The court decision was the result of a suit against both the BATF and the IRS by Mattis and other members of the Wyoming Sheriffs' Association. The suit in the Wyoming federal court district sought restoration of the protections enshrined in the United States Constitution and the Wyoming Constitution.

Guess what? The District Court ruled in favor of the sheriffs. In fact, they stated, "Wyoming is a sovereign state and the duly elected sheriff of a county is the highest law enforcement official within a county and has law enforcement powers exceeding that of any other state or federal official." Go back and re-read that quote. The court confirms and asserts, "the duly elected sheriff of a county is the highest law enforcement official within a county and has law enforcement powers EXCEEDING that of any other state OR federal official." And you thought the 10th Amendment was dead and buried -- not in Wyoming, not yet.

What is the mission of The Federal Observer?(from the FAQ section of this publication) As its name suggests, our mission is to keep watch over the continual indiscretions of our "beloved" Federal Government and to report wrongs against the Constitution - and America's people.

Our mission is to make the reader think - for him or herself for once - then to react and ACT upon the information, which we provide.

There is no time to stop and take a breather – or there will be no future my two Angels – unless I get up every morning and kick a lot of ass in this world – and that is why The Federal Observer must pick up the banner once more and forge ahead. I pray for help and guidance, but as stated in the song, ’Soliliquy’ from Roger’s and Hammerstein’s Carousel says, I’ll try by God, I’ll try!” I may a little slow from time to time – but if I get that way – just kick-start me – ‘cause I’ll be around - and so will The Federal Observer.

When supply goes up, price goes down. Few economic principles are less controversial. Unless, that is, we’re discussing the economics of immigration.

Thus, in a recent study of local labor markets, U.C. economist David Card claimed to find that low-skilled foreigners have had little or no impact on native wages.

As usual, this result was immediately seized upon and amplified by the immigration enthusiasts’ MSM echo chamber, for example the Wall Street Journal Editorial Page. [ The Impact of Immigration, By Pia Orrenius, April 25, 2006]. And, as usual, it’s wrong.

It is time for Congress to tell President Bush directly that he has no authority to go to war on Iran and to launch such a war would be an impeachable offense. Or, if they so conclude, Congress should share full responsibility by granting him that authority after it has held hearings and told the people why we have no other choice than another Mideast war, with a nation four times as large as Iraq.

If Congress lacks the courage to do its constitutional duty, it should stop whining about imperial presidents. Because, like the Roman Senate of Caesar's time, it will have invited them and it will deserve them.

The phrase "pathway to citizenship" is just not going to work for conservatives who see illegal immigration as an invasion from Mexico. Mr. President, conservatives are worried that you are getting too cozy not only with Senator Kennedy, but also with President Fox. Why are you allowing President Fox to dump his impoverished uneducated masses upon the United States? Do you realize, Mr. President, that President Fox arranged for all the millions of illegal Mexican immigrants in the U.S. to vote in Mexico's 2006 presidential election, if they wanted to?

What we need, Mr. President, is a fence. We have no use for a "pathway to citizenship," which is nothing more than an amnesty under a different name. If you don't first build a fence, you are on a "pathway for a Democratic majority in the House," maybe even in the Senate, in 2008, if not right now.

The following 10 facts have been pulled from the LA Times. We’ve posted them all at one time or another at ER or in the Blogburst www.blogburst.com.

1. L.A. County has 10 million people. 40% of all workers in L.A. County are working for cash and not paying taxes. This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants, working without a green card.

2. Of the 10 million people in L.A. County, 5.1 million people speak English. 3.9 million speak only Spanish.

3. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.

4. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.

5. Over two-thirds of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers.

6. Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.

7. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.

8. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.

9. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.

10. 21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish language only.

Taking matters into their own hands, some activists are working to build a fence along the nearly 2,000-mile U.S. southern border – with or without government participation.

Using the slogan "American Citizens Securing the Borders Themselves," The Border Fence Project hopes to raise enough money to build a fence along 90 percent of the U.S.-Mexico border that currently has no physical barrier.

The reality is that what the Bush administration calls a national security strategy is really a global security strategy based on "promoting freedom, justice, and human dignity – working to end tyranny, to promote effective democracies, and to extend prosperity through free and fair trade and wise development policies." But this is a false belief that the best and only way to achieve U.S. security is by forcibly creating a better and safer world in America's image.

What ever happened to drilling? What about the ANWR? America’s only solution to becoming energy independent is not to use more “wood chips” and “switch grass,” as President Bush suggested in his last State of the Union address. Take away the federal subsidies and the ethanol industry would probably collapse.

The real problem is that Bush has bought into the “peak oil” hoax. Believing that oil and natural gas are fossil fuels, the President believes we inevitably have to run out. After all, there only were so many dinosaurs, so there has to be only so much fossil fuel. When the dinosaur fuel is gone, we’re out. Why? Because there aren’t any more dinosaurs to make more fuel. That’s the inherent logic of the fossil fuel theory.

For the past several weeks, the mainstream media has made much ado about pro-immigration rallies that have been popping up around the country.But despite the fact that a clear majority of Americans believe that our porous borders and illegal immigration are serious problems, which should be addressed, lawmakers have been doing their best to avoid doing what’s best for the country.

US companies that employ illegal foreign workers have long operated in a kind of lawless nirvana: the government seldom pursued them for breaking the law, and neither did private plaintiffs.

Now, that may be about to change: last week the government signalled an aggressive crackdown against companies that employ illegal immigrants, arresting more than 1,000 people in the largest such action in US history. In addition, US employers face legal action on a second front: private lawyers are using America’s tough anti-mafia law to target companies that employ undocumented workers.

