Kill cracker's babies?; One Giant Leap for Allah; Feds sue AZ; "Perfect Citizen" - the end to privacy

"Posterity -- you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." --John Quincy Adams 1) Obama: Israelis suspicious of me because my middle name is Hussein In an interview aired Thursday evening, Obama was asked whether he was concerned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would try to attack Iran without clearing the move with the U.S., to which the president replied "I think the relationship between Israel and the U.S. is sufficiently strong that neither of us try to surprise each other, but we try to coordinate on issues of mutual concern." …During the interview Wednesday, when confronted with the anxiety that some Israelis feel toward him, Obama said that "some of it may just be the fact that my middle name is Hussein, and that creates suspicion." "Ironically, I've got a Chief of Staff named Rahm Israel Emmanuel. My top political advisor is somebody who is a descendent of Holocaust survivors. My closeness to the Jewish American community was probably what propelled me to the U.S. Senate," Obama said. "I think that sometimes, particularly in the Middle East, there's the feeling of the friend of my enemy must be my enemy, and the truth of the matter is that my outreach to the Muslim community is designed precisely to reduce the antagonism and the dangers posed by a hostile Muslim world to Israel and to the West," Obama went on to say. Or, let me see, maybe it's because you won't let them build in their own land, or maybe because you support and side with their enemies all over the world, or maybe because you don't care if Iran goes nuclear...no, wait, it's definitely your middle name. See: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/obama-israelis-suspicious-of-me-because-my-middle-name-is-hussein-1.300793 2) US Ends June With $13.2 Trillion In Debt, Adds $210 Billion In Total Debt, On Track To Breach Debt Ceiling In Under Six Months In case one is wondering why the House Democrats attached a document to the emergency war supplemental bill that "deemed as passed" a non-existent $1.12 trillion budget, which basically allows the ruling party to start spending money for Fiscal Year 2011 without the constraint of an actual budget, here is the answer: on June 30, the US closed the books with just over $13.2 trillion in total debt, an increase of $210 billion in one month, or $2.5 trillion annualized. There is just $1.1 trillion left on the ceiling. As we have long been warning, at the current run rate, the ceiling will be breached in under six months, or just around November 2. More disconcerting is that the monthly debt roll continues to be in the "ridiculous amount" category, hitting a total of $660 billion, of which $583 billion was rolling off Bills (we are not sure what the $19 billion im "GSE investment" was for, but we are fairly sure the words Ponzi and Perpetuation are part of it). Of course, if America knew that according to the Obama non-existent budget the debt ceiling would be breached in 2010, it may not have a favorable reception among those few who are still willing to vote for either party of the bipartite farce that passes for a government. See: http://www.zerohedge.com/article/us-ends-june-132-trillion-debt-adds-210-billion-total-debt-track-breach-debt-ceiling-under-s 3) Obama as anti-business moves into mainstream discussion …Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria wrote Monday that after speaking with numerous corporate executives, most of whom voted for Obama, he found that “all think he is, at his core, anti-business.” Tuesday, the Washington Post reported on a 65 percent decline from two years ago in donations to Democrats from Wall Street, due to the financial regulation bill nearing passage in Congress. On Wednesday, the Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove reported from the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado that New York Daily News owner and publisher Mortimer Zuckerman said the Obama White House has a “hostility to the very kinds of [business] culture that have made this the great country that it is and was.” Steve Pearlstein of the Washington Post noted: “There is no denying it — bad blood has developed between big business and the Obama administration, and that’s not a good thing.” Pearlstein argued that businesses could do much more to pull their weight on improving the economy rather than blaming the administration. Yeah, business exists to “improve the economy”. What an idiot. Businesses exists to provide goods and services and make money, boys and girls. “Business” doesn’t owe you a job. See: http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/08/obama-as-anti-business-moves-into-mainstream-discussion 4) U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies The federal government is launching an expansive program dubbed "Perfect Citizen" to detect cyber assaults on private companies and government agencies running such critical infrastructure as the electricity grid and nuclear-power plants, according