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VIDEOEven though Chuck Todd's MSNBC colleagues have now claimed that Andrew Cuomo no longer has any friends, they were wrong. It turns out that the one true friend of Cuomo is Chuck Todd himself as you can see yearning for the return of his beloved Andrew to political office again.

America, it turns out, loves the police and, as a result, rejects liberal calls in Washington to defund law enforcement. By a lopsided 2-1 margin, likely voters in a new Rasmussen Reports survey disagreed with anti-police sentiments aired by “Squad” member Rep. Cori Bush, who said last week that “defunding the police has to happen. We need to defund the police and put that money into social safety nets.” Some 63% disagreed and 31% agreed with the defunding call, said Rasmussen. And by a 57%-33% margin, voters also agree that “new Democrats in Washington attack and degrade all law enforcement...

Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, you dictatorial son of a bitch.You have been at war with your state's residents since the day you swore in, and the only downside of your departure is that it comes a decade too late. You have destroyed one of the greatest states in the nation, and presided over and been the cause of some of New York's darkest days.You don't love anybody but yourself, and you have served nothing but your own self-interest.You leave our state more divided, embittered and impoverished than it has ever been....

The annual cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) for social security payments and military retirement annuities is based upon the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). The CPI-W increased by 0.5 percent in July 2021 compared to June 2021’s figure. The CPI-W figure for July 2021 of 267.789 is 5.67 percent higher than the average CPI-W for the third quarter of 2020, which was 253.412 (1982-84 = 100). The annual COLA is computed by comparing the change in the CPI-W from year to year, based on the average of the third-quarter months of July, August and September. So this...

The Prince NAPOLEON left Washington this afternoon. He was accompanied by the French Minister, and will go only as far as Philadelphia to-night. On Monday he will resume his journey and go old New-York and Albany to Niagara Falls. Owing to the intense heat, the Prince will not go further west than the Falls. The heat to-day has been frightful. The thermometer at the Coast Survey Office reached 112° in the shade, and 125° in the sun.

What’s the Italian word for the German word schaenfreude? I think maybe the word I’m looking for is “Cuomo”? Certainly we’re entitled to some heavy alfredo sauce schadenfreude for Andrew, a first class Weltverderber (“world worsener”) if there ever was one. All day today I’ve been smacking my lips in anticipation of what the New York Post would come up with, and I was not disappointed!

Torri Huske is an 18 year-old swimmer from Arlington, Virginia. At this year’s Summer Olympic Games, she finished fourth in the 100-meter butterfly final, just one one-hundredth of a second behind Emma McKeon of Australia. Huske came back to win a silver medal in the 4×100-meter medley relay, along with Regan Smith, Lydia Jacoby, and Abbey Weitzeil. Huske graduated from high school this year and will soon be headed to Stanford. She’s likely to be a major force at the next Olympics in three years. Huske is a patriot with even more reason than most to love America. According to...

AUSTIN, Texas — House Speaker Dade Phelan late Tuesday signed 52 arrest warrants for Democrats who left the state for Washington D.C. in July and have yet to return to the House chamber for the second special legislative session of the year. The warrants came after Texas House Republicans voted to direct state law enforcement to track down and compel the attendance of absent Democrats by a vote of 80-12, the second time such a vote has been taken during this quorum-bust. The warrants, first reported by the Dallas Morning News, will be delivered to the House Sergeant-at-arms Wednesday morning,...

From his first day in office, Joe Biden committed to putting freedom pioneer Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, and some time around 2028, it might happen. In her perilous role as a scout and spy for the U.S. Army during the Civil War, and as an abolitionist and humanitarian, she earned it. She risked re-enslavement at least 19 times in helping others to escape. Tubman would replace Andrew Jackson, a favorite target of those who rail against his slave ownership – perhaps totaling up to 150 people – while ignoring the context. Nearly everyone in Jackson’s environment was racist...

The bipartisan infrastructure legislation moving through Congress could end up on President Biden’s desk before we know it. The $1 trillion bill has reportedly cleared major hurdles in the Senate and will soon land before the House of Representatives. The president would almost certainly sign the bill, which has his support, and its bipartisan passage would represent a political victory for the Biden administration. At least, at first.The promised long-term economic benefits from the sweeping $1 trillion expenditure will likely never materialize, according to a new Ivy League analysis. This runs directly against the president’s promises that it would create...

