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Personal finance website MoneyGeek released lists of America’s safest and most dangerous cities and towns this week. Predictably, the most dangerous cities and towns in America are run by Democrats.According to the website, the annual analysis looks at the most recent crime statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to estimate the cost of crime in 302 cities with populations greater than 100,000 across the United States. The study also used research compiled by the University of Miami and the University of Colorado Denver to find the results.The annual study found that the cost of crime per capita in...

You do know that Ted Kennedy conspired with the Soviets in 1984 to oust Ronald Reagan from the White House, right? You didn’t know that? Well, don’t feel so bad. That news has always been given a good leaving alone by the alt-left media now promoting this nonsense about “Russian hacking.” in 1991 a British reporter going through the just-released Kremlin archives found a 1983 memo from the top guy at the KGB to Yuri Andropov, the dictator of what was then the Soviet Union. On Kennedy’s orders, old buddy John Tunney briefed the Kremlin murderers on what Teddy was...

County leaders are hopeful that the $1 trillion infrastructure investment promised by Republican president-elect Donald Trump will have a big impact on the region. Trump has promised to prioritize infrastructure spending in his first 100 days in office. The move is one that Democrats, now in minority positions in both houses of Congress, have said they're willing to support. The plan, which is not yet fully fleshed out, looks to rely heavily on billions of dollars of infrastructure tax credits to private entities. And while Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen warned recently that weighing down the national debt with...

What? Are you kidding me? No, I’m not. A new Rasmussen survey shows that 11% believe a Communist system is morally superior than the current U.S. system. 1. Is the United States system of politics and economics morally superior to communism or is communism morally superior to the United States system of politics and economics? 77% U. S. system is morally superior 11% Communism is morally superior 13% Not Sure So according to 11% of those surveyed, a Communist system is better than Freedom, Capitalism, and the ability to be an idiot and vote for Communism. Though taking a “wild...

By 2012, our national debt will be larger than the entire U.S. economy, according to the International Monetary Fund. So what's on the front burner in Washington these days? Zoning issues in lower Manhattan! Is it OK to put a Muslim community center close to Ground Zero? I don't know, but local authorities don't seem to mind. That should settle it, but what Sarah Palin calls the "9/11 mosque" has somehow become a headline-grabbing controversy. On Friday, President Obama insisted that Muslims have the "same right to practice their religion as anyone else" and can build a mosque near the...

Once again, those Republicans have got it all wrong, this time on the ACORN thing. They're beating up those gentle, community-organizing ACORNistas, moving to cut millions in ACORN federal funding just because of a dozen or so underage, fictitious Central American hookers. So I called a leading hunter of the ACORNistas, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who has been criticizing ACORN on TV. My God, man! Do you realize what you've done? "What?" asked Issa. "Pardon me?" Rather than waste a valuable national resource, you should hire ACORN immediately! Let them teach all Americans the secrets of government loopholes so middle-class...

If, as Vice President Joe Biden asserted during the campaign, paying taxes is a measure of one's patriotism, then both Tom Daschle and Timothy Geithner are this century's Sacco and Vanzetti. And if the Obama "tax cut" deception becomes law, then it will - by the grace of messianic engineering - have afforded the federal government the opportunity to create a far more patriotic class of Americans then we have now.See how clever liberals can be? They're not only masters at igniting skirmishes in their ongoing class war, but they excel at constructing the definitions that make the whole world...

Most Americans are quite naturally conservative by virtue of being American, and they are in search of a political party to represent their will, since none of the existing political parties seem to have even the slightest concern for their will. They correctly see today’s Democratic Party as generally anti-American on every issue, because they are. But they watch as the Republican Party does almost as much damage to their country as the Democrats have in the past and would again if in power and wander what to try next. They consider a protest vote for some third party alternative...

Destructive Government:The Capitol’s Careening Ruling Class and the Wreckage It Is Leaving in Its WakeBy: M. David Stirling The Golden State is becoming dysfunctional. Pick any category where state governance controls or primarily influences public policy—from the acute condition of the public fisc, to the anemic condition of the state’s business community; from the ailing jobs market, to the stagnating electrical energy market; from the declining capacity to meet infrastructure needs, such as education, transportation, and water, to a total unpreparedness to accommodate the additional six million new Californians expected by 2010. In every major category, the liberal-controlled Legislature has set California...