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NEW YORK — Leaders of the city’s Black Lives Matter movement on Wednesday threatened “riots” and “bloodshed” in the streets if Mayor-elect Eric Adams reverses the abolition of the NYPD’s controversial anti-crime units. “If he thinks that they’re going to go back to the old ways of policing, then we are going to take to the streets again. There will be riots, there will be fire and there will be bloodshed because we believe in defending our people,” said Hawk Newsome, co-founder of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, after a heated meeting with Adams in Brooklyn Borough Hall.

Joe Biden said on Wednesday that most Americans cannot understand the problems faced by the United States' supply chains, adding that 'not a lot of people' have a clear grasp of the networks and their implications. 'You hear a lot about the supply chains in the news, but frankly, not a lot of people have a clear understanding, whether they have a Ph.D. or they didn't go to school, about how a supply chain works. In simple terms, supply chain is just the journey that a product takes to get to your doorstep,' he said. (Holy cow, I had no...

The Biden Administration is dumping an untold number of illegal aliens in Florida without the permission of Gov. Ron DeSantis. The governor says he was not even notified and accused the administration of conducting a “clandestine” operation. But DeSantis says he’s cooking up a plan. “You know, my view would be, why don’t we if they’re going to come here, you know, we’ll provide busses and provide them. I will send them to Delaware and do that,” he told reporters. The Biden Administration is dumping an untold number of illegal aliens in Florida without the permission of Gov. Ron DeSantis....

U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- On day six of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial in Kenosha, Wisconsin, November 8, 2021, the court video captured a particularly dramatic moment.Gaige Grosskreutz has given testimony as a prosecution witness. He is being cross-examined by Corey Chirafisi, a defense attorney. It occurs about 2 hours and 27 minutes into this trial video on November 8, 2021. Over the next few minutes, there is this exchange:Defense attorney Corey Chirafisi:So, your hands are up, and at that point he (Rittenhouse) has not fired. Correct? Gaige Grosskreutz:No he has not. Defense attorney Corey Chirafisi:Do you agree at this point, you are...

Video has emerged of President Joe Biden's nominee to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Saule Omarova, saying she wants oil and gas companies to go 'bankrupt.' 'We want them to go bankrupt if we want to tackle climate change, right?' the Soviet-born Omarova said in a clip that was shared online by the conservative-leaning American Accountability Foundation. She made the comments in February when appearing at the Jain Family Institute's Social Wealth Seminar, where she was making the case for a National Investment Authority, which would pull resources from the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve...

After months of D.C. Democrats being in disarray, they finally got a win last week for resident Biden's agenda when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was, at last, able to bring Biden's infrastructure plan to the floor for a vote and deliver it to successful passage. But Pelosi's win is not her own, nor solely a win that can be credited to Democrats. No, 13 Republican members of the House of Representatives crossed over and voted "yes" on the more than $1 trillion package that's full of woke nonsense aimed at institutionalizing the left's ludicrous dream for the future. The Republican...

For any military or society to function, there must exist the possibility for persons to say or at least to attempt say true things. Recently, Dr. "Rachel" Levine made history by becoming the first "trans-woman" (man who calls himself a woman) to be appointed to the rank of four-star admiral for the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. While many members on the left find this to be cause for great celebration, in truth, hardly anything could be more detrimental to America's armed forces. This event, if only largely nominal, signifies nothing less than a direct assault on the...

He was playing word games. They're the ones spreading "misinformation". The media, scientists and others are outraged at Aaron Rodgers claiming that he was immunized when he hadn’t been vaccinated. He was playing word games; the two are distinct concepts. But now they are accusing him of the sin of spreading misinformation. Scientists Fight a New Source of Vaccine Misinformation: Aaron Rodgers I missed the consternation when WHO lied to the World in January 2020 that COVID wouldn’t spread person to person. How many died or got sick because of that lie to cover up for China? Biden renewed their...

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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, lacing up for a possible presidential run in 2024, told "Axios on HBO" he won't back down from a fight with former President Donald Trump, taunting his longtime friend for losing the last election. "I've never walked away from an argument, no matter who stood on the other side," Christie told me during a wide-ranging interview in New Jersey. Why it matters: This is the first hand-to-hand combat of the 2024 Republican presidential race. Many Republican candidates fear crossing Trump. But Christie — who said he still considers Trump a friend, despite their falling-out...

