... For a generation, mass immigration has held a place of honor in each party’s political theology. It fits Democrats’ anti-racism and Republicans’ supply-side economics. There is a bipartisan magic about open borders. When the needs of immigration conflict with those of democracy, it is democracy that gets pushed aside....
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... Our organization, American Transparency (website: OpenTheBooks.com) was able to identify that number. We found nearly $27 billion ($26.74 billion to be exact) in federal funding (FY2016) for America’s 106 Sanctuary Cities. Our new report, “Federal Funding of America’s Sanctuary Cites” details federal grants and other...
.. On the European continent today, one man stands out as a true statesman: the prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán. He and his government have spoken out boldly on the threat to European identity posed by African and Islamic immigration...
To an extent, he is merely appealing to a Hungarian electorate that...
In the controversy surrounding President Donald Trump’s immigration executive orders, one of the key points being missed is that every nation has the sovereign right and power to determine who may cross its borders. The Supreme Court first addressed this issue in 1799, in United States v. Fries holding that “Any alien...
Republican state Rep. Dave Williams of Colorado Springs wants to open up civil and criminal court for sanctuary city leaders "who care more about illegal aliens than protecting the people they are supposed to serve."
If an undocumented immigrant [illegal alien] does harm because of weak government policies, a victim...
The rule of law is all about deterrence. So when we fail to follow it, we squander its deterring effects...
Ending DACA and turning off the amnesty-magnet is now more important than ever.
Obama created DACA in reaction to Congress’s “gridlock” over the DREAM Act, an amnesty bill for illegal aliens under 30...
The Third World invasion costs American taxpayers at least $113 billion every year, a figure which will pay for the expected $20 to $25 billion cost of building a wall along the U.S.–Mexican border four times over every year—a fact which leftist hysteria over the proposal completely ignores.
According to a 2013...
President Trump signed an executive order late Friday which temporarily bars refugees from entering the United States...
The executive order, “Protecting the Nation from Terrorist Attacks by Foreign Nationals,” contained these key elements:
Suspended the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for 120 days,...President Trump proposed a 20 percent tariff on imports from Mexico in order to pay for the wall he plans to build on the southern border. It is assumed that the 20 percent tariff is a negotiating starting point...
Dan Lombard argued that “a 3% transit tax over three years would pay for a wall.” Infuriated by the...
“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the...
The Main Stream Media, the “opposition party” as Steve Bannon described it, is screeching in outrage about President Donald Trump’s claim that he would have won the popular vote were it not for illegal voters. The Narrative they are pushing is that there is “no evidence” to suggest that anyone voted illegally.
Yet...
... on the American left there is something like revulsion at the idea of the “beautiful wall” President Trump intends to build along the 1,900-mile border between the U.S. and Mexico.
The opposition’s arguments are usually rooted in economics or practicality. The wall is unnecessary. It will not stop people from...
Yesterday, President Trump signed two executive orders relating to immigration. In the first few days of his administration we have already found that the Trump we see as President is the same Trump we saw on the campaign trail...
The second order is titled “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United...
And we know how easy it was for these savages. This was proven when AFDI reporter Laura Loomer went undercover at a US immigration office and showed fake passports were acceptable to immigration officials.
Trump's ban on jihad immigration is critical.
Thousands of Terrorists, Foreign Fighters Tried to Enter...With a couple strokes of his pen, President Trump wiped out almost all of President Obama’s immigration policies Wednesday, laying the groundwork for his own border wall, unleashing immigration agents to enforce the law and punishing sanctuary cities who try to thwart his deportation surge.
Left untouched, for now...
Denver has long been known as a Sanctuary City for illegal immigrants even though it has no formal policy to that effect.
In 2015 it received approximately $175 million in federal funding — money the new president is threatening to pull. But Brendan Greene of the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition says he would not...
... In his ambitious inaugural address, President Trump vowed that the United States would “eradicate radical Islamic terrorism from the face of the earth.” That is ambitious, to say the least. What we call “radical Islam” is not so radical on much of the earth. What makes it “radical” here in the West is the subject of...
