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History shows that’s never a good idea.Zohran Mamdani has moved forward in the New York City mayoral race as the Democratic nominee, after beating out former New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo in the primary. With Mamdani’s rapid rise to popularity among NYC’s more well-to-do circles comes a slew of promises, all pointed at introducing a new agenda to the Big Apple: socialism.Mamdani has promised everything from freezing rent and raising the minimum wage to $30, to constructing affordable housing, providing free public transportation, and offering “no-cost” childcare. One of his more far-fetched ideas is to create a network of...

President Trump continues to ramp up the pressure on Harvard: The university has lost $2.7 billion in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the president is now attempting to bar Harvard from enrolling international students. Harvard is, of course, not alone in these forfeitures: The NIH has terminated over 400 grants to Columbia University, while Cornell University has received 75 stop-work orders from the Department of Defense even as the federal administration has frozen $1.7 billion destined for Brown, Northwestern, and Princeton Universities, as well as the University of Pennsylvania. But...

The Beginning: “A day after OSI training ended nobody knew what to do with me and they had me filing and typing when a Major taped me on the shoulder.” Even then there was less of men actually touching a woman but the idea of sexual harassment or inappropriate touching was slow to catch on. There was nothing inappropriate, I was just startled to be touched by a senior officer. “Colonel Blom* wants to see you. Now.” (An asterisk indicates name changed. Colonels don’t send Majors to fetch a Captain. With a shiver of dread, I knocked at the door...

Independence Day makes Progressives squirm. They despise the principles of the American Revolution. If they could, their scotus judges would gut the Declaration as thoroughly as they have the Constitution. To them, our Noble Declaration, this expression of God-given reason subverts social justice; they are right. Since the Declaration is indeed hostile to their moral relativism, the Left has long attempted to minimize our founding to a fuzzy faith in the people. The “deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,” and “all men are created equal,” translates in their Marxist minds as widespread democracy accompanied with equal...

As those of us in the United States this week celebrate freedom from British governance, consider the many ways that Presbyterianism influenced the decision to enter a war for independence and take up arms against a magistrate: Only a Presbyterian understanding of Romans 13 would allow us to enter a war. The Bible calls for submission to magistrates, but Presbyterians understood the nuances that allowed for rebellion against tyranny. (See James M. Wilson's Establishment and Limits of Civil Goverment for an exposition of Romans 13.) It was psalm singing Presbyterians like Rev. James Caldwell who helped win some battles--when paper...

The Fourth of the July, in a galaxy far, far away. Captain Kirk & the United States Constitution

There has been so much flying around and changing moment-to-moment, that I am unable to track some of the major items in the House bill that Trump will sign. I cannot find an EXTENSIVE punch list or bullet point summary, especially one that includes the status of PBS/NPR.........Has anyone seen an up-to-date source document that summarizes the important line items that was passed yesterday, beyond the few that are identified in headlines??

4 July 2025 Friday of week 13 in Ordinary Time St. Elizabeth of Portugal Church, Sacramento, CAReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingGenesis 23:1-4,19,24:1-8,62-67'Choose a wife for my son Isaac'The length of Sarah’s life was a hundred and twenty-seven years. She died at Kiriath-arba, or Hebron, in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn and grieve for her. Then leaving his dead, Abraham spoke to the sons of Heth: ‘I am a stranger and a settler among you,’ he said. ‘Let me own a burial-plot among you, so that I may take my dead wife...

The start of July Fourth has brought "life-threatening flash flooding" to Kerr County, according to NWS.

@CarlHigbie at Newsmax was able to do more research and found Democrats will begin spraying our lakes and rivers with the toxic chemical Diquat THIS MONDAY JULY 7THHe was also able to find the company is owned by ChemChina @ChrisWebby exposed the details for those who missed it: ‌ After July 4th rivers and lakes are about to start being sprayed with an extremely toxic chemical called Diquat in Connecticut with plans to go nationwide

Bryan Braman, who spent seven years in the NFL and won a Super Bowl with the Eagles in February 2018, has been battling a “life threatening” and “very rare” cancer, according to a GoFundMe page.

