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Billionaire Bill Gates is warning that America is heading for “civil war” and fears that “political polarization” could “bring it all to an end.” Gates made the prediction during a recent keynote conversation at this year’s Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy. The Microsoft co-founder revealed that he plans to end Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 25 years. “The goal for the foundation is to run for another 25 years,” Gates said in the keynote conversation with Forbes’ Chief Content Officer Randall Lane. He revealed that he plans to spend billions of dollars over the next few years on...

ALBANY, NY (WRGB) — Two area lawmakers are calling for a public hearing over concerns of possible collusion between the Hochul administration, and others in connection to the Schoharie limo tragedy. Republican state lawmakers, Senator Jim Tedisco and Assemblyman Chris Tague, are calling on Senate and Assembly Transportation and Investigations Committees to hold the hearings days before the NYS Stretch Limousine Passenger Safety Task Force issues its final report on October 1st. “It certainly appears that the Hochul Administration may be colluding with the Inspector General and the Limo Task Force Co-Chairs to play election year stall ball on the...

Greenwich Village residents are not fans of these new kids on the block. A band of foul-mouthed, toy gun-waving, pot-puffing high school hooligans are keeping residents of West 13th off 6th Avenue hostage in their own tony homes, terrified denizens told The Post. For at least a year while school is in session, the roughnecks roam from stoop to stoop every day at lunchtime, rolling blunts, getting high, acting out and taunting anyone who gets in their way. “They are the bane of the block,” fumed Michael Figueroa, 53, a superintendent for two buildings, who has chased the group from...

Russian President Vladimir Putin in a major speech on Friday denounced the Western society as “outright Satanism” with “various supposed genders”. He said the West had turned away from “traditional” and “religious” values, asking the audience if they wanted their “children to be offered sex-change operations,” which he later said is common in the West. “Let’s answer some very simple questions for ourselves. I now want to return to what I said, I want to address all the citizens of the country – not only to those colleagues who are in the hall – to all the citizens of Russia:...

A majority of U.S. adults will not get the updated COVID-19 booster shots soon, according to a new survey. Just 5 percent of those surveyed said they’ve already received a booster and 27 percent said they will get one as soon as possible. The rest said they will wait and see, only get one if required, definitely not get one, or cannot get one because they have not received a primary series. That’s according to a survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation that was carried out from Sept. 15–26 among 1,534 U.S. adults. The margin of error was plus/minus...

The other day on Twitter, I saw this tweet below that took place during an exchange between a couple of my mutuals, Ever since, I’ve had it in the back of my mind. I think the reason that I’ve not been able to stop thinking about this tweet is because of how clarifying it is. The sentiment expressed in that tweet helps to bring together several threads of thought that I’ve had and have written about previously. The tweet above concisely describes the difference between “America and Americans” on the one hand and the entity variously known as globohomo, the...

On his 98th birthday, Jimmy Carter has once again set a new record as the longest-living United States president. He's held the title since March of 2019, months after the previous title holder — President George H.W. Bush — died at the age of 94. President Carter may have only led the nation for four years, but in the four decades that have followed his White House tenure, he's managed to leverage his place in history to help others both domestically and abroad. The Carter Center, founded by Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter in 1982, has been aiding in a wide...

What happens when a high school biological female speaks up and says she’s not comfortable with a biological male changing with her in a locker room? In the case of a Vermont high school, the local school officials reportedly decided they’d settle the issue by banning the use of the locker room.

Russia suffered another setback during Ukraine's counteroffensive, confirming it withdrew troops from the eastern town of Lyman, within the newly annexed Donetsk region. Ukraine’s armed forces on Saturday said they had "liberated" five settlements in the Donetsk region and encircled thousands of Russian soldiers. "Due to the risk to be encircled, the allied forces were withdrawn from Krasny Liman to more advantageous frontiers," Russia's Ministry of Defense said Saturday. "The Russian troops in the area of Lyman are encircled. Yampil, Novoselivka, Shandryholove, Drobysheve, and Stavky settlements are liberated. Stabilization measures are being conducted there," Serhii Cherevatyi, Speaker of the Eastern...

During a panel discussion Friday night, Maher addressed the "paradox" among Democrats who approve of Biden's job as president yet don't want him to run in 2024. But Maher insisted that Biden "is not giving it up," comparing him to Dracula for crossing "oceans of time" to become president. "Once you have that real estate, and you wake up in the White House, and your office is the Oval, I just don't think you give it up," Maher said. "It's very hard to take away the nomination from the president, a sitting president."