... As Trump said, his inaugural ceremony was more than a transfer of power from one administration to another, or from one party to another. Instead, it was something much more profound: “We are transferring power from Washington, DC, and giving it back to you, the people.”
It’s a safe bet that everyone in...
Thank you, Obama, for being the polarizing king of cultural warfare. Without you, the Republican Party might still be stuck in La-La land.
... Barack Obama was such a complete disaster in the Oval Office that voters demanded a 180-degree reversal in the direction of the country, not the small course correction...
Migrants from Africa, Haiti and the Middle East are swarming across the border in a mad dash that is being facilitated by Mexican officials, according to new reports.
The flow has been increasing ever since the election of Donald Trump on Nov. 8, border agents tell WND.
The U.S. has been taking in between...
For the first time, presidential power will pass to a business leader and true outsider.
On March 4, 1801, President-Elect Thomas Jefferson took the oath of office at 11 a.m., in what was considered a simple ceremony...
Despite the simple ceremony, James Madison said of the peaceful transition of power, “...
Borders are in the news as never before. After millions of young, Muslim, and mostly male refugees flooded into the European Union last year from the war-torn Middle East, a popular revolt arose against the so-called Schengen Area agreements, which give free rights of movement within Europe. The concurrent suspension of...
... The major Jewish organizations have certainly been in the forefront welcoming Syrian refugees [For Jewish Groups, Syrian Refugees are a Reminder, Not a Threat By Ron Kampeas, JTA.org, November 24, 2015; As Anti-Refugee Sentiment Builds, Jewish Agencies Push for Settlement, Greg Salisbury, JewishExponent.com, November 25...
... The truth about the [border] wall is that a wall will keep illegal drugs out of the United States. By doing that, billions of dollars will be kept in the country.
Most legal drugs come to the United States across its 2,000 mile long southern border with Mexico. “Drug cartels in Mexico utilize drug mules,...
How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, by Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel B. Pollak and New York Times bestselling historian Larry Schweikart, is being released by Regnery Publishing as an e-book on Tuesday, January 17 via Amazon (Kindle) and Barnes & Noble (Nook), and will be released in paperback...
... The Donald Trump nation of conservative red spanned the country, to within a few miles of the two coasts, covering 85 percent of the nation’s land area...
The urban party has been getting beat up a lot, even before Trump’s surprising victory... Over the past decade, more than 1,000 elected Democratic state...
U.S. immigration policy is a joke — a bad joke that President-elect Donald Trump estimates costs our economy $113 billion per year and hurts millions, including both U.S. taxpayers and non- U.S. citizens waiting in line to come here legally.
Our next president knows we can do better...
These days, however, the...
CAIRCO note: America's higher education system functions as a hotbed of inculcation of liberal progressive, Marxist, multicultural, open borders, and frankly anti-American propaganda. This article exposes this deep seated, pervasive, and well founded agenda.
Students at hundreds of colleges and universities...
A core concern among immigration-control advocates has always been the disproportionate negative effects mass immigration has on black America. That concern takes on added significance as we commemorate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a man who was singularly in tune with the needs of the black community... our...
President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is engaged in active discussions with the US Army Corps of Engineers and Interior Department to begin planning a wall along the Mexican border, including how specific environmental laws could get in the way, CNN has learned ...
Another US official told CNN the Trump...
Mexican drug cartels and human traffickers are cashing in ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration by exploiting anxiety over his vow to build a border wall and crack down on illegal immigration – fueling the latest surge across the U.S.-Mexico line, according to local law enforcement ...
For now, however, the Obama...
Congressional Republicans and Donald Trump's transition team are exploring whether they can make good on Trump's promise of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border without passing a new bill on the topic, officials said Thursday.
Under the evolving plan, the Trump administration would rely on existing legislation...
During 2017, immigration will be the red-hot topic that President-elect Donald Trump and his administration will have to deal with. Congress is clearly divided between the immigration expansionists and the restrictionists, with a handful falling somewhere in between.
Both sides advance convincing arguments. But one...
In the lead-up to today’s confirmation hearing for Attorney General-designate Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), open-borders activists have been pushing back hard in their public advocacy campaigns against his potential appointment...