Aldous Huxley's inspired 1956 essay detailed the vivid, mind-expanding, multisensory insights of his mescaline adventures. By altering his brain chemistry with natural psychotropics, Huxley tapped into a rich and fluid world of shimmering, indescribable beauty and power. With his neurosensory input thus triggered, Huxley was able to enter that parallel universe described by every mystic and space captain in recorded history. Whether by hallucination or epiphany, Huxley sought to remove all controls, all filters, all cultural conditioning from his perceptions and to confront Nature or the World or Reality first-hand - in its unpasteurized, unedited, unretouched, infinite rawness.

In the ongoing South Americanization of political culture north of the border—a drawn-out historical journey whose markers include fiscal recklessness, an accelerating wealth gap between the rich and the rest, corruption masked by populist rhetoric, a frank official embrace of the techniques of “dirty war,” and, by way of initiating the present era, a judicial autogolpe installing a dynastic presidente—what has been dubbed the Revolt of the Generals is one of the feebler effusions. But it is striking all the same. By last week, the junta had swelled to six members: General Anthony C. Zinni, of the Marine Corps (four stars); Lieutenant General Gregory Newbold, also of the Marines (three stars); and Major Generals John Batiste, Paul D. Eaton, John Riggs, and Charles H. Swannack, Jr., of the Army (two stars). Some reckon that Wesley Clark (Army, four stars), William E. Odom (ditto, three stars), and Bernard E. Trainor (Marines, three stars) are entitled to spots as auxiliary members. All these generals have said devastating things about the job performance of the current Secretary of Defense, particularly with respect to the Iraq war. Their critiques vary—some of them see the war as a series of tactical blunders, others as a strategic disaster doomed from the start—but on one point the Pentagon Six are unanimous: Please. Bring us the head of Donald Rumsfeld.

Another illegal alien amnesty looms on the political horizon. But as long as the Department of Homeland Security’s Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) division administers it, an immigration benefit fraud free-for-all will certainly result.

Why do I make such harsh judgment?

Look no further than the staggeringly comprehensive Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released in March—IMMIGRATION BENEFITS: Additional Controls and Sanctions Strategy Could Enhance DHS’s Ability to Control Benefit Fraud (GAO-06-259) [PDF].

Some day, in a quieter, more reflective time, there will be an opportunity to conduct a scholarly study to determine whether the Democrats of the twenty-first century actually believed in anything other than temporary partisan advantage. But this is not that time.

Now is the time to call the Democrats’ bluff on energy?not to mention border security, Iraq, and taxes. Is anyone paying attention? At the White House? Mr. President? Karl Rove? On Capitol Hill? Denny Hastert?

Russia recently invited the Palestinian organization Hamas to Moscow and, at the same time, is involved in negotiating with Iran regarding its nuclear program. These two recent developments, tied with Russia's recent use of its energy weapon Gazprom against Ukraine, makes clear that Russia is returning to the international arena. In light of these developments, does Russia's return as a major power in international security coincide with the standing and conceptual thinking of Russia's armed forces?

53,000 paramilitaries and Green Berets now operate within Special Operations Command (SOCOM) The next terrorist attack will allow the Pentagon to quickly mobilize these troops to “disrupt and respond” to potential threats across the planet ignoring national sovereignty or the laws of war. The surprise appearance of Bin Laden in a video which aired yesterday on Al Jazeera (another Rumsfeld psy-ops?) must have been warmly received by the Pentagon warlords who would like to see their plan executed pell mell.

There should be little doubt that Don Rumsfeld’s dream of a global military empire, accountable only to the league of corporate mandarins, hasn’t dimmed by his abysmal record of failure in Iraq. Left to his own devices, Rumsfeld is determined to put the US military under private control and turn the world into one massive war zone.

Though some in the pro-life movement strenuously disagree, I believe we should all applaud the wisdom and courage the governor and legislators in South Dakota have shown with the passage into state law of a near total ban on abortions.

Their calculating critics in the movement discouraged and opposed their action with the argument that the time is not ripe because the law will only be struck down in the federal courts. They believe this will contribute to the perception that abortion is "the law of the land," and therefore risks demoralizing pro-life efforts.

It's time that the U.S. stopped being the path of least resistance for those seeking comfort away from their own nations. It's time that the U.S. became a difficult place to enter. Not only would this be good for the U.S., but it would be good, in the long run, for the nations that these people are leaving. When faced with a fight to make their own nations nice or take flight to another already nicer nation, too many people are taking that latter option. It's too easy to flee. This keeps their nations from evolving into nicer places and is causing the U.S. to devolve into a less nice place.

Liberalism's delusions have reached their most ridiculous extreme in the protests by illegal aliens. It was ridiculous enough that American liberals thought they were entitled to things that other Americans had worked for and earned, but now America is being told that illegal aliens -- people who have no right to be here at all -- should have the rights of citizens.

So who are the Minutemen?

President Bush and various Members of Congress have called them vigilantes.

After getting to know the men and women of the California Minutemen Project, I have a response for our illustrious leaders:

How dare you—you are unfit to represent this nation in any capacity!

Our government tells us that illegal aliens are just doing the job Americans won’t do. Well…

The Minutemen are just doing the job our government won’t do:

Defending America!

During Friday's hearing, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III said he is considering dismissing the government's entire case because the law used to prosecute Rosen and Weissman may be unconstitutionally vague and broad and infringe on freedom of speech.

Rosen's lawyer, Abbe Lowell, said the testimony of Rice and others is needed to show that some of the top officials in U.S. government approved of disclosing sensitive information to the defendants and that the leaks may have been authorized.

Ironically enough the U.S. is already on record supporting just such a WMD-free zone in the Middle East. Article 14 of UN Security Resolution 687, that ended the 1991 Gulf War and imposed crippling sanctions on Iraq, states that disarming Iraq should be viewed as part of "establishing in the Middle East a zone free of all weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them."

The language was written by the U.S. It's time we held Washington accountable to that pledge. Let's talk to Iran.

The retired generals' revolt only highlights the malaise in the US polity which has crept in , specially in recent decades. The disconnect between an arrogant, ill informed Administration and the military executors of its policies in Iraq has opened a Pandora's box which hopefully might become the tipping point for much needed changes in US polity.

