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Trust me, Hillary Clinton is scared. Smart Democrats are panicking. Leading Democrats keep saying in the media that Donald Trump can’t win the general election. Really? That may be what they’re saying out loud, but it’s not what they are whispering in private. I think leading Democrats know exactly what I know. Donald Trump can win New York State. And if he does, Hillary’s goose is cooked. If the GOP wins New York, Democrats have no electoral path to the White House. Donald Trump is the consummate New Yorker. Donald Trump is New York. Hillary was a carpetbagger from Arkansas....

Hillary Clinton told a New Hampshire audience Dec. 19 that Donald Trump is becoming "ISIS' best recruiter." Hillary Clinton's decision to bash Donald Trump during the final Democratic debate of 2015 appears to have revealed her true feelings on Islam. Radio host Rush Limbaugh said Monday that calling Trump "ISIS' best recruiter" makes no sense if the terror group is a total perversion of Islam. Clinton told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York last month that Muslims "have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism,"

At last week's GOP presidential debate, in a line that has gotten too little attention, Donald Trump boasted: "We've opened up a very big discussion that needed to be opened up." What Trump meant is that, by calling for things like mass deportations and Muslim registries and temporarily banning non-citizen Muslims from entering the U.S., and claiming thousands of American Muslims celebrated 9/11, Trump has forced a discussion about the true causes of American decline that had previously been precluded or suppressed by politically correct niceties. New polling suggests that Trump may be justified in this boast: It shows that...

New Hampshire public school students have been instructed to stay home on Monday due to a 'specific threat' aimed at two high schools. The news comes just days after a bomb threat in New York And Los Angeles was found to be a hoax. 'We have received a detailed threat of violence to harm students and staff at both high schools,' Superintendent Mark Conrad announced on the school district's website Sunday. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3368445/All-public-schools-New-Hampshire-shut-Monday-specific-threat-week-threat-closed-West-Coast-schools.html#ixzz3uvk2OK5c Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

In Saturday night's 3rd Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton sought to emphasize her line that Donald Trump has become "ISIS's best recruiter" by suggesting that the extremist group was using Trump in their recruiting videos, a claim which has now been widely discredited by fact-checkers and ISIS experts, and which prompted Trump to call Clinton a liar on the Sunday morning talk-show circuit. As a result, Sunday morning also saw Clinton campaign manager John Podesta and spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri work to walk Clinton's statement back. Appearing on ABC's This Week, Palmieri said that Clinton "didn't have a particular video in mind"

Phyllis Schlafly, an icon of the conservative movement who has been active for half a century, is warning the nation: Donald Trump is the last hope for America. Schlafly unloaded on Republicans in Congress for passing the $1.1 trillion omnibus bill last week, a move she called a “betrayal.” “This is a betrayal of the grassroots and of the Republican Party,” Schlafly said in an exclusive interview with WND. “We thought we were electing a different crowd to stand up for America, and they didn’t. We’re extremely outraged by what Congress has done. Nancy Pelosi couldn’t have engineered it any...

With the Syrian (so-called) refugee crisis ubiquitous in the headlines, the media has found itself dealing with immigration issues on a daily basis. Unfortunately, extreme confusion abounds. The media's total inability to draw basic distinctions regarding immigration to the United States, both legal and illegal is harming the public's ability to digest this important topic. Immigration terms are being thrown around print media, radio, and television that have no relation to the real facts or existing laws. The following is the dummy's guide to some of the most important distinctions regarding legal and illegal immigration to the United States. It...

Ever since Trump proposed a temporary moratorium on Muslim immigration, he has come under fire from both sides of the aisle, who are claiming it could never work because it is "unconstitutional." Well, several respected law professors have something to say about this that is sure to spark even more controversy. You have to love it! Many critics of Trump and his 'Muslim ban' have labeled it as bigoted and racist, and have called the plan unconstitutional and against the law. Some argue that the First Amendment prohibits the government from using religious affiliations as criteria for allowing in immigrants....

President Barack Obama’s 2012 amnesty for “Dreamers”–illegal aliens who entered the United States as children–likely created the conditions under which one of the San Bernardino terrorists could enter the country. Obama announced his unilateral policy, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the “Dream Act by fiat,” in June 2012 after immigration reform activists warned that he could risk losing support from Latino voters in his re-election campaign. Obama infamously broke his promise to pass amnesty in his first term, and risked being outflanked by Republican proposals authored by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) 79% to help “Dreamers” stay in the country....

