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ACORN -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform -- a publicly funded national organization is using your tax dollars to actively interfere with the Second Amendment exercise of gun rights in New Jersey and elsewhere.

ACORN went public with its gun control activism when it intervened in an unsuccessful attempt to defend Jersey City, New Jersey, a hot bed of anti-gun rights extremists, to disarm its citizens with a local gun control ordinance. ACORN pushed for stronger local gun restrictions that were already struck down by the New Jersey state court as a violation of state law.

Obama and ACORN's interest is in disarming law-abiding citizens.

It is an outrage that this group has intervened to defend an anti-gun ordinance that has already been declared illegal by the court. So long as ACORN accepts one penny of public funding, the organization should remain absolutely neutral on social issues, political campaigns and especially legal actions defending the right to keep and bear arms.

For the past few election cycles ACORN has clearly grown more partisan toward the radical political Left. ACORN'S PAC, in fact, endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president, even though their tax-exempt status prohibits endorsement of political candidates. That's hardly surprising since he used to serve as their legal counsel and he taught the group about community organizing. ACORN and Obama are lockstep in seeking to destroy our Second Amendment rights.

We call upon the FBI to expand the scope of its ACORN investigation and focus on the group's involvement in the Jersey City case.

We support Ohio Congressman John Boehner's request that the White House immediately block all federal funding of ACORN activities until this group's questionable activities are fully investigated. We want to know how they are paying for attorneys, and why Seton Hall's Center for Social Justice and the Public Interest Law Center are providing legal assistance to ACORN for this effort.

ACORN has, since 1998, received an estimated $31 million in government funding. Yes, Obama knows a great deal about ACORN and its role in the bailout mess. He is a central figure in the left-wing ACORN exploitation of financial institutions to pressure them to make high risk loans. The very same left-wing ACORN that was sued for voter fraud in our last presidential election.
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Swiss Bank Secrecy Law Weakened by U.B.S. Deal

Dear A-Letter Reader,

The deal initialed last week between the U.S. and Swiss governments over the long-running dispute concerning the giant Swiss bank, UBS, will involve disclosure to the IRS of the names of about 5,000 Americans with UBS accounts, the weekly newspaper NZZ am Sonntag reported in Sunday editions.

Another Swiss weekly said around 4,500 names would be handed over to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

No doubt UBS hopes the deal will end the pending lawsuit in which the U.S. Department of Justice and the IRS has sued UBS to disclose all 52,000 of its U.S. clients on the spurious grounds that any American who has a UBS account is suspected of tax evasion. (The unofficial and illogical attitude of the IRS has long been that any American with an offshore bank account is probably engaged in tax evasion or some other wrongful conduct. Apparently the presumption of innocence guaranteed by U.S. laws no longer applies to Americans with UBS accounts.).

GM Plans a Compact for $4,000

BY KENNETH RAPOZA

SÃO PAULO -- General Motors Co. is targeting the emerging ultra-low-cost car market with plans for a compact for around $4,000, possibly producing it in Asia.

The segment is attracting increasing attention from manufacturers eager to keep sales momentum in developing markets following the sharp slide in
car sales in North America and Western Europe.

Washington's enhanced driver's license attracting int'l attention

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Judge Andrew Napolitano Speech

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More Immigration Detainee Deaths Disclosed

Ten Previously Unreported Cases Are Discovered, Bringing Total to 104 Since October 2003 and Prompting an Agency Review

Washington's enhanced driver's license attracting int'l attention

(RFID included)

Judge Andrew Napolitano Speech

"For All Freedom Lovers"

Swiss Bank Secrecy Law Weakened by U.B.S. Deal

GM Plans a Compact for $4,000

'Armadillo' Plays Well in Peoria But Is Panned by Drug Dealers

Cops Use Old Brink's Truck to Shame Suspects; Video Cameras Add to the Drama

More Immigration Detainee Deaths Disclosed

Ten Previously Unreported Cases Are Discovered, Bringing Total to 104 Since October 2003 and Prompting an Agency Review

Washington's enhanced driver's license attracting int'l attention