A couple of weeks ago (July 29) I had a post titled “A Little Arithmetic: The Cost Of A Solar-Powered Grid Without Fossil Fuel Back-up.” In that post I did some simple calculations based on California’s current electricity usage and output from its existing solar generating facilities to figure out how much they would need in the way of solar panels and batteries to get through a low-output stretch in the winter without any fossil fuel assistance. Since for solar energy the “low-output stretch” is essentially everything from September 21 to March 21, I calculated that they would need roughly...

The Taliban has stunned even some seasoned military and national security officials in the U.S. government with the speed of its conquests over the past week, sources with direct knowledge of the developments tell Axios. Why it matters: President Biden isn't budging — resolved to get out by Aug. 31, no matter what — people briefed on his thinking say. He may not see much of a pause between his total withdrawal from Afghanistan and the country's total collapse into a bloody civil war.

The mother of two brothers charged in connection with the fatal shooting of Chicago Police Officer Ella French was arrested Tuesday after she tried to gain access to the hospital room in which her son was staying, according to authorities. Police said they responded to a disturbance call around 8:30 a.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center in suburban Oak Lawn, about 15 miles southwest of downtown Chicago. Evalena Flores, the mother of the brothers, allegedly tried to enter the hospital room of Emonte Morgan, 21, who is charged with first-degree murder in Saturday's fatal shooting of French, 29, FOX 32...

President Joe Biden was filmed seemingly ignoring the direction of a Secret Service agent tried to direct him to a path leading to the White House. In Biden's latest bizarre gaffe, the president was filmed returning to the White House after spending time in Wilmington, Delaware when the agent points for him to follow the sidewalk path into the White House. Instead, Biden is seen following the agent up the lawn and through the garden into the presidential estate. The video has left shocked critics of the 78 year-old president once again surmising whether Biden is suffering the effects of...

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The infrastructure bill the Senate passed on Tuesday discriminates against whites at every turn. Americans are enthusiastic about spending money on infrastructure — bridges, roads, broadband and green technologies. But this racist bill locates and hands out jobs and contracts projects based on race, not merit. Minority businesses and neighborhoods hold the inside track. If you're white, you're low priority. The bill includes grants to install solar or wind technologies and generate jobs in areas decimated by closing coal mines or coal-fired electric plans. Here's the catch: when contractors bid, the bill says minority-owned businesses will get chosen first. Bad...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) blocked the quick confirmation of dozens of State Department nominees on Wednesday morning, guaranteeing that they will stay in limbo until next month when the Senate returns from its summer break. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) tried to get the nominations confirmed at the end of an all-night session before the Senate left Washington, D.C., until mid-September. In a floor back-and-forth that lasted roughly 50 minutes, and wrapped just before 6 a.m., Menendez and then Murphy went one-by-one through the list of State Department nominees trying to get...

The leftists running the country have an agenda that's deeper than COVID control. You may be surprised at where their aims lie. To those of you scratching your heads about what is going on in America today, what with violence in the streets aided by local politicians, quitters like Naomi Osaka treated as hero(ine)s, woke corporations insulting their customers, China apologists (like the NBA) hiding in plain sight, COVID hysteria fanned by politicians and the media, white-hatred (e.g., 1619/CRT) being promoted by liberal white women, and P.C. everywhere...we have to ask what it all means. What it all means is...

"Universal pre-K. I love that because it's children learning, parents earning," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said at an April 29 press conference. That was the day after President Joe Biden had presented Congress with his euphemistically titled "American Families Plan," which calls "for free universal pre-school for all three- and four-year-olds." Pelosi's professed "love" for having parents leave their preschool children in government custody has not diminished since then. At a press conference last week, she once again spoke about "universal pre-K, which I love." Biden's budget proposal calls for spending $6,011,148,000,000 in fiscal 2022, which begins this October. That...

Prosecutors in the cases against the January 6 demonstrators are starting to run into some judicial pushback. Prosecutors in the cases against the January 6 demonstrators are starting to run into some judicial pushback: Questions about exculpatory evidence in their possession not turned over as the law demands, lower courts assessing the defendant as more dangerous than the evidence warranted, and most significantly, whether the prosecution is overcharging defendants with the federal crime of obstruction. Most of the defendants are charged with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted area -- a fancy way of saying trespassing. Defendants are entitled...