Clear Channel’s KNEW 910 A.M. resident fascist and misanthropic beatnik, Michael “Savage” Weiner, has called for slaughtering 100 million Muslims, thus winning this year’s Ann Coulter award for hatemongering. Weiner told listeners that “intelligent people, wealthy people … are very depressed by the weakness that America is showing to these psychotics in the Muslim world. They say, ‘Oh, there’s a billion of them’…. I said, ‘So, kill 100 million of them, then there’d be 900 million of them.’ I mean … would you rather us die than them?…. Would you rather we disappear or we die? Or would you rather they disappear and they die? Because you’re going to have to make that choice sooner rather than later.”

May 5 and June 30 have been selected as the days for 1 day "strikes", where American Citizens will transact no commerce:

Remain home from work, using vacation, leave, sick time or whatever is available to you.

Take no public transportation. Transact no business.

Make no purchases. Consider turning off your TV, radio and computers.

For one day, make no contribution to the economy of the nation.

For one day focus on the home, family, books etc.
Suggestions: We should also shop aggressively (be nice, just spend lots!) on May 1 and any other protest dates the illegals stage! Show them that our economy prospers in spite of them and because of us!

After all of the illegal aliens’/immigrants’ (you make the choice as to which word you want to use) marches, demanding they be given the same rights as US citizens, I’d like to make a counter-proposal. Why don’t we-the-people (that’s “US-citizen-people") decide to organize a 1 day strike of our own?

An "Ax AOL" campaign is being organized to coincide with a national action by various groups defending illegal immigration, but the real target of their wrath is Lou Dobbs of CNN.

According to the organizers: "Lou Dobbs has become the champion zealot of bashing 'illegal immigration' each night at CNN promoting HR 4437 as the only way of dealing with 'Broken Borders' to protect the USA. The only way to stop Lou Dobbs, the raving populist xenophobe, is to invoke 'The Achilles heel: AOL.'"

La reconquista, a radical movement calling for Mexico to "reconquer" America's Southwest, has stepped out of the shadows at recent immigration-reform protests nationwide as marchers held signs saying, "Uncle Sam Stole Our Land!" and waved Mexico's flag.

"We are millions. We just have to survive. We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. It's a matter of time. The explosion is in our population," Jose Angel Gutierrez, political science professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, said on the videotape.

While the criticisms of Rumsfeld by the ex-officers ostensibly focussed on Iraq, sources close to the Pentagon have confirmed that the outpouring of calls for Rumsfeld's immediate ouster have more to do with Bush Administration plans for a preemptive military strike against Iran, possibly as early as late April through the middle of May.

Ex-military and intelligence sources report that a group of active duty generals and admirals have written to Gen. Peter Pace (USMC), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, threatening to resign, if the White House orders military strikes against Iran. The generals and admirals, according to the sources, are particularly outraged that the White House has refused, ostentatiously, to rule out the use of tactical nuclear weapons against hardened targets inside Iran.

Thirteen of the nation’s most prominent physicists have written a letter to President Bush, calling U.S. plans to reportedly use nuclear weapons against Iran “gravely irresponsible” and warning that such action would have “disastrous consequences for the security of the United States and the world.”

The letter was initiated by Jorge Hirsch, a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego, who last fall put together a petition signed by more than 1,800 physicists that repudiated new U.S. nuclear weapons policies that include preemptive use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear adversaries (http://physics.ucsd.edu/petition/). Hirsch has also published 15 articles in recent months (http://antiwar.com/hirsch/) documenting the dangers associated with a potential U.S. nuclear strike on Iran.

As expected, the leftists from the ACLU, La Raza, and other pro-immigration groups denounced the Minutemen as racist vigilantes. President Bush even joined in, hurling the "vigilante" label at peaceful U.S. citizens who were trying to do what he was refusing to do: protect our nation.

However, the Minuteman Project showed what can be done. Without resorting to any violence or confrontation, they virtually shut down the usual flood of alien-smuggling traffic along much of the U.S.-Mexican border. Peacefully, using binoculars, radios, and cell phones, they largely accomplished what the Kennedy-McCain-Bush crowd say can't be done: they brought security, law, and order to the border.

Considered one of the toughest immigration laws in the nation, the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act will verify that adults seeking many state-administered benefits are in the country legally. It sanctions employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants and mandates that companies with state contracts check the immigration status of their employees.

The politicians run scared. They fear the immigrants. Real Americans don't fear them, but the immigration crisis has not, until now, reached a point that might inspire them to demand genuine immigration reform. This truth explains Congress' debating two immigration measures, one being the sensible bill passed in the House of Representatives (H.R. 4437) that would help control illegal immigration, the other being a bill in the Senate that would exacerbate the problem by legalizing the existing 11-12 million border-jumpers (see page 17).

Americans need to consider that illegal Mexicans seem politically powerful only because they have correctly calculated the moral impotence and political cowardice of American politicians. They demonstrate power, and the politicians wheedle and pander. "We do not want to create a fugitive class in America," intoned liberal Republican Senator Arlen Specter of the accommodationist legislation before the Senate. "We do not want to create an underclass in America."

But paleoconservatism is simply the faith of our fathers before we built that shelter for the neocon homeless booted out of their own house by the McGovernites, who appear, in retrospect, to have been more savvy than we thought.

What does the old-time conservatism stand for? Limited government. Balanced budgets. A defense second to none. Secure borders. A trade policy that puts America and Americans first. And a foreign policy that keeps us out of wars that are not America's wars.

Unfortunately, when the USA Today-Gallup poll shows Americans are looking for precisely such authentic conservatism, neither party is offering it. The children were right. The system doesn't work.

