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Nassau County Republican romped at the polls Tuesday partly because a strategy to tie local Democrats to Zohran Mamdani “clearly worked” because his socialist agenda has “no allure in the suburbs,” insiders claimed. Mamdani’s progressive policies fueled his victory in the city Tuesday as Democratic candidates won in high-profile races in New Jersey and elsewhere — but those policies were ballot poison just over the border on Long Island, insiders said. “We sent the message that there is a big red line between New York City and [Nassau County],” John Ferretti, who was elected as Hempstead’s town supervisor, said on...

Dinesh is relentlessly attacking Tucker Carlson for not being more critical of Nick Fuentes during their interview, but here’s a clip of @DineshDSouza heaping praise on @NickJFuentes after their debate on Infowars ~ a month ago. Why the sudden hypocrisy and double standard?D'Souza to Fuentes in the video: "I commend you. I don't think I've met too many 26-year olds with kind of confidence and background knowledge you have. So, it's been a pleasure for me to engage with you."

The late Charlie Kirk's wife, Erika, revealed in an interview with Fox News' Jesse Watters that her husband "loved Saint Michael." The exclusive interview premiered on November 5. It was Erika's first sit-down discussion since Charlie was killed on Sept. 10, 2025. "When we first started dating," Erika begins, "I asked him, 'Why don't you wear a cross? You say you're a Christian, but you don't wear a cross.' "He said, 'I don't know. I'm not a jewelry guy.' "So for his first birthday present, I got him this cross. Throughout time, I would always add different medals to it....

We have met the enemy of civilization, and it’s women. Not individual women, mind you. Because any given individual woman can possess masculine characteristics. And certainly not homemakers — those are the women who are doing the job they’ve done for millenniums, taking care of the family. No, the challenge to civilization is presented, in the view of Helen Andrews, a writer and editor who served as a senior editor at The American Conservative, by the women who are entering the workplace in such great numbers that they now make up large portions or majorities of their professions. In that...

Former NFL star Antonio Brown has been arrested on an attempted murder charge stemming from a shooting after a celebrity boxing event in Miami, police confirmed Thursday. Miami police spokesperson Mike Vega said Brown, 37, was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. He was flown to Essex County, New Jersey, where he is being held pending extradition to Miami, Vega said. It was unclear why Brown was taken to New Jersey first or how long he had been in Dubai, although he has posted several times on social media over the past few...

A Seattle sex offender who had previously been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole is now accused of the 1994 murder of 14-year-old Tanya Frazier. On Thursday, King County prosecutors charged Mark Anthony Russ, 57, with one count of murder in the first degree with a sexual motivation after Seattle police said they linked him to Frazier's murder through DNA. In 1996, Russ was given a life sentence under Washington's persistent offender law, also known as "3 strikes," after being convicted of several violent crimes in the 1980s and 1990s. His life sentence was vacated due...

The U.S. Coast Guard has announced a record-breaking 510,000 pounds of cocaine seized during fiscal year 2025, marking the largest interdiction haul in the service’s history. Yet this achievement has been eclipsed by mounting international criticism of the Trump Administration over its parallel military campaign that has killed more than five dozen people since early September.

The Justice Department moved Thursday to block a federal magistrate judge’s order requiring prosecutors to immediately turn over grand jury materials in the criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey. U.S. Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick stunned prosecutors Wednesday when he made the rare decision to order them to provide the materials to Comey’s defense team by the end of Thursday, expressing concern that the Department of Justice may have “indicted first and investigated later.”Comey has pleaded not guilty to charges that he lied to Congress in 2020 about authorizing leaks to the media concerning the Hillary Clinton email investigation...

As SNAP benefits remain frozen, many Oklahoma families struggle with transportation to access food pantries, while local charities offer some assistance. Leveda Jordan Smith, a mother of three from southeast Oklahoma City, is among the over 600,000 residents who relied on SNAP benefits before the shutdown. "Being a mother of 3, not receiving SNAP benefits has made it harder for us to figure out where our next meal is gonna come from, if we're gonna have enough to stretch by," Smith said. Smith, who does not have a driver's license, depends on her significant other, friends, and family members for...

A federal appeals court on Thursday let President Trump revive his bid to overturn his criminal conviction in the hush money case.The U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals is allowing Trump to argue before a lower court to move his case to federal court, The Hill news outlet reported.Last year, Trump was convicted on 34 counts in New York state court of falsifying business records for a hush money scheme to keep quiet his alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election.A three-judge panel on the appeals court ruled that it “cannot be confident” a...

