Immigration: DHS confirms cheaper to deport every illegal alien than allowing them to stay

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On December 3, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, Nelson Peacock, responding to request from several U.S. Senators, including Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), wrote: “Our conservative estimate suggests that ICE would require a budget of more than $135 billion to apprehend, detain and remove the nation’s entire illegal immigrant population.”

In July 2010, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) released the results of a study which examined the costs of illegal immigration at the federal, state and local levels. The study found that U.S. state and local governments shell out $84.2 billion annually in various services (law enforcement, schools, social services, etc.), with California taxpayers alone, spending $21 billion on illegal aliens every year.

The same study found that $29 billion is spent every year in federal funds on illegal aliens.

So, while it would cost a one-time fee of about $135 billion to deport every single illegal alien in the country, it is actually a bargain considering the fact that it already costs us $113 billion annually to keep them here.

In other words, the mass deportation would pay for itself in a little over a year.

Incidentally, in 2007, the DHS estimated the cost of deporting all illegal aliens to be approximately $94 billion.

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Justice Breyer says Framers would support ‘gun control’

• David Codrea
• December 13, 2010
• 27 Comments

“Founding Fathers Would Have Allowed Restrictions on Guns,” the Fox News headline announces.It’s reporting on claims made by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, one of the dissenters in both the Heller and McDonald cases, as he hawked his new book “Making Democracy Work” on Fox News Sunday.James Madison didn’t really mean it when he included the Second Amendment, Breyer would have us believe.  He just included it, presumably with his fingers crossed, as an appeasement gesture so the Constitution would be ratified.And Breyer “think[s] more of...

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TSA and Janet Napolitano greet shoppers at Wal-Mart

• Joel Siegfried
• December 12, 2010
• 1 Comment

It seems that George Orwell's book "Nineteen Eighty-Four" about Big Brother watching us was more than just literature. It contained a prophesy which we are seeing today, at Wal-Mart of all places. Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has been appearing in videos at the checkout counters of Wal-Mart, telling shoppers "If You See Something, Say Something", a campaign that the DHS launched in Washington, D.C. earlier in the week. National Public Radio did a feature story on Saturday, December 11, which included an interview with Ms....

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Hey Napolitano and Walmart: Alex Jones calls FBI to report suspicious activity

• Donna Anderson
• December 10, 2010
• 1 Comment

In what can only be labeled 'Characteristically Alex', Jones called the FBI yesterday, September 9, 2010, to report suspicious activity at the Pentagon. He did this in the middle of his radio program. And this was not a case of drunk-dialing!Coming soon to Walmart stores across America is a new monitor, located at each check-out lane, with a repeating video featuring Janet Napolitano asking you to rat out your neighbor if you even think you see some suspicious activity. See Walmart teams up with DHS, Janet Napolitano urges shoppers to spy on each other.Watch the video in the left...

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DHS confirms cheaper to deport every illegal alien than allowing them to stay

• Dave Gibson
• December 08, 2010
• 36 Comments

On December 3, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, Nelson Peacock, responding to request from several U.S. Senators, including Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), wrote: “Our conservative estimate suggests that ICE would require a budget of more than $135 billion to apprehend, detain and remove the nation’s entire illegal immigrant population.” In July 2010, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) released the results of a study which examined the costs of illegal immigration at the federal, state and local levels. The study...

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Walmart teams up with DHS, Janet Napolitano urges shoppers to spy on each other

• Donna Anderson
• December 07, 2010

Today on Alex Jones' website, InfoWars.com, Paul Joseph Watson, the editor and writer for InfoWars discusses the Department of Homeland Security's newest invasive tactic in their battle to gain complete control of the Sheeple of the United States of America. Coming soon to a Walmart near you! Monitors at every check-out lane, blasting Janet Napolitano's message - “Does your neighbor look suspicious? Turn them in to US!For those of you familiar with George Orwells “1984” you've seen this coming and Alex says you can stop holding your breath. 1984 is here....

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Big sis 'Napolitano' wants your attention at Walmart

• Jake Jones
• December 07, 2010

Government intrusion into our lives is at an all time high.  A few days ago, it was reported that the Fed’s are tracking law abiding citizens in real-time using credit cards, loyalty cards and travel reservations, all done without a court order.  But that’s just the beginning!Now, as if the Department of Homeland Security doesn’t have enough on its plate over the issues caused by the Full Body Scans and the groping pat-downs; you may now be greeted by DHS Secretary, Janet Napolitano on a video screen in your favorite Walmart store!Yesterday, Napolitano announced...

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Woman creates DIY TSA-like scanner

• Michael Santo
• December 04, 2010

Follow me on TwitterWant to scan friends and neighbors in all their naked glory? Well, Jeri Ellsworth decided the TSA was having too much fun with its own backscatter scanners and decided to come up with something similar.Ellsworth hasn't detailed instructions on a written page, which might be better, but gives enough information in the video attached to make some sense of it all. According to Hack a Day, here's what she did:She has managed to cobble together her own centimeter wave scanner using a hacked set of Feed Horns (like from a satellite dish) to create the image....

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Underwear makes political statement to TSA

• Joel Siegfried
• December 04, 2010
• 10 Comments

Two businessmen have come up with a way to make both a profit, and a political statement to the Transportation Security Administration at airport security screenings. Tim Geoghegan and Matthew Ryan founded Cargo Collective which sells 4th Amendment clothes, underwear and socks printed with a metallic ink that emblazons your constitutional rights to privacy during full body scans. The novel approach to protest comes at a time when public outrage over the scanners, which many find so intrusive that they have opted out or acted up at airports around the country, deciding on a pat down instead....

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NC Town Declare State of Emergency - Bans Gun & Ammo Buying Because of Snow Storm

What is the old saying, “If you are looking for a reason or a test case, any reason will do!” Well in North Carolina, that is exactly what happened. The sheriff declared a state of emergency and banned guns and ammo sales… because of a snow storm.

