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New Yorkers will continue to migrate to Florida because of the “ease of living” in the Sunshine State compared to the high-tax, crime-ridden Big Apple, according to a billionaire real estate developer. Stephen Ross, the 82-year-old founder of Related Cos., the company that built the Hudson Yards project on Manhattan’s West Side, told Bloomberg News on Wednesday that he plans to develop even more commercial real estate in Florida outside of the traditional markets of West Palm Beach and Miami. “People are looking from the Northeast and relocating for jobs — not retirement — and companies are looking” for offices,...

Islamic “justice” — which usually finds Muslims in the right, and non-Muslims in the wrong — or rather, tribal justice, has, once again, prevailed in Egypt.Not only have the Muslim men who stripped naked and publicly abused an elderly Christian grandmother been acquitted in a court of law; now she is the one facing serious legal charges to compensate her tormentors.

GoFundMe has removed multiple fundraising pages set up by strangers to help the elderly rancher charged with murder for shooting dead a Mexican migrant on his Arizona ranch.

Everyone seems to have amnesia about Joe Biden’s hatred of Social Security and Medicare. He has tried to cut Social Security, Medicare and Veteran’s benefits as a US Senator. In addition, it was Biden that led the charge to TAX Social Security benefits for seniors. Now Biden has pivoted and is claiming that Republicans are the ones that want to cut Social Security. Wow. Biden simply goes where the political winds blow. Here is where we set today. The cost of insuring for a US debt default remains elevated as the US has hit its statutory debt limit. This is...

Burt Bacharach, one of the greatest songwriters of the 20th century, has died aged 94. The US musician composed more than 500 songs during his career and was behind hits such as I Say A Little Prayer, Walk On By, Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head, and Do You Know The Way To San Jose...

Mr. DeSantis is expected to launch his presidential bid after the Florida legislature adjourns in May.

Will “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit” be replaced with “Mother, Daughter, and Holy Spiritess?” Or none of the above? The Church of England is debating going gender-neutral, not because there is biblical precedent for it, but probably because all of the cool kids are doing it. By way of total disclosure, I was born and raised in the Episcopal Church, which is a direct descendant of the Church of England. I was an altar boy, a term that was changed to “acolyte” when girls started serving on the altar. I was a member of the church well into my 30s...

(NEXSTAR) – Residents of 32 states who rely on federal assistance to buy food are about to see their benefits shrink at the end of the month. An emergency increase to SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly called the Food Stamp Program) was approved at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. For most recipients, that increase amounted to an extra $95 monthly over the past three years. Starting March 1, those emergency COVID-era benefits will end across all states. Seventeen states already saw those benefits expire as of January 2023. One state, South Carolina, ended the emergency allotment at the...

Spoiler---worst state Hawaii: Hawaii Annual groceries cost: $6,419.51 Annual housing cost: $31,797.41 Annual utilities cost: $5,470.22 Annual transportation cost: $4,461.26 Annual healthcare cost: $8,008.27 Total annual expenditures: $91,684.73 How long $1 million will last in savings: 10 years, 10 months, 24 days Where does PA stand?(because I'm from PA) Near the best---for now: Pennsylvania Annual groceries cost: $4,452.04 Annual housing cost: $8,477.33 Annual utilities cost: $4,127.25 Annual transportation cost: $3,785.97 Annual healthcare cost: $6,434.62 Total annual expenditures: $46,389.53 How long $1 million will last in savings: 21 years, 6 months, 16 days Best state? Mississippi Annual groceries cost: $3,880.29 Annual...

9 February 2023Thursday of week 5 in Ordinary Time Church of St. Apollonia, Mezzolombardo, Italy Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingGenesis 2:18-25 ©Man and wife become one bodyThe Lord God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a helpmate.’ So from the soil the Lord God fashioned all the wild beasts and all the birds of heaven. These he brought to the man to see what he would call them; each one was to bear the name the man would give it. The man gave names to all the cattle,...

Republican members of Congress vowed to slash funding for “woke” priorities from the defense budget in interviews with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Wokeness is weakening the U.S. military at a time when China’s threat to the U.S. appears to be growing. “We need to scrub everything out that is not increasing our lethality, that does not contribute to our lethality, and turn our budget into making the most nimble, the most powerful military,” Republican Rep. Keith Self of Texas told the DCNF.

Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has convened hearings “on how Democrats, at every turn, blocked investigations into the greatest theft of taxpayer dollars in American history,” said Smith in his opening statement. “Today’s hearing has been a long time coming. For more than two years, Republicans have been sounding the alarm about the greatest theft of taxpayer dollars in American history, the massive fraud perpetrated in the unemployment insurance program that skyrocketed with the COVID-19 pandemic. While many Americans who actually qualified for these benefits were left struggling to reclaim their benefits and...

The ABC, CBS and NBC evening news shows ignored a devastating new survey that completely upended the media gaslighting on how precarious President Joe Biden’s economy really is for Americans. Gallup released a new survey Feb. 8 of 1,011 adults living in all 50 states and the District of Columbia revealing that 50 percent of Americans are saying they’re “worse off” financially. As Gallup summarized, the results of the Jan. 2 - Jan. 22 poll were shocking. “Since Gallup first asked this question in 1976, it has been rare for half or more of Americans to say they are worse...

The Biden White House tweeted Wednesday about the citizen who took away the January 21, 2023, Monterey Park attacker’s handgun and then followed that news with calls for an “assault weapons” ban. On January 23, 2023, Breitbart News reported Brandon Tsay was the citizen who took away the Monterey Park attacker’s handgun. Tsay told his story to ABC News’ Good Morning America, explaining he was in a dance hall in Alhambra, California, when the Monterey Park attacker entered to carry out a second mass shooting. But Tsay ruined the attacker’s plans by wrestling away his handgun.

The Speaker of the Russian parliament Vyacheslav Volodin branded US President Joe Biden a “terrorist” after a report by veteran US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh blamed Washington for sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines last year. Russia is calling for a special session of the UN security council, while the German AfD party wants a parliamentary investigation. Volodin called the purported US Nord Stream sabotage “an act of intimidation of its vassals, who decided to develop their economy in the interests of their own citizens.” He demanded an international investigation to “bring Biden and his accomplices to justice,” and to make...

The United States government blew up the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline connecting Russian suppliers to our allies Germany last year, according to a bombshell report from Seymour Hersh. “The New York Times called it a ‘mystery,'” wrote Hersh, “but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret — until now.”Hersh cites an anonymous source “with direct knowledge of the operational planning” who claimed that Navy divers, operating under the cover of NATO’s annual BALTOPS exercise last June, planted remotely-operated explosives that were detonated months later, last September.White House spokeswoman Adrienne Watson told Hersh in an...

Project Veritas, whose public face has always been its founder James O’Keefe, has been hit with a scandal. A whistleblower has come forward regarding the recent news that O’Keefe has been put on leave and stripped of his role in the company. According to this unnamed whistleblower, O’Keefe has fallen victim to a lack of proper corporate structure at Project Veritas, which is divided into two separate organizations with different boards and funding. The whistleblower alleges that two ringleaders, Matt Tyrmand and Barry Hinckley, have taken advantage of the situation to push O’Keefe out. The board members and C-suite officers...

Russia’s Wagner mercenary group has halted its recruitment of prisoners to join the fight in Ukraine, the head of the notorious paramilitary outfit said Thursday. Yevgeny Prigozhin’s claims, which could not be immediately verified, follow independent media reports of Wagner resuming its prisoner recruitment process this winter as it takes heavy losses in Russia’s months-long assault on eastern Ukraine’s Bakhmut. Responding to a press inquiry claiming that Russian inmates have not been recruited into Wagner for more than a month, Prigozhin said: “The recruitment of prisoners in the Wagner PMC has completely stopped.” He did not provide an explanation for...

Listening carefully during the State of the Union, you could hear roaring laughter in Beijing when President Biden again said that J6 was the greatest threat to America since the Civil War. Biden is China’s perfect stooge. China has a long-term mission to retaliate against the West, with a bullseye on America, for a Century of Humiliation (1839-1949). To succeed, China must have political and racial unity and opportunities to strike, like an American president driving political, racial, and military disunity and invested in the mythical J6 monster. It was easy to humiliate the Chinese in the 19th century because...

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ripped President Biden’s chaotic open border policy — blasting the administration as unprepared and admitting that the “southern states were right.” “It was a mistake for President Biden to open the border without having a plan to handle the tremendous flow of people,” Cuomo, 65, said in the latest episode of his “Matter of Fact” podcast, released Wednesday. “President Biden had said he would do it in the campaign — but you can’t change a policy unless you have the program in place to manage the change,” he continued, referencing Biden’s reversal of...