OP-ED: The Enemy's Three Enemies. The Real Reasons for the Trouble Triggered by the Mother of Godby Professor Massimo Viglione*TOTA PULCHRA ES MARIAYears ago, I wrote that the predictable outcome of Conciliar Gnostic Ecumenism would be the progressive, steady, but definitive and unavoidable expurgation from the formerly Catholic (but now hyper-modernist) religion, of the three essential elements forming the Church's Divine and human nature. In ascending order:1) Mary Most Holy2) The Eucharist3) The Most Holy TrinityThese three elements, in fact, are absolutely and inveterately, unreconcilable with interreligious “dialogue” and principally, with its main goal, i.e. the creation of a Gnostic,...

The NYPD became aware of the graffiti on a Magen David Yeshiva school in Brooklyn in the morning after the election. A New York Jewish day school was vandalized with swastika graffiti on Tuesday night, the New York Police Department and Governor Kathy Hochul said in statements on Wednesday.The NYPD became aware of the graffiti on a Magen David Yeshiva school in Brooklyn in the morning. The swastikas were spray-painted on multiple construction barriers.Antisemitism is at a record high. We're keeping our eyes on it >>Governor Kathy Hochul said on X that the school was one of several Jewish sites...

Ukraine is facing a “forever war” and a slow erosion of territory unless Europe dramatically increases pressure on Russia, including by deploying troops and establishing a missile and drone shield on Nato territory to protect Ukraine from Russian attacks on its infrastructure, a former Nato secretary general has said. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who held the Nato post from 2009 to 2014 and was the prime minister of Denmark from 2001 to 2009, said in an interview with the Guardian that if countries such as Poland agreed to host such air defences, Russia would understand that an attack on them would...

The U.S. Supreme Court may be busy juggling cases from its ongoing term, but that hasn’t stopped Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett from making time to speak directly to the American people. On Oct. 31, the Trump appointee participated in a sit-down interview with the Hoover Institution’s Peter Robinson. Released on Wednesday, the more than hour-long exchange covered Barrett’s recently released book and a myriad of issues relevant to the Supreme Court and America’s ongoing political discourse. From the origins of originalist jurisprudence to the limited power of lower courts, here are some of the most compelling remarks from one...

The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to enforce a policy blocking transgender and nonbinary people from choosing passport sex markers that align with their gender identity. The decision is Trump’s latest win on the court's emergency docket, and allows the administration to enforce the policy while a lawsuit over it plays out. It halts a lower-court order requiring the government to keep letting people choose male, female or X on their passport to line up with their gender identity on new or renewed passports. The court’s three liberal justices dissented

The election results were hardly a surprise. The polls have indicated what the results would be for many weeks. Conservatives hoped they were wrong, that reason, history, and morality would prevail, but sadly, the voters in N.Y., California, Virginia, and New Jersey gave themselves over to the dark side.How can we explain those voters who have elected a communist, a Marxist jihadist, in NYC? A wannabe murderer in Virginia (Jay Jones), a man who fantasized via texts about murdering his opponent and seeing his children murdered in their mother’s arms? They elected him along with a woman (Abigail Spanberger) who...

The Senate on Thursday voted down an effort to block President Donald Trump from conducting strikes against alleged drug smugglers off the coast of Venezuela without congressional approval. The War Powers Resolution, introduced by Democratic Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, failed to pass the upper chamber 51 to 49, just a day after Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth briefed top congressional members on the strikes — which some Democrats claimed lacked details on the operations. The resolution would have required Trump “to terminate the use of” U.S. armed forces “for hostilities within or against Venezuela,”...

Escape from New York is the name of a 1981 film. Now it’s also, many fear, going to be a reality with Mayor-elect Zohran Kwame Mamdani’s impending socialist makeover of NYC. Why, commentator Bill O’Reilly has predicted that his ascendancy will spark an exodus of 765,000-one million Big Apple residents. This, of course, would involve the loss of significant capital.Yet this is all predicated on the idea that Mamdani’s promises reflect principles more than positions of convenience. And while he is a radical, he’s also a power seeker who surely aspires to higher office. So questions arise:Will Mamdani go the...

President Trump made an announcement today in the oval office highlighting two Rx companies, Eli Lilly and Company and Novo Nordisk, to dramatically reduce the prices Americans pay for some of the world’s most popular drugs. [Fact Sheet Here] Following the drug company announcement President Trump took questions from the media. The press Q&A is below and the full video including the announcement is below the fold. WATCH:

In A Nutshell Around 3,500 BCE in central Jordan, people built over 95 stone burial monuments (dolmens) and standing stone structures on hilltops, creating a ceremonial gathering place that remained active for roughly 200 years. These monuments appeared during a crisis period when the Chalcolithic way of life was ending: large settlements had been abandoned, trade networks collapsed, and climate data shows a severe drought around 3,400 BCE. Unlike typical residential sites, Murayghat had no hearths or permanent housing—instead, excavations found massive 27-liter pottery bowls (suggesting communal feasts), ritual grinding stones stained with red ochre, and animal horn cores. Researchers...