to people familiar with the program. The surveillance by the National Security Agency, the government's chief eavesdropping agency, would rely on a set of sensors deployed in computer networks for critical infrastructure that would be triggered by unusual activity suggesting an impending cyber attack, though it wouldn't persistently monitor the whole system, these people said. …Some industry and government officials familiar with the program see Perfect Citizen as an intrusion by the NSA into domestic affairs (do ‘ya think? - emphasis and comment mine), while others say it is an important program to combat an emerging security threat that only the NSA is equipped to provide. …A U.S. military official called the program long overdue and said any intrusion into privacy is no greater than what the public already endures from traffic cameras. It's a logical extension of the work federal agencies have done in the past to protect physical attacks on critical infrastructure that could sabotage the government or key parts of the country, the official said. “No greater than what the public already endures from traffic cameras?” I can avoid traffic cameras by not driving (or by engineering alternate routes on frontage roads, to avoid intersections like the one near my house). Now I have to avoid “Perfect Citizen” by not accessing the Internet or using my computer? People, how much more of this will you endure? Or as one commenter, Mike Lorrey, said, “Wow, the name "Perfect Citizen" just screams of Orwellian repression.” See: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704545004575352983850463108.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLETopStories 5) Obama Loses Drilling Moratorium Appeal in Court The Obama administration lost its court bid to maintain a six-month moratorium on offshore deepwater drilling which a federal judge ordered lifted last month. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the government's emergency request to stay that judge's order pending appeal. The motion was denied because the government failed to show "a likelihood of irreparable injury if the stay is not granted," the appeals panel judges wrote in a 2-1 ruling. The government also "made no showing that there is any likelihood that drilling activities will be resumed pending appeal." Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has said he will soon issue a new order to block deepwater drilling regardless of how the court ruled and oil companies have not resumed drilling due to the legal uncertainties. …which means the effect is the same. When is someone going to risk his “life, his sacred fortune”, and stand up to this administration? See: http://srnnews.townhall.com/newsbriefs/g/1d8f4139-61f7-4eaf-b5f2-8b84d00779ae 5a) Live from the Gulf: Shrimpers and Fishers Want Drilling Ban Lifted Every year, residents of the Gulf come to Morgan City, Louisiana to celebrate the lifeblood of the region’s economy: seafood and oil. This September marks the 75th anniversary of this symbiotic relationship. The Shrimp and Petroleum Festival emphasizes “the unique way in which these two seemingly different industries work hand-in-hand culturally and environmentally in this area of the ‘Cajun Coast’.” One might think the Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent oil spill would significantly mar this relationship, and the seafood industry would vociferously support President Obama’s offshore drilling moratorium. But the reality is just the opposite is true; the spill has strengthened the bond between the oil and seafood industry and the shrimpers and fishers have been as vocal as anyone in lifting the offshore drilling ban. Without any scientific or technological basis for banning offshore drilling, it is senseless policy that is pouring salt into the economic wounds of the Gulf. Peter Vujnovich, a third generation oyster farmer and owner of Captain Pete’s Oysters said, “Even though the oil industry and the seafood industry have conflicts, we need each other. I use a tremendous amount of fuel in my (seafood) farming operations and it seems senseless at this time when the economy is down and jobs are at stake to shut down such a major part of Louisiana’s income and job opportunities.” See: http://blog.heritage.org/2010/07/08/live-from-the-gulf-shrimpers-and-fishers-want-drilling-ban-lifted 6) Feds Sue Arizona…But, What About Rhode Island? Anyway, if enforcing immigration law is a bad thing for local cops to do, as Holder claims, why pick on Arizona? If he’s really upset that the same laws he has taken an oath to enforce might actually get (gulp!) enforced, why isn’t he suing Providence instead of Phoenix? They’ve been doing local immigration enforcement for years now. As The Boston Globe-Democrat reported yesterday, “From Woonsocket to Westerly, the troopers patrolling the nation’s smallest state are reporting all illegal immigrants they encounter, even on routine stops such as speeding, to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.” Even liberal Providence, where politicians long opposed any local enforcement efforts, changed