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The end of The Border Line
Dear readers,
I regret to inform you that this blog will no longer be updated because of the impending closure of the Cox Newspapers Washington Bureau. It has been a fun ride and I want to thank everyone who posted comments and participated.
Sincerely,
Eunice Moscoso
National Correspondent, Blogger
Cox Newspapers


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By L1M89
March 25, 2009 4:20 AM | Link to this
This blog was great while it lasted and enjoyed reading all of the articles and debating the issues that are extremely important for the future of our USA. Thank you Eunice for the opportunity to post on the Border Line and for putting up with my abrasiveness. You ran an excellent operation here and it was great while it lasted.
For any of you who seek an alternative meeting place for patriots from all political philosophies please try the 9-12 Project. Promise none of you who try it will be disappointed and Ill be there as warm n’ fuzzy as ever. God Bless America Patriots and Long Live the Border Line. Hope to see yall again someday.
Source - http://www.the912project.com/
By Larry
March 25, 2009 5:32 PM | Link to this
Too bad this blog is closing. The only other person discussing these issues in the AAS blogisphere censors his blog, only allowing in comments he agrees with.
Anyone wanting to check out the cameras on the Texas border can find them at www.blueservo.net.
By american
April 2, 2009 12:00 PM | Link to this
So how do I report illegals? This might be the wrong site
By J
April 5, 2009 1:46 PM | Link to this
Only RM would have a blog like this. Immigration is the least of this country’s worries, so it’s a good thing this blog is leaving. Good riddance.
By L1M89
April 18, 2009 12:48 AM | Link to this
For a blog was once amongst the best political blogs in all fifty states now is a home of a porno exchange. How sad for free speech.
If any patriots still desire a brighter future for our USA then visit Glenn Beck’s 9/12 Project where it’s patriots of all political philosophies to the front and propagandizing loudmouth Republican’tz and DemocRatz ride quietly.
http://theglennbeck912project.com/12values/
By L1M89
April 18, 2009 12:53 AM | Link to this
Thanks for the link Larry and check out this link.
http://theglennbeck912project.com/12values/
By L1M89
August 30, 2009 5:59 PM | Link to this
Blogs, free-speech and our US Federal Constitution may soon be as extinct as honorable politicians. Heres another example of the power-grab by the Obamanation, this time its involving the Internet and our right of free speech. Our usurper-in-chief and New Age DemocRatz seek power to protect/control the Internet and through it our access to free speech.
Quote CNET News:
Bill would give president emergency control of Internet
Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.
They’re not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.
The new version would allow the president to “declare a cybersecurity emergency” relating to “non-governmental” computer networks and do what’s necessary to respond to the threat. Other sections of the proposal include a federal certification program for “cybersecurity professionals,” and a requirement that certain computer systems and networks in the private sector be managed by people who have been awarded that license.
“I think the redraft, while improved, remains troubling due to its vagueness,” said Larry Clinton, president of the Internet Security Alliance, which counts representatives of Verizon, Verisign, Nortel, and Carnegie Mellon University on its board. “It is unclear what authority Sen. Rockefeller thinks is necessary over the private sector. Unless this is clarified, we cannot properly analyze, let alone support the bill.”
Representatives of other large Internet and telecommunications companies expressed concerns about the bill in a teleconference with Rockefeller’s aides this week, but were not immediately available for interviews on Thursday.
A spokesman for Rockefeller also declined to comment on the record Thursday, saying that many people were unavailable because of the summer recess. A Senate source familiar with the bill compared the president’s power to take control of portions of the Internet to what President Bush did when grounding all aircraft on Sept. 11, 2001. The source said that one primary concern was the electrical grid, and what would happen if it were attacked from a broadband connection.”
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By L1M89
August 30, 2009 6:11 PM | Link to this
(ContinuedBill would give president emergency control of Internet)
When Rockefeller, the chairman of the Senate Commerce committee, and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) introduced the original bill in April, they claimed it was vital to protect national cybersecurity. “We must protect our critical infrastructure at all costs—from our water to our electricity, to banking, traffic lights and electronic health records,” Rockefeller said.
The Rockefeller proposal plays out against a broader concern in Washington, D.C., about the government’s role in cybersecurity. In May, President Obama acknowledged that the government is “not as prepared” as it should be to respond to disruptions and announced that a new cybersecurity coordinator position would be created inside the White House staff. Three months later, that post remains empty, one top cybersecurity aide has quit, and some wags have begun to wonder why a government that receives failing marks on cybersecurity should be trusted to instruct the private sector what to do.
Rockefeller’s revised legislation seeks to reshuffle the way the federal government addresses the topic. It requires a “cybersecurity workforce plan” from every federal agency, a “dashboard” pilot project, measurements of hiring effectiveness, and the implementation of a “comprehensive national cybersecurity strategy” in six months—even though its mandatory legal review will take a year to complete.
