Solsticewitch13's BOS: 07-06-11:White House's Economists: ‘Stimulus' Has Cost $278,000 per Job [PLUS: James Carafano, PhD]

E-Verify and the Emerging Surveillance State

Tom DeWeese
Instead of building the fence on the southern border, employers are being expected to do the work of the DHS by implementing the E-Verify system.

* VIDEOS * TODAY'S HOT PICKS *

1. White House's Economists: ‘Stimulus' Has Cost $278,000 per Job
2. VIDEO: Rush Limbaugh's Independence Day speech to Joplin, Missouri
3. VIDEO: L.A. Times: Current Congress is Least Productive in Recent Years
4. VIDEO: Juan Williams: Media Matters ‘Trying to Ruin People's Lives'
5. VIDEO: ‘Wahhabis of American Gov't': MSNBC's Matthews Likens GOP to Muslim Extremists
6. Archaic Method? Cursive writing no longer has to be taught
7. VIDEO: Mexican officials want Fast & Furious officials extradited for trial
8. VIDEO: Van Jones: ‘America Is Not Broke... We Were Robbed, and Somebody's Got Our Money!'
9. VIDEO: Massive Dust Storm Envelops Phoenix
10. Union curbs rescue a Wisconsin school district

Talk of Rosy Scenarios Ignores Harsh Reality

Presidential Policy: Does It Make the Grade?, James Carafano, PhD

The White House seems to downplay all of the current crises that are threatening its influence, and its solutions to pressing problems are lacklustre or lame.

Environmental Activism

Herbert London

Eco-activists claim they want to save the world, but their methods are manipulative, anti-business, and ultimately anti-democratic.

Ronald Reagan: Britain's Finest Friend, America's Finest President

Daniel Hannan

We are perhaps too free in our use of the word "great", but Ronald Reagan merited the epithet - as an ally, as a leader and as a man.

From Melted Majesty to the First Military Aviators

Military History, W. Thomas Smith, Jr.

Commemorating this week's anniversaries of defining events in American military history.

Today's Hot Topics

We choose, you peruse.

1. White House's State Dept. Nominee Described Kim Jong-il As ‘Smart, Capable' and ‘Not a Lunatic' [CNS]

2. Afghan pullout seen as too much, too soon - Retired military officers fault move [WT]

3. Senate Gives Up July 4 Recess to Vote on Symbolic Millionaires Resolution? [FOX]

4. 9/11 kin: Troopers ‘Did Nothing' ...Say Logan Airport Tips About 9-11 Hijackers Ignored By Cops And Airlines [BOSTON HERALD]

5. Obama invites congressional leaders for deficit talks this week [CNN]

6. Phone hacking scandal deepens as families of 7/7 victims told 'you may have been targeted by News of the World' [DAILY MAIL]

7. Clinton fundraiser gets probation in campaign cover-up [WT]

8. Widening GM Truck Supply Reminiscent of 2008 ‘Bad Habits'[BLOOMBERG]

9. Obama's former auto czar is in deep denial about the government's failed bailout [REASON]

10. Terror Suspect Interrogated on Navy Ship for Two Months Arrives in U.S. [FOX]

When You Lie Down With Dogs

Vin Ienco

Western nations are cozying up to the Islamist OIC, even though most nations in this "club" have rejected the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights. Why legitimize intolerance?

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, the So-Called Muslim Zionist

Brenda West

For several years, people in the West championed a Bangladeshi publisher who was apparently being persecuted. Now, the same man is being accused of fraud and deception.

Israel's Palace Coup Plotters

Caroline Glick

Israel today faces the most daunting and complex threat spectrum it has ever seen.

All the President's High-Paid "Engagers"

Michelle Malkin

In total, President Obama's 454 employees at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. will rake in $37 million, an increase of $4 million from 2008 and the last administration.