its policy in 2008 after the infamous Marco Riz case. Riz was the illegal immigrant arrested by Providence cops twice while under a federal deportation order but released both times. He was then charged with carjacking a woman in Warwick and raping her in Providence. Rhode Island cops now routinely contact ICE when they suspect they’ve come across an illegal immigrant. Since 2006, the number of contacts they’ve made to ICE’s Law Enforcement Support Center in Vermont has nearly doubled, the Globe reported. How is this significantly different than Arizona’s proposed law? Families who fear running into the next Marco Riz might think Rhode Island is onto something. But not Team Obama (emphasis mine). See: http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/07/07/feds-sue-arizona-but-what-about-rhode-island/ 6a) NBC Reporter Discovers New Immigration Law Causing Illegals to Leave Arizona NBC's Lee Cowan, on Thursday's NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, discovered a stunning result of Arizona's new immigration policies - illegal immigrants are now leaving the state. Cowan opened his piece noting a long line now "stretches around the Mexican Consulate in Phoenix every day" but noticed a twist, as the line was full of "immigrants trying to figure out not how to stay in Arizona, but how to flee it." See: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2010/07/09/nbc-reporter-discovers-immigration-law-enforcement-causes-illegals 7) Holder's Black Panther Stonewall President Obama's Justice Department continues to stonewall inquiries about why it dropped a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party. The episode—which Bartle Bull, a former civil rights lawyer and publisher of the left-wing Village Voice, calls "the most blatant form of voter intimidation I've ever seen"—began on Election Day 2008. Mr. Bull and others witnessed two Black Panthers in paramilitary garb at a polling place near downtown Philadelphia. (Some of this behavior is on YouTube.) One of them, they say, brandished a nightstick at the entrance and pointed it at voters and both made racial threats. Mr. Bull says he heard one yell "You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker!" …There was outrage over the decision among Congressional Republicans, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division—especially after it was learned one of the defendants who walked was Jerry Jackson, a member of Philadelphia's 14th Ward Democratic Committee and a credentialed poll watcher for the Democratic Party last Election Day. See: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203550604574361071968458430.html 7a) Before the Obama Justice Dept Dropped Charges Against Him, Black Panther Advocated Killing White Babies See: http://www.breitbart.tv/before-the-obama-justice-dept-dropped-charges-against-him-black-panther-advocated-killing-white-babies/ 7b) Malik Shabazz incriminates himself in black panther case See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JunrpGf5QRc 7c) New Black Panther Party Leader Praises Osama Bin Laden See: http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?v=XdZu6UIruz 8) Gibbs Evades Question of Whether Obama Agrees With His Medicare Director That Health-Care System Must Redistribute Wealth (CNSNews.com) – White House spokesman Robert Gibbs has evaded answering the question of whether President Barack Obama agrees with Dr. Donald Berwick, his newly appointed administrator of Medicare and Medicaid, who has insisted that health-care systems must redistribute wealth. “Excellent health care is by definition redistributional,” Berwick said in a speech delivered on July 1, 2008. When asked directly at the July 7 White House press briefing whether Obama agreed with this, Gibbs would not answer the question. …Berwick gave the July 1, 2008 speech to honor the 60th anniversary of the National Health Service, Britain’s government-run single-payer health care system. “You could have had a monstrous insurance industry of claims and rules and paper-pushing instead of using your tax base to provide a single route of finance,” said Berwick in the video recording of the speech that CNSNews.com provided to Gibbs. “You could have protected the wealthy and the well, instead of recognizing that sick people tend to be poorer and that poor people tend to be sicker. And that any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must—must--redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent health care is by definition redistributional. Britain, you chose well.” …On Wednesday, Obama made Berwick the director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) through a recess appointment (that means, without the “advice and consent” of the Senate, comment mine). See: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/69149 9) U.S. House plan overturning Obamacare halfway there If 109 more signatures gathered, even Pelosi couldn't halt new vote A measure in the U.S. House of Representatives that would force the chamber into a new vote on Obamacare, even if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi doesn't want it, is halfway toward its needed support. Advocates say constituents need to call their representatives to tell them to get on board right away so that the petition is positioned to move forward whether or not the GOP becomes the majority in the House after the 2010 fall elections. The plan is a discharge petition pushed by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. "Pursuant to clause 2 of rule XV, I, Steve King of Iowa, move to discharge the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, Natural Resources, Rules, House Administration and Appropriations from the consideration of the bill (H.R. 4972) to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which was referred to said committees on March 25, 2010, in support of which motion the undersigned Members of the House of Representatives affix their signatures. …" See: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=176077 9a) Poll: Majority Favor Health Care Law Repeal A majority of Americans want the health care overhaul repealed, according to a recent poll. Rasmussen Reports, which for weeks has been polling on the question, released figures Monday showing 60 percent of voters want the law reversed -- on the high side of the group's results. The survey, conducted July 1, shows a persistent and deep divide in public opinion over the law, though passions may be stronger on the side of those who want repeal. Forty-nine percent strongly favor repeal, while 24 percent strongly oppose. See: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/07/poll-majority-favor-health-care-law-repeal/ 9b) If You Believe America Has Lousy Health Care, Here's Why If you believe that Americans have lousy health care, it is probably not because you have experienced inferior heath care. It is probably because you were told America has lousy health care. Last week, major news media featured these headlines: Reuters: "U.S. scores dead last again in healthcare study" …For those who read the first sentence or two, an even more common practice, the Reuters report begins this way: "Americans spend twice as much as residents of other developed countries on healthcare, but get lower quality, less efficiency and have the least equitable system (there‘s a buzzword for the left, comment mine), according to a report released on Wednesday. The United States ranked last when compared to six other countries -- Britain, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand, the Commonwealth Fund report found." …Only later in the report does the discerning reader have a clue as to how agenda-driven this report and this study are. The otherwise unidentified Karen Davis, president of the never-identified Commonwealth Fund, is quoted as saying how important it was that America pass President Obama's health care bill. Could it be that Ms. Davis and the Commonwealth are leftwing? They sure are, though Reuters, which is also on the Left, never lets you know. Here's how the Commonwealth Fund's 2009 Report from the president begins: "The Commonwealth Fund marshaled its resources this year to produce timely and rigorous work that helped lay the groundwork for the historic Affordable Care Act, signed by President Obama in March 2010." …The same thing happened on a far larger scale in 2000 when the world press reported that the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) ranked America 37th in health care behind such countries as Morocco, Costa Rica, Colombia and Greece. This WHO assessment was reported throughout the world and regularly cited by leftwing critics of American health care. Yet, to the best of my knowledge, no one other than a few conservatives noted that Cuba was ranked 39th, essentially tied with the United States. Which means that the WHO report is essentially a fraud. Who in his right mind thinks Americans and Cubans have equivalent levels of health care? For that matter, how many world leaders travel to Greece or Morocco instead of to the United States for health care? The answer is that WHO doesn't assess health care quality; it assesses health care equality, exactly the way any organization on the Left assesses it (emphasis mine). See: http://www.dennisprager.com/columns.aspx?g=4dfb0dc4-8ed3-484b-a92a-cb69debf3cbf&url=if_you_believe_america_has_lousy_health_care,_heres_why 10) U.S. Space Program Bows To Mecca Priorities: NASA's chief says his mission is not to return us to space but to help the Muslim world feel good about its scientific contributions. The moon we should be landing on should not be crescent-shaped. At a time when the only missile programs in the Arab world, namely in Syria and Iran, are aimed at hitting Israel with chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, NASA administrator Charles Bolden goes on Al Jazeera to tell the Muslim world his "foremost" goal was to make them feel good about their achievements in math, science and engineering. Citing the International Space Station as an example, Bolden described space travel as an international collaboration of which Muslim nations must be a part. As much as we