WHOA ! ! ! ! ! I hope you folks are paying attention here - This is a SIGN OF THINGS TO COME

NC Town Declare State of Emergency - Bans Gun & Ammo Buying Alcohol Restrictions, Curfew Lifted In King Police Chief: King Remained Under State Of Emergency Until Monday 02.08.10.

POSTED: 5:18 pm EST February 6, 2010
UPDATED: 4:07 pm EST February 7, 2010

KING, N.C. -- Authorities lifted a curfew and alcohol restrictions in King on Sunday, but said a state of emergency declaration remained in effect until Monday.

Authorities said the state of emergency declaration would continue until Monday

9 a.m., barring any unforeseen circumstances or severe changes.
Effective Sunday afternoon, alcohol restrictions and a curfew were lifted. All other remaining restrictions would continue until Monday, said Paula May, King police chief.

Other restrictions include a ban on the sale or purchase of any type of firearm, ammunition, explosive or any possession of such items off a person's own premises.

Also on Sunday, the emergency shelter established by the American red Cross at West Stokes High School was closed.

"We appreciate the support and cooperation of everyone with our efforts to keep the citizens of King safe," May said.

The state of emergency was declared Friday due to severe weather...http://www.wxii12.com/news/22487153/detail.html

This is Stokes County North Carolina!!!!! And it was just a WINTER STORM! It doesn't matter though, it is UN-CONSTITUTIONAL!

Apparently the mayor is a gun ban libtard. If this can happen here, it can happen anywhere. It is unconstitutional and we let this go, imagine what they will do if there is really a national emergency, when you might (will) need your weapons to protect yourself and your family.

Please do not let this pass without calling or faxing and letting them know that is unconstitutional, unacceptable and that we are all watching. If you have not already contacted them, please do!!

Mayor Jack Warren - 229 S. Main St.-PO Box 1132-King, North Carolina-27021 - Phone: (336)983-8265 – Fax: (336)983-4675

Governor’s Office
Office of the Governor
20301 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-0301
Phone: (919)733-4240
Fax: (919)733-2120

Here is a quick sample of a letter to fax or what to say:

The U.S. Constitution
To: Mayor Jack Warren
Fax: 336-983-4675/Phone: (336)983-8265

and

Office of the Governor
Fax: (919)733-2120/Phone: (919)733-4240

The Bill Of Rights - Amendment II

A well established Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

A snowstorm does not constitute reason to restrict any use of firearm used within the limits of the law by anyone with a conceal carry permit carrying concealed or not at all by qualified legal resident gun owners in the case of open carry. This is based on North Carolina gun laws.

What you are doing is unconstitutional!!

If your desire is to keep your people and their property safe…why is it the first thing you do is to “legally” deny the God given rights protected by the Constitution of the United States, to the very residents of your state to protect themselves and their families?

Let's light up his phone line and educated this moron on the Constitution.

Fax him/them copies of the Bill of Rights. Folks this is a small town. It is not a crime ridden inner-city hellhole.

This is not an isolated incident. A few months ago, the National Association for Gun Rights first broke another incredible tale out of Shreveport, Louisiana.

Welcome to Shreveport: Your rights are now suspended.

According to Cedric Glover, mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, his cops "have a power that [. . .] the President of these Unites States does not have": His cops can take away your rights.

And would you like to guess which rights he has in mind?
Just ask Shreveport resident Robert Baillio, who got pulled over for having two pro-gun bumper stickers on the back of his truck -- and had his gun confiscated.

While the officer who pulled him over says Baillio failed to use his turn signal, the only questions he had for Baillio concerned guns: Whether he had a gun, where the gun was, and if he was a member of a pro-gun organization.

No requests for a driver's licence, proof of insurance, or vehicle registration -- and no discussion of a turn signal.
Accordingly, Baillio told the officer the truth, which led the police officer to search his car without permission and confiscate his gun.

However, not only does Louisiana law allow residents to drive with loaded weapons in their vehicles, but Mr. Baillio possessed a concealed carry license!

What does such behavior demonstrate, other than transparent political profiling -- going so far as to use the infamous Department of Homeland Security report on "Americans of a rightwing persuasion" as a how-to guidebook, no less?

Mr. Baillio made no secret of his political affiliations: An American flag centers a wide flourish of pro-freedom stickers and decals on his back windshield.

In fact, when Baillio asked the officer if everyone he pulls over gets the same treatment, the officer said no and pointed to the back of his truck.

Baillio phoned Mayor Glover to complain about this "suspension of rights" only to find that his city's morbidly obese "commander in chief" was elated at the story: According to Glover, Baillio got "served well, protected well, and even got a consideration that maybe [he] should not have gotten."

Thankfully, Mr. Baillio recorded a good bit of that phone call. You can watch a video with the transcriptions here.

Remember: “The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." --Thomas Jefferson This idea of banning gun and ammo sales or confiscating guns is a Progressive type of move supported by Eric Holder and the present administration. It is also a tactic used by dictators everywhere in the world.

And here’s a little photo of our own Janet Napolitano. Guess her opinion on guns doesn’t apply to herself?!?

DHS: Fossil Fuels and Climate Change are ‘National Threats’

(Photo) Hmmm… Is this our (anti-gun advocate… for average Americans) Janet Napolitano??? My My My…

Muddled thinking from the Department of Homeland Security

On February 1, Janet Napolitano’s Department of Homeland Security released a 108-page report to Congress, the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review Report. Subtitled “A Strategic Framework for a Secure Homeland”, a quick glance at the report left me questioning whether the DHS is more serious about Homeland Security than they are about advancing Obama Administration policy goals.

The following item is in a bullet list of threats to America’s national interests (p. 7):

• Dependence on fossil fuels and the threat of global climate change that can open the United States to disruptions and manipulations in energy supplies and to changes in our natural environment on an unprecedented scale. Climate change is expected to increase the severity and frequency of weather-related hazards, which could, in turn, result in social and political destabilization, international conflict, or mass migrations.

If there’s a Smithsonian exhibit on Muddled Thinking and Bureaucratic Gobbledegook, that paragraph belongs in it.

