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Question: How do you convince a well-educated and sophisticated New Yorker to vote for you? Answer: Give them a free bus ride. This is politics in the Big Apple for 2025. This is the campaign of Zohran Mamdani. For those who have a reasonable amount of spiritual discernment, all that is needed is this: “For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.” [2 John 1:7] For those who don’t mind a bunco battering there is the lazy man’s method of getting scammed....

Ingfbruno/Wikimedia CommonsHarvard University Grade inflation runs so rampant in Harvard University’s undergraduate school that practically everyone graduates with an A average, according to a new report from the school’s Office of Undergraduate Education.“Our grading is too compressed and too inflated, as nearly all faculty recognize; it is also too inconsistent, as students have observed,” wrote Harvard College Dean of Undergraduate Education Amanda Claybaugh. “More importantly, our grading no longer performs its primary functions and is undermining our academic mission.”The 25-page report, issued Monday to faculty and students, is a scathing indictment of a system that prioritizes students’ feelings and...

On October 18, Democrats and other leftist groups held hundreds of “We hate Trump; we hate his supporters” protests that they called the “No Kings” march. The largest demographic group of protesters was older, antagonized white women accompanied by their reluctant, “do-I-have-to-participate” husbands (the second largest group). In contrast to the Democrats’ younger protesters, these elderly (70s and 80s) men and women were civil and even displayed patriotism by waving (not burning) U.S. flags. Surprisingly, they didn’t carry many Palestinian or Mexican flags often seen when Dems protest. Obviously, they received the memo to tone down their hatred of America.The...

There's a bombshell report today exposing socialist New York mayoral candidate Zorhan Mamdani's "missing charity money… illegal campaign donations, and much more," courtesy of The Dana Show's Lorraine Yuriar. "According to evidence provided to The Dana Show," Yuriar reported, "during the COVID lockdowns in New York, Mamdani seems to have at the very least misled a couple of big donors about where their money would actually go." Mamdani was a state assembly candidate at the time, and without getting too deep in the weeds — you can do that at the link — a leaked email chain at least seems...

This would be a peak Babylon Bee joke, except this is REAL. Women in Utah waited in long shopping lines Tuesday for the debut of sleeveless — and sacred — undergarments. Many Mormon women say the upgrade means no longer trading their comfort to feel close to God. Yes. Real headline. Real event.

When it comes to trolling, President Trump takes the trophy. He has made it into an art form, and while much of the MAGA crowd enjoys it, his trolling drives the Left crazy. He’s getting a great deal of criticism for doing it, but there are those folks who enjoy his mastery:The goal for online behavior and mainstream media engagement remains the same: titillate Trump supporters while angering the left. In a word, trolling.So far, it’s working, whether it’s Trump’s infomercial for Musk’s electric vehicles, DHS chief Kristi Noem’s cosplay theatrics [with weapons] or FBI Director Kash Patel posting a...

On November 28, 1978, I arrived in Rome with other émigrés from the USSR, and I was stunned by what I saw. The entire city was covered with portraits of Lenin, Che Guevara, and Fidel Castro, and decorated with red flags—even more so than Moscow on the anniversary of the October Revolution. An endless procession of beautiful Italian nurses walked along Via Veneto, Rome’s main street, carrying giant banners: “WE WANT FREE MEAT TWICE A WEEK, LIKE IN THE SOVIET UNION!” We fresh émigrés from the USSR looked at each other in amazement. Since 1917, only prison sentences had been...

Nepo babies of the world, unite! A man is not his father, but Zohran Mamdani's views on 9/11, terrorism, and Western culture may have been informed by the radical claims made in a book by his father, Mahmood Mamdani, a well-off, prominent left-wing academic.Zohran Mamdani’s father Mahmood — a prominent leftist in his own right — penned a book in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 where he argued that there was a “moral equivalence” between the United States and al-Qaeda, compared the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan to the terrorist destruction of the World Trade Center, blamed...

ARLINGTON, VA — As the government shut-down drags on, furloughed TSA agents have begun going door-to-door offering to grope people for free. Despite no longer being paid, TSA agents have voluntarily walked the streets to keep patting people down with their little blue goves. "I've been knocking doors all over Arlington for the last few days, just hoping to frisk someone," said Brayden Sharmer, a TSA agent. "I also offer to shout at people to take their shoes off, then belittle them for not knowing that you don't have to take your shoes off. It's a calling." Several TSA agents...

Former U.S. president and censorship proponent Barack Obama’s fingerprints are all over an emerging story that reveals that the left’s quest for global censorship has moved forward unabated by the election of Donald Trump in 2024. According to investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger, the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, on Sept. 24, “hosted a secret dinner between its leaders and top censorship officials from Europe, UK, Brazil, California and Australia.” see post https://x.com/walterkirn/status/1983334224024481920? Shellenberger points to the continued pressure governments around the world are placing on the major tech platforms to conform to a “unified” set of censorship standards. While the altruistic...

