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If the pundits and politicians are right, New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s agonized and belated departure from the November 4 general election is unlikely to realign the now three-way contest that favors the avowed socialist and Islamic candidate Zohran Mamdani. Adams’s farewell message was “I urge New Yorkers to choose our leaders not by what they promise but by what they have delivered.” When Adams finally acceded to political reality on Sunday, polls showed him at 7-10%, Mamdani at 40-45%, former Governor Andrew Cuomo at 25-30% and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa at 15-18%. It’s apparent to most that, no...

Chuck Norris just climbed an active volcano. At 85-years-old. The martial arts legend and Walker, Texas Ranger star hiked Lassen Peak, a 10,457-foot volcano in Northern California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park last month, and he posted photos on Instagram to prove it. "What a day! I had the pleasure of hiking Lassen Peak once again," Norris captioned the post. "While it was heartbreaking to see the damage left behind by the 2021 Dixie Fire, the park’s beauty still shines through. Walking those trails brought back so many wonderful memories. My wife grew up around these parts, and I’ll always be...

Why did Frank Kendall think he could get away with such a blatant lie? One that could be so easily, utterly, debunked? Did he assume that the only people who watch Nicolle Wallace's show are fellow lefties who would nod their heads in agreement no matter how outlandish the hogwash he might spew? Notice to liberals who might be tempted to follow in Frank's foolish footsteps: we're out here, watching. NewsBusters' mission is to expose and counter liberal media bias. We, along with other conservative outlets, monitor MSNBC and CNN. You're very unlikely to get away with such a pathetic,...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) are scrutinizing major corporations for filing thousands of H-1B skilled labor visa petitions after conducting mass layoffs of American employees. “In evaluating the high unemployment rate for American tech workers, we cannot ignore the massive, ongoing layoffs ordered by you and your peers in Big Tech C-suites over the past few years … At the same time you have been laying off your employees, you have been filing H-1B visa petitions for [thousands of] foreign workers,” Grassley and Durbin wrote in letters to 10 major employers in...

The 2025 Ligonier Ministries State of Theology survey (conducted with LifeWay Research) found that 36% of U.S. evangelicals reject the statement “Everyone is born innocent in the eyes of God”, implying they affirm original sin (born in a state of guilt and corruption due to Adam's fall). This is the closest indicator, as belief in original sin directly entails death as its consequence (e.g., spiritual and physical separation from God). Conversely, 64% affirmed born innocence, denying original sin and its effects like death.

A Midvale mother was arrested Tuesday after police say was torturing her 4-month-old baby daughter by doing such things as burning her face, taping her mouth shut and taping her hands behind her back. Lizbeth Hurtado-Breton, 36, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of child torture and two counts of aggravated child abuse. On Tuesday, the Division of Child and Family Services contacted Unified police after a a young girl was taken to Primary Children's Hospital with severe burns on her face. "The child also has several bone fractures and a brain bleed and several other...

Many of us who work in politics have felt sickened since the assassination of Charlie Kirk. We sense that a line has been crossed, perhaps permanently. For years, the Left had accused conservative intellectuals of fomenting “stochastic terrorism”—incendiary rhetoric that inspires violence. This accusation was used to purge conservatives from social media, and, during the Biden administration, contributed to the F.B.I.’s decision to monitor conservatives, including parents who opposed critical race theory. The Left sought to use the stochastic terrorism construction as an all-purpose censorship tool. This year, the tables have turned. Donald Trump is in power and left-wing violence...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) are reintroducing bipartisan legislation to reform and close loopholes in the H-1B and L-1 visa programs. The H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act targets fraud and abuse in our immigration system, provides protections for American workers and visa holders and enhances transparency in the foreign worker recruitment process. Grassley and Durbin have long partnered to improve the H-1B visa system and first introduced their bipartisan legislation in 2007. Last week, the senators sent letters to 10 major U.S. employers, including Amazon, Google and Meta, scrutinizing their heavy...

Changes are brewing — and they could be a sign of a decline in living standards. Maxwell House recently announced it will be changing its name for the first time in 133 years, rebranding to “Maxwell Apartment.” While the coffee blend will remain the same with the same “taste, aroma, quality and ingredients,” the rebrand is in name only to represent the reality of today’s consumers. Nearly a third of Americans are now renting smaller places, rather than purchasing full-size homes — and the coffee giant wants to reflect that stat with its temporary rebrand. “Two-thirds of American adults drink...

Image credit: Gary Todd / Public Domain) When researchers digitally reconstructed a crushed skull unearthed in China, they made a surprising discovery, revealing features that could potentially alter the story of our beginnings. Researchers believe the skull, known as Yunxian 2, is approximately one million years old. This finding suggests that the lineages leading to modern humans and their relatives may have existed at least half a million years earlier than previously believed. The “Muddle in the Middle” The stretch of time between one million and 300,000 years ago has presented challenges for scientists studying human evolution. Fossils from this...