Taken at face value as an actual blueprint for policy, President Bush’s new National Security Strategy, which appeared last month, flunks. It fails because it disregards the first principle of strategy: the imperative of balancing means and ends. The president’s latest effort to define America’s purpose in the world comes chock-full of declarations, exhortations, and gaseous generalities, many of them lifted from the 2002 version of this document. But this 49-page report, which is almost entirely devoid of facts, never bothers to consider how we got into our current mess in the first place or how we’re going to pay for the “Long War” that the president has contrived as the best way to get us out.

The Republican Party’s top contenders for 2008 aren’t paleoconservatives—or any other kind.

Republican consultant Patrick Hynes, an expert on evangelical voting patterns, sees several reasons the 2008 field will probably remain a paleo-free zone. “Paleoconservatives are not organized politically and there are no political consequences for defying them,” he says. “They are absolutely right that their views on foreign policy have a long conservative pedigree, but most voters don’t really care who is the purest in their political tradition.”

The trouble is the majority of placated Americans are buying the puppet show hook, line and sinker. The trouble is the masters of deception have convinced most everyone to fight the wrong enemy, forgetting about the real enemy within.

The trouble is the many scandals facing America perpetuating the downfall of the country, including 9/11, the Iraq War, the POW issue, the loss of civil rights with the Patriot Act and the corrupt Federal Reserve banking system, to name only a few, are all geared by the masters of deception to never be solved, endlessly remaining in the realm of public debate until the scandals die a natural death.

US military-intelligence has created it own terrorist organizations. In turn, it has developed a cohesive multibillion dollar counterterrorism program "to go after" these terrorist organizations. To reach its foreign policy objectives, the images of terrorism in the Iraqi war theater must remain vivid in the minds of the citizens, who are constantly reminded of the terrorist threat. The Iraqi resistance movement is described as terrorists led by Zarqawi.

The propaganda campaign using the Western media, presents the portraits of the leaders behind the terror network. In other words, at the level of what constitutes an "advertising" campaign, "it gives a face to terror."

The "war on terrorism" rests on the creation of one or more evil bogeymen, the terror leaders, Osama bin Laden, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, et al, whose names and photos are presented ad nauseam in daily news reports. Without Zarqawi and bin Laden, the "war on terrorism" would loose its raison d'être. The main casus belli is to wage a " war on terrorism".

A "secret war" against America is not so secret anymore.

America’s cities are occupied with a horde of insurgents with the potential to reduce the United States to a corrupt third world colony.

But the real enemy is not the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens marching though America’s streets.

These hordes are victims, too, of big business elites, who have been plotting to increase their vast fortunes at the expense of the American middle class.

Without a system of deportation, this whole proposal is fraudulent.

Now, you know and I know, and the people proposing a guest worker program know, that fraudulent is exactly what this is intended to be. A guest-worker program would be another old shell game scam, just like the 1986 amnesty-employer sanction "compromise", which turned out to be amnesty-only when enforcement was gutted by corrupt Congressional pressure on the INS to go easy on campaign contributors who were employing large numbers of illegal aliens

With the arrival of Easter, the most significant Christian holy day, it can be expected that anti-religion secularists will ratchet up attacks on the Christian faith. This year the attacks have been both unusually intense and occasionally silly.

Among the attacks to receive widespread attention in the press this Easter is the story that the miracle of Jesus’ walking on water can be explained by the freak formation of ice on the Sea of Galilee. This “explanation” has been proposed by Florida State University oceanography professor Doron Nof and his colleagues in a paper entitled Is there a paleolimnological explanation for ‘walking on water’ in the Sea of Galilee?

About the possibilities of a military coup in the United States, historian Andrew Jonas said this;

"Coup d'etat in the United States would be too fantastic to contemplate, not only because few would actually entertain the idea, but also because the bulk of the people are strongly attached to the prevailing political system and would rise in defense of a political leader even though they might not like him. The environment most hospitable to coups d'etat is one in which political apathy prevails as the dominant style."

The question to ask is whether 'political apathy' now 'prevails as the dominant style' in the United States of today or not?

The instructional value of the generals' revolt is that it leads us to ask whether we are going to trust the same gang of liars who lured us into invading Iraq. The War Party claims the Iranian mullahs are about to acquire nukes – and they said the same about Saddam Hussein. They say Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a Middle Eastern Hitler – and so, you'll remember, was Saddam. They're telling us that if we don't act now, we'll regret it later – but today our real regret is having listened to them in the first place.

It's not all about eggs and candy - it's about the resurrection, churchgoers say:

Carman Griffith, a 14-year-old member of the church, said the celebration was "awesome."

"It's a chance for us to get people out and witness to them, to tell them the true meaning of Easter," Griffith said. "Easter is not about eggs and candy. It's about the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ."

ONCE AGAIN, big Canadian business seems bent on betraying Canadians and importing cheap foreign labour. The site of the latest betrayal is the booming Alberta tar sands. Instead of seeking unemployed Canadians, say from the Maritimes, and spreading the energy windfall around, some oil companies want to import cheap foreign -- especially Chinese -- labour. According to Fort McMurray Today:

All countries eventually cease to exist. Here's how America is rapidly being destroyed.

Though MacArthur spoke the truth and the no-win war in Korea would kill Truman's presidency, the general was fired. But MacArthur was right to speak the truth about the war his soldiers were being forced to fight, a war against a far more numerous enemy who enjoyed a privileged sanctuary above the Yalu river, thanks to Harry Truman.

In the last analysis, the Generals' Revolt is not just against Rumsfeld, but is aimed at the man who appointed him and has stood by him for three years of a guerrilla war the Pentagon did not predict or expect.

A Conservative evangelical group from the Bible Belt was quickly formed, named "The Twelve Veteran Disciples for Truth."

Using only their first names, Peter, Paul, James, John, Andy, Phil, Bart, Matthew, Simon, Thad, Tom, along with their spokesman, Judas, appeared together on Fox News to, as they stated, "set the record straight."

