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A teen hurled water at two renowned centuries-old paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and ripped tapestries off the wall in a bizarre tantrum, authorities and law-enforcement sources said Tuesday. Joshua Vavrin, 19, of Texas appeared to be under the influence of an “unknown substance’’ — and was turned over by his mother, sources said.

As self-described socialist Zohran Mamdani stands on the cusp of becoming the most powerful and influential local elected official in the United States, he is proving that all one needs for a Marxist revolution is to import new voters amenable to a radical rejection of American culture. While foreign-born New Yorkers overwhelmingly back Mamdani, native-born New Yorkers are spurning him in similarly decisive numbers. In his 2011 classic work of political science, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Dr. Samuel P. Huntington observed the following about multiculturalism and universalism both at home and abroad: Some Americans...

A second monkey that escaped from a transport truck last week was fatally shot along a Mississippi highway early Tuesday morning as authorities warned that one more primate is still at large. A truck carrying 21 rhesus monkeys overturned in a ditch near Heidelberg, Miss. on Oct. 28. The truck was wrecked and several loose primates were able to escape through a hole in the back door. On Tuesday, Jasper County Sheriff Randy Johnson confirmed that a second monkey was shot and killed by a civilian who spotted it crossing a highway.

My sometimes co-poster and daughter Jane Menton has been absent from these pages, and from political commentary, for a couple of years. In her defense, she has three little kids on her hands. However, this morning, just in time for today’s election, she had a piece published in the Daily Wire. The subject of the post is Zohran Mamdani’s position on our local electric heat mandate, known as New York City Local Law 97. The Daily Wire has graciously agreed to allow me to repost the article. Here it is (with an introduction by the Daily Wire editors): Zohran Mamdani...

Shocking video captured the moment a massive fight broke out between customers at a Texas Bass Pro Shop that was allegedly sparked over a restroom argument. The fists began flying at the outdoor superstore’s grand opening weekend in Odessa around 3 p.m. Saturday, when two men waiting in line for the restroom got into a verbal altercation that quickly turned physical and spread to multiple rowdy customers joining in on the violence, Fox 4 News reported. Investigators found that the confrontation ignited after a man waiting in line with his wife and child became agitated after another individual took too...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(11/5/25)[Prayer]Water, Rivers, and Streams in the BibleJob 41:1-111 [a]“Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope? 2 Can you put a cord through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook? 3 Will it keep begging you for mercy? Will it speak to you with gentle words? 4 Will it make an agreement with you for you to take it as your slave for life? 5 Can you make a pet of it like a bird or put it on a leash for the young...

5 November 2025 Wednesday of week 31 in Ordinary Time Easter celebration, Nigeria Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingRomans 13:8-10Your only debt should be the debt of mutual loveAvoid getting into debt, except the debt of mutual love. If you love your fellow men you have carried out your obligations. All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbour as yourself. Love is the one thing that cannot hurt your neighbour;...

In the German town of Overath (North Rhine-Westphalia), this year’s Christmas market has been cancelled. The cost of protecting visitors from potential terrorist attacks exceeds the organizer’s budget. The city refuses to cover the expenses. A capitulation to Islamism. It wasn’t long ago that Christmas markets were among the social highlights of the year. Whether in small towns or major cities -- they were meeting points for friends and family, for mulled wine, sausages, and quiet conversations wrapped in winter’s cold and early darkness. Places of TogethernessThere was this special peaceful coziness. A place where community was celebrated -- joyful,...

At least seven people were killed and 11 were injured when a UPS plane crashed in a colossal fiery explosion — leaving a long trail of flames and destruction — shortly after taking off from Louisville’s Muhammad Ali International Airport Tuesday evening, according to officials and wild footage. Four people on the ground were killed and the three people who were onboard the flight are presumed dead, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said. The numbers were expected to grow as emergency crews combed the far-reaching scene for additional victims through the night, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear warned. UPS Flight 2976, which...

A driver screaming 'Allahu Akbar' has ploughed into a crowd of pedestrians on a French holiday island, leaving at least ten people injured. The car veered towards walkers and cyclists at about 8.45am today as the 35-year-old attacker attempted to hit 'everyone he encountered' on the island of Oléron off the West coast of France, officials say. After the ramming, he tried to set fire to his vehicle. which contained gas canisters, before he was tasered by police and arrested.

There are good reasons why homeschooling is on the rise. I am an enthusiastic supporter of homeschooling. When parents are in a position to prioritize their children’s education, young minds learn more information more quickly. A young person who excels in mathematics, for instance, is not forced to follow the regimented schedule of the state’s curricula, in which geometry belongs to a certain grade level, an introduction to calculus must be kept secret until the final years of high school, and summer vacations interrupt the accumulation and application of new knowledge. Those who show promise in mathematics — especially those...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WFTV) – A 15-year-old in Florida is accused of killing a classmate after bumping into each other in a school hallway. The 16-year-old victim allegedly bumped into the suspect and didn’t apologize, which officials say led to his killing. The 15-year-old suspect, identified as Jacori Redding, is being held in juvenile detention. He’s charged with killing his classmate at Oak Ridge High School. Redding appeared nonchalant during a court hearing Friday, but he turned and smiled as his family called out to him. Orange County Sheriff John Mina said the bump in the hallway, followed by a...

Will & Grace actress Debra Messing has courted backlash after sharing on election day a political meme suggesting that New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is a "jihadist." As Americans headed to the polls Tuesday, the 57-year-old Emmy winner reposted an image on her verified Instagram Story from another account called The Persian Jewess. The original image showed an edited ballot that listed two candidates: One that read, "A Democrat. Just a Democrat," and the other that said, "An actual communist jihadist. A literal Karl Marx-quoting, America-hating jihadist."

Texas Republican Congressman Brandon Gil has filed articles of impeachment against US District Judge James Boasberg amid revelations that the Obama-appointed activist approved secret subpoenas to seize private phone records of Senators in the sham “Arctic Frost” investigation. It was revealed last week that the FBI and DOJ weaponized their power to target President Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence, and their allies to dig up dirt on Republicans and activists who participated in efforts to overturn the rigged 2020 election. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley said last week that “197 subpoenas were issued...

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We apparently are not on a roll with some kind of conservative momentum. Leftist Democrats of the worst kind made inroads into political power yesterday. — NYC elects a radical Muslim. — Virginia threw out all reason and elected radical leftists to the Governorship and Attorney General, who had made violent threats. — Democrats flipped two red seats in MS breaking the Republican supermajority. — in my neck of the woods, Texas senate district 9 is going to a run-off after a DEM bested two Republicans for a plurality of votes. This was surprising as the polling place I revisited...

Megyn Kelly is joined by Walter Kirn, editor-at-large of "County Highway," to discuss reports of Bari Weiss potentially firing Gayle King and Scott Pelley, the need to clean house and fix the network, and more

For decades, the higher-education establishment was allowed to do pretty much whatever it pleased. That included promoting programs and policies to benefit what were termed “underserved groups.” An array of policies sought to enroll more students from such groups, add curricular offerings aimed at them, spend more money to help them succeed, and hire more minority faculty and administrators. Congress was happy to cooperate with this, and it approved of benefits for various “minority-serving institutions” under the Higher Education Act. In those days, Congress approved of almost everything “progressives” did relating to higher education, and it did not matter that...

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