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Absurdity compounds, as the White House and immigration bend over backwards to defend everything this country was never founded upon. What could be stranger than spending millions of taxpayer dollars to not only house illegal immigrants put through a long legal limbo process, but to build special facilities just for those who are both here illegally in migration and undergoing transition between genders? It just makes so much sense that money is forced away from hardworking families – or anyone really – to pay for such ridiculous tripe. Via Fox News: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning...

If Israel and the Palestinians do not agree on a “two state solution” by the end of this year, the Obama administration plans to propose its own solution and force it on the two sides in early 2014. For Obama, the goal is to have this agreement in place in time to influence the November 2014 mid-term elections. Unfortunately for Israel, the Palestinians have absolutely no incentive to move off of their current demands because Obama has been promising them a Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders with East Jerusalem as the capital since very early in his presidency....

The U.N. Human Rights Council in session in Geneva. (U.N. Photo by Jess Hoffman) (CNSNews.com) –  The Obama administration’s reference to Arizona’s immigration law in a report to the U.N. Human Rights Council has caused a stir, but its decision to engage with the body in the first place has drawn criticism for a lot longer.   During discussions in 2005-6 about creating a replacement for the unwieldy, scandal-ridden U.N. Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR), the Bush administration pushed strongly for a small (preferably 20 member) body with strict membership criteria, including a clear exclusion for any country placed...