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Senator Ted Cruz does a superb job of exposing Democrats using a terror attack to attack the Constitution.  As is to be expected, the leftist media is attacking it as a “terrible” speech.  Read or watch it for yourself and draw your own conclusions. Mr. CRUZ.   Madam President, our Nation is at war. Five days ago, we saw a horrific terror attack in Orlando, FL. From September 11 to the Boston Marathon, from Fort Hood to Chattanooga, from San Bernardino to this attack in Orlando, radical Islamic terrorism has declared jihad on America. As the facts have unfolded, they...

French police conducted a massive series of anti-terrorism raids in the early hours of Monday morning, just hours after the nation’s air force pounded Islamic State targets in Syria.The coordinated raids span the entire country — from Calais on the northern coast, to Toulouse in the south and Grenoble near the Swiss border, Britain’s Daily Mail reported.The Guardian reported that further raids took place in a Parisian suburb of Bobigny and in Jeumont, near the Belgian border.Photos from Toulouse showed dozens of police vans running through the city in the wee hours, and French media reported that at least three...