As billionaire Elon Musk feuds with President Trump over his signature tax and domestic policy legislation, Musk has reupped his calls to launch a new political party — a daunting task even for the wealthiest person on Earth. Musk first floated launching a third party, dubbed the "America Party," earlier this month, part of a nasty back-and-forth between the president and the Tesla CEO that marked the likely end of their political alliance. Musk raised the idea again this week as lawmakers raced to send the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to Mr. Trump's desk — and this time, Musk...

New pro leagues, increasing audience and investment more a movement than a momentIn July 2020, about five months into the global pandemic, 144 WNBA players gathered in Bradenton, Fla., to play a 22-game condensed season in empty arenas...

Zelensky described the conversation with the US leader as "very important and useful"MOSCOW, July 4. /TASS/. Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky discussed air defense and the situation on the front line with US President Donald Trump amid reports about a pause in Washington’s weapons supplies to Kiev. "We discussed air defense opportunities and agreed to work toward increasing the protection of the skies. And we agreed to hold a corresponding meeting between our teams," Zelensky wrote on his Telegram channel following a phone call with Trump. Zelensky described the conversation as "very important and useful" and said that Trump "is very well...

July 2 (UPI) -- A pair of emus escaped from their home at a Minnesota farm during a storm and turned up several miles from home. Tom Halek said his emus, Sami and Ali, escaped from a partially-open gate on his Rush City property during weekend storms. "I figured the way they can move, who knows where they'd end up," Halek told CBS Minnesota. The emus were spotted near Rush Lake Road on Sunday before wandering miles from home and ending up in Chisago County. "Calling all Emu owners... We did make calls to Liberty Mutual Insurance, this is not...

Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary and is poised to become the next mayor of the Big Apple. He’s young, personable, has amazing charisma, and is being touted by some as the new face of the party. Others are suggesting that Mamdani, with all his attributes, is offering a path forward for Democrats to win in both the midterms and in 2028. These people are just as stupid as Mamdani himself. Mamdani is an avowed socialist who advocates for socialist policies, which are always going to resonate with people who are idiotic, jealous of other people’s wealth, or too lazy...

For a decade, a controversial bid to deter states from regulating artificial intelligence seemed on its way to passing as the Republican tax cut and spending bill championed by President Trump worked its way through the U.S. Senate. But as the bill neared a final vote, a relentless campaign against it by a constellation of conservatives — including Republican governors, lawmakers, think tanks and social groups — had been eroding support. Conservative activist Mike Davis, for example, appeared on the show of right-wing podcaster Stephen K. Bannon, urging viewers to call their senators to reject this “AI amnesty” for “trillion-dollar...

The product of years of Republican effort, the American tax code now blends traditional supply-side economics with President Trump’s populist 2024 campaign promises.When Republicans last set out to change taxation in America, they spent years combing through the details of the internal revenue code. They traveled the country, held hearings and drafted early versions of a bill, eventually passed in 2017, that they hoped would transform a sclerotic tax system with long-held conservative principles.This time around, as Republicans prepared for another opportunity to change how taxes in the world’s largest economy are collected, their core ideas came not from a...

HELL — A wailing, screeching sound was heard from the Devil's office today following the defunding of Planned Parenthood by the United States Government. "NOOOOOOOOOO!" came the sound from Satan's corner office in the 9th circle of Hell. "AAAIIIEEEEEEEEEKKKKKK" Witnesses claim the tortured wail was so inhuman it gave them chills. "It was super creepy," said Hell resident Adolf Hitler. Defunding Planned Parenthood is a major blow to Satan, say sin experts, who confirm he relied heavily on the organization's expert use of pseudoscience to make murdering babies sound like a reasonable medical procedure since no one passes children through...

(TNND) — It’s being called the Trump Effect, arrests of migrants who illegally cross borders into the United States fell to just over 6,000 in June. According to the numbers from Border Czar Tom Homan, the number is a 41 percent decrease from June and the lowest numbers ever. Homan posted this to X, “THE TRUMP EFFECT - Total Border Patrol encounters for the entire month of June 2025 was 6,070. That is less than a single day under Biden. As a matter of fact, the total number of encounters is less than half of a single day under Biden...