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The Donald talked to Fox News’ Howard Kurtz this morning about how he wants to shut down the internet for people in ISIS by eliciting the help of the people who invented the internet, and then confronted Howard Kurtz, calling him “terrible” when he was on Megyn Kelly.

Republican presidential candidates are blasting Hillary Clinton over the Democratic frontrunner's assertion that the United States is "finally where we need to be" in the fight against the ISIS - and her unsubstantiated claim that the terror group is using a video of Donald Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric as a recruiting tool. "We now finally are where we need to be," Clinton said during Saturday's Democratic debate in New Hampshire. "We have a strategy and a commitment to go after ISIS. And we finally have a U.N. Security Council resolution bringing the world together to go after a political transition in...

What is the Islamic State?... Major General Michael K. Nagata, the Special Operations commander for the United States in the Middle East, admitting that he had hardly begun figuring out the Islamic State''s appeal. ''We have not defeated the idea,'' he said. ''We do not even understand the idea.''.. The Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), follows a distinctive variety of Islam whose beliefs about the path to the Day of Judgment.. We have misunderstood the nature of the Islamic State in at least two ways. First, we tend to see jihadism as...

Published on Dec 20, 2015 COMPLETE INTERVIEW: George Stephanopoulos Interviewes Donald Trump On "This Week " (12/20/2015)

However, Rubio is still the loser of this debate. Unlike the Florida man, Cruz never co-sponsored immigration reform with Chuck Schumer, but instead opposed that legislation. And Cruz, though he seems to have favored amnesty (in the sense of a path to legalization), never favored a path to citizenship, as Rubio did. To me, and probably a great many other Republicans, granting citizenship to those who violated our immigration laws is significantly more egregious than permitting them to remain here with legal status. But this doesn’t mean Cruz is the winner. Why? Because Donald Trump has insisted that illegal immigrants...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote: “Let’s not mince words, Donald Trump is a bigot and a racist.” I cited a long list of incidents in which he targeted women, Latinos, African Americans, Muslims, Asians and the disabled. Here’s what I heard back from Trump’s defenders: “Let’s not mince words,” somebody tweeted under the name Helios Megistos. “Milbank is an anti-white parasite and a bigoted kike supremacist.” “[Trump] may well be a bigot and a racist,” one Michael Banfield wrote me via email. “But one thing is certain: The only thing missing from your photo is a [vulgar word...

The ever-widening investigation of the San Bernardino terrorist massacre has revealed at least two dubious marriages that experts say expose huge loopholes in the immigration system and continue to put national security at risk. Federal authorities have charged Enrique Marquez with marriage fraud for his allegedly sham union with Mariya Chernykh, a Russian woman whose sister married the brother of terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook after first gaining residence through an earlier marriage. And of course, Farook's own wife, Tashfeen Malik, who was killed along with him in a shootout with police following their Dec. 2 attack, married her way into...

Florida Republican Primary voters continue to be fake as hell. They're letting the men they elected at one point to serve as our senator and governor linger in polls of their home state. In the first poll of Florida Republicans taking since this week's debate, it turns out that our state's GOP voters still have a thing for ol' Helmet Hair but now have a growing fondness for Texas-brand Rubio, Ted Cruz. The survey, conducted by Opinion Savvy and sponsored by the Jacksonville Times-Union and Fox 13 Tampa Bay, called up 555 registered Republicans in Florida on Wednesday. Here's the...

Jihadists, Yes, Pro-Israel Jews, No. If you're a member of a Islamic terror group, you can and will get security clearance. If you're working at Fort Hood, you can run slideshows supporting terrorists and handing out Soldier of Allah business cards, and there's no problem. But if you're an elderly Jewish dentist volunteering at a Naval clinic, it's another story, as Bret Stephens reports. When Gershon Pincus turned 60, he decided he wanted to give something back to his country. The Brooklyn-born father of four had maintained a successful private dental practice in New York City for 35 years. As...

The political establishment's condemnation of Trump's proposal was instantaneous and predictably consisted of single phrase epithets, ad hominem and empty invective: "prejudiced and divisive" (Clinton), "xenophobia and racist" (Sanders), "fascist" (O’Malley), "unhinged" (Bush), "offensive and outlandish" (Rubio), "outrageous divisiveness" (Kasich), and the list could go on. Noticeably absent from the initial torrent of Republican vitriol was any substantive discussion of Trump's actual proposal. Which made it especially satisfying a week later to watch the December 15 Republican debate. Given a week to read the polls and reflect a little, hysterical adjectives and sanctimonious hyperventilation had disappeared from the arsenals of...