@SenRandPaul We were told to mask up between peanuts or be treated like we were taking down the plane. That kind of absurdity fed secret watchlists where spite or bias could brand us threats. We ended Quiet Skies, but we must stop government secrecy, over-classification, and surveillance of Americans.

An explosion has occurred in a New York City high-rise just a short time ago, with emergency crews responding. The residential building suffered some sort of catastrophic explosion this morning resulting in a gaping hole remaining. While a gas explosion is being considered, as I write there is no confirmation yet on exactly what sparked the blast. No injuries have been reported at the time of this report, but emergency crews are still responding with reports of bomb sniffing dogs on scene — visible in some of the footage. A large portion of the 20-story building collapsed, now laying in...

Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today introduced the Visa Cap Enforcement Act. This bill restricts the ability of universities, research institutions, and non-profits to hire an unlimited number of foreign workers. “Colleges and universities shouldn’t get special treatment for bringing in woke and anti-American professors from around the world. My bill closes these loopholes that universities have abused for far too long,” said Senator Cotton. Text of the bill can be found here. The Visa Cap Enforcement Act would: Eliminate four exemptions to the H-1B visa cap, including one for foreigners who hold a master’s degree or higher from a U.S....

The information is going to come out to the public in the same format from which it was created, the “silo format.” It is up to us, the independent thinking American people, to force the silo administrators to understand how it all connects.The connections will not be made willingly by any entity, friend or foe, inside Washington DC. Instead, willful blindness will permeate each revelation as it is discovered. DC does not want us to see how it all connects. It is up to us to put the puzzle together, then shove the undeniable resulting image in their face.♦ DATA...

Thank you Chuck. Throughout my limited political activity I have always come across folks that want to help. "What can I do?" Is a commonly heard question. Here is your perfect chance to do something. All politicians dislike when they get hammered for doing bad stuff. Too often they do not receive praise for doing a good thing. If you feel the urge to thank Chuck, please remember to use your indoor, civil voice. Here are the office and fax numbers to use when thanking Chuck for allowing President Trump to further streamline the bloat. Washington DC: 202-224-6542, fax 202-228-3027Albany...

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration’s effort to deport pro-Palestinian academics is a deliberate attack on free speech meant to “strike fear” into non-citizen students and chill campus protests. “The effect of these targeted deportation proceedings continues unconstitutionally to chill freedom of speech to this day,” U.S. District Judge William Young concluded, in a scathing, 161-page opinion that he described as the most crucial he’s delivered in his 30 years on the bench. Young, a Reagan appointee based in Boston, did not immediately order changes to administration policies, but said he will hold further proceedings on how...

Democrats sure do revere criminals and illegals. Remember when, during January’s presidential address to the joint session of Congress, the Democrats refused to stand or applaud for the Laken Riley Act, passed in honor of the young girl murdered by an illegal migrant on the campus of the University of Georgia? They sat on their hands, as they did when the young cancer patient, DJ Daniel, was introduced. When the mothers of other victims of illegal rapists and murderers, Jocelyn Nungaray and Rachel Morin, for example, speak publicly, the Democrats cannot be bothered to comment. There are 13,000 illegal migrants...

Banderism to become a crime in Poland.Ever since the war in Ukraine started, neighboring Poland has absorbed over a million citizens fleeing the conflict.While most are contributing to Polish society, many are just enjoying social benefits, and – what’s much worse – some bring with themselves the neo-Nazi cult of Kiev regime hero Stepan Bandera.Any neo-Nazi cult would be bad enough, but Bandera is the man responsible for the WW2-era Volyn massacre of Poles that took over a hundred thousand lives.Polish President Karol Nawrocki sent to the Sejm (parliament) an amendment to the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance...

I remember living in New York City decades ago when I saw ads suggesting that we straight white devils "tolerate" the gay crowd. Then we were pressured to "accept" them. As a liberal in the Big Apple, I thought this was a waste of social pressure. New York City was and is as gay-friendly as a San Francisco bathhouse. But the truth is, tolerance and acceptance were never going to be enough. Nor was that even the goal. The Supreme Court (no, not President Barack Obama) legalized gay marriage ten years ago. Rather than take an expected victory lap, the...

Charlie Kirk is dead. Americans must face why.His murder was not random, not confusing, not detached from the battles he fought so fiercely in life. It was the direct consequence of his bold refusal to bend before one of the most aggressive and destabilizing ideologies of our time: transgender radicalism.For years, Kirk warned about the dangers of this movement. Not just its cultural consequences, but the deeper crisis of mental illness and violence it has unleashed across the nation. In the end, his voice was silenced by precisely the pestilence he spent his career opposing.The facts are painfully clear. On...