They all claimed to have ancestors who served with Jesus back in the Middle East, and stated that his message of "love your enemies" was outdated and dangerous in these troubled times, when terrorists and evildoers lurk around every corner and can strike at any moment.

Nothing exemplifies the neoliberal policy consensus that dominates U.S. politics quite like NAFTA. The trade pact germinated under Bush I and flowered under Clinton/Gore. Bush II tends it like a conscientious gardener; he is even trying to harvest its seeds and plant them in Central America, hybridized as CAFTA. (There goes my garden-metaphor quota for the month.)

Nativist NAFTA critics like Pat Buchanan and anti-corporate opponents like Ralph Nader operate outside the mainstream. Rebuked as apostates by the major parties, they prove the rule: As divided as they are over the war, environmental policy, and other issues, political elites believe on faith that global trade must be promoted by public policy.

What is really going on here is a ratcheting war of rhetoric. The Iranian hard liners are down to a popularity rating in Iran of about 15%. They are using their challenge to the Bush administration over their perfectly legal civilian nuclear energy research program as a way of enhancing their nationalist credentials in Iran.

Likewise, Bush is trying to shore up his base, which is desperately unhappy with the Iraq situation, by rattling sabres at Iran. Bush's poll numbers are so low, often in the mid-30s, that he must have lost part of his base to produce this result. Iran is a great deus ex machina for Bush. Rally around the flag yet again.

"In the five years Mr Rumsfeld has presided over the Pentagon," Eaton wrote, "I have seen a climate of groupthink become dominant and a growing reluctance by experienced military men and civilians to challenge the notions of the senior leadership."

Eaton's blast was followed this week by an anguished column in Time magazine by retired Marine Lt Gen Gregory Newbold, the top operations officer for the Joint Chiefs of Staff before the invasion, who assailed the brass, including himself, for "act[ing] timidly when their voices urgently needed to be heard". "The consequence of the military's quiescence," he wrote, "was that a fundamentally flawed plan was executed for an invented war ...

In late December 2005, Mexican President Vicente Fox hired a lobbying firm to sweeten political sentiment in the US towards Mexicans and the immigration issue. The same PR expert and GOP political consultant helped George W. Bush defeat Ann Richards for the governorship of Texas in 1994 and worked on both Bush's presidential campaigns.

Rob Allyn of Rob Allyn & Co. secretly engineered Fox's 2000 presidential victory and is closely tied with George W. Bush.

When the Iraq War busted out of the starting gates of this Neocon administration, the Americans most rabid about “kickin’ those Iraqi butts” were the youngest group of adult Americans. Who would have guessed? Right in front of our blurred vision, a new Rambo generation had grown up. Not long ago Gen X-ers were a pathetic group of slothful, pampered, whiny, boring pests whose martial instincts were limited to fighting for the remote control.

The negative DNA tests in the alleged Duke University lacrosse team rape case raise the specter of yet another possible hate crime hoax. The timing of the case just before a local election for district attorney, racial and class polarization in Durham, North Carolina, and the heavy hand of on-campus feminism have all politicized the issue to an extraordinary degree. Justice has taken a back seat.

Our 'democracy’ is revealed for what it really is, a sham, a cardboard cut-out, good as a point-of-sale device but even the advertising has worn thin. Conceivably we’ll stagger along for a few more 'elections’ but eventually the entire house of cards will collapse, most likely not because of anything we do but because the rest of the planet will do it for us, and not to save our sorry arses but to save their own. After all, USUK can only invade just so many countries before coming to even greater grief than they have already. This is after all not 1870 (or thereabouts) when all it took was a couple of gunboats, some redcoats and a couple of tons of opium.

A threatened turf grab by a controversial Pentagon intelligence unit is causing concern among both privacy experts and some of the Defense Department’s own personnel.

An informal panel of senior Pentagon officials has been holding a series of unannounced private meetings during the past several weeks about how to proceed with a possible merger between the Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA), a post-9/11 Pentagon creation that has been accused of domestic spying, and the Defense Security Service (DSS), a well-established older agency responsible for inspecting the security arrangements of defense contractors. DSS also maintains millions of confidential files containing the results of background investigations on defense contractors’ employees.

But enforcing laws is no more a priority of anyone in a position of political power in the US than is obeying the state or federal constitution under which they work themselves. Why should Congress worry about forcing illegals to obey the law, when Congress ignores the Constitution itself? Just ask Congressman Ron Paul: Congressmen generally are only interested in increasing their tenures and their power among their fellow electeds, and after that, landing a big lobbying job with one of the firms they’ve favored while in office.

For General Scott and the large percentage of Americans who revere him, the notion that the President might sign a significant immigration reform plan constitutes an unacceptable threat to the security of the United States — and this, Scott and many others believe, warrants positive action to remove you from office.

Impeachment?

Why? The very CONgress, who has willingly supported the agenda for these past four and 1/2 years, couldn't follow through with their Constitutional duty with the previous President, and while Mr. Clinton worked overtime to recruit an all-girl orchestra with full horn and woodwind sections, all Willy J. did was lie to a grand jury about his pecker-dillos. Mr Bush lied to the whole world using Weapons of Mass Distraction. One can not expect both houses of congress to perjure themselves in their complicity - can we?

Welcome to the Unofficial Tom Tancredo for President web site! America today is in a state of crisis. Our borders are in chaos, our cities are decaying, and our way of life is under attack. Congressman Tancredo has been one of the few men to stand up to the Washington establishment and fight for an agenda that will once again put America first.

If you’re wondering how illegal alien arrogance is playing in Americaland (as opposed to the MSM), here’s a hint: VDARE.COM's Easter Appeal has raised over $6000 in just over 36 hours—easily a record. And here’s an important point about the guest worker amnesty from one of our many sharp e-correspondents:

“One big question I don’t see anyone raising is: will 11 million people get preferences as soon as they are legal? Will we have just put them at the front of the bus while Americans walk to the back? Most people may not know this, but there is a Hispanic-surname box to check on every college application, most scholarship applications, and society is shot through with hiring and contract set-asides. Adding 11 million people and their families to the head of the list will hurt even Hispanics now legally here.”

