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If an executive order from the president couldn’t get the job done, then the Obama administration might have to resort to other means when it comes to making illegal aliens feel at home in America. Since there are no greater issues facing the country right now, the Obama-appointed Task Force on 21st Century Policing recommends severing ties between Homeland Security and local law enforcement authorities. “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security should terminate the use of state and local criminal justice system…to enforce civil immigration laws against civil and nonserious criminal offenders,” says the task force report. Rather than move...

Yes, Obamacare has raised premiums, caused people to lose their health coverage, raised taxes, and more. But on January 1, Obamacare started digging in for the long haul: putting down the deep roots of entitlement programs. Entitlements—like the big three of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—are the biggest causes of America’s spending and debt crisis. And Obamacare creates a new entitlement program while expanding another. The creation of a new entitlement: Taxpayer-funded subsidies for millions of Americans Obamacare created insurance exchanges to sell and subsidize government-approved health care plans. Most of those who attain coverage through the exchanges will have...

If anyone needed any additional evidence that Republicans would rather lose than fight, tonight's panel discussion on Fox News Special Report was the clincher. The panel discussed the bald-faced theft of the MN seat election in the US Senate by the Franken thugs (every new "found" ballot is for Franken, even when the ballot is also for McCain, a result statistically impossible in any fair process). Rather than offer a spirited defense of the rule of law and denounce most strongly Franken's theft of the election, the panel yucked it up, admitting that Franken will be successful in stealing the...