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Calling Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s stance on the topic “disqualifying,” Kentucky U.S. Sen. Rand Paul said on CBS’s ‘Face the Nation’ Sunday that he opposed government surveillance at mosques and establishing databases to track Muslims. “Yes we should follow people who are a risk,” Paul said. “Should we talk to their neighbors and friends, should we talk to their imam? Sure, all of that is legitimate, but should we target mosques and have a database of Muslims? “Absolutely not, and I think that’s disqualifying for both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio to say that we’re going to close down...

How would you feel if you drove into a town here in the United States and found that many of the street signs were in Arabic only with no English wording? Then you look around and discover that many of the signs on businesses were also in Arabic. Not possible you say? Think again! Welcome to Dearborn, Michigan. Steve Tarani, author and speaker recounts what he saw when he rode with a member of the Detroit Metro SWAT Police as they drove around Detroit and into Dearborn: "The street signs suddenly went from English to Arabic. There wasn't a single...

| At long last the House and the Senate are considering legislation to reform of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). But the central proposal of the proposed reform - the creation of a separate agency charged with enforcement functions - will only give us a new agency with a new set of initials to blame and will do little to address the porous process by which dangerous people enter the United States easily. The fault lies not just in the bureaucracy but in the legal framework which governs it and the lack of emphasis on enforcing what laws now...