No rational American wants anything bad to happen to Israelis or Palestinians or Americans. But they have happened, are happening, will continue to happen. Israel's actions often involve violations of human rights, international law, and UN resolutions, undertaken at the expense of a helpless, brutalized Palestine, thus denying Israel peace, security, and international support. Worse, they also lead to violent reactions, which are often recognized under the UN Charter as legitimate resistance to occupation.

Israeli actions also generate anti-Semitism, the very label the lobby uses to bludgeon into silence anyone in America who questions relations with Israel and its expansionist policies. This effectively blocks broad public understanding that Israel's interests and America's, sometimes in agreement, are sometimes sharply divergent. Of greater and entirely justifiable concern, the lobby has succeeded in pressuring successive administrations into actions and statements blatantly contrary to announced American principles and the advancement of U.S. objectives.

Unbridled Presidential authority is un-American whether in peacetime, wartime or fighting a gang whose exaggerated power has served Bush and Cheney very well politically. How better to silence the Democrats, stifle or chill public dissent, distract attention from domestic necessities, until their post-Katrina debacle, enrich their donating corporate buddies with military contracts and concentrate more lawless power in the White House at the expense of the courts and Congress than by breaking our constitutional system of separation of powers?

Mr. Bush gave the "Go" signal for the leak without going through a conventional declassification process to determine how such "information might compromise methods or sources," according to Professor Jonathan Turley of the George Washington University Law School.

In addition to the above strategic costs, there are also economic repercussions. The price of oil currently stands at US$68 a barrel, and any instability introduced to the Middle East will raise this price substantially. The economies in oil dependent countries are already suffering from sustained high oil prices, and as the price of oil moves higher it will cause further damage to these economies. Even without an attack, any sanctions placed on Iran that include its energy industry will also cause an escalation of oil prices.

The miscalculated policies of the U.S. administration in the Middle East are quickly depleting the country's ability to sustain its once unchallenged global position. Winds of change are blowing everywhere, and there is little that Washington's ideologues can do to stop that.

The above claim is increasingly finding its way into the realm of mainstream thinking, despite all attempts to mute or relegate its import.

If President Bush is truly confident that time is on the side of democracy and freedom, what does he have to lose by negotiating a cold peace with the mullahs' Iran, a failed regime that does not dispose of 5 percent of the military or economic power of United States? We outlasted the British Empire, Stalin and Mao. Is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a bigger problem?

America is losing control of its national territory.

The Mainstream Media and the political establishment, both liberal and “conservative,” are in panic over this unexpected (by them) development. One symptom: a constant attempt to downplay the number of Mexican flags carried by the demonstrators, because it reveals all too clearly their arrogance and revanchism.

In the U.S. today, we're seeing the elites giving up and allowing our land to be taken over. Of course, the elites aren't really giving up something they want. They're giving up what the average Americans want. Most of the elites aren't really Americans. They're internationalists who simply are staying in the U.S. Oh, they'll wave the flag and pretend they're patriots, but most really aren't. They really see themselves as citizens of the world. Average Americans, on the other hand, are usually not internationalists or citizens of the world. Foreign nations really are foreign to most Americans, they're not places where one has another home or places where one can run if things get tough in the U.S. The elites are giving away America that was built by average American citizens to be a comfortable place. The elites are simply discarding average Americans. And, yes, the chief discarder is President Bush.

Fortunately, this so-called compromise bill, that would have fixed nothing, was torpedoed by a majority of the Senate. As Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) said, “Today is a good day for America. The Senate – in a rare moment of clarity – rejected its amnesty-now, enforcement-later approach to immigration.” Tancredo went on to add, “If the Senate is serious about sending real security legislation to the President’s desk this year, it must take a different approach.”

Tancredo is correct – the amnesty approach was attempted before, back in 1986 and some three million illegals were given permanent legal status. If granting amnesty to three million then, got us eleven million more this time, what will granting amnesty to those eleven million now, bring us in the future?

President Bush met Friday with a select group of financial journalists, including Lawrence Kudlow, who reported the event on his blog.

“a comprehensive immigration bill that does not include a 700-mile wall. He told us ‘immigration helps restore our souls.’”

My only possible explanation is that perhaps the President –never a man gifted with words—has been misreading the Bible. Perhaps (and this is just a theory), everywhere the book refers to “Jesus”, Mr. Bush has mistakenly read the name as “Hey-Suess.”

Is there anything else to be said? Forget about Iraq and the Bush-itters in Washington, DeCeit - we are losing the battle and the war. America has been invaded!

The Federal Observer continues to attempt to reach America through the words and deeds of contributing writers such as Rick Biesada, S. J. Miller, Jan Herron, Frosty Wooldrige and many other talented contributors.

Where will you stand? Are you the watchman on the wall - or the doer in the ditches? Illegal invaders have crossed the line in the sand - and do so by the thousands each and every day and night, as they stream across our nation's southern borders.

The Bush Administration, while publicly advocating diplomacy in order to stop Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon, has increased clandestine activities inside Iran and intensified planning for a possible major air attack. Current and former American military and intelligence officials said that Air Force planning groups are drawing up lists of targets, and teams of American combat troops have been ordered into Iran, under cover, to collect targeting data and to establish contact with anti-government ethnic-minority groups. The officials say that President Bush is determined to deny the Iranian regime the opportunity to begin a pilot program, planned for this spring, to enrich uranium.

After suffering a stinging defeat on the Dubai Ports debacle, and after assuring Congress that foreigners would not manage security at U.S. ports, now comes the revelation that the administration has given a no-bid contract for screening port cargo for nuclear materials to a Hong Kong conglomerate closely aligned with Communist China.

