Obama spies on praying protesters

Last year, it was revealed that Barack Obama's Department of Homeland Security was conducting an investigation into "right-wing extremist" groups. The administration quickly assured us that this was completely harmless, and wouldn't be used to intimidate critics of Obama.

It lied.

Today came the news that DHS put together a threat assessment on pro-life activists praying rosaries in front of a hospital in Wisconsin.

"The assessment came before an expected rally last year in response to the University of Wisconsin Hospital board decided to allow abortions.

In February 2009, pro-life advocates planned to protest the hospital's decision to open up the new Madison Surgery Center to abortions.

The Associated Press reported today that the department said it 'destroyed all of the copies of the assessment after an internal review found it violated intelligence gathering guidelines about 'protest groups which posed no threat to homeland security.'"

DHS apparently destroyed the report, but the Middleton Police Department in Wisconsin still has a copy. They're refusing to release it because they were ordered not to...by Obama's Department of Justice.

Obama's Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, is a notorious incompetent whose agency couldn't stop a terrorist with a bomb in his pants, even when warned by his dad. But somehow Napolitano has the time and resources to spy on pro-life prayer vigils. It's time she got a kick in the pants.

Eric Holder's illegal immigration hypocrisy

Barack Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, gave a speech at the National Sheriffs' Association 2010 Winter Conference today. In the midst of his speech, Holder made an outrageously hypocritical statement.

"Some of you work along our southwest border. You know, as surely as I do, that we simply cannot afford to ignore the problem of illegal immigration. Several of you have reached out to us and to our colleagues across the Administration. You’ve warned that tension is building."

There's one sheriff in the southwest who has been extremely effective: Joe Arpaio. Fed up with illegal immigration in Maricopa County, Arpaio began jailing illegal immigrants in tent cities surrounding by barbed wire. He also forced them to wear chains and bright pink jumpsuits. His techniques worked well. But Arpaio has been under attack since the Obama administration since literally day one: last year, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano actually stripped him of his authority. Holder cannot be serious about battling illegal immigration in the southwest as long as he keeps going after Joe Arpaio.