“Dependence on fossil fuels … can open the United States to disruptions and manipulations in energy supplies…” Ms. Napolitano, it is not our dependence on fossil fuels that is the problem, it is our dependence on foreign sources of crude oil and the Administration’s determination to exacerbate the problem by limiting domestic access and punishing small domestic producers. While America probably will never be self-sufficient in energy, we could be a lot less dependent of foreign sources of crude if we 1) explored more domestically, and 2) relied more on natural gas.

If, as you say, disruptions and manipulation of crude oil supply threaten our national interest, then it’s time to start doing something about that threat. Even under the most optimistic assumptions for growth of wind and solar energy, we’ll be using more oil, gas and coal thirty years from now than we use today.

Then there’s Climate Change. No need here to belabor the myriad scandals, conflicts of interest and lapses of judgment that have plagued the Climate Change community of late.

“Climate change is expected to increase the severity and frequency of weather-related hazards…”

We’ve all become conditioned to this blather to the point where we hardly notice. We have, after all, experienced a “hockey stick”, haven’t we, along with an increasing trend inhurricanes and tornadoes?

Hmmm. Not much of a trend there. This graph just considers landfalling hurricanes. Maybe if we look at total hurricanes, landfalling or not, in more detail:

This graph doesn’t include 2009 (which I blogged about here), a rather puny year for storms, even counting a late November storm and an extratropical storm in the North Atlantic that really shouldn’t have counted in the statistics.

OK, there must be a trend in tornadoes:

Hmmm, again. There’s a trend, alright, but it seems like it’s going the wrong way.

Ms. Napolitano, it seems as though your party has a bad habit of taking a government agency with a worthwhile goal (in this case, the critical goal of Homeland Security), and confusing the mission with a mishmash of other incidental policy issues and distractions.

• Our use of fossil fuels does not threaten our security.

• There is no evidence of an increasing trend in the number or severity of storms.

• ManBearPig is not going to kill us all in our beds

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Now, please get back to the serious business of securing our borders and keeping out the bad guys who would do our country real harm.

Source: Posted by Vladimir (Profile) at Red State - Cross-posted at VladEnBlog - Thursday, February 4th at 12:15AM EST

Airports to begin strip-searching passengers

You might want to take a minute to say goodbye to your personal liberties. They're flying right out the window -- and, as usual, it's all in the name of "protecting the public." You knew this was coming... After the failed terror attempt on Christmas day, the federal Transportation Security Agency (TSA) has decided to step up its security screenings. Their solution? Strip-search every passenger. It's not by hand, mind you, but it may as well be. The TSA plans to begin using full-body X-ray scanners that would essentially strip passengers of their clothing -- and their dignity. With these new scanners, no details would be left to the imagination -- which is just how the feds like it. Yup, Big Brother is a big perv. (And this will not solve the problem, nor is it necessary and it ads a new threat) But I'm not sure which is worse: The threat to your privacy or the threat to your health. Like X-rays, the new machines use radiation to create these indecent exposures. The experts claim that the low dose of radiation is perfectly safe -- even for children and pregnant women. That is absolutely untrue! Baloney. Exposing pregnant women to radiation can lead to grossly disfigured babies or can even cause women to miscarry. It's no coincidence that five female security guards had miscarriages after working with these supposedly safe machines. And it's not much safer for adults. Radiation can damage DNA and cause structural damage to your cells -- both of which can lead to cancer. In fact, Dr. John Gofman, Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, believes that 50 percent of all cancers are caused by the radiation from medical tests -- the same ones meant to "protect" you by detecting cancer early! Bottom line: If you don't want to be fried with ionizing radiation every time you fly -- and if you'd rather not have airport workers paid to be peeping toms...you won't stand for this outright invasion of your rights. When it comes to these full-body X-rays, I don't care how low the dose is. There is no safe level of ionizing radiation. Period.

Dr. William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

It is time Americans began using some common sense, stop giving up their liberties for protection or the illusion of safety (which never helps or works out well), stop letting the government endanger our health and start demanding that the government worry about Americans and their rights and health instead of what “the world” thinks us!

We need to be proactive not reactive and insist the government use methods that work to insure homeland security and stop endangering us and our children with half-backed ideas and so-called medical, chemical, and electronic methods that actually damage our health and take away our freedoms!

Time to do what works: profiling and Israeli type security measures instead of radiating babies and hassling granny over a bottle of shampoo.

The White House Cabinet videos: Comedy gold

By Michelle Malkin • January 26, 2010 02:13 PM

As part of the pre-State of the Union publicity blitz, the Obama White House had its cabinet members sit down for quickie videos to tell you how they all “got to work” and “took bold steps to rescue the country from a potential second Great Depression; to rebuild the economy for the long-term — so businesses can thrive, the middle class can grow and all our families can be more secure; and to restore America’s leadership in the world, as we wrestle with the global challenges of the 21st Century.”

I’m including a few of my favorites from corruptocrat Eric Holder, Janet Clownitano, and Turbo Tax Tim Geithner — all especially striking not for what they tell you, but for what they omit about their security-undermining, transparency-sabotaging tenures. It’s comedy gold. Well, bitter comedy gold.

You can watch all the videos here by scrolling your mouse over any individual in the group photo and clicking for the pop-up video (big hat tip: Mark S.).

Sadly, there is “no video available” for Rahm Emanuel. But I can tell you what message his video would convey if he had been allowed to make one: “$%^&!! F**king $&^@^!!!”

Other White House video series ideas I’d like to see implemented:

*Obama Czars: Our Year in Review
*Messages From Under the Bus: Withdrawn Nominees Speak!
*Michelle and Friends: How the First Lady and Her East Wing Cronies Spent Your Money

Related:

Your corrupt DOJ-gives-another-corrupt-Democrat-a-pass story of the day

A Comprehensive List of O’s Czars and a brief description of each

Culture of Corruption By Michelle Malkin

Ivana Trump Escorted Off Plane: Napolitano Declares 'The System Worked'

In response to a Nigerian Muslim trying to blow up a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day, the government will now prohibit international travelers from going to the bathroom in the last hour before the plane lands.

