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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Smirnoff, uh, make that Tito’s Handmade) spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky the other day, and at her Wednesday press conference, she shared with the world her words of courage and inspiration. “In fact,” Pelosi announced, “when I spoke to President Zelensky, I said, ‘Billie Jean King sends you her regards and wants to know how she can help in any event.’” Billie Jean King? And so Madame Speaker gives us yet another advertisement for term limits, and maybe even an age limit for elected officials. Kids, Billie Jean King was a professional tennis player. She...

Rents in Manhattan are once again hitting new record highs, after cratering during the pandemic. The median monthly rent for a Manhattan apartment was a record $3,700 in February. That was up 24% from a year ago and up an unusually large 4.2% from January, according to a report from brokerage Douglas Elliman and appraisal firm Miller Samuel. "What we're seeing is a rapid rebound and an unprecedented climb in rental prices," said Jonathan Miller, president and CEO of Miller Samuel. "In all categories, everything is going up."

The suspect busted in the hate-fueled hammer attack on an Asian man in a Manhattan train station is a known “transit offender” with nearly four dozen prior arrests, cops and police sources said Thursday. Christian Jeffers, 48, who identifies as a woman, was picked up shortly after 2 p.m. Wednesday — about 17 hours after she allegedly attacked the 29-year-old male victim at the 14th Street 1/2/3 station Tuesday, police said. Jeffers was charged with assault, aggravated harassment and menacing — all as hate crimes — and criminal possession of a weapon, authorities said. Her arraignment was pending Thursday. Prior...

A question must seriously be asked whether Jared Polis is interested in governing all of Colorado, or just the narrow strip that contains the vast majority of the state’s population. Polis has repeatedly angered the small band of hardy farmers and ranchers that make up Colorado’s second-largest industry by his insensitive slights and tone-deaf insults. It’s as if the governor pays lip service to agriculture one day and then slaps it in the face the next. Case in point: In February Polis ignored the recommendations of his own Department of Agriculture and appointed yet another animal welfare extremist to a...

A GOP-backed ban on weed sales in Washington, D.C., was preserved in a sprawling government funding bill passed by Congress on Thursday, despite opposition from advocates who say the provision overrides the will of the District’s residents years after they voted to legalize marijuana. The Harris Rider, a provision barring the legalization of recreational marijuana sales in the nation’s capital named after its chief proponent Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.), sailed through the Senate on late Thursday, a day after passing the House, as part of a larger $1.5 trillion spending omnibus package to fund the government through fiscal year 2022....

PHILIP, S.D. – President Biden has been "absolutely worthless" and "has done nothing for us," residents of a small South Dakota town say as their community continues to deal with the fallout from the Keystone XL Pipeline cancelation. "He does not care," Paulette, a resident of Philip, told Fox News. "If he did care, Keystone would be going." Biden revoked the Keystone XL Pipeline's building permit his first day in office over concerns about its potential impact on the climate. "Biden and his administration ran on Build Back Better, and, that is, from where I'm standing, a load of crap,"...

A couple of days ago, James O'Keefe's Project Veritas released a video in which The New York Times' Matthew Rosenberg, an investigative reporter, savaged his own paper's (and his) dishonesty about January 6, as well as speaking disparagingly about his fellow reporters on the ground that day. Now Project Veritas and Rosenberg are back. This time, in addition to admitting that the infamous "Trump pee tape" doesn't exist, Rosenberg had some keen insights about the way in which the "crazier leftist" woke mentality is affecting the quality of the paper's reporting. I wonder how long he'll have a job after...

Former President Trump will be making his way to the Palmetto State this weekend for a rally at the Florence Regional Airport. Trump did not hold a rally in the month of February, instead garnering a national audience by appearing as the keynote speaker at the 2022 CPAC gathering in Florida. Following Trump’s first two rallies of the year in Arizona and Texas, the South Carolina rally in Florence this weekend should prove to be a very large event. Trump “Save America” Rally in Florence, South Carolina When: Saturday, March 12, 2022 Time: Trump speaking at 7 pm ET Where:...

The deception and lies begin in the name. (Yes, I understand the procedural process of how a bill on Haiti is striped of its language and replaced with language to spend America into an endless spiral of inflation.) This is the omnibus spending bill. It's not a budget. When was the last time we had one of those? Congress can't even call it what it is. They don't have time to read it, but they have time to add to it. It is clear that everyone who voted for this bill a economic retard. They intentionally want to destroy America.

