Cops Kill Dog, Handcuff Kids in Wrong-House Raid

By Staff Report | August 10, 2012 | WND

‘Brutalized’ family files lawsuit over SWAT team nightmare

A federal court case has been launched after a SWAT team in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area busted into the wrong house, shot the family’s dog, handcuffed the children and forced them to “sit next to the carcass of their dead and bloody pet for more than an hour.”

The case has been outlined by Courthouse News, and Mike Riggs at a Reason.com blog wrote, “Shawn Scovill of the taskforce may have raided the wrong house, but he didn’t want to let the opportunity to rifle through someone’s things go to waste. So he and his team ransacked the Franco house for over an hour, and managed to find a .22 caliber pistol in the ‘basement bedroom of Gilbert Castillo,’ which the suit says they attributed to the head of the Franco household, Robert Franco.”

According to CN, a claim over the attack on the family has been filed in federal court by a team of lawyers representing the family. The plaintiffs are the nine people in the Franco home on the evening of July 13, 2010, including three children, and the case seeks $30 million for the civil rights violations and other damages.

NDAA on trial: White House refuses to abide with ban against indefinite detention of Americans

By Staff Report | August 10, 2012 | Russia Today

Barack Obama (AFP Photo / Jim Watson)

Not only is the White House fighting in court for the power to jail Americans indefinitely without trial, but the Obama administration is refusing to tell a federal judge if they’ve abided by an injunction that prohibits them from such.

Attorneys for the White House have been in-and-out of court in Manhattan this week to argue that the indefinite detention provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, or NDAA, are necessary for the safety and security of the nation. When President Barack Obama signed the bill on December 31, he granted the government the power to put any American away in jail over even suspected terrorist ties, but federal court Judge Katherine Forrest ruled in May that this particular part of the NDAA, Section 1021, failed to “pass constitutional muster” and ordered a temporary injunction.

Stratfor emails reveal secret, widespread TrapWire surveillance system

By Staff Report | August 10, 2012 | Russia Today

AFP Photo / Valery Hache

Former senior intelligence officials have created a detailed surveillance system more accurate than modern facial recognition technology — and have installed it across the US under the radar of most Americans, according to emails hacked by Anonymous.

Every few seconds, data picked up at surveillance points in major cities and landmarks across the United States are recorded digitally on the spot, then encrypted and instantaneously delivered to a fortified central database center at an undisclosed location to be aggregated with other intelligence. It’s part of a program called TrapWire and it’s the brainchild of the Abraxas, a Northern Virginia company staffed with elite from America’s intelligence community. The employee roster at Arbaxas reads like a who’s who of agents once with the Pentagon, CIA and other government entities according to their public LinkedIn profiles, and the corporation’s ties are assumed to go deeper than even documented.

Political Use of the IRS is Growing

By Tom Tancredo | August 10, 2012 | WND

Exclusive: Tom Tancredo warns, ‘If Obama is given 2nd term, we’ll see even more abuse’

Tom Tancredo is the founder of the Rocky Mountain Foundation and founder and co-chairman of Team America PAC. He is also a former five-term congressman and presidential candidate. Tancredo is the author of “In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America’s 

How does it feel to find out that hundreds of millions of your tax money – and probably billions over a  decade – are going to people who broke into the country, and the government is almost certainly doing it for partisan political reasons? Or to find out that one of the most powerful agencies of the federal government is being used to intimidate Obama’s political opponents?

I know. Nothing much seems to shock us anymore. Almost daily we are reminded that this administration is engaged in despicable, underhanded and illegal activity to hold onto the reins of power.

“A Nation of Sheep Will Beget a Government of Wolves” [Cartoon]

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The Titanics of 2012 [Cartoon]

‘The Titanics of 2012’ Currently featured on the GrrrGraphics blog

The Titanic tragedy has spawned a lot of metaphors for essays and cartoons alike. I decided to draw one myself to illustrate multiple situations that are steaming toward tragedy and since one ship wasn’t enough, I drew many. They all seem intent on striking that iceberg.

1. Debt. Our debt money system benefits only a few bankers at the top. Everyone else gets poor and suffers higher taxes, lost pensions and austerity as a result. The banker-owned MSM is painting austerity as a good thing–of course!

The March of Tyranny [Cartoon]

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List of Lies: The Liar in Chief

Below is a list of Obama’s documented lies so far with the most recent lies first. If you see we are missing a documented lie Submit the lie here.

Obama wants to repeat ‘success’ of auto industry bailout in other industries

By Howard Portnoy | August 10, 2012 | Examiner.Com

The president gave an audience in Pueblo, Colo., a preview of coming attractions in the event that he is given a second bite at the apple. (Readers are referred to Charles Krauthammer’s Friday syndicated column for a thumbnail of the all the great stuff he has done to date.)

Politico writes that Obama told prospective voters that he wants to do for (to?) other industries what he did for the auto industry. “I said, I believe in American workers, I believe in this American industry, and now the American auto industry has come roaring back,” he said. “Now I want to do the same thing with manufacturing jobs, not just in the auto industry, but in every industry.”

Video: Wall Street Journal’s Laura Meckler on war of words between Obama and Romney on auto bailout

Needless to say, he used the opportunity to slam Mitt Romney, who was opposed to the auto bailout, explaining, “I don’t want those jobs taking root in places like China, I want those jobs taking root in places like Pueblo.”

So how successful has the auto bailout been? It depends. If you ask the left-leaning DrivingGrowth.org, they will fill your head with dazzling numbers. They will tell you that the American automotive industry has added nearly a quarter million jobs (236,600) and that manufacturing of motor vehicles and parts is up 26.4% since June 2009 when the industry hit bottom.

The Ryan Test: Demagoguery Versus Ideas

August 12, 2012 By John Malcolm Leave a Comment

By Jonathan S. Tobin | August 11, 2012 | Commentary Magazine As John wrote earlier today, liberals are convinced that Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan to be his running mate offers them a golden opportunity to savage the Republicans about the Wisconsin congressman’s budget plans. Predictably, the New York Times delivered one of the first such salvos in its editorial posted […]

Smoking Obama’s Crack and Yearning for the Mud

August 12, 2012 By John Malcolm Leave a Comment

By Vanderleun | August 10, 2012 | American Digest [From 2008. Only the names have been changed because the target has changed.] This downward flight of intellectuals has been going on ever since the Romantic movement began its counter-revolution a couple hundred years ago. No matter how much they flap their lips it’s a fall, not […]