The poor showing by Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party in the recent state elections may be at least partially responsible for a decision by the government to return home half the refugees from Afghanistan.  The Merkel government wants to make a deal with Kabul to send back 40,000 of the 80,000 refugees - most of whom are unmarried males whose asylum applications were rejected 3 times. Daily Caller: The deportations would not include women and children — the vast majority of refugees are men — but would include those whose asylum applications have already been rejected three times. Some of the “deportations” would include refugees who agree to return willingly, and the government plans to use chartered flights to return the refugees. Voters delivered a stunning rebuke in a recent election to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has firmly stood by her policy of embracing more and more refugees. Her party, the Christian...(Read Full Post)