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Ex-Gov. George Pataki says a fellow Republican could win the New York City mayor’s race next year if Big Apple Dems skew any more to the left. Pataki, the last Republican statewide office-holder when he left Albany in 2007, suggested Sunday that a GOPer’s chances would considerably improve if a lefty progressive such as city Comptroller Brad Lander defeats moderate incumbent Mayor Eric Adams in the Democratic Party’s primary next June. “We know that Mayor Adams is going to be challenged. [Comptroller] Brad Lander … has already announced that he’s running for mayor,” Pataki said on 770 WABC’s “The Cats...

New York CNN — Google has violated US antitrust law with its search business, a federal judge ruled Monday, handing the tech giant a staggering court defeat with the potential to reshape how millions of Americans get information online and to upend decades of dominance. The decision by the US District Court for the District of Columbia is a stunning rebuke of Google’s oldest and most important business. The company has spent tens of billions of dollars on exclusive contracts to secure a dominant position as the world’s default search provider on smartphones and web browsers.

TikTok video embedded in commentary video at 11 or so minutes: young lady saw homeless being bussed, fed, and paid to attend Kamala rally. Hers starts at 11:36 and she also mentions that is why they were careful with filming angles. (Always be very suspicious of strange camera angles!)

The prevailing logic regarding the Iranian nuclear weapons program is this. The Iranians are on the verge of having sufficient highly enriched uranium (HEU) to make several nuclear weapons. After they acquire this material they will then have to engineer the nuclear weapons into which this HEU will be placed. At some point in this process, the Israelis will stage a preemptive strike and eliminate the threat. It will all be fine. 3 min video Iran testing nuke? Why? Why do we assume that the Iranians will act this way? They know as well as we do that the Israelis...

Ukrainian tank crews are struggling with their M1A1 Abrams tanks, the M1 Abrams variant Kyiv is now using against Russia. They believe that the Abrams is not suited for modern warfare in the Donbas region. The tanks are reportedly challenging to maintain, spare parts are hard to acquire, and the tank must be kept in the rear for fear it will be destroyed. M1 Abrams Tank: What’s the Problem in Ukraine? Ukrainians also believe that condensation from the humid, foggy, and rainy weather obscures instruments onboard. They have complained that the M1 Abrams gun is not effective against buildings and...

Well, here's another nice mess NASA and Boeing have gotten us into. ... space station docking ports as the most expensive and coveted parking spots on or above the Earth because that's exactly what they are. There are only a handful of them, reaching one costs tens of millions of dollars, and they're reserved months or even years in advance. And, needless to say, there's no possibility of double-parking. Every docking port needed by the next vehicle must first be vacated by the current one. The dock currently occupied by Starliner is needed by a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule and...

House Speaker emerita Nancy Pelosi confirmed that she spoke with President Biden and fielded calls from worried Democrats, many of whom were disgruntled about their 2024 election odds, before he quit the race. Pelosi (D-Calif.), one of the most influential Democrats in Congress, in a Monday interview on ABC News’ “Good Morning America” denied that she “was burning up the airways” to push Biden out — right before divulging that she spoke to him after “people called me.” “It was always about him,” the former House speaker claimed. “And why I said I didn’t make calls, because people said I...

...‘Practically hidden in the choking pall of tobacco and celebrity, a young woman was perched on a bar stool watching the game, waiting, calculating,’ Bronstein recalled, breathlessly. ‘She was almost sedated, nursing a glass of wine and smoking cigarettes. ‘The quiet observer was Kamala Harris, the woman whom many now think is an odds-on favorite to be President of the United States,’ he gushed in the 2018 article – a time when she was briefly leading in the polls for the Democrat nomination. ‘But on this night, she was a political rookie, barely a year into her first term as...

Elon Musk has hit back at Keir Starmer as the war of words between the pair intensified. The prime minister slapped down the billionaire tech boss for claiming “civil war is inevitable” in the UK in the wake of the far-right riots which have taken place across the country in the past week. The PM’s official spokesman said: “There’s no justification for comments like that and what we’ve seen in this country is organised illegal thuggery which has no place on our streets or online. “We’re talking about a minority of thugs that do not speak for Britain and in...

