California, a local Spanish-language TV station caused a stink recently by putting up several billboards reaching out to potential viewers in Los Angeles, Mexico. Predictably, as soon as outraged gringos complained, they were accused of being racists. How is it, I keep asking myself, that it's only the biggest racists in America who are given carte blanche to condemn others for being what they are themselves? Who but a racist would conclude that America's sovereignty is merely a minor inconvenience they are free to ignore for...

Minuteman Project organizer Chris Simcox is expected to testify before Congress next week, but he's not good enough to attend a Homeland Security Department press conference in Arizona. On Thursday, Mr. Simcox, who also edits and writes for the Tombstone Tumbleweed, tried to gain entry to the press conference, where Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff was speaking, as a member of the press. As Jerry Seper of The Washington Times reported on Monday, Mr. Simcox was turned away for "security reasons," according to a spokesman for the Tucson Sector of the Border Patrol, which was acting as security detail for...

Tucson Border Patrol Chief Orders Illegal Border Crossing Cover-Up Tucson Border Sector Chief Michael Nicely has ordered the Border Patrol to ensure that Illegal Alien apprehensions are kept to an absolute minimum so as to disprove the impact of the recent month-long Minuteman Project. It is a documented fact that the Minuteman Project essentially shut down the border crossing area in Cochise County where a group of geriatric volunteers from around the nation gathered with lawn chairs, binoculars and cell phones and totally embarrassed the U.S. Border Patrol and the Bush Administration. All during the Minuteman Project Border Patrol officials...

SIERRA VISTA - A pair of hot-button items were emotionally discussed Wednesday night at two town halls hosted by U.S. Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz. Border problems and Social Security reform drew heated comments from an audience of more than 200. The most contentious discussions revolved around what many people saw as a failed federal immigration policy, leading them to support a volunteer group called the Minuteman Project that has pledged to help control the border in April. Kolbe said he has no problems with American citizens coming to Cochise County to be educated about border issues, but draws the line...

Doris Matsui had seen her stock investments plummet two years ago to a point where she decided she wanted to shift some of her money elsewhere. Matsui, who is running in a March 8 special election to replace her late husband in Congress, figured real estate was a better way to go. Matsui recalled Friday that she said as much back then to major Sacramento developer Angelo Tsakopoulos, whom she has considered a friend for three decades. "Everybody when they get together at parties talks about their real estate, about how much more your house is worth than it was...