To avoid a scandalous public corruption trial that would have featured testimony from some of the most influential politicians in Texas (among them a member of Bill Clinton’s cabinet), a veteran state lawmaker has pleaded guilty to fraud in connection with a bribery scheme.  The operation involves the convicted mayor pro tem (Don Hill) and

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In the latest of many bold legal actions taken by illegal immigrants against local governments nationwide, a group of undocumented day laborers are suing a southern California city for banning them from seeking work on public streets. The anti-solicitation ordinance is unconstitutional and violates the civil rights of the illegal aliens, according to an 11-page

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Keeping with the Obama Administration’s mission to conduct the most diverse outreach campaign in history, the director of the U.S. Census Bureau is touring Mexican border towns with high illegal immigrant populations to personally assure that those who fill out questionnaires this spring will not be deported.  "This is a safe thing for everyone to

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The most “transparent administration in history” has evidently arranged yet another rare closed-door deportation hearing for President Obama’s illegal alien aunt, even though the Justice Department’s immigration court manual—as well as a federal appellate court—says such proceedings should be open. Obama’s Kenyan aunt, Zeituni Polly Onyango, has twice (in 2003 and 2004) ignored deportation orders

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In a rare case for a state that has long offered illegal immigrants sanctuary, an appellate court in Oregon has ruled in favor of a state agency that denied an illegal alien costly public services based on her immigration status. Oregon’s largest regulatory agency, the Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS), rejected a claim

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Smacking down an independent panel created by the U.S. House of Representatives to investigate member misconduct, the notoriously remiss House Ethics Committee has cleared a California lawmaker who lied to get an illegal out-of-state tax break.  After determining that the Democratic congressman had violated criminal tax law and ethics rules, the nonpartisan Office of Congressional

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In a serious blow to President Obama’s ludicrous plan to try the self-described mastermind of the September 11 terrorist attacks in Manhattan, New York’s mayor has done an about-face asserting he doesn’t want the trial in his city after initially supporting the idea.  Trying the Al-Qaeda leader (Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) and four co-defendants in a

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Public corruption cases keep piling up in a notoriously shady U.S. city that has seen its scandal-plagued mayor go to prison for a multitude of crimes, a deputy mayor and prominent city councilwoman each plead guilty to bribery in different schemes and several public school employees charged with numerous felonies for embezzling education funds.  In

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In an unbelievable example of government lunacy or at the very least misplaced priorities, state and federal officials are risking human lives to protect a species of insect from extinction. The bizarre case involves residents of a cliffside Maryland community located about 100 feet above scenic Chesapeake Bay in the Atlantic Ocean. The cliffs are

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An illegal immigrant drug dealer who fled to his native Mexico after orchestrating the murder of an Iowa teenager is free because his conviction was overturned by an appellate court that ruled he was denied a speedy trial while he was a fugitive from U.S. justice.  The astounding case dates back more than a decade,

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