Terrorists who plan to bomb planes during the first seven hours of the eight-hour flight, however, should face no difficulties, provided they wait until after the complimentary beverage service has been concluded.

How do they know Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab didn't wait until the end of the flight to try to detonate explosives because he heard the stewardess announce that the food service was over and seats would have to be placed in their upright position? I can't finish my snack? This plane is going down!

Also prohibited in the last hour of international flights will be: blankets, pillows, computers and in-flight entertainment. Another triumph in Janet Napolitano's "Let's stay one step behind the terrorists" policy!

For the past eight years, approximately 2 million Americans a day have been subjected to humiliating searches at airport security checkpoints, forced to remove their shoes and jackets, to open their computers, and to remove all liquids from their carry-on bags, except minuscule amounts in marked 3-ounce containers placed in Ziploc plastic bags -- folding sandwich bags are verboten -- among other indignities.

This, allegedly, was the price we had to pay for safe airplanes. The one security precaution the government refused to consider was to require extra screening for passengers who looked like the last three-dozen terrorists to attack airplanes.

Since Muslims took down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, every attack on a commercial airliner has been committed by foreign-born Muslim men with the same hair color, eye color and skin color. Half of them have been named Mohammed.

An alien from the planet "Not Politically Correct" would have surveyed the situation after 9/11 and said: "You are at war with an enemy without uniforms, without morals, without a country and without a leader -- but the one advantage you have is they all look alike. ... What? ... What did I say?"

The only advantage we have in a war with stateless terrorists was ruled out of order ab initio by political correctness.

And so, despite 5 trillion Americans opening laptops, surrendering lip gloss and drinking breast milk in airports day after day for the past eight years, the government still couldn't stop a Nigerian Muslim from nearly blowing up a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day.

The "warning signs" exhibited by this particular passenger included the following:

His name was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

He's Nigerian.

He's a Muslim.

His name was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

He boarded a plane in Lagos, Nigeria.

He paid nearly $3,000 in cash for his ticket.

He had no luggage.

His name was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

Two months ago, his father warned the U.S. that he was a radical Muslim and possibly dangerous.

If our security procedures can't stop this guy, can't we just dispense with those procedures altogether? What's the point exactly?

(To be fair, the father's warning might have been taken more seriously if he had not simultaneously asked for the U.S. Embassy's Social Security number and bank routing number in order to convey a $28 million inheritance that was trapped in a Nigerian bank account.)

The warning from Abdulmutallab's father put his son on some list, but not the "no fly" list. Apparently, it's tougher to get on the "no fly" list than it was to get into Studio 54 in the '70s. Currently, the only people on the "no fly" list" are the Blind Sheik and Sean Penn.
The government is like the drunk looking for his keys under a lamppost. Someone stops to help, and asks, "Is this where you lost them?" No, the drunk answers, but the light's better here.

The government refuses to perform the only possibly effective security check -- search Muslims -- so instead it harasses infinitely compliant Americans. Will that help avert a terrorist attack? No, but the Americans don't complain.

The only reason Abdulmutallab didn't succeed in bringing down an airplane with 278 passengers was that: (1) A brave Dutchman leapt from his seat and extinguished the smoldering Nigerian; and (2) the Nigerian apparently didn't have enough detonating fluid to cause a powerful explosion.

In addition to the no blanket, no computer, no bathroom rule, perhaps the airlines could add this to their preflight announcement about seat belts and emergency exits: "Should a passenger sitting near you attempt to detonate an explosive device, you may be called upon to render emergency assistance. Would you be willing to do so under those circumstances? If not we will assign you another seat ..."

By: Ann Coulter is Legal Affairs Correspondent for HUMAN EVENTS and author of a long list of books including: Godless

The System ‘Worked Really Very, Very Smoothly’ in Detroit?

Exclusive: The System Failed...Miserably Presidential Policy: Does It Make the Grade?, James Carafano, PhD The administration has a lot to do. Let's hope they get it right before the jihadists get lucky.

Rash of 2009 Homegrown Terror Plots Ends ‘Denial' Steve Emerson How did homegrown radicalization develop? And will the flurry of terror cases in 2009 force the issue?

The System ‘Worked Really Very, Very Smoothly' in Detroit? Daniel Pipes Eight and a half years after 9/11, our counterterrorism apparatus still appears to be in catch-up mode. What needs to be done to bring security in line with 2010 threats?

Homeland Security 101 Frank Gaffney, Jr. Napolitano told CNN that, "Right now, we have no indication [that Abdulmutallab's actions were] part of anything larger." Not "part of anything larger"? Is she serious? Does she take us for fools?

Tightening the Noose on Foreign Policy Herbert London As the plans for American foreign policy are being debated in the White House and the corridors of Congress, it is increasingly apparent that the options are limited.

Video: ‘Underwear Bomb' Packed Enough Explosive to Bring Down Flight 253 Radio Interview: Witness Says Terrorist Suspect Aided Onto Northwest Flight Sans Passport Video: Janet Napolitano gets grilled by Matt Lauer about her statement that "the system worked." Video: President's Statement on Terror Plot "this was an isolated terrorist incident" Video: Krauthammer and Stephen Hayes Blast President's Statement on Iran Al Qaeda Leaders Behind Christmas Day Attack Were Released from Guantanamo Bay in 2007 Video: Flight 253 Terrorist Warns ‘More Like Me' Are Coming to America The Imprudent Tyranny of Harry Reid - writes legislation that 'cannot be repealed!' Why Was Umar AbdulMutallab in Houston? Whom Did He Visit There? What Did He Plan? Hail 2010! The year of the American Citizen! Detroit terror attack: Yemen is the true home of Al-Qaeda. America's Latest Wake-Up Call Came on Flight 253 It looks like Sarah Palin is right again, this time on the issue of profiling. Exclusive: Why Worry about a Muslim Center at Ground Zero? Rachel Lipsky Serious questions must be asked of the Imam behind the mosque planned at Ground Zero and essential, unambiguous answers should be demanded, before we engage in self destructive deeds which undermine our own freedom and security.