Venezuela’s opposition candidate trounced President Nicolás Maduro in last week’s election, according to election tallies that show the opposition’s Edmundo González received more than double the votes of Maduro. A Washington Post review, published Sunday, analyzed more than 23,000 precinct-level tally sheets collected by the opposition. It found Maduro received about 30 percent of the vote (3,131,103 votes) compared to 67 percent for González (6,901,845 votes), further fueling doubts over Maduro’s declared victory in the race. The tally sheets analyzed by the Post represented 79 percent of the voting tables from the July 28 election. The outlet noted that even...

The United Nations (UN) has admitted that nine employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) may have participated in the Hamas terror attack of October 7. Israel said earlier this year that at least 12 UNRWA employees had participated in the terror attack. There were also reports that UNRWA staff praised the attacks, and that many UNRWA employees were members of terror groups. The U.S. suspended funding to UNRWA when Israel made the accusations; many other donor nations followed. An initial “independent” investigation found that there was insufficient evidence to substantiate Israel’s claims. (Israel rejected the results of...

VIDEOI enjoy watching Mark Halperin's channel, 2Way, which features both his analysis of current events as well as the people on ZOOM of various political persuasions weighing in on the state of the political world. However, Halperin blew off a great chance to get to the bottom of something he was talking about namely who was the source of the leak of the Doug Emhoff scandal story in which he knocked up his children's nanny. Who better to answer such a question than the person who broke the story as Halperin himself acknowledged. However, when Laura Loomer, unmuted herself on...

Derek Finkle lives across the street from the South Riverdale Community Health Centre and supervised injection site in Toronto. He has been writing a series of stories in the National Post about his neighbourhood’s battle with the centre over discarded needles, drug dealers, crime and murder. Seven months after a mother was killed in a gun fight between drug dealers outside of a supervised injection site my family lives across the street from, a class action lawsuit was filed today in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, naming the South Riverdale Community Health Centre, which operates the site, as well...

Bret Stephens: Hi, Gail. I have to make a confession: Kamala Harris had a much stronger start than I expected. She appears competent, in command and she is connecting to voters — everything she wasn’t when she ran for president five years ago. I gather you’re not surprised ….Gail Collins: Bret! Does that mean you’re going to vote for her? I was planning on torturing you until you joined the team.Bret: I’m not there yet, though the rumored choice of Josh Shapiro, the Pennsylvania governor, as her running mate would go far to reassure me about a Harris administration. What...

* Jaguar is in the midst of reinventing the brand, reducing sales volume, and going EV-only. * JLR is looking to trim down the number of Jaguar outlets across Canada. * Dealers who invested heavily in the brand are not satisfied, and want compensation. Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) dealers in Canada are gearing up for a joint lawsuit as the company wants to reconfigure how the brand operates. Jaguar’s new ultra-luxury strategy involves going all-electric and will shake up how cars are sold while drastically reducing sales expectations. While Land Rover has seemingly managed to be doing quite well, Jaguar...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - North Charleston Police say they responded to the Bojangles on Ladson Road after a fight broke out between multiple people and an employee. A report states that officers responded to the 3600 block of Ladson Road around 6:50 p.m. Wednesday regarding a call for service for a commercial panic alarm. While en route, police were advised by Charleston County deputies that there was an active fight going on at the location. Police said the victim, an employee at the store, was behind the front counter when the suspects, among which two women, entered the business. One...

With Massachusetts still in the grip of a crushing housing affordability and access crisis, one Bay State lawmaker says she has a plan to help. Legislation sponsored by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., would spend roughly a half-trillion dollars to encourage the construction of new housing, bring down costs for renters, and make it easier for first-time buyers and veterans to purchase homes, among other fixes. "The only way to dig our country out of this housing crisis is to build more housing so everyone has a place to call home,” Warren, who is running for re-election this fall, said...

Hot August Nights announced Sunday it has revoked registrations for people shown in a Friday confrontation in a Virginia City viral video. The Storey County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday the incident is also being investigated. In it, TikTok user unclerickd1 protests what he described as comments by at least one person in Virginia City that there was a “hanging tree” for people like him. The sheriff’s office said it does not “condone or support racism, inequality, or hate speech.” Hot August Nights said those in the video have been identified. “We want to clarify that there were no Hot August...

35 minutes of footage and commentary. Love his accent, the Hulk Hogan mustache.