"In Washington, D.C., the government shutdown is about to enter its fifth week. Negotiations remain at a standstill, the issue of healthcare funding for undocumented immigrants being one of the main sticking points between Democrats and Republicans. According to Washington Post reporter David Ovalle, it is a debate riddled with misleading claims. Ovalle joins the show." 17 min. video at link.

The New York City artist behind an antisemitic and Hamas-obsessed installation on taxpayer-funded Governors Island was caught on camera going berserk when probed about the hate-filled artwork.Rebecca Goyette flipped out when The Post approached her on Tuesday to ask a simple question after her so-called artwork sparked outrage when it sprung up at a weekend family Halloween event.“Get the f–k away from me, what are you doing?” she shrieked as she tried to shield her face under her hooded sweatshirt.Rebecca Goyette flipped out, shrieking “Get the f–k away from me,” when The Post asked how about reactions to her work...

More than 150 individuals in Trump’s orbit faced scrutiny by the FBI after Biden’s attorney general approved the opening of an investigation related to the Trump campaign’s use of alternative electors. Documents released Tuesday by the House Judiciary Committee reveal that during the Biden Administration, the FBI used the Arctic Frost investigation to target Republicans in key battleground states, raising serious questions concerning whether the Democrat-led DOJ plotted with state prosecutors to bring criminal charges against Trump supporters.“Arctic Frost investigators utilized FBI field offices from across the country to conduct its investigation,” the House Judiciary Committee explained in releasing nearly...

A 48-year-old Central Florida woman was arrested for allegedly verbally assaulting several people including a student on a school bus. On Monday, Latanya Rowe entered the bus as it was stopped to pick up students for Davenport High School, according to a press release from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. Officials said Rowe cursed at a student regarding an incident that occurred on Oct. 24 among the student and the woman’s son and daughter. Rowe also cursed out the bus driver for not “handling the situation,” according to the report. She refused to leave the bus for nearly an hour,...

Rami Glikstein, 58, a lecturer in the IDF from Jerusalem, was walking toward the popular kosher restaurant Mr. Broadway on West 38th Street around 12:40 p.m. when the unprovoked assault occurred. pic of victim According to police and a detailed post Glikstein shared on Facebook, a man dressed entirely in black approached him aggressively and shouted, “What the f** is your religion?”* Video of attack Before Glikstein could respond, the attacker ripped the kippah from his head, threw it to the ground, spit on it and stomped on it in open contempt. As Glikstein attempted to move away, the assailant...

What I want everyone at COP30 to know. Climate change is serious, but we’ve made great progress. We need to keep backing the breakthroughs that will help the world reach zero emissions. But we can’t cut funding for health and development—programs that help people stay resilient in the face of climate change—to do it. It’s time to put human welfare at the center of our climate strategies, which includes reducing the Green Premium to zero and improving agriculture and health in poor countries. There’s a doomsday view of climate change that goes like this:In a few decades, cataclysmic climate change...

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) for state employees lost 71 percent of a $468 million private equity investment into clean energy. Because CalPERS pension benefits are only 79 percent funded, the California taxpayer and state government have to make up for the other 21 percent. With a high pension shortfall of $180 billion, CalPERS’ investment strategies into private equity have come under scrutiny, per The Center Square: CalPERS committed $465 million to the private equity CalPERS Clean Energy & Technology Fund (CETF) in 2007, ultimately paying in $468,423,814. Since then, the cash out and remaining investment value of...

FOX News contributor Mollie Hemingway on Tuesday's broadcast of "The Ingraham Angle" discussed the current state of the Democratic Party and examined leaders such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, and former Rep. Katie Porter.LAURA INGRAHAM, FOX NEWS: The bottom line is, if you don't agree with their radicalism, you don't exist. You shouldn't exist. Here to discuss is Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief of The Federalist, Mary Katharine Ham, Outkick columnist.Both are FOX News contributors. Mollie, let's start with you. I mean, this AOC obsession with Riley Gaines, I find it just delicious because it kind of, you know, it...

WASHINGTON (TNND) — Ex-CNN host Don Lemon, who purports himself to be an outspoken ally for the LGBTQ community, said that conservative commentator Megyn Kelly "looks trans." In his new podcast "Clip Farmers," Lemon and his co-hosts were discussing the appearance of "MAGA women." One of Lemon's co-hosts asked Lemon if he thought Kelly was "chopped," which is slang for ugly.

Wallace’s claim that no Democrat has ever suggested Trump is Hitler is demonstrably false.MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace said Monday that she doesn’t think “any Democrat has” suggested that President Donald Trump is Hitler — but the record shows Democrats and their media allies have long run an assassination prep campaign against the president.During Monday’s interview, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker fearmongered about the rise of “authoritarianism” in the United States under Trump, claiming that Trump is “following precisely a kind of playbook that we’ve seen throughout history.” Wallace chimed in to suggest that comparing Trump to Hitler is “not a partisan analysis”...