Health Care Reform: A Modest (Hippocratic) Proposal Paula D. Gordon, Ph.D. Congress has a choice: Pass the proposed legislation and risk repeal by those voted into office in 2010 or begin anew with some realistic, low cost, clearly stated initiatives. Which will they choose?

Exclusive: You Can't Make This Stuff Up! (12/29/09) The Editors A daily roundup of idiocy, buffoonery and incompetence - courtesy of your government and its enablers.

We choose, you peruse.

1. Underwear Bomb Revealed as Terror Suspect Warns More Attacks Coming (FOX)
2. Al Qaeda takes credit for plot to down plane (WT)
3. Illinois Congressman Says Obama Official Agreed That Moving Terrorists to U.S. Prison Would Increase Risk (CNS)
4. Homeland Security Touts 2009 Accomplishments, Including ‘Secure Flight' Program (CNS)
5. Al Qaeda's Clear Message - The U.S. has to rethink jihad's global recruitment of terrorists. (WSJ)
6. Six Uncomfortable Answers
7. Preventing the Next Terrorist Attack - by Andrew Cline
8. Cyber-security chief resigns in protest - Calls consolidation of power in National Security Agency 'bad strategy'
9. States Draft Bills Regarding State Sovereignty
10. Key security agencies lack permanent leaders (WT)
11. Putin: U.S. Missile Shield Holding Up Nuke Deal (FOX)
12. Cross the River, Burn the Bridge - Obamacare is the fast-track to a permanent left-of-center political culture. By Mark Steyn
13. The Tipping Point in Iran (WSJ)
14. ‘No Place in Constitution' Gives Congress Authority to Mandate Health Insurance - Is Trampling on Individual Rights (CNS)
15. Justice transfers Panthers pursuer out of D.C. office (WT)
16. Letting The Cat Out of the Bag
17. Forget Supreme Court Challenges to this Monstrosity!
18. Shameless Islamist Doublespeak Rages On (PAJAMAS)
19. How the West Rejuvenated Pan-Islamism and the Global Jihad
20. The Open Hand, Slapped (Richard Perle)
21. Family of Kidnapped U.S. Soldier Urges Taliban to Send Son Home (FOX)
22. Analysis: Detroit terror attack is a major intelligence and security failure (TELEGRAPH UK)
23. Let's Roll 2 [Mark Steyn]
24. Janet Napolitano Made A Fool Of Herself On TV Talkshows
25. Let My Terrorists Go
26. Lying to Ourselves
27. On Planet Janet
28. Obama Acknowledges Flaws in Security, Vows Fixes… But Blames Bush (Again)
29. So What? Why Don’t We Profile? (FOX)
30. What? Nigerian Suspect Given Lawyers, Civilian Trial, Constitutional Rights
31. Republican Congressman Calls on Napolitano to Resign
32. Ooops! Freed Gitmo Alumni Plotted Airline Bombing
33. Lawmakers Spar Over Obama’s Decision to Transfer Gitmo Detainees to Illinois Prison
34. Ivana Trump Escorted Off Plane: Napolitano Declares 'The System Worked'

Thanks To Family Security Matters and Warbird

Perry: Ranger teams to go to Texas-Mexico border

Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks about border security during a news conference Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009 in Houston. Gov. Perry said special teams of Texas Rangers supported by about 200 Texas National Guard members will be deployed to the Texas-Mexico border to deal with increasing violence because the federal government has failed to address the problems. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip

HOUSTON — Special teams of Texas Rangers will be deployed to the Texas-Mexico border to deal with increasing violence because the federal government has failed to address growing problems there, Gov. Rick Perry said Thursday. "It is an expansive effort with the Rangers playing a more high-profile role than they've ever played before," Perry said of the Department of Public Safety's elite investigative unit.

The forces, dubbed "Ranger recon" teams, are the latest effort "to fill the gap that's been left by the federal government's ongoing failure to adequately secure our international border with Mexico," he said.

The governor early this year asked Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano for 1,000 National Guard troops and renewed his call last month in a letter to President Barack Obama. The request is bogged down over who will pay for the troops and how they will be deployed.

Perry's announcement Thursday comes amid increasing border violence, particularly in El Paso, mostly involving people with ties to Mexican drug gangs.

"They'll be deployed to high-traffic, high-crime areas along the border," he said. "They'll give us boots on the ground, put people in these hot spots no matter what or where they may exist."

Perry said the effort also would focus on remote areas where farmers and ranchers have complained of being overrun by smugglers and gangs from Mexico in numbers that also overwhelm local law enforcement and border patrol officers.

"Washington is shortchanging them, not giving them the support they need," Perry said. "As a result, we're having to dedicate our resources to deal with the challenges we have along the Texas-Mexico border and ensuing issues that porous border has created all across state of Texas."

He said the state would pick up the tab of $110 million, allocated by the Legislature in the past two sessions.

Perry's announcement drew immediate criticism from U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who is running against the two-term incumbent in the March GOP primary.

"Today's announcement is yet another empty election-year promise from Rick Perry on border security," Hutchison spokesman Joe Pounder said.

Perry fired back that it was the "height of hypocrisy for someone who's been in Washington, D.C., for 16 years, who's had the opportunity to help Texas on our border security, and they've been no more successful in delivering the resources and help."

"So please do that job up there first before you come down here and start criticizing about the state of Texas," he said.

Hutchison also took Perry to task for the absence of any Texas agency from a federal program that allows Homeland Security personnel to work with local law enforcement on immigration issues.

"Texans need a governor they can trust to actually improve our security," her campaign said in a statement.

"I happen to think we've taken advantage of every program that's been effective," responded Perry, who has been branding his opponent as someone from Washington out of touch with her home state. "Pointing out one program that has been funded and leaving the 800-pound gorilla — which is 1,000 National Guard troops that we need — I am stunned someone from Washington, D.C., would say they've done enough to secure our border."

