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One Sunday night last winter, Gov. Ron DeSantis was holding court with some of his supporters at a swank Italian restaurant on Worth Avenue in Palm Beach. Musing about the hordes of “illegal alien” criminals being secretly flown into Florida by the Brandon regime, DeSantis mentioned that he was thinking about sending some of the surly foreign indigents to such citadels of the Beautiful People as … the Hamptons … and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. “Don’t forget Martha’s Vineyard!” someone shouted at DeSantis. “And Nantucket too!” That was me, I was the guy yelling at DeSantis to send some of the...

MARTHA'S VINEYARD, MA — After two days of dealing with the insufferable busybodies at the Martha's Vinyard Home Owners Association, illegal immigrants have decided to go back home and take their chances with the cartels. "Man, the cartels are bad where I come from, but this is a whole other level," said immigrant Juan Ramirez as he climbed back on the unmarked charter bus. "How do you people live like this? You have to pay $1000 per month for a team of white ladies named 'Karen' to come to inspect your hedges and whine when you don't do them right?...

Turns out they wanted the status titles all along, just not the 'life of service. There's class. And if you have none, you might be Meghan and Harry. The "non-working" royals, as the matter is delicately put, are in a snit these days because now that the queen is dead, they didn't get the spoils they thought they were entitled to: According to the New York Post: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s kids will not be given His and Her Royal Highness titles — leaving the exiled couple once again “furious” at the royal family over the snub, according to...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that it was “dangerous” that Republicans are “enthralled” by what she deemed to be a “fraud” and “con artist” as former President Donald Trump. Co-host Willie Geist asked, “What do you think, Secretary Clinton, when you hear elected officials, many of them prominent senators, some of them calling for you to be put in prison for having the server in your home, now saying of this incident, well, it’s a bookkeeping issue, it’s a storage problem. There’s nothing to see here. Lindsey Graham, saying if you indict this...

Democrats on Martha’s Vineyard, the elite vacation hub of the nation’s wealthiest residents, are praising themselves as do-gooders for coming to the aid of illegal aliens sent to the island before having them shipped to a nearby military base. This week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) flew about 50 illegal aliens to Martha’s Vineyard — a wealthy enclave of liberals and home to former President Obama who owns a nearly $12 million estate. Even as Martha’s Vineyard residents vote almost entirely for Democrats, local officials put pressure on Gov. Charlie Baker (R) to intervene and have the illegal aliens deported...

Penfield, N.Y. — A local private school is facing backlash from some parents over changes to its student handbook. The new policy from the Charles Finney School says it reserves the right to discontinue enrollment of LGBTQ students. Heidi Buckler enrolled her daughter at Finney, a Christian school in Penfield, in 2018. Her son would follow soon after. "When we first initially met with everyone, they seemed nice and warm and welcoming," Buckler said. "It seemed like a nice family atmosphere." Buckler, who describes herself as spiritual, thought a religious education would be beneficial. "They talked about Jesus and the...

Buses have arrived in Edgartown to transport migrants from St. Andrew’s Parish House. There is one big bus and two shorter buses to transport folks off the island. People with bags are taking selfies and hugging volunteers goodbye

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has reversed its decision to grant George Floyd a posthumous pardon for a 2004 drug conviction, according to a letter obtained by CNN. The about-face on Wednesday comes nearly a year after the board voted unanimously to recommend the pardon and more than two years after Floyd was killed by a former Minneapolis officer. The board did not cite a reason for its decision in the letter, which was sent Thursday to the Harris County public defender working on behalf of Floyd’s surviving family members. “After a full and careful review of the...

Bluntly challenged by Indian Prime Minister Nerandra Modi over the war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said that Russia would strive to stop the conflict “as soon as possible” but then blamed Ukraine for refusing to negotiate, though Putin ordered the invasion and his troops are still occupying a large swath of Ukrainian territory. Putin’s remarks came during an appearance with Modi, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, where they are attending a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. In a stunning public rebuke, Modi told Putin: “Today’s era is not an era of war, and I have spoken to...

Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan tells of a veteran-owned organization being labeled as an extremist organization. Last month, Green Beret and former government contractor Mike Glover put out a video on his YouTube channel titled "I am NOT a terrorist" after the FBI accused his organization "Field Craft Survival" of being an extremist group. Field Craft Survival is an organization that teaches survival skills and gun safety. "He's an American veteran serving his community and loves this country," Jordan said on the "Just the News, Not Noise" TV show. "Then some woke analysts at the FBI...

