Catherine Bremer
Reuters

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon told his people to stay home from Friday for a five-day partial shutdown of the economy, after the World Health Organization said a swine flu pandemic was imminent.

Calderon ordered government offices and private businesses not crucial to the economy to stop work to avoid further infections from the new virus, which has killed up to 176 people in Mexico and is now spreading around the world.

"There is no safer place than your own home to avoid being infected with the flu virus," Calderon said in his first televised address since the crisis erupted last week.

Rick Oltman
CAPS

The usual suspects are shocked, shocked, to find out that there are some people who actually think the swine flu outbreak in Mexico should lead to more border security and have actually said so.

It’s incredible. Some Americans have deduced that if you want to protect our country from importing a potentially deadly infectious disease that part of the plan should include border security and enhanced screening of those legally entering the country. And you had lost faith in the public education system.

FYI, The U.S. Border Patrol was originally created to patrol the border to prevent people with diseases from entering the country.

Agence France-Presse

Mexican and US officials on Friday took emergency measures to contain outbreaks of a new multi-strain swine flu blamed for scores of deaths in Mexico and seven infections in the United States.

Mexican authorities confirmed the swine flu outbreak and warned people to avoid crowds or using the subway as it launched a massive vaccination campaign in the country’s populous capital.

The World Health Organization in Geneva said 60 people had died from suspected swine flu in Mexico, and Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova said officials were probing 45 deaths and 943 possible infections.

Chuck Baldwin
NewsWithViews.com

On his recent trip to Central America, President Barack Obama did more than cozy up to Marxist dictators; he also signed onto an international treaty that could, in effect, be used as backdoor gun control. It appears that Obama wants to use international treaties to do what congressional legislation is not able to do: further restrict the right of the American people to keep and bear arms.

Lance Fairchok
American Thinker

Sorry Canada, its going to be a long four years. In an article called "The Border for Dummies" Canada’s National Post asks a salient question:

"Can someone please tell us how U. S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano got her job?"

I think I can offer some enlightenment. You see, Janet is an ideologue. She is the kind of person who will pursue ideological goals without regard for truth, a person who can be expected to reinvent reality to fit the ideological vision of the administration, which she does with abandon. She is the perfect Obama Administration appointee.

U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman
Denver Post

I just returned from our southwest border with Mexico. I wanted to see firsthand the progress — or lack of it — in erecting barriers to the drug cartels’ smuggling activities and the violence now spilling over into border communities.

Contrary to recent statements from the Department of Homeland Security, the border fence is far from finished and the Border Patrol is still woefully short of manpower.

For this reason, I will soon introduce legislation to complete the border fence.

This commentary pretty much express the sentiments of most of us. Enjoy

Angry White Dude


Future Obama Voters

Every move that Barack Hussein Obama has made in his first 100 days in office has been wrong. He is clearly a disaster zone and will clear Jimmy Carter from the twin crown of being the worst President and worst American of all time. From the unread stimulus fiasco to taking over banks and auto companies, to the world kiss-ass tour where he apologized to any Muslim who would stand still long enough to listen, bowing to the Saudi chief poobah, cutting anti-missile funding now that it works the day after North Korea tests a ballistic missile, plans to socialize the greatest medical system in the world and much more stupidity. Yes, this Obama would have to work very hard to make the next 100 days as disastrous to America as the first!

From protecting Bush officials who ordered torture from prosecution, to maintaining and expanding the American empire, to warrantless wiretapping of American citizens, all have remained and intensified under Obama

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com

As President Barack Obama approaches his first 100 days in office, the corporate media prepares a new round of fawning idolatry about the Obama administration’s “achievements,” yet a summary glance at what Obama has actually done in that short time with regard to expanding the Bush police state and the Neo-Con empire is worse than even we predicted.

Chuck Baldwin
VDARE

Self-proclaimed "conservatives" love to tout themselves as ardent supporters of the "free enterprise" system. In the name of "capitalism," they support any and every piece of legislation or governmental decision that caters to business—especially Big Business. Favorite policies of these folks include anything and everything that calls itself "free trade." Furthermore, these same "conservatives" will support just about anything and everything that is said to advance the so-called "global economy."

Infowars

Sheriff John B. Cooke of the Weld County Sheriff’s office in Colorado has issued a press release dated April 17, 2009, announcing a threat to “kill the most number of Americans” in Greeley, Colorado, if police do not release illegal immigrants held for deportation by the Sheriff’s office.

“The letter is hand written in Spanish on the front and back of two pages of paper directing threats primarily towards judicial and law enforcement officers as targets. The bombs are not specifically described,” the press release states.

The Greeley jail, according to the press release, currently has 58 inmates in custody with ICE holds.

Margaret Calhoun Hemenway
Family Security Matters

[Editor’s note: Barack Obama’s lawyer, Robert F. Bauer, is threatening a D.C. attorney with “sanctions,” because the attorney is simply requesting that Obama show proof of his birth. No legalizing on our part. No exaggeration. No political manipulation. Just the facts in black and white. We have the shocking letter dated April 3 . The president of the United States is threatening sanctions – and the word “sanctions” is used in the threat — against attorney John Hemenway. Read on.]