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This week former Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma jumped into the “Why is Trump winning?” contest and immediately moved to the lead among establishment Republicans.

The establishment media won’t tell you this next Tuesday, but the Republican Party civil war is over and the establishment lost. Both of the remaining front-runners, Trump and Cruz, are outsiders, and the insider, Marco Rubio is history.

If the 2016 presidential race is not the strangest political saga in American history, it’s close: A left wing populist and a right-wing populist are in agreement that the “establishment” must be dethroned.

It’s not news that the Obama administration has been deporting fewer and fewer criminal aliens each year, but it’s your local sheriff, mayor and city council who are turning thousands loose into the community before federal immigration officials even get a chance to deport them.

You know you are not a member of the Republican establishment when Karl Rove tells you to “never darken the door of the White House again.” That happened to me in 2002, and that’s when I knew I had chosen the right side on the immigration issue.

The Left in America and Europe is undermining efforts to defeat ISIS and radical Islam, and the march of Sharia through Western institutions is happening with tacit support from the left. Evidence of that tacit partnership lies all around us.

The Obama administration and the Mayor of New York are pushing to expand the classes of people who can be denied a gun permit on the basis of mental illness, with mental illness redefined in increasingly broad terms.

If you think data about illegal alien crime is hidden from public, just try to find information on the contagious diseases brought across our borders by illegal aliens from nearly 100 countries. If we survey the anecdotal and sporadic official data of the past fifteen years, there is no doubt we are being invaded daily by dangerous diseases.

Congress has adopted a 2016 federal budget that makes it official: The Republican Party and the Democrat Party have merged into Republocrats.

Until that moment on December 2, most Americans and the nation’s entire political class could pretend the fight against Islamist terrorism was a matter of keeping the terrorists “over there” – in Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Syria and so forth. No rational person can believe that today.

The Islamist assault in San Bernardino may prove to be the turning point in the Islamist war on America. Americans are realizing that it’s time to get deadly serious about defending themselves. Our problem is no longer national security, it is hometown security.

Without question, our military is superior to any other on earth and we could inflict devastating damage to ISIS if we unleashed our military forces against them. But we are not going to do that—not today, not next month and not after the next atrocity strikes Cleveland, Phoenix or Richmond.

Perhaps Obama now realizes that ISIS is not the “jayvee” and is capable of committing atrocities of historical magnitude against the “infidels” in Europe and America. I say “perhaps,” but actually, I doubt it.

No one can deny that Marco Rubio is an attractive candidate. Rubio has a dream and he has a strategy to fulfill that dream. He is a more formidable candidate than Jeb Bush because he is articulate and is running as a “centrist conservative.” That Rubio is an open borders Chamber of Commerce Republican is undeniable from his record, and when conservatives compare any candidate’s campaign promises to his voting record, they believe the record, not the promises.

Conservatives were delighted to see the Republican candidates talking back to the CNBC inquisitors at last week’s presidential debate.

The proudly socialist Democrats are full of passionate intensity, while the Republican leadership is full of pathetic excuses. After this week’s House GOP “budget deal,” which betrays nearly every promise made to grassroots conservatives since 2010, I have decided it is time to end my affiliation with the Republican Party.

There are more culprits in this story than George W. Bush, and at the head of that list is the U.S. Congress—a Congress that has been under Republican control for at least half of those 14 years since 9-11. Republican leaders in Congress – including Speaker-to-be Paul Ryan, have spent more time promoting amnesty bills than trying to plug the loopholes in our immigration laws that allow terrorists safe haven in our homeland.

It was a Columbus Day Parade and the American Indian Movement (AIM) had promised to disrupt it after their failed attempt to get the city of Denver to cancel the permit. Well, Russell Means, who was the head of AIM, and his cohorts did their best to stop the event and things did get violent – but the parade went on.

While the vast majority of Americans understand that radical Islam as the most serious threat to our safety and security, the Obama administration continues to deny that reality.

The Obama administration is launching a campaign to accelerate the conversion of millions of immigrants to citizenship. The nation’s immigration agencies will spend big bucks on “outreach” activities and the Naturalization process will be streamlined.