The privacy implications of sweeping changes implemented before the legal review is finished worry Lee Tien, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. “As soon as you’re saying that the federal government is going to be exercising this kind of power over private networks, it’s going to be a really big issue,” he says.
Probably the most controversial language begins in Section 201, which permits the president to “direct the national response to the cyber threat” if necessary for “the national defense and security.” The White House is supposed to engage in “periodic mapping” of private networks deemed to be critical, and those companies “shall share” requested information with the federal government. (“Cyber” is defined as anything having to do with the Internet, telecommunications, computers, or computer networks.)
“The language has changed but it doesn’t contain any real additional limits,” EFF’s Tien says. “It simply switches the more direct and obvious language they had originally to the more ambiguous (version)…The designation of what is a critical infrastructure system or network as far as I can tell has no specific process. There’s no provision for any administrative process or review. That’s where the problems seem to start. And then you have the amorphous powers that go along with it.”
Translation: If your company is deemed “critical,” a new set of regulations kick in involving who you can hire, what information you must disclose, and when the government would exercise control over your computers or network.
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By L1M89
August 30, 2009 6:19 PM | Link to this
(Continued Bill would give president emergency control of Internet)
The Internet Security Alliance’s Clinton adds that his group is “supportive of increased federal involvement to enhance cyber security, but we believe that the wrong approach, as embodied in this bill as introduced, will be counterproductive both from an national economic and national secuity perspective.”
Update at 3:14 p.m. PDT: I just talked to Jena Longo, deputy communications director for the Senate Commerce committee, on the phone. She sent me e-mail with this statement:
Unfortunately, I’m still waiting for an on-the-record answer to these four questions that I asked her colleague on Wednesday. I’ll let you know if and when I get a response.
source - http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html
By L1M89
August 30, 2009 6:27 PM | Link to this
Patriots might be interested in this link:
www.cleanthehouse.net
Progressives and other lowlife lib-botz need not apply.
By L1M89
August 30, 2009 6:39 PM | Link to this
http://www.gopusa.com/forum/
By kimolsen
September 2, 2009 1:07 PM | Link to this
HB 1388 PASSED
Whether you are an Obama fan, or not, EVERYONE IN THE U. S. needs to know….
Something happened… H.R. 1388 was passed yesterday, behind our backs. You may want to read about it. It wasn’t mentioned on the news… just went by on the ticker tape at the bottom of the CNN screen.
Obama funds $20M in tax payer dollars to immigrate Hamas Refugees to the USA . This is the news that didn’ t make the headlines…
By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in “migration assistance” to the Palestinian refugees and “conflict victims” in Gaza .
The “presidential determination”, which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States , was signed on January 27 and appeared in the Federal Registeron February 4.
Few on Capitol Hill, or in the media, took note that the order provides a free ticket replete with housing and food allowances to individuals who have displayed their overwhelming support to the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the parliamentary election of January 2006.
Now we learn that they are allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refuges to move to, and live in, the US at American taxpayer expense.
These important, and insightful, issues are being “lost” in the blinding bail-outs and “stimulation” packages.
Doubtful? To verify this for yourself: www.thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-02-04-E9-2488
link - http://wesurroundthemusa.ning.com/group/Idaho
PLEASE PASS THIS ON… AMERICA NEEDS TO KNOW
WE are losing this country at a rapid pace.
By kimolsen
September 2, 2009 1:10 PM | Link to this
Just in case y’all haven’t seen these two little stories:
Cops jump on swine-flu power: Shots heard ‘round the world Pandemic bill allows health authorities to enter homes, detain without warrant
Posted: September 01, 2009 9:11 pm Eastern
By Chelsea Schilling 2009 WorldNetDaily
A “pandemic response bill” currently making its way through the Massachusetts state legislature would allow authorities to forcefully quarantine citizens in the event of a health emergency, compel health providers to vaccinate citizens, authorize forceful entry into private dwellings and destruction of citizen property and impose fines on citizens for noncompliance.
If citizens refuse to comply with isolation or quarantine orders in the event of a health emergency, they may be imprisoned for up to 30 days and fined $1,000 per day that the violation continues.
source - http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=108604
Parents rebel against Obama TV speech to schools ‘President doesn’t get to speak to my children unchallenged’
Posted: September 01, 2009 10:17 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh 2009 WorldNetDaily
Parents across the country are rebelling against plans by President Barack Obama to speak directly to their children through the classrooms of the nation’s public schools without their presence, participation and approval.
The plans announced by Obama also have been cited as raising the specter of the Civilian National Security Force, to which he’s referred several times since his election campaign began, but never fully explained.
“He’s recruiting his civilian army. His ‘Hitler’ youth brigade,” wrote one participant in a forum at Free Republic.
“I am not going to compare President Obama to Hitler. We’ll leave that to others and you can form your own opinions about them and their analogies. However, we can learn a lot from the spread of propaganda in Europe that led to Hitler’s power.
source - http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=108653
Memo to all Patriots, God Bless America, while we still can…
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