are excited about the prospect of U.S. tax dollars going to encourage young Jordanians and Egyptians to become astronauts, we'd much rather not see Americans abandoning the final frontier to the Chinese while we hitch rides with the Russians. Bolden's one small step for Islam comes after presiding over the demise of the space shuttle program and the cancellation of the Constellation program, which was to put America back on the moon and restore America's space dominance. This administration does not believe in American exceptionalism and has said at conferences such as the G-20 that we would just like to be one of the 20. We no longer seek to lead, but we yearn to apologize. Hey, fellas, forget that American flag on the moon. Sorry about that. It won't happen again. Welcome aboard the starship Kumbaya. See: http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/539485/201007061923/US-Space-Program-Bows-To-Mecca.aspx 10a) One Small Step For Man, One Giant Leap For Allah Can you imagine those paraphrased immortal words from the Title being spoken on the next moon landing? They will be, if the current administration and NASA have their way. In an effort for appeasement and the direction of the president, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has designed the NASA Muslim Outreach Program. It is an attempt to better the relations of America with the Muslim world. Obama and Mr. Bolden are being praised by the press for their glorious efforts. At least one cooler head is prevailing. Michael Griffin, who served as NASA administrator during the latter half of the Bush administration, told FoxNews.com “NASA … represents the best of America. Its purpose is not to inspire Muslims or any other cultural entity.” Come on Mr. President, we are talking about NASA, not the installation of another foot-bath in the Kansas City Airport. See: http://www.redstatereport.com/2010/07/one-small-step-for-man-one-giant-leap-for-allah/ 11) Obama attacks Reid's Senate “opponent” (Go to http://www.sharronangle.com and donate to “Harry’s opponent”) LAS VEGAS (AP) - President Barack Obama is going on the attack against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's Republican opponent, saying her views are too extreme and ridiculing her comments on the BP oil spill. Obama never mentioned tea party-backed Sharron Angle by name at a campaign rally Thursday night at a Las Vegas casino. Calling her "Harry's opponent," Obama castigated Angle for referring to a $20 billion victims' compensation fund for the Gulf oil spill as a "slush fund." After coming under attack for the remark Thursday Angle took it back. Obama ridiculed that, too: "I'm sure she meant slush fund in the nicest possible way," he said. Said Obama: "She favors an approach that's even more extreme than the Republicans we've got in Washington. That's saying something." Some of the comment below the article are inspiring, like: Rep60: “Said Obama: "She favors an approach that's even more extreme than the Republicans we've got in Washington. That's saying something." I wonder what is so extreme? Adhering to the Constitution? Lowering taxes? What heretics!” And: Rebas_Thgil: “I get the impression that Sharon might want to read bills before voting, for one thing. Or, more radical than that, she might actually want to take into account her constitutency's input on legislative issues. Radical indeed. She could be way way over the top, espousing the idea of following the Constitution. If so, more power to her and to us!” And: Roger: “Obama, you stay and campaign for him a long, long time. Every time they see that pale pasty face of Reid I want them to think of your ears. To hear your lies, your smarmy teleprompter comments and see your golfing for months on end. Can you golf a while in Vegas? We want to make sure that none of the voters forget how the military in Afghanistan waited months while you golfed, and how you golf when the oil is washing up on the gulf shoreline while you cronies stop boats and inspect them when oil needs sucking up! Oh, you just hang around Vegas from now until the election, and make sure Reid is there with you step by step.” See: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GR8OFO1&show_article=1 12) Obama: Individual salvation depends on collective salvation GLENN: This is the same way, this is the same thing that — this is the root of social justice. Social justice has to happen because we all are in this together. It also is the way that you can excuse killing cracker babies. You can kill millions of people because they don't get it, and if we don't get them out of the way, we can't all be saved. Now, this is the religious context. Now, not everybody who is — you know, most people who are like Stalin, they don't believe in the religious side. But the American social justice progressive, in the way the early 20th century or Jeremiah Wright understand collective salvation, this is it. And it is out and out evil. And I want you to hear what the president has said about his own salvation, how he cannot achieve it without collective salvation. …They are