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Long Island Rep. Laura Gillen is urging the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to hold an emergency hearing on the nationwide “surge” in deadly traffic accidents — after an unsettling investigation revealed that a serious car crash occurs every seven minutes on Long Island. “The failure to secure our roads has led to thousands of lives being cut short, families being ripped apart, and a terrible void being left in too many communities,” Gillen wrote in her letter compelling the committee to take action. The Democratic lawmaker’s campaign comes after an investigation by Newsday revealed that Long Island drivers get...

The Democrat Party is on an impressive losing streak. The Dems comprehensively lost the 2024 presidential election, they're obsessively focused on being on the 20 side of the 80-20 transgender athletes issue, and then they elected David Hogg as the Democratic National Committee's Vice Chair. Hogg, not known as one of the country's brightest thinkers, is using his newfound importance as vice chair to make media appearances and demonstrate in exact detail why he was a terrific choice to lead the party. If you're a Republican. In a CBS News appearance this week, Hogg said in an interview that his...

Bangkok -- Search teams in Myanmar recovered more bodies from the ruins of buildings on Friday, a week after a massive earthquake killed more than 3,100 people, as the focus turns toward the urgent humanitarian needs in a country already devastated by a continuing civil war. United Nations humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher, who is also the emergency relief coordinator, will visit the area on Friday in an effort to spur action following the March 28 quake. Ahead of the visit, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to the international community to immediately step up funding for quake victims “to match the...

Sunny Hostin told her co-hosts Friday on ABC’s “The View” that President Donald Trump’s second term was an “existential crisis.” According to Hostin, Democrats need to stop playing by the rules. When asked about politicians skipping town halls, Hostin said, “It’s very un-American, and it’s cowardly. If you are just, you know, stepping in line the way Republicans generally do behind a candidate that is harming the economy, I mean, you need to listen to the people that put you in office. Instead of being so concerned about maintaining power, why not be more concerned with helping people? That’s the...

The Democrats claim that there is a constitutional crisis taking place because Donald Trump is exerting control over the federal government. To that end, they’ve turned to activist judges to issue emergency injunctions freezing all Trump’s actions to end waste, abuse, and fraud in the government. However, 157 years ago, the Supreme Court laid down the law: Managing the federal government is the president’s job, and courts may not interfere. The only option is impeachment, not legal action, for this is a political issue. As a lawyer, you’d think I would have known about the Supreme Court’s 1867 decision in...

Forty years ago, a radio personality coined the phrase “jump the shark” in reference to the episode of the sitcom “Happy Days” in which the character Fonzie (Henry Winkler) jumps over a live shark on water skis. The term is often applied to dying franchises that turn to sensational language or scenes to try to revive the fading interest of the public. More often, you jump the shark and land in utter obscurity. This week, the Democratic Party jumped the shark. For years, Dems and their allies pushed the absurd claim that democracy was about to die if Joe Biden...

Yes, We’re In A Constitutional Crisis — And It’s Democrats’ FaultThe American people need more than just the elected executive to be engaged in this fight. We need Congress to wake up.Democrats claim we’re in a constitutional crisis because President Trump believes — and acts on the belief — that the executive should control the executive branch. It is a crisis their party has forced on Americans for the last 125 years.It was the Democrat Party of Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson who designed an administrative state to be unaccountable to voters and to ultimately...

Agrowing number of legislators in the United States are formally recognizing racism as a public health crisis. Resolutions introduced in both the Senate and House of Representatives seek to highlight the impact of systemic racism on public health and push for federal action to address health disparities. Why It Matters Declaring racism a public health crisis is not just symbolic. Public health experts and advocates argue that systemic racism directly affects health outcomes, leading to higher rates of chronic disease, maternal mortality and reduced life expectancy for communities of color. The COVID-19 pandemic further underscored these disparities, with communities of...

Mayor Eric Adams begged state lawmakers on Tuesday to fork over another $1.1 billion to deal with the migrant crisis ASAP — even though the governor isn’t budging. Hizzoner said the Big Apple needs the dough in 12 weeks as Adams’ opponents quickly questioned how City Hall cooked up the massive number on its wish list. But Adams was adamant that the city — which he said spent more than $6.9 billion during the years-long migrant crisis — relied on the money, despite him also crowing about his administration’s “savings” and steps to reduce the number of migrants in the...