Much to the open-borders lobby’s horror, patriotic immigration reform will likely be a...
A federal judge says San Francisco cannot be held liable for the death of a woman who authorities say was shot and killed by a man who was in the country illegally ...
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Sanctuary Cities Vs. National Security and Public Safety, FrontPage Mag, December 3, 2016San Francisco to Expand...
...the chief of Homeland Security announced that his office will be taking over US elections.
If you can’t see the coup in progress, you need to keep looking until the message comes through.
Read carefully—> ABC News reports. My comments are in brackets:
“Citing increasingly...
This Chicago Tribune article confirms that Fort Lauderdale shooter Esteban Santiago is from Penuelas, Puerto Rico, and has a brother named Bryan. Why aren’t establishment propaganda journalists asking Bryan about Aashiq Hammad?
“BREAKING: #FortLauderdale Terrorist #EstebanSantiago Joined MySpace As ‘Aashiq Hammad...
Let’s try a little event history here to make sense of this Russian election hacking accusation. It’s not exactly in order, rather it is how the events appear to connect and make sense to me, with lots of speculation on my part.
Hillary Clinton sets up a private email server as Secretary of State, so that she can...Jobs data released Friday for the last full month of the Obama Administration saw immigrant displacement of American workers at its fifth-highest level in absolute terms—leaving intact this 96-month-long powerful if paradoxical trend (blacks are particular victims).
Employers added 156,000 jobs last month, while...
Even though most Americans view California as a lost cause—the “land of fruits and nuts”—and now, the epicenter of resistance to President-Elect Trump, it would be a mistake to ignore it.
The whiny, crybaby brigade of Democrats in leadership, who wield unchecked power over the most populous, and in many ways, the...
The parents of Kathryn Steinle have received the go-ahead to sue the federal government over Kathryn’s July 2105 death; she was killed by an illegal alien holding a gun issued to a federal agent.
U.S. Magistrate Joseph Spero said Steinle’s parents can sue but stressed that the suit may be dismissed if there is no...
... Let’s face it. We all know it is the prospect of a better life through employment that attracts the vast majority of border jumpers. Our system for blocking unlawful employment of foreign-born workers who lack a lawful work permit has always been a joke, and under Obama, enforcement has been an even lower priority than...
A new report by a government watchdog agency says jihadists are partnering with Mexican drug cartels along the U.S.-Mexican border, preparing to carry out precision attacks in American cities.
Judicial Watch cites confidential U.S. and Mexican law enforcement sources for the disturbing report, which builds on...
The latest United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) resettlement assessment report summarizes its 2015 activities and introduces its 2017 strategic direction and needs. At a time when refugee protection is addressed on a global scale, the report, “UNHCR Projected Global Resettlement Needs 2017”, provides us...
Latin America is a hotbed of Islamic terrorism where groups like ISIS and Hezbollah operate freely and raise large sums of money to finance terrorist activities in other countries, mainly the United States, according to a new report released by Spain’s Defense Ministry. “Latin America represents an important region for...
It was the key national-security debate of the 2016 election. Donald Trump won the election, in no small part, because he appeared to be on the right side of it. Appeared is used advisedly: Trump was at least in the general vicinity of the bull’s-eye; his opponent wouldn’t even acknowledge the target existed... The question...
Mexicans sent billions of dollars back to Mexico in November after President-elect Donald Trump’s election win.
Immigrant workers and illegal aliens rushed to take money out of the American economy and send it to their home countries, Reuters reports:
Mexicans abroad sent home nearly $2.4 billion in...
Remember when President Bill Clinton was called “America’s first black president”? Obviously, it wasn’t because he was black...
Well don’t look now, but I believe Obama has earned the right to be called, “America’s first Muslim president.”
What would you call a president who betrays Israel in his last days...
... In a surge Mexican officials are calling unprecedented, some 15,000 migrants from outside Latin America passed through Baja California this year — nearly five times the number seen in 2015.
More than a third of the detainees being held in California immigration holding centers in September were from outside...
One reason for the emergence of outsider Donald Trump is the old outrage that elites seldom experience the consequences of their own ideologically driven agendas.
