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A hateful attacker hurled anti-gay slurs on a Manhattan subway before knifing a straphanger, slicing his chest, cops said Tuesday. The 29-year-old victim was on a northbound 2 train near West 34th Street and Seventh Avenue around 3:30 a.m. Monday when a man sitting across from him began shouting homophobic statements at passengers, according to police. He then allegedly addressed the victim directly and said, “Yo big ass want to sit down with your legs crossed, f—-t.” An argument ensued and spilled onto the northbound platform, where the suspect stabbed the victim with an unknown object before taking off, cops...

As indefensible as Berry's behavior was to those of sound mind, for me her pathetic attempt at self-promotion raised a more pressing question. Blacks disrespecting America, our flag and our national anthem certainly predates the Obama woman and the "Benghazi traitor" she calls a husband refusing to salute the flag as the world watched. The primary supposed reasoning behind the complaint and said behavior is always based upon the alleged injustice endured by black people. But, what goes unaddressed is: What if these people who base their entire value system upon being a crayon color really had it bad? To...

Editor’s note: TPG’s Gene Sloan is sailing on Celebrity Edge as a guest of Celebrity Cruises. TPG paid for all his travel to and from the ship. The opinions expressed below are entirely his and weren’t subject to review by Celebrity. Did the 15-month-long shutdown of cruising in North America really happen? From where I’m sitting right now, along the pool deck of Celebrity Cruises‘ 2,918-passenger Celebrity Edge, it all seems like a dream. The pool and lounge chairs around me are full of sun worshippers making the most of a sunny sea day. There’s a guitarist belting out Jimmy...

The Pacific Northwest is experiencing a multi-day heat wave that we said last week would be “historic.” The unrelenting triple-digit temperatures shattered records across the region and have stressed out power grids where rolling blackouts have been reported. Bloomberg reports Avista Corporation, which supplies electricity to 340,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers, triggered its first rolling blackout across its grid after it became overloaded Monday evening. Rotating outages first hit 9,300 customers late Monday and could expand as temperatures remain well above average through July 4. Avista was the first major utility to report rolling blackouts in the Northwest region,...

The far left has pretty much gained control of all major urban areas in the United States with predictable results: high crime, economic stagnation, and filthy crumbling infrastructure. The big problem the left has is that it takes more than control of urban areas to achieve political supremacy, and that is their goal. With that in mind, extremist movements, aided by the leftist media, have set their sights on grabbing power in rural communities.

Chris Christie book 'Republican Rescue' slated for fall release © Getty Images Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s (R) new book, “Republican Rescue: Saving the Party from Truth Deniers, Conspiracy Theorists, and the Dangerous Policies of Joe Biden,” is set to be released on Nov. 16. The book is being published by Threshold Editions, a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster, according to The Associated Press. Threshold said the book, in which Christie addresses his fellow Republicans, is “a timely and urgent guide to moving the party forward,” according to the AP.

“Saratoga Springs in not immune to the increased violence we have seen in the Capital Region, New York state and throughout the country," Catone said, in an event that served as both a public meeting and press conference at City Hall. "Saratoga Springs is no longer the small city in the country where you can escape the big-city problems of violence.”It's time for the silent majority we have heard about to stand up and be heard. ... If you continue to push a narrative of lies and misinformation, if you continue to divide this police department and this community because...

Experts suggest vulnerability of south Florida to rising seas could lead to destabilization of further buildingsThe shocking collapse of a 12-storey building in the Miami area last week has raised questions as to the role played by the climate crisis, and whether the severe vulnerability of south Florida to the rising seas may lead to the destabilization of further buildings in the future.The exact cause of the disaster that befell the Champlain Towers South building in Surfside on Thursday has yet to be fully determined, although a 2018 engineering report on the structure warned of “significant cracks and breaks in...

Authorities have arrested a Pennsylvania woman accused of entering the Capitol on Jan. 6, during which she allegedly filmed and encouraged the attack of a New York Times photographer. According to charging papers obtained by The Washington Post, Sandra Weyer has been charged with obstructing Congress and the certification of the 2020 presidential election. She has also reportedly been charged with four misdemeanor counts of trespassing and disorderly and disruptive conduct. Authorities said in the charging papers that Weyer was identified in part by social media photos that matched footage from inside the Capitol on the day of the attack....