Likely Dem primary voters in the upcoming mayoral election overwhelmingly say New York City is in crisis — with nearly half saying that if things get any worse, they may leave, a dismal new survey shows. The pessimism is broad and deep. Eighty percent of the respondents say they are worried about the current level of crime, while 75% believe their city is in a state of crisis, and 70% are “fearful and anxious” about its future, according to the poll by Democratic strategists with the Honan Strategy Group. Advertisement

President Trump had a “firm” phone conversation with Denmark’s prime minister last week to convey his serious intentions of acquiring Greenland, according to a report citing officials privy to the talk. Trump has been aggressive in his desire to make Greenland a US territory to bolster national security in the Arctic region — and has even refused to rule out using “military force” to get it. The Danish government, which has ownership of the largest island in the world, has said Greenland is not for sale and will not be a part of the US. Trump’s conversation with Danish PM...

The following video features an interview with James Simpson, the author of Manufactured Crisis: The War to End America. Mr. Simpson’s book — and his conversation with Vlad — focuses on the efforts of socialists and communists to subvert American institutions by exacerbating crises within them — or creating crises if none are immediately available to exploit. The pattern of crisis-generation involves two clashing ideological viewpoints — the classical Hegelian dialectic — which can only be resolved by applying the “solution” offered by Marxist ideologues. In particular, Mr. Simpson and Vlad highlight the Cloward-Piven strategy, which was formulated more than...

Texas has held the line against the Biden-Harris border crisis for the past four years ... the state’s efforts to crack down on illegal immigration and Tren de Aragua (TdA) migrant gang activity have reduced illegal crossings by nearly 90% and resulted in close to 50,000 criminal arrests. ... led to 530,400 illegal immigrant apprehensions and over 49,900 criminal arrests, with more than 42,900 felony charges... Texas became the first state to build a border wall on its own, continuing border wall construction at strategic points despite Biden putting a stop to it . ... Our top priority is the...

Amid an escalating bird flu outbreak spreading in the United States, federal health officials have begun to brief members of the incoming Trump administration about how they’ve responded to the crisis so far. “We sent them all of the information on our work,” said a Biden administration health official familiar with transition briefings within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s the first indication that the two administrations appear to be working together to prioritize the H5N1 response. Until now, it was unclear whether the Biden White House and Trump’s incoming health team had discussed bird flu in any...

California residents have long been struggling with insurance companies that no longer want to protect their homes, and thousands of policies — including around 1,600 in the now-devastated Pacific Palisades neighborhood — were dropped in the months leading up to this week’s wildfires. Out of the approximately 8,900 occupied housing units in Los Angeles’s Pacific Palisades, nearly 80 percent are owner-occupied, according to 2022 U.S. Census data obtained by Point2Homes. State Farm dropped a staggering 1,600 home insurance policies in the neighborhood in July, equivalent to about 18 percent of the owner-occupied homes, California Department of Insurance (CDI) spokesman Michael...

American credit card defaults have risen to the highest levels since the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis as consumers grapple with years of high inflation. Credit card lenders wrote off $46 billion in delinquent loan balances in the first three quarters of 2024, a 50 percent increase from the same period last year. These forms of write-offs are are viewed as a highly monitored measure of loan distress. This is the highest level since 2010, according to industry data gathered by BankRegData. Mark Zandi, the head of Moody’s Analytics, said, “High-income households are fine, but the bottom third of...

New York City’s biggest overtime hogs for a second straight year are mostly rank-and-file workers responsible for tackling the Big Apple’s $6 billion-plus migrant crisis, The Post has learned. Fifty-one of the 100 city employees who racked up the most OT during the fiscal year ending June 30 work at the Departments of Social Services and Homeless Services, and their duties include assisting migrants, an examination of city payroll records shows. Each worker accumulated at least 1,851 hours in extra pay. Leading the way was Kashwayne Burnett, a DSS bookkeeper who worked 3,303 hours of overtime in the agency’s Manhattan...

A New Jersey congressman suggested that the mystery drones over the Garden State are Iranian, and they’re coming from a mothership parked off the East Coast. Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a Republican, said the drones “very possibly could be” from Iran, citing confidential sources during an appearance on Fox News Wednesday morning. “These drones should be shot down,” he said, adding that “the military is on full alert with this.” He did not reveal where he got the information. Van Drew, whose district includes most of the Jersey Shore, sits on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. “I’m going to...

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) stated that he can protect certain illegal immigrants because “We’ve done it already” with how they handled the surge of migrants to the city, which was better than any other city. Adams said that while the sanctuary city law has gone too far in some cases, “[W]e’re telling our residents here, if you have children, put them in school. If you need medical care, our medical facilities will do so. If you’re a victim of a crime, you don’t have to be afraid to go to...

Extract: There is no such thing as a tactical nuclear missile. There is no such thing as a limited nuclear war. Once the nuclear genie is out of the bottle the globalists will use it start a massive war with Russia. Putin would be open to Trump peace talks.