Hypocrisy, when coupled with sanctimoniousness, grates people like few other human transgressions...
The American progressive elite relies on...
In 2016, Republicans control both legislative chambers in 32 states. That’s up from 16 in 2000.
What happened to the big donkey? Among other things, the Democrats decided to sell their base and their soul to a very bad billionaire and they got a very bad deal for both.
It was 2004... a former Nazi collaborator...
Even as middle class incomes in China enjoy explosive growth, and 96% of Chinese people in a recent Pew Research poll say their lives are better than their parents’, an unknown number of “birth tourists” cross oceans each year to have their babies in America.
And in America’s Chinese enclaves, they find a cottage...
Central Americans attempting to enter the United States illegally on the nation’s border with Mexico helped drive a 23 percent increase in U.S. Border Patrol arrests during the 2016 fiscal year, according to figures released Friday...
Homeland Security said in its year-end report that “a growing share” of people...
In a year when there were hundreds seismic shifts amid the tectonic plates within the body politic, one of the most important was the revelation that Media Polling is just as brutally biased as the media entities who present the polling results.
With election 2016 behind us, and before 2017 arrives, the truth behind...
The pre-Christmas news dump didn’t disappoint this year with President Obama making one of his most controversial midnight rulemakings so far.
Although dormant for years, the Department of Homeland Security decided that Dec. 23 (just 28 days before the transition) was apparently the right time to repeal the...
Throughout his presidential campaign, Donald Trump voiced beliefs about national security that many Americans have shared since, at least, the early days of the Obama administration. The inability to speak honestly and coherently about the enemy and its ideology, Trump argued, has repeatedly led to failure: terror attacks...
The United States' immigration system needs "clarity," and using the term alien again will get things on that track, former immigrations agent Michael Cutler told Newsmax TV on Tuesday.
Cutler told "America Talks Live" host Bill Tucker he would like the incoming administration start to clean things up.
"Let's...
One of the main issues that propelled Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to victory was the promise of a wall being built at the United States border with Mexico. The response by the news media, their favorite Democratic politicians and illegal-immigration advocates was astounding, with newspapers, magazines,...
A loophole in immigration law has allowed more than 22,000 undocumented immigrants [illegal aliens] to receive permission to leave the United States and return legally, making some of them eligible for permanent legal residency ...
[...] using advance parole, immigrants who have been allowed to stay in the United...
The Census Bureau this week unveiled a newly designed population clock, which measures population growth in the United States in real time.
A blue line fills up a rectangular bar every eight seconds, denoting the birth rate, and also marks off a death every 12 seconds. The clock also shows the other driver of...
The day began with a crack of lightning over Turbo, a Colombian port city built along a murky, trash-strewn bay ...
The flow of migrants arriving in Colombia without visas has increased dramatically over the last three years. Some 9,500 of them transited the country in the first half of 2016, more than double last...
“Somali refugees are probably an even bigger risk than Syrians, as Somalis have committed several terrorist attacks on U.S. soil recently.” (Leo Hohmann)
We gave you some numbers yesterday for Somali resettlement in the waning weeks of the Obama Administration and the numbers are astronomical.
Two decades...
2016 has been studded with Islamic terror attacks across the continent in Europe. The attacks began just seven days into January and continued throughout the year. Europe has been overwhelmed by tens of thousands of refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq...
The most astounding thing to me is that no one wants...
Colorado isn’t one of the biggest states in the nation yet population-wise, but it’s growing faster than most bigger states are.
A U.S. Census Bureau report out today says that Colorado ranks seventh among the states for percentage growth of its population between...
Cultural Marxists continue to target Japan for being Japanese. One of their methods is shameless baby waving; sob stories designed to evoke sympathy for sad sack refugee claimants, but their interest is not one particular refugee or family, their interest is making Japan less Japanese. And the English language press in...
A Colorado congressman has pledged to support Muslim citizens amid fears about future policies that may be created by president-elect Donald Trump.
The Reporter-Herald reports that U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., on Tuesday met with officials at the Islamic Center for Fort Collins ...
CAIRCO Notes: Muslim...
