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Wall Street Journal

FCC gives government power to regulate Web traffic

Federal telecommunications regulators approved new rules Tuesday that would for the first time give the federal government formal authority to regulate Internet traffic, although how much or for how long remained unclear. — A divided Federal Communications Commission approved a proposal…

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Tampa Tribune

La Reconquista — the politics of ethnic conflict

Many Mexican immigrants, legal or otherwise, see themselves as part of a process of retaking the United States that once was a part of Mexico. Recent Mexican law permits dual citizenship which tacitly supports this notion.

This objective is aptly described by Jose Ramos, anchorman since 1986 on Noticieros, a Miami news program on Univision cable network, also seen in Mexico and 13 other Latin-American countries.

This guy is the real deal, having the stature of Walter Cronkite, although not a U.S. citizen and one of the 10 most admired Latinos in the U.S. — a graduate of the University of Miami — my alma mater. Ramos accurately observes, “Latinos have achieved the feat of integration economically to the U.S. without losing their culture.”

While all other immigrants have assimilated, he says, “The idea of a melting pot is a myth.” He makes no bones about supporting La Reconquista, saying … “the United States is undergoing a true demographic revolution. Some call it La Reconquista. The same territories that Mexico lost to the United States in 1848 — Arizona, Texas, California … others … such as Florida and Illinois — are experiencing a genuine cultural invasion …”

“Reconquista” means the reconquest and refers to the centuries-long struggle by Spaniards to reclaim Spain from Moorish Muslims. But now it refers to the Mexican-American War of 1846-48. The irony is many of today’s overseas Muslims believe that because of their fertility, Europe will also undergo a slow but steady demographic Islamic revolution.

And then there’s “La Raza Unida,” meaning literally, “The United Race,” which, like so many radical movements, started in the ’60s with activist Chicanos who believed they were victimized by a racist power structure that has oppressed Mexican-Americans since the Mexican-American War.

This is now a moribund third-party movement subsumed by the Democrats who tap into ethnic passion with identity politics. Yet it remains a strong social protest movement. Its founder, Jose Angel Gutierrez, University of Texas professor, supports open borders, amnesty; and in the late ’60s said, “We have got to eliminate the gringo … if worst comes to worst, we have got to kill him.” On a lighter note, in 1999, he observed less stridently, “We have the critical mass … We have the means now to take government and to lead.”…

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Homecoming of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry
VIDEO HERE

Information on Patrol Agent Brian Terry, who is forever separated from his family, HERE

Miguel Perez — The Examiner

DREAM Act students vow revolution after act fails in the Senate

“This is war!” claims Phoenix student Aldemar Cruz. “Republicans may have stopped the DREAM Act, but they won’t prevent La Reconquista from happening. “White people, watch out!” — Olivia Perez, an [illegal alien] student who claims she was forced to fill out false paperwork in order to stay in the United States, says, “Latinos need to fight back….” HERE

KPHO-TV — Phoenix

Arizona breaks deportation record in 2010

A record number of illegal immigrants were deported from Arizona during 2010, according to a U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman. — ICE officials deported 92,592 illegal immigrants during between October 2009 and September 2010, according to statistics provided to CBS 5 News by Lori Haley of ICE…

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Big Journalism

Mainstream Media: The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Partner in Slime
Posted by Izzy Lyman Dec 20th 2010

Stooping to a new low, even by Southern Poverty Law Center’s standards, the SPLC recently smeared well-regarded family-values organizations as ‘hate groups’ for championing faith-based moral views, including opposition to gay marriage and support for the military’s DADT policy.

The Family Research Council (FRC) was among the insulted parties and decided to fight back, using the modern tools of intellectual warfare.

On December 15th the organization launched StartDebatingStopHating.com, a website and newspaper ad (the latter appearing in Politico and the Washington Examiner) that denounced the speech-chilling “character assassination” tactics of the SPLC, while supporting the “vigorous” and “responsible” exercise of free speech. Those who sign an online petition show their solidarity with the FRC, American Family Association, Concerned Women for America, and others who are protecting the traditional family. Many heavy hitters signed the full-page ad including Michele Bachmann, Jim DeMint, Tim Pawlenty, Phyllis Schlafly, Frank Gaffney, Alveda King, and David Limbaugh.

