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Today marks the 19 th anniversary of the release of the movie “Big Daddy.”   While not originally intended to serve as a thought provoking allegory for problems faced by the Federal government, the movie has some interesting metaphors for United States Immigration Policy. The movie focuses on Sonny, played by Adam Sandler, whose girlfriend, played by the rare Hollywood conservative Kristy Swanson, dumps him because she does not think he has stepped up to the plate and embraced adulthood; citing his decision to live off a court settlement rather than look for a real job.   Not long after he gets dumped, a five-year old boy named Julian shows up at Sonny’s apartment.   The boy’s mother can no longer take care of him and she sent to him to Sonny’s apartment so he could live with Sonny’s roommate, the boy’s biological father, who has just embarked on an overseas trip.   Initially hesitant to take care of the child, Sonny thinks that introducing Julian to his girl...

Tonight, President Trump will announce the winners of the Fake News Awards.   Never Trumper Jeff Flake has already held a speech on the Senate floor denouncing President Trump’s treatment of the media.   In an interview with MSNBC’s Kacie Hunt, Flake compared the President’s treatment of the media to Joseph Stalin, the Russian tyrant who caused the deaths of millions of Soviets during his reign of terror.   A tweet from Instapundit calls out the absurdity of Flake’s comparison saying “Trump hasn’t starved anyone, imprisoned his political opponents, sent people to gulags, etc.   This is an insult to Stalin’s victims, and to his listeners’ intelligence.” It looks like Flake, along with many of his counterparts on the left, has developed a bad case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.            Flake has done everything he can to make sure that the mainstream media does not lump him in with the “basket of deplorables.”   He wr...

Conservative populists definitely could have had a better week.   For a little bit, it looked like the man they worked so hard to get elected may abandon his principles in favor of positive coverage from the mainstream media and pats on the back from establishment Republicans who did not even vote for him.   The President held a meeting with 22 members of Congress with the focus on hammering out a “bipartisan” deal on immigration, with both Houses and parties represented; although most of the people in the room’s views on immigration reflect the “uni-party” consensus that favors legalizing millions of illegal immigrants in exchange for vague and meaningless border security promises from the Democrats.   Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), a member of the “Gang of Eight” who compiled the 2013 amnesty bill, sat on the President’s left, while House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) sat on his right. During the meeting, President Trump said that he trusted the p...

Of all of the five living former Presidents, President Trump has surprisingly found his most loyal ally in Former President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat.   In a recent interview with The New York Times , President Carter admitted that the media has not treated any previous President as unfairly as they have treated President Trump.   In that same interview, he said that he doubted that Russia had any significant impact on the results of the 2016 Presidential Election.   Making such a statement amounts to heresy in today’s Democratic Party, as would his stance on abortion .          President Carter’s election came in the middle of an “Era of Bad Feelings”.   At the time of America ’s bicentennial, The Watergate scandal that prematurely ended the Nixon Presidency had destroyed the faith of many Americans in our political system.   They looked to the little-known Georgia Governor as a breath of fresh air.   While they did not ...

Well, President Trump really made the left’s blood boil earlier this week when he announced that he would discontinue Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, an executive order signed by President Obama in 2012 that temporarily shielded around 800,000 illegal immigrants brought to the country as children from deportation.   Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has become one of the left’s favorite punching bags, announced the decision on Tuesday morning; the same day that ten states would have filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration for failing to rescind the executive order, which they believe is unconstitutional.   Even liberals like California ’s Senior Senator Dianne Feinstein have admitted that the decision rests on shaky legal ground.   President Obama himself had previously admitted several times that he did not have the authority to unilaterally change immigration law.   But he did it anyway, feeling his decision would benefit his re-electi...

With the North Korean standoff and the Charlottesville chaos making all the headlines in recent weeks, the media has had little time to cover the Reform American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) act.   Introduced by freshmen Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and David Perdue (R-GA), this bill would dramatically change America ’s immigration policy.   President Trump, whose tough talk on immigration helped him beat 16 other Republicans and Hillary Clinton, announced his support for the bill earlier this month.   It would cut the number of green cards issued per year in half, place a cap on the number of refugee admissions per year and end the visa diversity lottery.   Under the RAISE act, America ’s legal immigration policy would much closely mirror Australia ’s immigration policy; which prioritizes higher-skilled English speaking immigrants over lower-skilled, non-English speaking immigrants.            Not surprisingl...