The company in question is Hutchison Whampoa, Ltd., with its subsidiary, Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH), the world’s largest ports company. Freeport, the huge Bahamian port just 65 miles from the Florida coast, will be under the contract. HPH will be running sophisticated radiation detection equipment provided by the U.S. government to scan cargo headed to U.S. ports — without U.S. Customs being present.

When plantation/agribusiness owners claim that they need immigrants to do work Americans “won't do”, they are really saying that they won't invest the resources to develop machines to do the jobs that Americans “won’t” do. There is no agricultural job that a machine can not be developed to handle.

Their greatest fear is facing the beast at full strength, for they know that if that day of reckoning ever comes, there will be hell to pay for their transgressions against the American people. And so they try to weaken the beast while it lies dormant – by demoralizing it, and by breaking it up into smaller, more manageable pieces, preferably pieces that can be played against each other. And as long as the American people continue to play along, by allowing Washington to dictate the rules of this game, the beast will remain too weak to fight back against the considerable oppressive powers of the state.

The rest of the world has a better understanding of how this game must be played. Turn on your television set and you might catch a glimpse of a few million French citizens taking to the streets to express their anger at their government’s labor policies. Turn to another channel and you might see half-a-million Latino immigrants marching through the streets of Los Angeles to protest proposed immigration reforms. And yet the American people, as a whole, cannot summon the energy to take to the streets even as your sons and daughters are being fed into the meat grinder in Iraq.

The Idea that Someone Must Be Held Accountable

Even if all this evidence, put together, did not move the jurors to impose the death penalty, the jurors can hardly be immune from the impetus to punish someone for the September 11 attacks.

Mexico's General Law of Population sets out the rights and obligations of foreigners, as well as the different statuses associated with foreign immigration.

In general, foreign nationals are welcome to visit Mexico for a defined period of time to take part in non-remunerative activities (e.g. a holiday), and requirements for remunerative visits or longer stays (beyond 180 days) require special permits from the Mexican Consulate.

Bush is the commander in chief, not King George. He has no power to launch U.S. air strikes on Iran, an act of war, unless Congress authorizes war. Before we wake up to an October surprise, Congress should do its duty and Rumsfeld and Rice should appear and make the case for a war some of us believe Iran neither wants nor threatens.

Forget the Feingold Resolution. Undeclared presidential wars are the real stuff of impeachment.

The War Party's base is seriously eroding, and they can't maintain their present level of aggression – never mind launch new wars – with this level of public support. A new propaganda campaign – and, perhaps, a fresh provocation, some sort of Gulf of Tonkin-like incident – is going to be necessary in order to dispel the present mood and ratchet up the war hysteria once again.

The Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep) compiled and presents survey responses drawn from a pool of 2,300 academics with advanced degrees in Middle East area studies. The surveyed group's terminal degree profile is 61 pct. PhD, 14 pct. MA, 13 pct. MS. The survey was fielded between March 31 and April 5, 2006.

Key Findings:

1. 49 pct. of Middle East academics polled believe that the academic community is "hostile" to studies that are critical of the Israel Lobby and US policies toward Israel. 26 pct. believe academia is "open" to such findings.

2. 85 pct. of Middle East academics polled believe that the Israel Lobby as described by Mearsheimer and Walt is "negative" to "extremely negative" to US interests.

3. 65 pct. of Middle East academics polled believe that the most powerful intimidation tactic of the Israel Lobby is charging detractors as "anti-Semites", followed by attacks from the mainstream media by embedded Israel Lobby sympathizers (59 pct.).

4. 91 pct. of Middle East academics polled believe it is "extremely accurate" to "accurate" that the Israel Lobby's tactics expose the United States to avoidable hostility in the Middle East.

5. 86 pct. of Middle East academics polled believe that the Israel Lobby places what it considers to be Israel's interests above the national interests of the United States.

One "news report" that aired on three stations relied on a video news release (VNR) produced by a PR firm on behalf of General Motors which was even apparently based on a "false claim."

Center for Media and Democracy's Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed is "a multimedia report on television newsrooms' use of material provided by PR firms on behalf of paying clients," containing video footage of the 36 video news releases (VNRs) cited in the report, plus a map and spreadsheet of the stations cited.

More than 50 evangelical Christian leaders and organizations voiced their support yesterday for an immigration bill that would allow illegal immigrants to become U.S. citizens without returning to their native countries.

The statement marks a deepening split among evangelicals over immigration. It was signed by a mixture of Hispanic and white church groups. But most of the nation's large, politically influential evangelical organizations either back rival legislation that focuses on border enforcement and the deportation of illegal immigrants, or have been silent on the issue.

The Bush administration Wednesday unveiled a blueprint for rebuilding the nation's decrepit nuclear weapons complex, including restoration of a large-scale bomb manufacturing capacity.

The plan calls for the most sweeping realignment and modernization of the nation's massive system of laboratories and factories for nuclear bombs since the end of the Cold War.

President Bush calls China a "strategic partner" in the war on terror, but some Chinese Americans are accusing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of bringing its own terror campaign to the USA. They believe the CCP ordered the murder of Allen Ngai Leung, 56, an admired community leader in San Francisco. The day after Leung's murder, an anonymous caller to the worldwide Sound of Hope radio said, "You want to know who killed Allen Leung? Call Chinese Consulate and Chinese Chamber of Commerce." And then hung up.

"They are hoping that this dog and pony show won't be resolved. They are counting on the complacent American sheople, the people who won't go out and take a stand for our country, to roll over for corporate interests, and corporate greed. America is being compromised right before our very eyes... believe it, just as Joe and I were jumped in the streets of America by Communists... it is happening now. We are going down for the count, unless we can turn it around."

Because President Bush has insisted on a “comprehensive” bill that includes both provisions, Republicans will lose this debate no matter what happens. If they fail to pass a bill because of disagreements over the amnesty provision, it will be extremely embarrassing. If they pass a bill that is too lax, they will anger a significant portion of their base. It is highly unlikely that they will pass an enforcement-only bill and take up a separate amnesty bill.