The Alabama-based non-profit, started by attorneys Morris Dees and Joseph Levin, Jr. in 1971, tracks the speech and conduct of those they dub as ‘haters’ (e.g. the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan), and champions the civil rights of destitute minorities. But in recent years the SPLC has become known for its aggressive campaign of slamming mainstream conservatives and independent thinkers by likening their views to, say, those of the National Knights of the KKK. In addition to the FRC, the SPLC has slimed Iowa Congressman Steve King, Indian-born writer Dinesh D’Souza, African-American law professor Carol Swain, and prominent immigration enforcement leaders and writers, to name a few. Even the films “Gods and Generals” and “The Lord of the Rings” are suspect. The former is scorned because the Civil War flick “is told from the Confederate perspective,” and the latter is suspect because it is “Eurocentric.”

If that isn’t ridiculous enough, consider that Richard Cohen, SPLC president even wrote a letter to CNN’s president, last year, asking that newscaster Lou Dobbs be ‘removed’ from the airwaves, because Dobbs was promoting “racist conspiracy theories” (i.e. daring to have an open discussion about President Obama’s citizenship bonafides).

In 1998, Teaching Tolerance, a publication of the SPLC aimed at impacting public education, featured a friendly interview with commie-sympathizer Bill Ayers. No mention was made of his past as a violent Weather Underground member. Instead, Ayers was merely described as a “radical anti-Vietnam War activist, teacher, and author.” The SPLC also opposes the Arizona immigration law and can’t be bothered to stick up for Americans who have been victimized by the heinous actions of repeat offender criminal illegal aliens or transnational gangbangers.

Then there’s the money. With its net assets of nearly $200 million, Harper’s has colorfully described the organization as having more wealth than the “annual GDP of the Marshall Islands.” Clearly, poverty and injustice are the last things on Dees’ mind these days. But don’t look to the MSM to expose such blatant hypocrisy. The SPLC wouldn’t have come this far, this fast without a mountain of favorable words and pictures from the old guard and new vanguard media establishment.

This past summer, the Montgomery Advertiser published, with a straight face, scores of photos of the house that Morris Dees shares with Susan Starr, his current wife. A suburban tract home it’s not. Casa Dees, complete with guest quarters, features surrealistic decorations (a matador’s costume hanging in an office bathroom and a rickshaw parked near the swimming pool). The pretty missus is an avant-garde artist who designs transparent coats and whose clientele is society’s crème de la crème.

Mark Potok, an SPLC spokesperson and Huffington Post contributor, is frequently interviewed or quoted (as a credible authority on everything from right-wing ‘extremism’ to militias to racism) by NPR, the Associated Press, the Washington Post, the New York Times, cable show talking heads, etc. etc. Ted Koppel, former “Nightline” anchor, has said that “Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center has a long and distinguished record of fighting for civil rights.” Newsweek notes that, “Teaching Tolerance is a winner among programs providing moral education.” While U.S. News and World Report thinks that the SPLC’s Intelligence Project investigators have “bested the nation’s mighty law enforcement agencies.” In 1991, NBC even showed a made-for-TV flick lauding Dees’ legal accomplishments.

Unfortunately, the positive publicity has brought the oily organization serious street cred. Among the FBI’s recommended resources on its “hate crime” page is a link to the – you guessed it – the Southern Poverty Law Center. Ditto for the U.S. Department of Justice.

There’s even a Morris Dees Justice [sic] Award at the University of Alabama law school.

Go figure.

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Obama’s political arm vows to revive DREAM Act

President Obama’s political arm vowed to revive the DREAM Act on Monday after the Senate jettisoned the issue in a weekend vote.

Mitch Stewart, the director of Organizing for America (OFA), the president’s political arm within the Democratic National Committee (DNC), sought to reassure liberal and Hispanic voters that they would look to pass the immigration bill again in the future.

“This fight isn’t over — and when it comes up in the next Congress, we need to be on the record saying that Republicans can’t hold reform hostage to political games,” Stewart wrote.

The Senate failed to end debate on the DREAM Act, which provides conditional pathways to citizenship for illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, in a Saturday vote. 55 senators voted to end debate, short of the 60 votes needed to end a filibuster. .. HERE

Michael Cutler — Family Security Matters

Southern border security crisis

Two news reports that appeared in the Washington Times a couple of days ago.Both articles are related because both articles report on the failures of our nation to secure the borders of the United States – with devastating results. — The first of the news reports deals with how members of the extremely dangerous Mexican-based drug cartel…

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Gainesville Times

Panel ready to push immigration bills

After wrapping up its final meeting this week, the Special Joint Committee on Immigration Reform is prepared for the immigration legislation that is almost certain to come up when the General Assembly meets in January. — Sen. Butch Miller was one of 14 members selected for the committee in September…

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