From The Heritage Foundation: As Matt Mayer vividly describes in a new Heritage Web Memo, the Obama administration is implementing a de facto amnesty that will allow the vast majority of illegal aliens to remain in the United States without being disturbed by the Department of Homeland Security or any attempts to deport them. We can [...]

From NewsMax.com: Federal prosecutors’ decision to “protect” Obama administration officials by not calling them to testify against former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is “absolutely” responsible for the prosecution’s stunning failure to get convictions on 23 of 24 counts, a Fox News legal analyst who closely followed the trial tells Newsmax. Not obtaining a guilty verdict [...]

From World Net Daily: Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., ranking member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has called for a Government Accountability Office investigation into the legality of the Obama administration’s use of taxpayer funds to conduct “a propaganda effort” to promote the president’s partisan political agenda. As WND reported Monday, Issa and the [...]

From World Net Daily: Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the ranking Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued a scathing staff report today charging that the White House has “used the machinery of the Obama campaign to tout the president’s agenda through inappropriate and sometimes unlawful public relations and propaganda initiatives.” An [...]

From Michelle Malkin: Like so much that emanates from Washington, this latest summer of corruption tale stinks. Back in February 2009, you may recall that government spending watchdog GOP Sen. Tom Coburn first called attention to a $2 billion earmark in the Obama stimulus bill to to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in [...]

From Michelle Malkin: Team Obama is playing the “private citizen” card again to create a bubble of political protection around the profligate, policy activist First Lady. We’ve seen it before. When conservatives challenged Mrs. O’s caustic 2008 campaign trail statements disparaging America and fear-mongering for votes, her hubby invoked the “civilian” shield. He threatened Republicans to “lay off his wife”, [...]

From Right Wing News: Wow, a terrific ad from the NRSC about President Obama’s connection with mobster Alexi Giannoulias: Haven’t heard about Giannoulias? Here’s some background from theExaminer’s David Flatt: Since his return from Greece Giannoulias has met repeatedly with known criminals. Alexi Giannoulias family bank is known as the Broadway Bank in Chicago. Clients [...]

From World Net Daily: Just when you thought there couldn’t be any more players in the ongoing soap opera over the hunt for President Obama’s original birth certificate and his constitutional eligibility for office, there comes yet another name: Elena Kagan. Yes, the same Elena Kagan nominated by the commander in chief to be the [...]

From World Net Daily: The Obama administration is buying votes in Kenya, charges Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health. WND reported Monday the Obama administration has funded $23 million of U.S. taxpayer dollars through the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, to support the passage [...]

From CNSNews.com: Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, said there is “all kinds of pressure” by the Democratic Caucus on Committee Chairman Max Baucus not to call in President Obama’s recess-appointee to run Medicare and Medicaid, Dr. Donald Berwick, for hearings, which are constitutionally mandated. Hatch added that there “must [...]

From World Net Daily: An investigation by three Republican congressmen has revealed the Obama administration has secretly spent $23 million of U.S. taxpayer dollars in Kenya to fund a “Yes” vote on a constitutional referendum scheduled for Aug. 4 that would increase access to abortions in Kenya and establish legal status for Islamic law tribunals. [...]

From World Net Daily: You’ve seen the reports about Van Jones, President Obama’s onetime “green jobs czar,” and Cass Sunstein, his equally volatile “regulatory czar,” and Fox News show host Glenn Beck has put together a list of dozens of such appointees. Now here’s the newest White House promotion: “Health food czar” Sam Kass. “In [...]

From Human Events: Even as Team Obama has remained silent during the ongoing Rod Blagojevich trial, questions remain about its connection to insider deal-making as the former Illinois governor’s corruption trial drones on into a hotly watched second month. Critics have decried the lack of transparency in the matter despite the administration’s stated goal of [...]

Democrat and film maker Gigi Gaston is making a documentary entitled We Will Not Be Silenced, a documentary about voter fraud in the Democratic presidential primary 2008. Previews of the documentary can be viewed at her new website, WeWillNotBeSilenced2008.com. From her website: As Americans, we expect certain liberties and rights that were granted us by our forefathers, [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: In a year when Americans are arguably more cynical and disillusioned about politics than at any time since Watergate, the corruption trial of Rod Blagojevich is a sobering reminder of how its practitioners operate. Although “Blago”, the foul-mouthed bouffant buffoon, is the main attraction of the Chicago production, the former Illinois governor’s reluctant [...]

From Michelle Malkin: Prosecutors at the trial of Rod Blagojevich released a recording of the former Illinois governor sounding unhappy, to say the least, with Barack Obama, but even more unhappy with his job at the time. It’s said that the prosecution released the audio to attempt to prove the level of Blagojevich’s financial desperation, [...]

From NewsMax.com: An angry Rod Blagojevich is heard grumbling on FBI wiretap tapes played at his corruption trial Wednesday that he is willing to appoint a favorite of Barack Obama to the U.S. Senate, but the newly elected president is “all take and no give.” “The arrogance of these people,” Blagojevich is heard saying on [...]

From Townhall.com: The Internal Revenue Service declared that it would tax BP’s Obama-mandated $20 billion slush fund at the same rates other income is taxed. It’s common knowledge that BP offered up the $20 billion only after Obama twisted his arm, so this new scheme shouldn’t come as a surprise. The President is desperate to fund his [...]

From HumanEvents.com: In his Chicago days, President Obama spent a great deal of time working with Marxist, Saul Alinsky-disciples Bill Ayers and Gerald Kellman. It should come as no surprise then, that he employs many of the tactics found in Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals in his handling of the BP oil spill. Here are a [...]

From The Chicago Sun Times: A top aide to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich said he believed Barack Obama knew of Blagojevich’s plot to win himself a presidential Cabinet post in exchange for appointing Valerie Jarrett to the U.S. Senate. John Harris, Blagojevich’s former chief of staff, testified Wednesday in the former governor’s corruption trial that [...]