The Bloomberg Politics Poll has published the results of a survey that asked people which presidential candidate can best recover “America’s lost greatness.” The American people never voted for any of this explicitly. But we did elect year after year a Congress that allowed the erosion of the rule of law to the point where even Republican candidates for president shrug when the Supreme Court invents a new law on marriage out of whole cloth.

Two facts jump out at you when you take time to look below the surface of Hispanic voting — and beyond the clichés spouted by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. First, the “Hispanic vote” is far from monolithic, and second, immigration is not the most important political issue for a large majority of Hispanic voters.

The Republican majority in Congress couldn’t find a way to stop the Iran nuclear deal after discarding the constitutional requirement for a two-thirds Senate vote on treaties. If they can’t say no to 10,000 jihadist-infiltrated refugees, they should just resign, close up shop and go home. If Congress rolls over on this one, let’s stop pretending we have a representative form of government.

Why are the more than one million Muslim refugees so anxious to get to northern Europe and not, say, Saudi Arabia or Egypt? Why are we obligated to help them get to Amsterdam, Oslo and London? And why in the world is the United States government planning to take 66,000 Syrian refugees? The United States should follow Hungary and just say no. We do not need another 66,000 Muslim migrants added to the over one million Muslims residing here now.

The media are strangely silent about the open hypocrisy in Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign using ethnic stereotypes to explain his position on Birthright Citizenship. To Bush, it is acceptable to slander Asian women as abusers of Birthright Citizenship.

The author of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment, Senator Jacob Howard of Michigan, a close friend of President Lincoln, stated, “[The 14th amendment] will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the government of the United States….”

Shouldn’t all voters possess that same rudimentary knowledge of the Constitution and our federal system of government as naturalized citizens? Why not require all citizens to pass the same civics exam as immigrants have to pass if they want to join the voter rolls?

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump deserves credit for forcing all 17 Republican candidates to talk about the social costs of illegal immigration, but it is not “Trump’s issue.” We will be making a fatal mistake if we let the media discuss it that way.

Conservatives have welcomed Trump’s attacks on the establishment, have cheered his boldness, and have applauded his courage. He has taken on hitherto taboo issues like immigration enforcement, and has demonstrated the hollowness of what passes for conventional wisdom. America needed a loud, rude wake up call. No one else has done that, and that accomplishment is huge.

We ought to halt all legal immigration and refugee resettlement from Muslim-majority countries and declare an indefinite moratorium — until two changes occur. First, we must devise a better way to identify and deny admission not only to terrorists but also to persons who sympathize with radical Islamism. It will surprise the average American to learn we are not capable of doing that today.

If you haven’t heard the good news yet, you will soon: The American flag is the next target of the New Racism, because it symbolizes “white privilege” and of course, white guilt—which is of course fueled by capitalist greed and Christianity. All of those heresies must be “called out” and expelled from our culture. Then we can march shoulder to shoulder into a brighter future.

I have only one criticism of what Trump has done. By focusing so much attention on Mexico, Trump inadvertently took the spotlight off the real culprit, the United States Congress.

Shall we celebrate that we are not yet as corrupt as Greece? That we have not yet repudiated our national debts? Or should we put down the bottle and admit how fast we are approaching that day of reckoning? It is time for Conservative Civil Disobedience. Civil disobedience is in fact a conservative idea, a few steps short of overt rebellion. It honors the rule of law by insisting on good law and rejecting bad law.

House Republicans have been writing and “marking up” more than a dozen immigration bills over the past year, and Republican leaders have been promising a “package of little bills” as an alternative to the “comprehensive” bills favored by the amnesty lobby. Like so many other House GOP promises, that one now rings hollow.

Trust me; we have not heard the last of Rachel Dolezal. On an MSNBC panel this past week, the host wondered aloud if Rachel “might actually be black,” despite her white parentage. Maybe Rachel has discovered “a different kind of black.” A professor of history at Stanford agreed that Rachel’s claims should be taken seriously.

Coulter does not fall for the trap that the only problem with illegal immigration is that it’s illegal. If this were true, then why not just abolish borders and make them all legal? That’s pretty much the “fix” espoused by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.