Former President Obama said Monday in a video played on CNN’s “Don Lemon Tonight” that former President Donald Trump violated a core tenet of democracy by not accepting the results of the 2020 presidential election. The video was from a Monday morning fundraising call for the National Democratic Redistricting Committee with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and former Attorney General Eric Holder.

The world loves it when the little guy, pitted against enormous obstacles, beats the odds and comes back to win. So, you might say Richard Scott William Hutchinson, who celebrated his first birthday on June 5th, is the ultimate small but mighty contender. When Richard’s mom Beth went into premature labor, he wasn’t due for another 131 days. Weighing in at just 11.9 ounces and measuring 10.2” in length, at the time of his birth, Richard’s gestational age clocked in at a scant 21 weeks and two days. After the tiny infant was sent for care to the Neonatal Intensive...

The Stasi FBI tracked down, staked out and arrested a 69-year-old woman and Los Angeles County employee on Monday morning for walking into the US Capitol 5 months ago.Lois Lynn McNicoll was charged with “knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.”None of that is true. Lois McNicoll was neither “disorderly” nor “violent” during her walk around the US Capitol on January 6th with hundreds of other American patriots.And as far as having the “lawful authority” to enter the US Capitol — The FBI slipped up...

Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) is calling for hammer thrower Gwen Berry to be removed from the U.S. Olympic team after her anti-American protest on Sunday. Olympic athlete Berry triggered widespread outrage when she turned her back in protest during the national anthem while standing on the podium.

US Home Prices Just Accelerated At Their Fastest Pace On Record According to the Case-Shiller indices, home prices in America’s 20 largest cities have exploded at 14.88% YoY in April – the highest since Nov 2005…Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle reported highest year-over-year gains among 20 cities surveyed… All cities are seeing home prices appreciate at double digits (a little higher than The Fed’s 2% “goal”). But, on a national scale, it gets even worse. Case-Shiller’s National Home Price Index rose 14.59% YoY in April – that is the fastest pace of home price inflation on record (back to 1988) That...

Indonesia and China are closer to reducing their reliance on the US dollar as they plan to start using their own currencies for bilateral trade and investment within weeks. The switch to local currency settlement (LCS) is expected to take place in the third quarter of this year. Bank Indonesia’s head of financial market development, Donny Hutabarat, said the move was part of Indonesia’s effort to diversify currencies used in trade and investment with bilateral partners. So far, Indonesia has agreed on LCS with Malaysia, Thailand and Japan. “So, we do not depend 100 percent on the US dollar anymore,”...

The NFL has released a new video stating unequivocal support for LGBTQ fans, players and coaches.

An Arkansas cop was killed when the driver of a Jeep ran him over as the suspect was attempting to make a getaway from police for a separate crime, reports said. Pea Ridge Police Officer Kevin Apple was walking toward the Jeep to speak with its passengers on Saturday when the driver allegedly hit the gas, crashed into Apple’s police patrol car and rammed the officer, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. Police from another department had been looking for the car in connection with “a property crime,” KHBS/KHOG reported. Apple and another officer pulled their police vehicles on either side of...

Curtin University research has found tiny amounts of gold can be trapped inside pyrite, commonly known as ‘fool’s gold’, which would make it much more valuable than its name suggests. This study, published in the journal Geology in collaboration with the University of Western Australia and the China University of Geoscience, provides an in-depth analysis to better understand the mineralogical location of the trapped gold in pyrite, which may lead to more environmentally friendly gold extraction methods. Lead researcher Dr. Denis Fougerouse from Curtin’s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences said this new type of “invisible” gold has not previously...

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JAIL for Any doctor in Australia prescribing HCQ or Ivermectinhttps://twitter.com/TanyaRo58329998/status/1409029497052139520 TROUBLING number of adverse effects from jab.Official Aussie health data shows that 48.8 % of survey participants reported adverse effects from jab.They trash ivermectin with lots of evidence supporting its use but see no problem with rushed rollout of jab.https://www.ausvaxsafety.org.au/safety-data/covid-19-vaccines