A career criminal indicted in February on a murder charge for allegedly beating to death a 67-year-old man was freed without bail by a Manhattan judge on Thursday Eugene Clark was on parole when he was initially charged by cops with assault for the Sept. 20, 2020 pummeling of Ramon Luna, 67, who was knocked into a coma before dying from his injuries last August Luna was taken to Harlem Hospital after the vicious attack. Doctors there discovered he had suffered multiple brain bleeds, according to a criminal complaint. Police busted Clark nine days after the brutal attack. On Feb....

A blood-covered pregnant woman pictured fleeing the deadly blast that hit her maternity hospital this week has given birth to a baby girl amid ongoing airstrikes in the “apocalyptic” Ukrainian city of Mariupol. Mariana Vishegirskaya was photographed in a makeshift hospital room Friday as her husband lovingly held their daughter, Veronika. The new mom was still wearing the polka dot-patterned pajamas that she was photographed in as she made her way out of the blown-apart hospital Wednesday, with blood across her shellshocked face.

As all government, in its essence, is organized exploitation, and in virtually all existing forms it is an implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.In theory, it invades his liberty and collars his money only in order to protect him, but in truth it always makes a stiff profit on the exchange. That profit represents the income of the professional politicians, nine-tenths of whom are simply professional rogues. They employ a great many technicians to carry on the ostensible functions of government, and some of those technicians are honorable and competent men, but the politicians themselves are seldom either....

The bill states that if the office of the Attorney General determines that a nonprofit has engaged or incited one of these acts, it would be required to notify the Franchise Tax Board, which would then revoke their California tax-exempt status.

As the Russia-Ukraine war continues to rage, the U.S. Navy is in a “stand-off” with the commander of a new warship that cost taxpayers nearly $2 billion to build over his refusal to get a COVID-19 vaccine. “An ongoing legal battle over whether the military can force troops to get vaccinated against COVID-19 has left the Navy with a warship they say they can’t deploy because it is commanded by an officer they cannot fire,” the Navy Times reported Tuesday. “It’s a standoff the brass are calling a ‘manifest national security concern,’ according to recent federal court filings.” The outlet...

This is something I have been perplexed about or at least had questions about. I understand Poland has offered the Ukraine their MiG-29's hoping to replace them with American F-16's. I understand that the Biden administration put a stop for that. 43 Republican Senators want to push the deal, which won't happen. However my question is this; of what use would aircraft do in this particular situation without AWACS or airborne command and control? Most air to air combat seems to be over the horizon as opposed to dogfighting. Would they not have to turn on their radars to look...

No matter the nature of your St. Patrick's Day traditions, great food is an absolute must. From classic (and not-so-classic) soda breads to stout-battered onion rings and corned beef galore, these 19 Irish-inflected dishes and cocktails will keep you well-fed all day long. Breads Real Irish Soda Bread In the olden days, soda bread was baked over hot coals in a skillet, where the bread developed a thick, lovely crust. Now we bake the bread in our oven, but doing so in a Dutch Oven produces the same crusty loaf that we love so much. Irish Brown Bread If you...

The society is among the first in the North American arts world to take a firm stand in support of Ukraine. The artistic director of the Vancouver Recital Society said she stands by the group’s decision to cancel a concert by Russian pianist Alexander Malofeev in response to the war in Ukraine, calling the choice a “horrible” one to make. Leila Getz said she has been trying to book the 20-year-old “Russian genius” for six years, with two previous concerts postponed by pandemic-related issues. But even though there was a new date arranged for the event in August, the society...

Russia opened a criminal case against Facebook's parent Meta Platforms on Friday and moved to designate it as an "extremist organisation" after the social network changed its hate speech rules to allow users to call for violence against Russians in the context of the war with Ukraine.

Russia hastily called a Friday morning U.N. Security Council meeting late on Thursday evening to discuss in open debate what it called "the military biological activities of the US on the territory of Ukraine" — leading the Biden administration to immediately denounce it as a "false flag effort."

In an impassioned and tearful testimony this week, Florida state Sen. Shevrin Jones pleaded with his colleagues to vote against the state legislature’s controversial Parental Rights in Education bill, known to its critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Like other LGBTQ+ advocates, Jones, who is the state Senate’s first openly gay member, argued that the bill, which prohibits classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity that is not “age appropriate or developmentally appropriate” for children, would likely force LGBTQ+ students further into the closet and stigmatize the experiences of people who are not heterosexual or cisgender.