Laws are for the Little People

If Hillary Clinton got what she deserved, she would spend the rest of her ambassador-murdering, national security-endangering life in a federal prison. --Yet, let's be realistic here – she will not. Indeed, instead of going to the Big House, there's an even chance that the Free Stuff Army will rally to her cause next year and put her into the White House.

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Sen. Cruz: We Must Send the Message That Defiance of Our Laws Will No Longer Be Tolerated

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today delivered a speech on the Senate floor citing the Obama Administration’s persistent negligence of immigration law enforcement and bolstering the Stop Sanctuary Policies and Protect Americans Act (S. 2146), of which he is a lead cosponsor, as a small step in the right direction. In addition to stripping certain federal funds from sanctuary jurisdictions, the legislation also incorporates critical elements of Kate’s Law, which Sen. Cruz introduced earlier this year, by imposing a five-year mandatory minimum sentence on any alien who illegally reenters the country after having been convicted of an aggravated felony or two prior illegal reentry offenses.

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What Gun-Control Advocates Mean but Dare Not Say: Guns Should Be Confiscated

Charles Krauthammer - There’s the cycle of poverty. There’s the cycle of violence. And then there’s the cycle of gun talk. It starts with a mass shooting. Gun-control advocates blame the deaths on gun-control opponents, who argue, in turn, that none of the proposed restrictions would have had any effect on the incident in question. The debate goes nowhere. The media move on. Until the next incident, when the cycle begins again. ---So with the Roseburg massacre in Oregon. Within hours, President Obama takes to the microphones to furiously denounce the NRA and its ilk for resisting “commonsense gun-safety laws.” His harangue is totally sincere, totally knee-jerk, and totally pointless. At the time he delivers it, he — and we — know practically nothing about the shooter, nothing about the weapons, nothing about how they were obtained.

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Ray Stevens - God Save Arizona

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The Broken Common Bond

THOMAS PAINE argues for a restoration of the common bond over diversity.
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