Evening Update, 8/20/2007

'08 Presidential Candidates
Ron Paul wins informal straw poll in Alabama (nbc13.com)

Civil Liberties Under Assault
Seven year-old Muslim boy from Britain stopped three times at U.S. airports on suspicion of being a terrorist (Daily Mail)

Culture in Decline
'Street lit' popularity a growing concern (Boston Herald)

Economic Unrest
Run on banks in Los Angeles amid crisis (Raw Story)

Globalization Run Amok
Jerome Corsi: Chinese to install sensors on NAFTA highway, documents reveal NASCO plan to militarize I-35 (World Net Daily) - "Truly, a major defense contractor tracking our every move here in our own country is undoubtedly a threat to our liberties."

Bush seeks to boost Canada, Mexico ties at Montebello summit (AP)

Illegal Alien Invasion of America
Illegal immigration activist Elvira Arellano arrested, deported back to Mexico (AP) - The Mexican woman who spent a year holed up in a Chicago church has been arrested and deported back to her native land after traveling to California to speak at a rally.

Joseph Farah: Declare war on MS-13 (World Net Daily)

Madmen in High Places
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court orders Bush Administration to respond to ACLU request for top secret information on domestic spying (Raw Story)

Commerce, Treasury funds helped boost GOP campaigns (McClatchy Newspapers)

Zionists
ADL fires New England regional director after he breaks ranks over lack of acknowledgment of Armenian genocide (Boston Globe)

Armenian community remembers what the ADL chooses to forget (Boston Herald) - Excellent Joe Fitzgerald column chastising Abe Foxman's corrupt ADL, and paying tribute to the large Armenian community of Watertown, MA, whose ancestors were slaughtered over 90 years ago by the Turks - a genocide the ADL adamantly refuses to recognize as such.