Archive for October, 2013

 This week marks the first anniversary of one of the most devastating natural disasters to hit New York City in recent memory. Although we at American Rattlesnake attempted to connect concerned readers with local charities and recovery organizations assisting victims of Hurricane Sandy last November, the impact of this storm overwhelmed the capacity of...
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It should come as no surprise that the lavishly-funded open borders lobby is renewing its push to enact wholesale amnesty. Minting millions of new Democratic voters is the President’s only hope of salvaging a second term whose chief accomplishment to date has been the complete unraveling of the President’s chief first term accomplishment.
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At least we know who to blame if this disaster is enacted.
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The scale of the problem we face on our southern border is often hard for Americans living outside of border states to comprehend. We’ve explored the havoc wreaked, both physically and psychically, by Mexican organized crime on this website at some length, but in order to grasp the magnitude of this problem you need...
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Now that the worrisome Beltway angst over the debt ceiling and government shutdown has subsided, it’s time to focus on the President’s chief goal for the remainder of his term. Namely, legalizing and enfranchising tens of millions of illegal aliens. It’s quite remarkable how determined the open borders left-as well as its allies in...
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  What happens when this administration’s signature policy achievement meets its signal failure to enforce immigration law? Fox News explains.
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The President is attempting to exploit his recent victory over House Republicans in the debt ceiling/budget battle in order to ram the chief item on the left’s political agenda through Congress. Investor’s Business Daily examines the real reasons behind Obama’s latest gambit, and explains why it is such a bad idea.
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By county.  And here is the roll call of the Senate-approved budget deal which raises the debt ceiling for the remainder of this year. The two are related, albeit indirectly. Although the postmortems of this race are not yet in, it should be noted that Mr. Lonegan exceeded the expectations of almost every prominent political...
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Tomorrow’s special election in New Jersey presents a unique opportunity to voters of the Garden State. They have the chance to vote for a conservative libertarian who is not an open borders apologist. The polar opposite of the typical milquetoast, New Jersey Republican, a la Christine Todd Whitman, Lonegan’s record of  concrete accomplishments stands...
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Yet another horrific shipwreck has occurred off the coast of the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, which has become ground zero in the ongoing invasion of Europe by refugees from North Africa and the Middle East. You can view the harrowing rescue of some survivors here. The human tragedy-experienced both by the foreigners surging over the...
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