Brig. Gen. Joyce Stevens, commander of the Texas Army National Guard, said about 200 soldiers and airmen already have started integrated operations with the Rangers.

Tony Leal, assistant director of the Texas Rangers, declined to provide the number of his officers involved in the effort.

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press – 09.11.09

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John Cornyn Accuses Obama of Compiling 'Enemies List' - Updated

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is worried that the Obama administration is actively compiling an enemies list of citizens and organizations that do not agree with the president's plan to reform health care. On Wednesday, he penned a letter to Obama voicing his strong objections to a recent posting on the White House website that asked concerned Americans to forward instances of misinformation being put forth on the proposed legislation. Here's part of Cornyn's letter:

"I can only imagine the level of justifiable outrage had your predecessor asked Americans to forward e-mails critical of his policies to the White House."

The original blog post at Whitehouse.gov was titled "Facts Are Stubborn Things," and included a video clip from Communications Director Linda Douglass refuting a Drudge Report headline claiming Obama wanted to "eliminate" private health coverage. Later, the post made the following pitch to readers:

"There's a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from out of control personal finances to end-of-life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain e-mails or through casual conversation. Since we can't keep track of all of them here at the White House, we're asking for your help. If you get an email or have seen something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov."

White House spokesman Adam Abrams denied that the e-mail request had anything to do with creating an enemies list, saying that it was simply a way to keep track of "intentionally misleading" information:

"We want to be sure people have the facts about health insurance reform that will lower costs, protect consumers from insurance regulations that deny them coverage and assure quality and affordable health care for all Americans."

Obama used the reach and viral power of the Internet to help him get elected, and he knows that staying on top of a story in this day and age requires a rapid-response approach on the web. No president has borne the brunt of Internet rumors more than Obama (the birth certificate issue and the rest), but that may simply be a function of increased cultural fluency with the technology. But could the flagging of sites and individual users who oppose health care reform constitute a modern-day enemies list?

Related Resources:

• White House Initiates “Snitch” Program On What They Call Misinformation Being Disbursed on Healthcare Reform
• President Obama, Linda Douglas, And The Very Very Stubborn Facts
• America Senses Something Isn't Right
• My Fishy Letter of Encouragement for the Town Hall Rebels
• Stop Talking And Get Out of the Way
• Memo: How to Beat the Right-Wing Mob
• Senator Grassley (and Others): Democrats Want to Nationalize Healthcare
• Why Aren't the Civil Libertarians Protesting Obama's Snitch Site?
• The Community Organizer Doesn’t Like People Organizing???
• Why is the White House Attacking and Making Fun of Americans?
• Democrat Proposes Jail Time for Hostile Bloggers
• You Might Be a: Radicalized Right Wing Extremest, If...
• Click here to read the DHS extremism report.
• Catastrophe

Nell Husbands Martin Coulter - A Daughter’s Tribute

A lot of people claim to be my No. 1 fan -- God bless them -- but my true No. 1 fan left this world last week. My mother quietly stopped breathing last Tuesday, as she slept peacefully, holding my hand.  

She was the biggest fan of all of us -- Father, me and my brothers John and Jim.

After reading the eulogy column I wrote for Father last year -- not to excess, probably only about 4,637 times -- Mother realized to her chagrin that she wouldn't be able to read the eulogy column I'd be writing for her, and started hinting that maybe I could rustle up a draft so she could take a peek.

But I couldn't do it, until I had to.

The only thing Mother wanted to be sure my brothers and I included in her remembrances were her contributions to the Republican Party, the New Canaan Republican Town Committee and the Daughters of the American Revolution.

She was a direct descendant of at least a dozen patriots who served the cause of the American Revolution and traced her lineage on both sides of her family to Puritan nonconformists who came to America in 1633 seeking religious freedom on a ship led by Pastor Thomas Hooker. Or, as Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano would call them, "A dangerous right-wing extremist hate group."

Even back in the Puritan days, Mother's female ancestors were brought up on charges for their heretical dressing styles (and then sassed the judge). During the Revolution, one female ancestor, Effie Ten Eyck Van Varick, contributed to the rebel cause by donating lead for bullets from the curtain weights in her home in what was, even then, traitorous, loyalist Manhattan.

Mother's deep-seated political activism saved me on more than one occasion.

At the 2004 Republican National Convention, I was taking my parents to a lot of the parties in New York and, at one of them, Herman Cain walked up to me and told me he was a big fan even though I probably didn't know who he was.

Cain was the former president and CEO of Godfather's Pizza who was then running for the U.S. Senate from Georgia. I had seen him on Fox News' "Cavuto" -- but I couldn't remember his name for the life of me.

Luckily for me, Mother was standing next to me and she piped in, "I know who you are -- I donated to your campaign." Thank you, Mommy!

Mother probably contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to various conservative outfits over the years -- all in her little $20 checks -- especially to any organization that claimed it was going to stop Hillary. In fact, if they mentioned Hillary in their letter, Mother sometimes made it $25.

My brothers and I always figured we'd have no inheritance, but there would be a lovely memorial to Oliver North somewhere.  

Mother may have thought her most notable characteristic was her Republican activism, but, for the rest of us, it was her constant, unconditional love. She was a little love machine, spreading warmth and joy wherever she went.

Every time she'd see me, even after just a few days' absence, she'd hug me as if I had been lost in the Himalayan Mountains for the past 20 years.

On Mother's birthday last year, I had a dinner party for her with Rush Limbaugh, Conrad Black and my friends Peter and Angie.  

Mother was always delighted to be with people talking about politics -- actually she told me that, lately, she was delighted to be around any conversations that didn't involve who had a doctor's appointment or who had died that day.

So I let her stay up until 3 a.m. that night, well past her bedtime. Mother was so happy that after I had her all tucked in and the lights out, I heard her singing herself to sleep.