There’s lots of evidence that the Biden team knew that Saule Omarova was unconfirmable, so it’s worth working through why they nominated her. The Comptroller of the Currency is not another one of those do-nothing Washington jobs. The person filling this critical role controls all federally-licensed banks, credit unions, and foreign banks operating in the United States and similar institutions. Normally, you would think receiving your postgraduate education at the University of Moscow (in the USSR) and writing your doctoral dissertation on the advantages of Marxism over free economy capitalism might be a disqualifier for this all-powerful position. But not...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — F.W. de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela and as South Africa’s last apartheid president oversaw the end of the country’s white minority rule, has died at the age of 85. De Klerk died after a battle against cancer at his home in the Fresnaye area of Cape Town, a spokesman for the F.W. de Klerk Foundation confirmed on Thursday. De Klerk was a controversial figure in South Africa where many blamed him for violence against Black South Africans and anti-apartheid activists during his time in power, while some whites saw his efforts...

The undying shame of this pathological loathing for fossil fuels is that America is sitting on a superabundance of it. Energy secretary Jennifer Granholm, the laughing face of Joe Biden's not-so-funny energy policy, told CNN's Dana Bash on Sunday that Americans' home-heating costs are going up this winter. Interviewed on Bloomberg Radio a few days earlier, a question implying that she, the secretary of energy, might possibly have some ideas about fixing soaring gas prices had Granholm in stitches. "Would that I had the magic wand on this," she said, once she finished laughing. You see, Dana, oil is controlled...

Vice President Kamala Harris went viral following her visit to a COVID-19 lab in Paris for appearing to use what critics described as a "French accent." During her overseas trip to France, Harris toured the Institut Pasteur and spoke alongside a group of scientists about the U.S.-France alliance on scientific research. *snip* The vice president's remarks were panned as "cringe" on social media. "Is she using a FRENCH ACCENT?!" asked Abigail Marone, press secretary for Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., adding "I love this episode of Veep." "There really are no words anymore… #AuRevoir," Fox News contributor Joe Concha wrote. "I...

Leftist prosecutors ignore actual criminals while prosecutors in Kenosha are railroading Kyle Rittenhouse and seeking to undermine the 2nd Amendment. America is suffering from a rash of prosecutors who are petty tyrants bent on fundamentally changing America by nullifying our duly enacted laws. That is as unconstitutional at the county and state level as it is at the federal level. Nothing illustrates this more clearly than the conduct of the prosecutors in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. Prosecutors are part of the executive branch and it is their sworn duty to uphold all laws. They have no power to nullify laws...

Michigan's attorney general owned up to drinking too much before last month's widely-anticipated college football game between in-state rivals Michigan and Michigan State in a self deprecating Facebook post that she has dubbed 'Tailgate-gate.' Nessel, a Democrat, said she had two Bloody Marys on an empty stomach while attending a tailgate party before Michigan State rallied to defeat Michigan 37-33 in a battle of then-undefeated Big 10 teams. She joked that 'as long as you put enough vegetables in them, it's practically a salad.'

The smart, moral transcriptionists of our glorious ruling class have discovered what they contend is a terrible crime of wickedness - those rural monsters out there whose skin tone is pale voted for Republicans in astounding numbers. Blatant “whiteness” they call it, a malady that people who aren’t white can suffer from too. Just ask Winsome Sears. And so can the other minority voters who ditched the Democrat plantation in record numbers. But they also contend that voting for Democrats because of your race is great. If consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, these people are totally hobgoblin-free. As...

By now the left-wing agenda in schools is increasingly more evident. Incomprehensible writing of the lowest level is now the norm but with an additional twist -- students in the nursing field now spout such ideas as demonstrated in the following: Dear Professor, I do not understand [why] you took points off for using ‘their’ instead of his or hers. I used that specific word because I am not just referring to my one gender, regardless of whether it relates to one individual or more than one. I have been told to avoid gender biases. As a result, I disagree...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — F.W. de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela and as South Africa’s last apartheid president oversaw the end of the country’s white minority rule, has died at the age of 85. De Klerk died after a battle against cancer at his home in the Fresnaye area of Cape Town, a spokesman for the F.W. de Klerk Foundation confirmed on Thursday.

Just 70-80 years ago we had what was dubbed “The Greatest Generation” – the people who had fought and won World War II. Now, just a couple of generations down the road, we have unconditionally surrendered to a disease with miniscule mortality (for the vast majority of population), and which is to a large degree treatable. How did that happen? Roll back to the first months of 2020, when we just learned about the sinister new virus which was killing people and for which we had neither vaccine, nor cure. We were scared – in the 21st century we don't...