A new report estimates that there are up to 820,000 illegal aliens in the U.S. who have escaped deportation under Obama’s regime despite that many of them have been convicted of serious crimes including murder, rape, drug offenses, and other crimes.
While some estimates say there are up to 2 million criminal...
... the cognitive impact of immigration – at least as proxied by the differences in performance on the PISA tests between the national average, which includes immigrant children, versus only native children – is almost entirely negative for its supposed beneficiaries across the entire world.
Even those few...
Carlos Mejia sleeps on a bare mattress in an otherwise unfurnished room with his girlfriend and spreads a sheet on the cool tile for their two young children, a small respite from the sweltering heat. Their neighbors on both sides are Hondurans like them.
He receives $8 a day working 12 hours slicing plastic bottles...
... few understand that the passionate opposition includes a willingness to impeach and remove President Trump if he does not come to heel on his America First goals...
Republican leaders in Congress are already sending Trump a subtle but clear warning: accept our business-as-usual Chamber of Commerce agenda or we...
For months now, the Democrat-Progressive fever swamps have been using the word “fascist” in connection with Donald Trump and those who voted for him. It took Michael Kinsley to elevate this shoddy claim onto pages of the Washington Post: Trump, he asserts, is a fascist.
... The term “fascist” is a very distinct one...
A Dutch court convicted populist anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders of inciting discrimination Friday at the end of a trial he branded a politically motivated “charade” that endangered freedom of speech.
Presiding Judge Hendrik Steenhuis said the court would not impose a sentence because the conviction was punishment...
... Denver’s population grew nearly 14 percent between 2010 and 2015 when 682,545 people were counted, and in 2015 Denver recorded the fastest-growing population among the nation’s largest cities, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. And city planners don’t expect it to slow down in the next 25 years...
the Denver...
Employers added 178,000 jobs last month, while the unemployment dropped to 4.6% – dangerously close to the “full employment” level that mainstream economists warn could trigger wage and price inflation. The only fly in this ointment: the November numbers insure a Fed interest rate hike later this month, and further hikes in...
CAIRCO note: while this article focuses on the Kellogg's assault on Breitbart News, it illuminates how corporate interests generally - and monetarily - support the politics of the open borders progressive left.
... the days when corporate chieftains were plump Republican harumphers, always railing against...
A former immigration officer says many illegal aliens can vote in national elections, in part because they can easily buy fake identification documents.
“I probably arrested more than a thousand illegal aliens in my career,” retired ICE Special-Agent-In-Charge Claude Arnold said during an interview with Fox News’...
The lunacy of the immigration executive orders and other actions of the Obama administration to block the enforcement of our immigration laws and immigration anarchy will be brought to a screeching halt on the day that Donald Trump replaces Mr. Obama in the Oval Office.
However the “Immigration All-Clear” will not...
In the three-plus weeks since the election I have had some twenty or thirty conversations with other Trump voters, some in person, some by phone, all of them out of earshot of our sensitive Democratic friends.
Although my evidence is entirely anecdotal, my sample has been diverse enough for me to feel confident in...
When Michael Goodwin, a 10-year veteran writer for the New York Times, saw the extent of the bias displayed by the Times in its coverage of the recent presidential electdon, and by the mainstream media in general, he called it “shameful”:
The shameful display of naked partisanship by the elite media is unlike...
The Overton Window is a term that describes the range of discourse and ideas the public finds acceptable. It is named for Joseph P. Overton, former vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, who claimed that the political viability of an idea, belief, or policy rests mainly on whether it falls in this window...
In September the media reported that the Obama administration was sitting on a damning Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report that called into question the administration’s claim that as many as 81 percent of people attempting to cross the border illegally are apprehended.
This new report,...
The Department of Health and Human Services informed Congress this week that it will raid heath programs for Americans to pay for thousands of children and teenagers flooding the southwest border.
Barbara Clark, a deputy director of the department, sent a letter to congressional staffers indicating that HHS Secretary...
Tucker Carlson’s new show on Fox had a fact-jammed three minutes of reporting about illegal immigration in the courts and the continuing flood on the border of Central American illegal aliens.
More than half of federal prosecutions now concern immigration, which was not always the case.
...