While you wait for "Glass Onion," the delicious sequel to "Knives Out," to hit Netflix in December, you can indulge your jones for a whodunit by heading to your local multiplex to check out "See How They Run," a comedy-mystery set against the 1953 London theater scene when murder most foul lurks backstage. Luckily, Scotland Yard is on the case in the rumpled person of "Three Billboards" Oscar winner Sam Rockwell, sporting a wry wit and credible British accent to play Inspector Stoppard, a functioning alcoholic trying not to let booze disrupt his nose for sussing out a killer.And what...

Although Home Coming is said to be the first film about a Chinese foreign evacuation from a diplomat’s perspective, there have been multiple domestic movies over the past decade focusing on Chinese civilians needing to be rescued from chaos erupting abroad. In Operation Red Sea (红海行动, 2018), which also stars Zhang Yi, a Chinese special task force sets out on a risky mission to evacuate civilians amid civil war in the fictional ‘Republic of Ihwea’ – loosely based on the evacuation of Chinese citizens from Yemen in 2015. At the end of the Home Coming movie, a text showed up...

Nick Ellis of Presque Isle and his father, Edwin Ellis, knew they needed to change the course of their 2022 moose hunt. Their first three days searching for a bull in Wildlife Management District 6 in Aroostook County had not been encouraging. “I put 500 miles, 40 hours and whatever gas it takes to go out in the woods the past three days and I saw one bull Monday evening before dark,” Nick Ellis said. Having made a previous commitment to attend a friend’s wedding rehearsal dinner on Friday and to be in the wedding party on Saturday, he didn’t...

VIDEOPete Buttigieg in 2019 when he was a presidential candidate, decribed himself as offering the public Impossible Burgers. He described it as a "metaphor" and it turns out that is what the Democrats are doing. Offering Impossible Burgers to the public. Recession? Actually that is somehow good for you. Open borders? Hey, the Director of Homeland Security Mayorkas has described the border as secure so enjoy that IMPOSSIBLE Burger. Inflation? It was only transitory so enjoy the minor month to month increase in the rate of inflation. Another economic IMPOSSIBLE Burger for you to pretend to enjoy.Despite people hating it...

Supreme Court ruled in 2018 that government employees could not be forced to pay a union to keep their job. The top four public labor unions in the U.S. lost more than 200,000 members since the Supreme Court ruled in 2018 that government employees could not be forced to pay a union to keep their job, a new report shows that. The Commonwealth Foundation released the report, which found that the top four public labor unions – AFT, AFSCME, NEA, and SEIU – lost nearly 219,000 members altogether since the Janus v. AFSCME ruling. “The Janus decision to end forced...

Maria. Turned back at the Rio Grande after attempting to swim across while pushing her paraplegic autistic daughter on a reed raft. Handmaid.Already being front-loaded at near hurricane strength into the barrels of media bluster and blather will be the endless "Maria" stories aimed at denigrating and damaging Governor DeSantis. Within the next three days, the flood-sodden Maria stories will be pumped out of a hundred media outlets to be immediately replicated by ten thousand Twitterbots in an intense round of retweeting autofellatio. The aptly named headlines will all be a variation of "Papertowel DeSantis! Worse Than Trump!" Marias will...

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Lefty Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner claimed violent crime was worse in “Trump states” — as he denied his soft-on-crime policies were to blame for his city’s soaring crime rate. Krasner’s bold statements came during a fiery interview with Fox29’s “Good Morning Philadelphia” Wednesday, when he was grilled by anchor Mike Jerrick a day after five teens were shot at a high school.

What can business leaders and Republicans do now after helping leftists wreck the U.S. economy and our standard of living, as hard-left partisan activists claim special status as scientists dealing with the "climate crisis"? Climate-minded Europeans are seriously going to die this winter without Russian oil, unless they restart coal and nuclear power plants. When the children wanted to tear apart civilization, the adults figured, "It's just a phase they're going through. They'll get over it." So they pandered. How did this happen? Business leaders, Republicans and the media have been afraid for decades to push back with things like...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has warned opportunistic thieves not to target residents or ransack homes in the wake of Hurricane Ian, telling a press conference that Floridians are well-aware of their Second Amendment rights while noting a boarded-up business sign reading “you loot, we shoot.” DeSantis issued the stark warning during multiple press conferences on Friday, including one in Fort Myers, where he remarked about seeing the sign directed at would-be looters displayed at a business in nearby Punta Gorda. “They boarded up all the businesses, and there are people that wrote on their plywood, ‘you loot, we shoot,’” DeSantis...