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With the presidential match-up apparently set now between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the Republican candidate is opening up a bit more about his faith in Jesus. “Who do you say Jesus is?” was the question posed to Trump Wednesday by noted columnist and author Cal Thomas. “Jesus to me is somebody I can think about for security and confidence,” responded Trump. “Somebody I can revere in terms of bravery and in terms of courage and, because I consider the Christian religion so important, somebody I can totally rely on in my own mind.”

Nearly a hundred top Republican officials sent a letter to the House GOP on Tuesday urging lawmakers to pass a bill that legalizes illegal immigrants, arguing that the current system is already allowing them to stay and so it makes sense to register them and bring them into the system. The donors, led by former Bush administration Cabinet officials Carlos Gutierrez and Spencer Abraham, also said that immigrants are potential Republican voters who can be won over — if the party can be seen as welcoming to immigrants. “Doing nothing is de facto amnesty. We need to take control of...

“The American way is not to give taxpayer-subsidized benefits to people who have broken our laws and are here in the United States illegally,” Bachmann said at the CNN/Tea Party Express debate. Perry defended the law, saying it was a states’ rights issue. “We were clearly sending a message to young people that, regardless of what the sound of their last name is, that we believe in you,” Perry said.

KIEV, May 12 (Itar-Tass) - Re-privatization in Ukraine may embrace 29 strategically significant enterprises, First Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Kinakh said Thursday. A list of enterprises to be re-privatized was drawn upon findings of an interdepartmental workgroup that reviewed the questionable aspects of past privatisations. It also takes account of proposals by government organizations, including law enforcement agencies. Kinakh pointed out the importance of restoring legitimacy and interests of society that were disregarded during privatizations in the past. “We handed our proposals to the state leaders Thursday, and all the information will be published after the necessary coordination,” Kinakh said....

Ping to watch the idiots on parade, and post your commentary here.

International ANSWER, which co-organized last Saturday's Washington protest, now openly admits that it wants "the Iraqi anti-colonial resistance" -- which, as Michael Totten points out, apparently consists of "three primary groups[:] Saddam’s Baathist remnants, local theocratic Islamists, and foreign foot soldiers for Al Qaeda" -- to win: The anti-war movement here and around the world must give its unconditional support to the Iraqi anti-colonial resistance. Yup, that's right. They fully admit it: They want people to give unconditional support to our nation's enemies, and a particularly evil set of enemies at that. (What do you think will blossom in Iraq...