A presidential transitioning is upon us and we all know what that means: pardons...
He’s shown that an open-borders America is core to his personal legacy, however, his dramatic push for mass amnesty has been routinely thwarted throughout his tenure. It was first rejected by Congress when they killed the DREAM Act...
Northglenn on Monday joined Aurora and Denver in declaring that its police force will not enforce federal immigration laws against those who haven’t “committed criminal acts.”
The policy statement came during a City Council meeting Monday night and was passed as a resolution unanimously...
This month,...
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) today issued its Priorities for the 2017 Presidential Transition, a blueprint for true immigration reform in the next administration and the 115th Congress. The transition plan was introduced at a Washington, D.C., news conference.
The...
The Federation for American Immigration Reform said it will pursue a federal complaint against the left-leaning Southern Poverty Law Center of Alabama.
FAIR officials say the longtime civil rights watchdog group has violated its nonprofit status and become a partisan “propaganda” agency, especially on the issue of...
Many of you are familiar with author/investigator James Simpson and may even have read his monograph that followed mine at the Center for Security Policy.
Stealth Invasion: Muslim Conquest Through Immigration and the Resettlement Jihad
A prolific writer and speaker, Simpson travels to...
The educational blob has decided to go to a very public war with soon to be President Donald J. Trump over illegal alien students. It has announced a far ranging and public conspiracy to violate Federal law, specifically Title 8 of the United States Code (USC), Section 1324, Bringing and Harboring Certain Aliens, that...
Prospective college students in the country illegally are now eligible for consideration at two Georgia state universities that have prohibited their admission in recent years.
The Board of Regents, which governs the University System of Georgia, adopted a policy in 2010 that prohibited any of its schools that has...
It is about as clear as you can get, and from one of their own mouths! (Hey, SPLC does that make him a racist or Islamophobe?)
This isn’t new news for anyone who has been paying attention and reading alternative media like RRW. Heck this is the Hijraexplained by someone who is one of Islam’s most diabolical minds...
Denver County’s sheriff office has been slapped with a fine by the Department of Justice (DOJ) because it refused to hire non-citizens as deputies.
From the beginning of 2015 through last March, the Denver Sheriff Department went on a major hiring binge, adding more than 200 new deputies. But those jobs ended up only...
At the 2016 elections our bipartisan foreign policy class is near-unanimous, not so much behind Hillary Clinton nor even against Donald Trump. Rather, it circles its wagons around its own identities, ideas, practices, and, yes, livelihoods. Clinton represents the ruling class’s people and priorities in foreign affairs as in...
"There's a lot that has to happen to get to where we've heard in terms of the rhetoric,” Mayor Michael Hancock told FOX31.
And Denver and Aurora have no...
As the reality of the 2016 election begins to set in, both supporters and opponents of patriotic immigration reform are plotting/fearing what exactly President Trump can do on immigration. Of course, reforming legal immigration requires legislation. But reversing the illegal influx is easier—it could be begun with just one...
...On Wednesday, the Mexican government instructed its embassy and consulates in the U.S. to step up measures to protect Mexican immigrants. The measures include a 24-hour hotline that will allow people to report harassment and immigration raids, as well as the expansion of deportation-defense work at 50 consulates......
... We wanted to see how it was possible for them to enter the United States illegally so many times, so we rode with the Rio Grande valley sector border patrol to find out. Border patrol agents must secure 1,254 miles in Texas every single day.
“McAllen station is actually the busiest station in the whole country...
A federal complaint has been filed against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Jeh Johnson for their “actions concern[ing] the entry and settlement of multitudinous foreign nationals into the United States.”
The DHS, and Secretary Johnson (in his official capacity) have been sued for the damage...
Police officers in Denver will not participate in President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement efforts, a department spokesman told Denver7 Investigates Monday evening.
“Immigration enforcement is handled at the federal level, not by local law enforcement,” a statement issued by Denver Police...
...What really gave Trump his victory is one person: Barack Obama. This election was nothing less than a complete and total repudiation of his presidency, his policies, his "fundamental transformation of America" that he promised and delivered.
Let's go back to 2008, the year Barack Obama was elected as the first...