Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie, 30, was married and the father of two children. See the Officer Down page for info on how to send condolences to his family. Via WaPo: Ivie lived with his wife and their two young daughters in Sierra Vista, Az., where he was involved with the community and the Church […]

A few debate questions for Obama that won’t be asked by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2012 Tonight, left-leaning TV anchor Jim Lehrer of government-supported PBS will moderate the first 90-minute presidential debate in Denver. The forum will focus on domestic policy. Lehrer alone will determine the topics and questions for six 15-minute segments, and […]

At 8:46am this morning, 11 years ago, murderous jihadists crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. At 9:03am this morning, 11 years ago, murderous jihadists crashed United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. At 9:37am this morning, 11 years ago, murderous jihadists […]

Longtime readers know I’ve dedicated much of my work over the last two decades to our broken borders and reckless bipartisan sabotage of immigration enforcement. Decades before Fast and Furious, there were dozens of law enforcement and federal officers who sacrificed their lives in defense of our sovereignty. Just like Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, […]

TSA: Training Sky-bound Illegal Aliens by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2012 When it comes to soldiers, breast-feeding moms, toddlers and grannies, the Transportation Security Administration is not just hands-on, it’s hands-all-over. But when it comes to illegal alien pilot trainees, our homeland security bureaucracy’s policy is still stuck in pre-9/11 mode: Hands off, blinders […]

Don’t worry, this one didn’t pass muster

The Sunday funnies

“There are laws on the books…”

Call it Occupy Open Borders. Illegal alien students have been agitating for decades for the implementation of the DREAM Act. Congress has rejected it every time. President Obama has indulged them instead with piecemeal amnesty and orders of non-enforcement like last summer’s illegal alien deportation waivers. But it still wasn’t enough. So, this week they […]

I told you about conservative GOP Senate candidate Ted Cruz in my Tea Party revolt endorsements column in February. His momentum has increased exponentially in the lead-up to next Tuesday’s primary election. Naturally, the establishment candidate David Dewhurst has taken to sliming Cruz and falsely characterizing his immigration enforcement record. Twitchy has the story here. […]

War zones

(Click for full-size; Source: GOP Oversight) Scroll for updates… Forget Klownald Trump. This is your story of the day. Attorney General Eric Holder is on Capitol Hill day, facing another round of questions from relentless GOP watchdogs led by House Oversight and Govenrment Reform chair Darrell Issa. You can watch the proceedings live on CSPAN […]

Book-Critic-in-Chief takes issue

Photoshop: Reader Jimmy D. Yesterday, the SEIU and left-wing USA Action launched Spanish-language radio attacks on Mitt Romney for his support of immigration enforcement measures. One of Romney’s advisers is Kris Kobach — a constitutional law professor, Kansas Secretary of State, and staunch leader in the fight against illegal alien amnesty and ACORN-style voter fraud. […]

The White House is sending President Obama to a familiar place: the land of make-believe. He’ll be at Disney World on Thursday to push for relaxing tourist visa requirements in the name of boosting the economy. From the Orlando Sentinel via William Amos: President Barack Obama will visit Walt Disney World during a planned trip […]

Obama’s “Razist” Lobbyist Moves Up by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2012 With public attention focused on the GOP primaries, the White House quietly promoted another self-dealing lobbyist to serve as President Obama’s top domestic policy adviser. Promises? What broken promises? Cecilia Munoz, the current director of intergovernmental affairs at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., will now […]

Photoshop source: Ed Driscoll The Year in Obama Scandals — and Scandal Deniers by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 With 2011 drawing to a close, it is time to account. As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama’s snowblowers in the media. See […]

Since this blog was founded in 2005 and before that, since the publication of Invasion in 2002, I’ve covered the blood-boiling deaths of law enforcement and border security officials who put their lives on the front lines for us — only to lose them in part because of government negligence, malfeasance, and refusal to do […]

Kagan recuses

Amped up about illegals

I’m sure you all saw what the Washington Post did this weekend. The newspaper tried to macaca Rick Perry. The frenzy is over a now-overturned stone on a secluded property — “associated” with Perry through his father, partners or his signature on a lease — that once had the word “Niggerhead” painted on it. The […]

FOUND! Illegal alien and drunk-driving arrestee Obama Onyango (a.k.a. “Uncle Omar”) was spotted in court in Framingham, MA. The joke’s on all of us. Via the Boston Herald: A giggling Onyango Obama — the president’s illegal alien half uncle — made a brief appearance in Framingham District Court today on charges he was drunk when […]

Just came down: A mixed ruling from a federal judge in Alabama over the state’s tough immigration enforcement law. You can read the full decision and analysis here. The parts of the law she upheld can be read here. A federal judge has ruled on Alabama’s controversial immigration law. Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn has struck […]

Texas Tea Party activists petition Perry on illegal immigration GOP presidential front-runner Rick Perry was in New York today delivering a speech in defense of Israel’s sovereignty. Back at home, Texas Tea Party activists had their own press conference to call attention to Perry’s inattention to home state border and sovereignty issues: Texas Tea Party […]

The Cash-for-Visas Program by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 As part of his warmed-over jobs plan, President Obama is repackaging “Buy American” stimulus subsidies to help hard-hit homegrown businesses. At the same time, however, Congress is pushing to expand a fraud-riddled investor program that puts U.S. citizenship for sale to the highest foreign business […]