Go see V for Vendetta, and remember this: by supporting a work of art that embodies your political and philosophical values, you are helping to fight the cultural rot that the War Party feeds on. There is a scene in the movie when Natalie Portman is going about her job at the BTN and passes a security guard watching some ridiculous "reality" show. She asks, "How can you watch that trash?" The contempt in her voice is clearly that of the authors of this script, who are acutely aware of the political consequences of entertainment as cultural "soma."

Fascist totalitarianism is “right-wing,” but so is its exact opposite, libertarianism. And so are monarchism, theocracy, strict constitutionalism, military dictatorship, neoconservatism, and so on — even, at times, Soviet Communism, though anti-Communism was “right-wing” too. By right-wing, liberals seem to mean everything but us. No wonder people don’t listen to them anymore. They define their enemies as broadly as our president defines terrorism.

Conservatives are finally realizing, with varying degrees of clarity, that you have to define conservatism very broadly indeed to make it cover President Bush, who is rapidly mowing down just about everything they once hoped to conserve. Never mind the Iraq war; look at domestic spending since 2001.

Professors Walt and Mearsheimer's "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" is an important contribution to the Israel/Palestine debate. It's too bad the important stuff got lost in the melodrama.

Various self-styled Jewish organizations and pro-Israel outfits, like so many political pressure groups, brag about their success. No one suggests they're lying. Exactly how much influence do they have over US policy? To what extent are they responsible for getting the US into Iraq?

Meanwhile, Bush's party is ripping itself apart over immigration, a direct result of his own failure to secure the border against an invasion – pushed by a succession of Mexican regimes that have eased their social crisis by dumping their poor onto the stupid Yankees. In America, the Mexican poor cease to be a liability and become an asset, sending back $16 billion a year in remittances to keep the gang afloat and the game going in Mexico City.

Historians will one day marvel that, as their Southwest was slipping away from the United States – demographically, linguistically and culturally – Americans were fighting to keep Iraq together. Remarkable. Foreigners are invading and occupying Arizona, while Americans are fighting for Anbar province.

Why do they hate us? Israel and its American Lobby
Why do we hate them? Israel and its American Lobby
How Israel’s Lobby Won & Intimidated the West for Israel

Successful invaders always raise their flag and trample the flag of their conquered foe. These invaders came not as assault troops making an amphibious landing. Nor did they come with guns in hand. No, guns were not needed because they knew that we did not have the will to defend ourselves. They came alone or in small groups, and they were careful not to provoke “shock and awe,” but to infiltrate, slowly and persistently, over a span of time. So far these tactics have worked splendidly, and the invasion from Mexico is proceeding apace.

Birthright citizenship similarly rewards lawbreaking, and must be stopped. As long as illegal immigrants know their children born here will be citizens, the perverse incentive to sneak into this country remains strong. Citizenship involves more than the mere location of one’s birth. True citizenship requires cultural connections and an allegiance to the United States. Americans are happy to welcome those who wish to come here and build a better life for themselves, but we rightfully expect immigrants to show loyalty and attempt to assimilate themselves culturally. Birthright citizenship sometimes confers the benefits of being American on people who do not truly embrace America.

Televangelist John Hagee told Jewish community leaders over the weekend that the 40 million evangelical Christians in the United States support Israel and that he plans to utilize this power to help Israel by launching a Christian pro-Israel lobby.

The lobby is slated to launch in July, during a Washington conference in which hundreds of American evangelicals are slated to participate, Hagee said at a meeting of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, which represents 52 national Jewish groups. He also discussed the lobby with Israel's consul general in New York, Aryeh Mekel.

For the past several weeks, the mainstream media has made much ado about pro-immigration rallies that have been popping up around the country.

But despite the fact that a clear majority of Americans believe that our porous borders and illegal immigration are serious problems, which should be addressed, lawmakers have been doing their best to avoid doing what’s best for the country.

Zuckerman’s tabloid repeated the old saw that Congress and American presidents have been friends of Israel “out of humanitarian concerns” and that the policies have nothing to do with any powerful “lobby.”

However, that claim is refuted in the very first footnote in the Mearsheimer-Walt report, which says: “The mere existence of the lobby suggests that unconditional support for Israel is not in the American national interests. If it was, one would not need an organized special interest group to bring it about. But because Israel is a strategic and moral liability, it takes relentless political pressure to keep U.S. support intact.”

For their part, the two authors, despite the row, describe themselves as 'philo-Semites'. Wilmers says they are members of the Realist School of US Foreign Policy which insists that America should be guided by its own interests and not by Israel's.

Wilmers defends the article: 'I know Israel thinks it is a monstrous presumption. But then I don't think that the way that Israel behaves is terribly helpful. The article doesn't talk about a "Jewish Lobby" or a "Cabal". I feel very clear about that. We were very conscious of that risk.'

1. The Hispanic vote is so super-colossal huge that any attempt to limit illegal immigration is automatic political suicide.

2. Bush won 44 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2004.

3. Bush owes his re-election to Hispanics.

4. Opposing illegal immigration in 1994 cost the GOP control of California.

And, do you really think that the United States of America, with a population of about 300 million souls, doesn't have enough people to generate entry level workers all on our own without taking in illegal aliens? If you believe this, then you might want to check your suggestibility quotient, because the elites seem to have filled your brain with lies and propaganda as surely as a stage hypnotist fills a highly suggestible audience member's brain with the belief that the audience member should cluck like a chicken.

What we’re seeing in the streets is a naked assertion of power by outsiders against the American nation. They demand that we comply with their wishes and submit our immigration policies for their approval, and implicitly threaten violence if their demands are not met. Far from being a discussion among Americans about the best way to regulate immigration, the illegal-alien marches have been marked by the will to power: ubiquitous Mexican