still doing it today by not showing cracker babies on ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, the Washington Post or the New York Times. We showed you this last night. They are not reporting essential stories. Because they're gatekeepers. The hell they are. You are the gatekeeper. You are the one. It is not a collective thing. It is individual, and you will be held eternally responsible for the role that you played in letting liberty slip through man's fingers. When America is lost, there is no freedom on Earth. None. There is no cowboy that runs in at the end on his horse wearing a white hat because the Americans are gone. If America falls, the world falls into darkness. …Most importantly, you must fall to your knees and you must reconnect with God. He is not asking you. He is commanding us as a people to get behind Him. He will right the wrongs. We will have to pay a price because we lived outside of His laws. We will have to pay a price, but every day we don't get behind Him, the price gets bigger. It gets harder. Get behind Him. He will be our shield because these people are not enemies of ours. They are enemies of Him. They are enemies of man's freedom. All you have to do is stand where he asks you to stand. All he asks of you is to be peaceful. All he asks for you to do is stand up! Stand up. See: http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/42764/ 13) "Freedom of Religion" vs. "Freedom of Worship" Recently, President Barack Obama and others in his administration (including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton) have been using the term "freedom of worship." That's a significant departure from the constitutional phrase with which most Americans are familiar: "freedom of religion." The truth is that changing the word "religion" to "worship" drastically changes what is protected. Read the words of the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." That "free exercise" wording protects those whose religion entails much more than worship. The Left -- specifically the ACLU -- has been extremely successful in misleading the American public into believing that the "separation of church and state" is a constitutional principle. It is not. As a result, far too many people of faith, including pastors, have confined themselves and their worldview within the church walls while godless philosophies and agendas overwhelm the public square. …Founding Father John Adams wrote in a letter to his wife in 1775 warning that "Liberty, once lost, is lost forever." Today, in our state and federal legislatures and in our courts of law, true liberty is losing its meaning and authority in society. New generations of citizens are either ignorant of or unimpressed by the battles fought to gain and sustain it, and the unhindered expression of Christian faith is becoming a primary target and casualty. The Left's advance of "tolerance" is not simply respecting one another's views, but the forced acceptance of a political philosophical perspective that would trump traditional religious mores and practice. Francis J. Beckwith puts it this way: Liberal tolerance is a sham. Although portrayed by its advocates as an open, tolerant, and neutral perspective, it is a dogma whose proponents tolerate no rivals. Those of us who are concerned with presenting and defending our faith in a post-Christian culture must be aware of this sort of challenge, one that masquerades as open, tolerant, and liberating, but in reality is dogmatic, partisan, and coercive. See: http://www.illinoisfamily.org/news/contentview.asp?c=34939 14) Hawaii governor vetoes same-sex civil unions bill HONOLULU – Hawaii's governor ended months of speculation by vetoing contentious civil unions legislation that would have granted gay, lesbian and opposite-sex couples the same rights and benefits that the state provides to married couples. Republican Gov. Linda Lingle's action on Tuesday came on the final day she had to either sign or veto the bill, which was approved by the Legislature in late April. …About 60 percent of the more than 34,000 letters, telephone calls, e-mails and other communications from the public to the governor asked her to veto the measure, the governor's aides said late last week. See: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100707/ap_on_re_us/us_hawaii_civil_unions 15) Senate-seeker wants Obama birth-certificate treatment Mexican-born candidate: 'If I didn't prove citizenship, I'd be removed from the ballot' A Mexican-born candidate for U.S. Senate said he is considering a lawsuit against the Missouri secretary of state for discrimination because her office forced him to produce a birth certificate but "didn't make Obama show proof of citizenship" to appear on the ballot. Hector Maldonado, 38, a self-described "Lincolnian Republican conservative," is seeking the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Missouri. He was born one of 10 children in Durango, Mexico. His father is a migrant field worker who owns a small hog ranch in Perris, Calif. See: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=176325