Ann Coulter, writing on her own website, compares the current “massive resistance” to federal immigration officers by law-breaking Democratic governors and activists – particularly in Minnesota – to the past illegal attempts by Democrats to sabotage racial integration in the Deep South. Then, two presidents deployed the military to force compliance. Coulter urges the current President to once again invoke the federal Insurrection Act to ensure the laws of the land are followed.
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Writing in Jewish World Review, Frederic Fransen reminds Americans of a key lesson from Revolutionary War-era pamphleteer Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. “The colonies need to declare independence,” Fransen summarizes Paine, “because so long as their goal was seen as reconciliation, foreign governments would consider the Americans as rebels and the conflict an internal affair.” But a unilateral declaration of independence, Fransen notes, instantly converts mere complaints from an aggrieved group into a negotiation between sovereign states.
