We're a nation of immigrants, not idiots

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The Democrats keep insisting we have to let everyone into the country who wants to come in, but, as I’m sure you’ve noticed, the ones they’re referring to are those most likely to vote for Democrats. The fact is whenever anyone starts quoting the inscription at the base of the Statue of Liberty, “The Modern Colossus” by Emma Lazarus, with its open invitation to the huddled masses and wretched refuse, I am reminded that we are already filled to the brim with welfare recipients who answer to that description. I would also like to point out that bad poetry is a lousy basis for national policy. Obama keeps telling us that Gitmo has to be shut down because it’s a recruiting tool for the enemy – an enemy he refuses to name, by the way – but everything about America acts as a recruiting tool for the Islamists. And by everything, I include the fact that our women drive cars, go to school and show their faces in public; that our Constitution guarantees free speech and freedom of religion, and does not kowtow to Shariah law; and that we do not prostrate ourselves to Mecca five times a day. In fact, if Obama didn’t keep yakking about Gitmo, nobody else would.......The truth is that until fairly recently, no national leader in the West, and certainly not in the U.S., has ever looked around and said: “You know what we don’t have nearly enough of? Muslims!”……. When it comes to confronting Islam, American politicians are all cowards, far more concerned with losing an election than they are with Iran’s wiping Tel Aviv off the map. Our enemy keeps boasting that their god is greater and more powerful than our own, and, by our moral cowardice, we make their case for them……To Read More….