Chrissy Teigen revealed Thursday that her late son, Jack, died in a “life-saving abortion” and not a miscarriage as she previously shared. “Two years ago, when I was pregnant with Jack, John and my third child, I had to make a lot of difficult and heartbreaking decisions,” Teigen said at Propper Daley’s “A Day of Unreasonable Conversation” summit (via THR). “It became very clear around halfway through that he would not survive, and that I wouldn’t either without any medical intervention.” The Cravings founder, who shares daughter Luna and son Miles with crooner John Legend and is currently pregnant, noted...

BONIFAY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - The Holmes County community is mourning the loss of a beloved athlete and honor student. High school senior Tyler Erickson passed away suddenly Monday night while out practicing for an upcoming golf tournament. NewsChannel 7 spoke with Tyler’s dad, Clint Erickson, who said while his son’s life was short, he was a blessing to many. “My child had been a blessing to my wife, and my two daughters. One older daughter and one younger daughter. We will cherish him forever. It was God’s will. We believe it was God’s will for this to happen. It was...

In 2021, West Garfield Park was the gun crime capital of Chicago, suffering a per capita shooting rate 20 times the city average. But it wasn't all bad news. West Garfield Park residents also managed to secure 6,282 individual Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans totaling more than $120 million last year, also tops per capita in the city. The West Garfield Park loans averaged $19,119 a piece, according to data published by the U.S. Small Business Administration, analyzed by Chicago City Wire. Which might be puzzling, as the neighborhood has only 21,000 working-age adults, 4,700 of whom (22 percent) told...

. . . At a time when Americans are already at odds with one another over what we might call core values — the cultural beliefs that glue our country together — it’s reasonable to worry about whether adding newcomers to the mix will complicate the task of forging a common future. . . .

Workers from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta are paying $75,000 to be taller, a surgeon told GQ. The Las Vegas surgeon can lengthen patients' legs via a painful months-long process. He breaks the thigh bones and inserts nails that are extended every day for three months. A Las Vegas cosmetic surgeon who specializes in leg-lengthening procedures that can extend people's height by 3 to 6 inches told GQ magazine that many of his patients are tech workers. Kevin Debiparshad founded LimbplastX Institute in 2016, and the clinic's business has boomed during the pandemic, he told GQ. Here's how it works:...

Noble Schools is defending its hiring of Lauren “Big Boobs” Fagel. Fagel’s sister, Director of Executive Operations Brooke Sternfield Semel, is an administrator at Noble Schools. While the Chicago Public Schools code of ethics disallows siblings from serving under one another, the charter network doesn’t appear to have posted its code regarding nepotism. The school tells Chicago City Wire it has taken the issue into consideration as well as the allegations against Fagel regarding repeated instances of sexual harassment. "Noble is firmly committed to providing a safe learning and working environment for all of its students and staff,” Claudia Rodriguez,...

How many times have I said it? One of my favorite axioms is Liberals have ZERO long term memory.I've been tweeting Republican Governors for months- please send them to Malibu, Aspen and Martha's Vineyard. Ron DeSantis finally listened and good on him. Massachusetts is a sanctuary state. How Massachusetts Became a Sanctuary StateFlorida is not. The day of reckoning has arrived. Joe Biden has been dumping illegals all over the country without the approval of his victim states. He just dumps them, unaccompanied minors and all. Not one effing democrat liberal had a problem with that. Biden was literally engaged...

The Russians continue to threaten us with nuclear annihilation. Why are so few people in the western world alarmed by this? I think it is because our leaders are assuring everyone that the Russians are all talk and that the odds of a nuclear war actually happening are extremely low. Meanwhile, both sides just continue to take steps to escalate the war in Ukraine. We are engaged in an extremely bizarre game of “nuclear chicken”, and both sides truly believe that the other side will blink first. And so we continue to creep closer and closer to a cataclysmic nuclear...

Argentina’s central bank raised its benchmark interest rate Thursday in a bid to prop up its currency and curb inflation nearing 100%. The central bank boosted its benchmark Leliq rate by 5.5 percentage points to 75%, according to an emailed statement. The move comes a day after data showed consumer prices jumped nearly 79% a year in August, the fastest pace in 30 years. It was the bank’s ninth rate hike this year. The bank’s board of directors also added in the statement that it intends to reduce the level of short-term debt held by the central bank next year,...

The Temple Institute and Boneh Israel made a huge step towards reinstating the Temple service on Thursday when five red heifers landed at Ben Gurion International Airport. The red heifer was the main component in the Biblically mandated process of ritual purification for impurity that results from proximity or contact with a dead body. Because the elements needed for this ceremony have been lacking since the destruction of the Second Temple, all Jews today are considered ritually impure, thereby preventing the return of the Temple service. The Temple Institute launched its Red Heifer program about a decade ago, led by...