Even on the rare occasions when I'd be cross with her, she'd completely forget about it, and within 10 seconds would be telling me what a wonderful, precious daughter I was. My brother Jimmy found out recently that she'd even forgotten that he had caused her to miss Reagan's first inauguration by getting in a car accident the night before we were leaving -- and she never should have forgotten that.

Everyone wanted my mother to be his mother. (The "his" in that sentence is grammatically correct and Mother would never let us forget it.) I'm sure everyone thinks he has the perfect mother, but we really did.

Since I was a little girl, friends, relatives and neighbors would bring their problems to Mother. She had a rare combination of being completely moral and completely nonjudgmental at the same time -- the exact opposite of liberals who have absolutely no morals and yet are ferociously judgmental.

You could tell Mother anything, get good counsel and not end up feeling worse about yourself.

Several of Mother's New Canaan friends sent us notes last week, calling her a "gentle lady" and remarking that she never had an unkind word for anyone.

As a family member, I can assure you that -- much to our annoyance -- she really did never have an unkind word for anyone. I mean, except Democrats, but not anyone she knew.

Whenever the rest of us would be making fun of someone -- trust me, always for good and sound reasons -- Mother would somehow manage to muster up a defense of the miscreant. Father would always smile and say, "Your mother defends everyone."

She was, in fact, such a "gentle lady" that I had to go to her doctors' appointments and hospital visits with her and be her Mother Lion. If officious hospital administrators had told Mother to get off a gurney, go outside in the pouring rain and stand on one foot for three hours before the doctor would see her, she'd thank them profusely and apologize for being such a bother.

She viewed her doctors' appointments as social visits, which is the other reason I'd have to go with her, to make sure we eventually got around to the business end of the appointment.

When she began her final decline last fall, she had to go to her Connecticut doctor without me to find out what was wrong. This was the first time she didn't seem to be getting better after a chemo treatment.

So I had been worrying about her appointment all day, but when I called her that night, she immediately turned the subject to me and asked me how my book was going.

I insisted on knowing if she had seen the doctor and she perked up and brightly told me that, oh yes, she had seen him, he had all my books in his office, he was worried about Obama, too, and he has such beautiful children!

Before she launched into a spirited discussion of his children's extracurricular activities and triumphs on the athletic field, I had to ask her, "Mommy, did the doctor happen to say anything about why you're feeling lousy?"

It turned out, of course, that it was the ovarian cancer -- as well as the massive amounts of poison she had been receiving to kill the cancer over the past five years. That was the beginning of the end.
Now I'll never be able to introduce my Mother to friends and surprise them with her charming Southern accent.

And I'll never see my mother's beautiful face again, at least not for the next several decades here on Earth. I've been looking at her across the room in doctors' offices over the past few years, thinking to myself: There will come a point when you won't see that face again.

Her angelic face always looked like home to me. My whole life, as soon as I'd see my mother's face I'd know I was safe, whether I was a little girl lost in a department store or a big girl with a problem, who needed her mother.
Thanks to the doctors at Memorial Sloan-Kettering and mother's fighting Kentucky spirit, we got to see that face much longer than anyone ever expected.

So now she's with Daddy and Jesus. Every single day since Daddy died last year, Mother would say how much she missed him and gaze at his photo, telling us what an amazing man he was and repeating his little expressions and jokes. Even though I miss her, I'm glad they're together again.

I don't know about Jesus, but I think Daddy was getting impatient. But Mommy was always running a little bit late.

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by  Ann Coulter is Legal Affairs Correspondent for HUMAN EVENTS and author of "High Crimes and Misdemeanors," "Slander," ""How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)," "Godless," "If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans" and most recently, Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and their Assault on America.

Posted:  Knowledge Creates Power

White House Immigration and Sovereignty Stand…

DHS Chief Napolitano: Illegal Immigration Is Not a Crime

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano stunned many listeners during an appearance on CNN when she asserted that illegal immigration is really not a crime.

In an interview with CNN’s John King last week, Napolitano discussed Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., a strict enforcer of immigration laws who says he wants illegal aliens to be prosecuted and jailed.

King said: “A lot of Democrats in Congress want you to investigate him. They think he is over the line. He says he is just enforcing the law and the problem is the federal government.”

Napolitano responded: “Sheriff Joe … knows that there aren’t enough law enforcement officers, courtrooms or jail cells in the world to do what he is saying.

“What we have to do is target the real evil-doers in this business, the employers who consistently hire illegal labor, the human traffickers who are exploiting human misery.

“And yes, when we find illegal workers, yes, appropriate action, some of which is criminal, most of that is civil, because crossing the border is not a crime per se. It is civil. But anyway, going after those as well.”

The fact is, crossing the border without authorization is a crime. The statute reads: “Any alien who enters or attempts to enter the United States at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officers . . . shall, for the first commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both.”

By: Jim Meyers - Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:26 AM

Source:  Newsmax

Napolitano is Lying to Americans About Her Department’s Rightwing Extremism Report; TMLC Files Suit

SAVAGE SUES NAPOLITANO OVER 'RIGHTWING EXTREMISM' REPORT

SAN FRANCISCO -- April 17, 2009: Talk Radio Network host Michael Savage, in conjunction with the Thomas More Law Center, has filed suit against Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. The suit claims that the recent DHS report "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment" reflects a policy on "rightwing extremism" that violates the civil liberties of veterans and targets Americans for their political beliefs.

ANN ARBOR, MI – The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, announced that yesterday evening it filed a federal lawsuit against Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. The lawsuit claims that her Department’s “Rightwing Extremism Policy,” as reflected in the recently publicized Intelligence Assessment, “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,” violates the civil liberties of combat veterans as well as American citizens by targeting them for disfavored treatment on account of their political beliefs.

Click here to read the complaint filed by the Thomas More Law Center.

Napolitano tried to blunt the public furor over the Report by a half-hearted apology to veterans, but she left out of her apology all of the other Americans her Department has targeted because of their political beliefs. In fact, officials in DHS now admit that their internal office of civil liberties objected to the language in the extremism report, but the Department issued it anyway.

Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Law Center stated, “Janet Napolitano is lying to the American people when she says the Report is not based on ideology or political beliefs. In fact, her report would have the admiration of the Gestapo and any current or past dictator in the way it targets political opponents. This incompetently written intelligence assessment, which directs law enforcement officials across the country to target and report on American citizens who have the political beliefs mentioned in the report, will be used as a tool to stifle political opposition and opinions. It will give a pretext for opponents of those Americans to report them to police as rightwing extremists and terrorists. You can imagine what happens then.”

The Report specifically mentions the following political beliefs that law enforcement should use to determine whether someone is a “rightwing extremist”:

• Opposes restrictions on firearms
• Opposes lax immigration
• Opposes the policies of President Obama regarding immigration, citizenship, and the expansion of social programs
• Opposes continuation of free trade agreements
• Opposes same-sex marriage
• Has paranoia of foreign regimes
• Fear of Communist regimes
• Opposes one world government
• Bemoans the decline of U.S. stature in the world.
• Upset with loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs to China and India
• . . . and the list goes on

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on behalf of nationally syndicated conservative radio talk show host, Michael Savage, Gregg Cunningham (President of the pro-life organization Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, Inc (CBR)), and Iraqi War Marine veteran Kevin Murray. The Law Center claims that Napolitano’s Department (DHS) has violated the First and Fifth Amendment Constitutional rights of these three plaintiffs by attempting to chill their free speech, expressive association, and equal protection rights. The lawsuit further claims that the Department of Homeland Security encourages law enforcement officers throughout the nation to target and report citizens to federal officials as suspicious rightwing extremists and potential terrorists because of their political beliefs.

Thompson added, “The Obama Administration has declared war on American patriots and our Constitution. The Report even admits that the Department has no specific information on any plans of violence by so-called ‘rightwing extremists.’ Rather, what they do have is the expression of political opinions by certain individuals and organizations that oppose the Obama administration’s policies, and this expression is protected speech under the First Amendment.”

The Law Center is asking the court to declare that the DHS policy violates the First and Fifth Amendments, to permanently enjoin the Policy and its application to the plaintiffs’ speech and other activities, and to award the plaintiffs their reasonable attorney’s fees and costs for having to bring the lawsuit.

Click here to read the DHS extremism report.

The Thomas More Law Center defends and promotes America’s Christian heritage and moral values, including the religious freedom of Christians, time-honored family values, and the sanctity of human life. It supports a strong national defense and an independent and sovereign United States of America. The Law Center accomplishes its mission through litigation, education, and related activities. It does not charge for its services. The Law Center is supported by contributions from individuals, corporations and foundations, and is recognized by the IRS as a section 501(c)(3) organization. You may reach the Thomas More Law Center at (734) 827-2001 or visit our website a twww.thomasmore.org.

TMLC Demands Dept. of Homeland Security Reveal Basis for its Report Targeting Right Wing Extremists

April 15, 2009

ANN ARBOR, MI – The Thomas More Law Center announced today that is has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Department of Homeland Security demanding to know the basis for their recent intelligence assessment targeting as “rightwing extremists” those who oppose abortion, gun control, lax immigration laws, and a myriad of other policies supported by President Obama’s administration. The Law Center filed its request after consultation with conservative talk show host Michael Savage.

The Department of Homeland Security’s document in question, “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment” was released to law enforcement agencies throughout the country. Of particular concern was the report’s singling out of military veterans as vulnerable to rightwing extremism.

Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Law Center stated, “This is not an intelligence report but a diatribe against those who oppose the policies of the Obama administration. It is a declaration of war against the American people and our constitution. It is a prelude to extreme gun control legislation and hate speech laws targeting Christian churches and others who oppose abortion and same sex marriage. The federal government should be focusing its attention on the 35 radical Muslim compounds in the U.S. training its followers on how to kidnap and kill Americans.”

Thompson went on to say that this may be another opportunity for the Law Center to team up with Dr. Michael Savage. Michael Savage, the nationally syndicated conservative radio talk show host of The Savage Nation, recently teamed with the Thomas More Law Center in order to protect free speech by opposing the so-called “Fairness Doctrine.” Michael Savage warned of the possibility of a document like this being produced by DHS when he raised the issue of “Fusion Cells.” Fusion Cells are a set of local intelligence centers across the country created by the Department of Homeland Security to combat terrorism and related criminal activity, which includes pro-life activity.

Michael Savage is a longtime on-air supporter of the Thomas More Law Center. He used his radio show to marshal overwhelming support for one of the Law Center’s clients, Marine LtCol Jeffrey Chessani. Chessani is being prosecuted by the government in the so-called Haditha massacre – a massacre that never happened. A military judge ultimately dismissed the case. The government appealed the ruling and lost, but may appeal again.

The Thomas More Law Center defends and promotes America’s Christian heritage and moral values, including the religious freedom of Christians, time-honored family values, and the sanctity of human life. It supports a strong national defense and an independent and sovereign United States of America. The Law Center accomplishes its mission through litigation, education, and related activities. It does not charge for its services. The Law Center is supported by contributions from individuals, corporations and foundations, and is recognized by the IRS as a section 501(c)(3) organization.

You may reach the Thomas More Law Center at (734) 827-2001 or visit our website at: www.thomasmore.org.

Janet Napolitano made the media rounds this morning to face the public firestorm over DHS’s hit job on conservatives.

I’m calling it the Extremist Makeover tour.

She offered an apology to veterans, saying it wasn’t her intention to offend. It may not have been the intention of the report authors or Napolitano to offend or overreach, but that was certainly the effect. And it remains a mystery why Napolitano felt it necessary to distribute a shoddy nine-page report that was supposedly in the works under the Bush administration for a year, as Napolitano claims, containing zero data backing up the claim of a “resurgence” of rightwing extremist violence — and was padded with analysis from the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center to stir fear of “disgruntled military veterans.”

On Fox and Friends this morning, Napolitano admitted that she would have changed the definition included in the report.

A reminder:

Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.

So, how exactly would she rewrite the definition? We rightwing extremists want to know.