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If you want to know where a Democrat stands on the issue of immigration, all you need ask is if they have to face the voters in less than a deep blue state in November.

GROUP IDENTIFIES TOWNS ASSOCIATED WITH RELEASES OF IMMIGRANTS CONVICTED OF HOMICIDE Cities and Towns Associated with Convicted Murderers Freed by ICE in 2013 Alaska (2) Anchorage 2 Arizona (3) Phoenix 1 Buckeye 1 Tucson 1 California (48) Los Angeles 6 Pomona 3 San Jose 3 Glendale 2 Sacramento 2 Beverly Hills 1 Huntington Park 1 San Pedro 1 Montrose 1 Pacoima 1 Reseda 1 Burbank 1 N. Hollywood 1 Chino Hills 1 S. El Monte 1 La Puenta 1 Rosemead 1 Oceanside 1 Vista 1 Adelanto 1 Murrieta 1 Irvine 1 Westminster 1 Anaheim 1 Fullerton 1 Garden Grove 1...

HILLARY CLINTON: The problem is, and this is something -- I'm not a military planner, but Hamas puts its missiles, its rockets in civilian areas, part of it is is that Gaza's pretty small and its densely populated.

The White House statement from that conversation said that ultimately any lasting solution to the conflict must end "the disarmament of terrorist groups and the demilitarization of Gaza."

The Church of England has voted to allow its first ever female bishops, ending half a century of wrangling over the role of women.

Unaccompanied illegal alien minors are flooding over our borders. The soon will flood our Hospitals, Schools and to eventually overwhelm our Social Support Systems as intended. The Alinsky method of creating a crisis then solving it with a socialist method is in full force here. Soon we will have unaccompanied minors from around the world as this flood becomes a tsunami. The solution is simply not to accept unaccompanied minors under the age of 18 at our borders. Hold illegal alien minors, who do not come through our checkpoints close to the borders. Many eventually will want to return home....

What else did Alito hold in his majority opinion? “The Government has failed to show that the contraceptive mandate is the least restrict means of furthering that interest," according to the majority opinion. Alito wrote that the owners of Hobby Lobby believe that the coverage required of the health care law "is connected to the destruction of an embryo in a way that is sufficient to make it immoral for them to provide the coverage … HHS [Department of Health and Human Services] has not shown that it lacks other means of achieving its desired goal without imposing a substantial...

With Drudge being pilloried for paying his Obamacare Taxes (due with his quarterly 2015 tax payment), I got to wondering how many young people are withholding more this year for the Obamacare taxes due April 15 of next year? My guess is not many because the Lamestream Press doesn't want them to know that it can be 1% of their income before the Mid-Term elections. If the young knew it could be 2% due by April 15 2016 they might throw a fit. Come to think of it, I think they will throw a fit anyway because they are Internet...

Millions of Americans found their premiums and deductibles skyrocketing last October. I know, I was one of them. But based on how few new folks have signed up, I'm predicting an even worse premium skyrocket (and maybe even the deductibles) in 2015. Can anyone doubt that the average American will see there premiums increase and for many become unaffordable? This will be for the lucky ones who still have employers who can afford it or for those who can get through the aweful Obamacare Websites. Democrats are planning to push back the Obamacare insurance requirements so the public doesn't see...

As vulnerable Democrats press for another unilateral delay of a key provision of ObamaCare, surely many in the party have come to wonder if the law is really worth all of this trouble. If it’s not worth enacting, is it really worth losing the Senate over? ... Democrats know that canceling those policies is necessary for the law to work, since consumers must be herded into more expensive plans in order to finance otherwise unsustainable new customers

In a colossal “oh by the way” revelation, last Friday afternoon the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a federal agency under the United States Department of Health and Human Services (that would be the executive branch run by President Obama), quietly released a report exposing the fact that under Obamacare, two-thirds of Americans who work at small businesses will see their insurance premiums increase. So this report – which is more than two years late – says over 11 million American workers will have higher health insurance premiums because of Obamacare.

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"Marry First, then Cheat"

At the height of the Cold War, it was common for American conservatives to label the officially atheist Soviet Union a “godless nation.” In his state of the nation address in mid-December, Mr. Putin also portrayed Russia as a staunch defender of “traditional values” against what he depicted as the morally bankrupt West. Social and religious conservatism, the former KGB officer insisted, is the only way to prevent the world from slipping into “chaotic darkness.” Mr. Putin’s views of the West were echoed this month by Patriarch Kirill I of Moscow, the leader of the Orthodox Church, who accused Western...

The subsidy is provided by income-boosting welfare programs, which allows employers to pay the minimum wage of $7.25 per hour to millions of immigrants and low-skill Americans hired to sew clothes, fill packages, pick fruit, milk cows, flip burgers, install roofs and drive trucks, he said. Those subsidies, including the Earned Income Tax Credit and food stamps, add up to roughy $14,000 for each household headed by an illegal immigrant, after including the value of taxes paid by the household. “In 2010, the average unlawful immigrant household received around $24,721 in government benefits and services while paying some $10,334 in...

"KATHLEEN SEBELIUS: There are some individuals who may be looking at increases." Ya Think?

Today, with Obamacare turning into his poll tax at home, and Russia, China and Iran all pushing forward into the spaces he has vacated, this has become harder to believe. Which leaves Barack Obama as little more than an eloquent, narcissistic global preacher, expounding Ubuntu to gradually dwindling congregations... On the Great Seal of the United States is – to use the correct heraldic term – “A Bald Eagle proper displayed”. It symbolises its country’s soaring power. Time to modernise it, I fear, and replace it with a selfie.

FICA (Social Security) taxes were increased and they didn't think it would have an impact? Was the Obama Administration thinking that higher taxes would have stimulated sales this Black Friday? But, NO, instead sales are flat, the Mainstream Media cannot figure it out, and the stock market is slumping. Wait for the Christmas figures to come out. Oh, and what does this portend for 2014s Black Friday and Christmas with Obamacare taxes kicking in. For that matter what about the economy next year?

The Affordable Care Act is "intentionally designed to screw over young people" who are being forced to pay higher premiums, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus says. "It wasn't a mistake. This thing was not an accident," Priebus told "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV on Thursday. "Obamacare was intentionally designed to screw over young people so that young people pay for everyone else's stuff.

Image if President Bush had a signature piece of legislation called BushCare and right now the BushCare website is still down (after a month and a half) and had ID Theft sized holes in the websites security. Imagine millions of Americans loosing their Healthcare Insurance due to BushCare after being promised that they could keep it and their doctors only to find out they can't. Imagine President Bush, overriding that legislation through Tweets and pronouncements; even suspending the law for a year in order to get past the next election cycle. What would the Mainstream Media do if it were...