Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, whose county lies at the center of major drug and alien smuggling routes to Phoenix and cities east and west has said his deputies are outmanned and outgunned by drug traffickers in the rough-hewn desert stretches of his own county.

“Mexican drug cartels literally do control parts of Arizona,” he said. “They literally have scouts on the high points in the mountains and in the hills and they literally control movement. They have radios, they have optics, they have night-vision goggles as good as anything law enforcement has.

“This is going on here in Arizona,” he said. “This is 70 to 80 miles from the border – 30 miles from the fifth-largest city in the United States.”

Sheriff Babeu has asked the Obama administration for 3,000 National Guard soldiers to patrol the border, but what he got were 15 signs.They also received 30 national guard troops.

The Pinal Country Sheriff is lucky, he’s not being sued like his colleague Maricopa Country Sheriff Joe Arpaio by the Obama Justice Department which is saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Hispanics.

At a news conference Thursday morning in downtown Phoenix, Sheriff Arpaio called the Justice Department’s actions harassment. His office has said it won’t hand over additional documents because federal authorities haven’t said exactly what they were investigating.

“They have hundreds of thousands of reports, hundreds of thousands,” Sheriff Arpaio said. “They’re so broad, we’re trying to narrow it down. We’re trying to work with them.”

I believe this is harassment while parts of the state is overrun by criminals because of the failure of the Federal government to do its job and secure the borders.

What do the signs say along Arizona Interstate 8?

Federal Border Security

In addition to suing an Arizona Sheriff the state is being sued for its passage of an immigration law that mirrors the Federal law. Another border state is having its problems with the Obama administration. Texas Gov. Perry was denied a meeting with Obama at Fort Bliss in El Paso.

Perry spokeswoman Katherine Cesinger said the Republican governor had asked to meet with the president on Tuesday to discuss border security. Cesinger said Monday that White House aides said Obama would not be available for such a meeting.

Because of the snub Gov. Perry declined a meeting with Napolitano and John Brennan, Obama’s top homeland security aide in the White House.  Gov. Perry was one of the first people Obama saw when he stepped from Air Force One during an Austin visit on Aug. 9. On that occasion, Perry hand-delivered a letter to Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, warning about the “dire threat” from drug violence along the U.S.-Mexico border.

So much for all those promised resources when Obama refuses to meet face to face with border state Governor’s, has his Justice Department sue Arizona and law enforcement officials forced to protect themselves.

Barack Hussein Obama – a disgrace, indeed!

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From the Wall Street Journal: (Subscription)

Dear Patients: Vote to Repeal ObamaCare
Don’t believe Democrats who promise to fix the bill once they’re re-elected.

By Dr. Hal Scherz – a pediatric urological surgeon at Georgia Urology and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, serves on the faculty of Emory University Medical School and is president and cofounder of Docs4PatientCare.

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To My Patients,

Section 1311 of the new health care legislation gives the US Secretary of Health and Human Services and her appointees the power to establish careguidelines that your doctor must abide by or face penalties and fines. In making doctors answerable in the federal bureaucracy this bill effectively makes them government employees and means that you and your doctor are no longer in
charge of your health care decisions.

This new law politicizes medicine and in my opinion destroys the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship that makes the American health care system the best in the world.

In addition to also badly exacerbating the current doctor short age, the law will bring major cost increases, rising insurance premiums, higher taxes, a decline in new medical techniques, a fall-off in the development of miracle drugs as well as rationing by government panels and bureaucrats like passionate rationing advocate Donald Berwick forcing delays of months or sometimes years for hospitalization or surgery. Finally, studies show the legislation will adversely affect the elderly, the poor and rural residents.

Despite countless protests by doctors and overwhelming public opposition — up to 60% of Americans opposed this bill — the current party in control of Congress pushed this bill through with legal bribes and Chicagostyle threats and is determined now to resist any “repeal and replace” efforts.

This doctor’s office is non-partisan — always has been, always will be. But the fact is that every Republican voted against this bad bill while the Democratic Party leadership and the White House completely dismissed the will of the people in ruthlessly pushing through this
legislation.

In the face of voter anger some Democratic candidates are now trying to make a cosmetic retreat, calling for minor modifications or pretending they are opposed to government-run medicine. Once the election is over, however, they will vote with their party bosses against repealing this bill.

Please remember when you vote this November that unless the Democratic party receives a strong negative message about this power grab our health care system will never be fixed and the doctor patient relationship will be ruined forever.

I will be glad to discuss this with you at the end of our consultation.

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A message in consultation with Docs4PatientCare – a 501(c)6 national organization of of concerned physicians committed to the establishment of a health care system that preserves the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship, promotes quality of care, supports affordable access to all Americans, and protects patients’ personal health care decisions. Learn more online at www.Docs4PatientCare.org.

Real Doctors taking matters into their own hands fighting Obamacare, fighting government run healthcare. Fighting Marxism, indeed!

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Reflecting on the feckless Barack Hussein Obama concerning Iraq and watching the impotent Obama today as 21 more US soldiers fall in Afghanistan in 48 hours.

Obama, wrong then, wrong today. Indeed!

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It would be easy to just write – “Barack Hussein Obama” is a total failure” but let’s get specific and off the economy and his total domestic agenda for a while.

Today’s Wall Street Journal is filled with commentary on Obama’s Oval Office speech tonight proclaiming an end to fighting in Iraq. Yes, combat troops left Iraq but nearly 50,000 more combat troops in non-combat assignments remain. If they are attacked, how long will it be before they go into combat mode?

One thing we shouldn’t expect is for Obama to give credit to George W. Bush for the successful surge in Iraq. We should expect Obama to declare victory in Iraq demonstrated by his withdrawal with violence still percolating.

But no, Obama telegraphed his intentions from his expensive rental have at Martha’s Vineyard this past weekend and the operative word was his favorite first person singular pronoun I.

“As a candidate for this office, I pledged I would end this war. As President, that is what I am doing. We have brought home more than 90,000 troops since I took office.”

“End of combat” is nice for a talking point and to satisfy your Leftist base but the truth is, combat on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan is not at an end, it is not gone, it is not over, it is growing. What is really happening is Obama proclaims and “end to combat” for he is really snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

On August 12, Iraq’s top military leader, General Babaker Zebari, warned that Iraqi security forces will not be able to fully secure their own country until 2020.

“If I were asked about the withdrawal,” he said, “I would say to politicians: The U.S. Army must stay until the Iraq Army is fully ready in 2020.”

Under Obama policy in Iraq, al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and its affiliated groups have made a comeback and continue to slaughter policemen, government officials, and civilians on a daily basis. Nearly 500 civilians were killed in July, the highest monthly death toll since 2008.

Last week insurgents launched a campaign of terrorist attacks across the country, killing hundreds of innocent civilians, police, and government officials. On Wednesday—the same day insurgents launched coordinated attacks on 13 cities and towns throughout Iraq that claimed 51 lives—an insurgent Web site proclaimed:

“The countdown has begun to return Iraq to the embrace of Islam and its Sunnis, with God’s permission.”

Instead of declaring victory Obama should stop feeding the terrorist beast with timelines. Obama has repeated that he plans to remove all troops in Iraq by the end of 2011 and in Afghanistan; he still maintains that he will begin drawing down forces by July 2011. This is not a military strategy but total and unequivocal incompetents at the highest level. Indeed!

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