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'Do you know how far down the list you have to get before you can get to anything remotely recommendable about Nicolas Maduro?'Who gives a s***!" That was Ben Shapiro’s response to Tucker Carlson's argument that Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro has some great qualities, like his opposition to gay marriage. "Who gives a s***!" Shapiro said. "The guy's a communist dictator. Everyone in his country is eating dog. He's shipping fentanyl to the United States to kill Americans. I don't give a shit whether he's anti-LGBTQ rights. This is the number one thing about Nicolas Maduro? Do you know how...

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander has drawn outrage for claiming that giving each of the tens of thousands of migrants pouring into the Big Apple free legal representation could net billions in economic benefits for New York state. Lander’s office said in a report that coughing up individual lawyers to rep migrants could prevent roughly 53,000 asylum seekers from being deported across the Empire State — resulting in an estimated net benefit of $8.4 billion for local, state and federal governments. “Access to work authorization leads to higher wages. The higher earning power generates more tax revenue. Higher personal...