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On Tuesday’s broadcast of New York’s Power 105.1’s “The Breakfast Club,” 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris argued that her proposed down payment assistance for first-time homebuyers won’t “have an unintended effect, because that increases the demand for home ownership, which is going to have an impact, also, on supply.” And talked about parts of her plan to boost housing supply. Harris said, “$25,000 down payment assistance for first-time homebuyers, let me tell you why that’s not going to have an unintended effect, because that increases the demand for home ownership, which is going to have an impact,...

Fernando Cluster trusted Emory University Hospital Midtown to perform a delicate procedure requiring the temporary removal of part of his skull. But, when it was time to put the piece back, Cluster says medical personnel lost it – and then charged him thousands of dollars for it.(snip) Except, when preparing for the procedure on November 11, 2022, his bone flap was nowhere to be found.(SNIP)According to the lawsuit, Cluster would wait almost two weeks for a synthetic implant flap to be manufactured. His cranioplasty was rescheduled for November 23, 2022.After the procedure, Cluster's family was allegedly charged $146,845.60, which included...

Vladimir Putin faces yet another military farce after Russian bomber planes mistakenly dropped four bombs on a Russian village near the Ukrainian border - and it is far from the first time this has happened. Vladimir Putin's military force dropped four glide bombs intended for attacks on Ukraine's Kharkiv region on the Russian village of Shebekino instead last week. Shebekino is a village in the border region of Belgorod region, which has often borne the burnt of Ukrainian drone strikes. The Belgorod region houses several Russian military bases and training grounds. It has recently been rocked by near-daily explosions as...

Darwin contestant. He lived though.

A federal prosecutor who allegedly interfered in the criminal investigation of Hunter Biden to protect both President Biden and his son recently left the Justice Department, The Post has learned. Former Delaware assistant US attorney Lesley Wolf’s quiet departure emerged as she appeared for a deposition with the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday morning — following the Wednesday night House vote to formally authorize the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden over his role in his son and brother’s foreign business dealings. Wolf’s starring role in the alleged Justice Department coverup of the criminal investigation of alleged tax fraud and foreign-lobbying...

University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill is learning that free speech has a cost. She, along with Claudine Gay and Sally Kornbluth, the presidents of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, respectively, testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, where Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) asked all three women if calls for Jewish genocide constituted harassment. All three ladies gave waffled answers that were both cold and insipid to the more significant issue of the antisemitism facing Jewish students amid the war in Gaza. A University of Pennsylvania donor is withdrawing a gift worth around $100 million to...

I hope you are sitting down when you read this article. There is absolutely no way I can possibly sugar coat this, so I’ll just be frank… The NYS Supreme Court Appellate Division’s Fourth Judicial Department has issued their ruling in our quarantine lawsuit against Governor Hochul and her Department of Health, and they have ruled against the will of the people! If you feel like you just got sucker-punched in the gut, join the club, my friends. The court has dismissed our lawsuit, not because we are wrong in our arguments… no, no, indeed we are dead-right. In fact,...

When you go huntin' for Israelis, sometimes you get the Israelis, and sometimes they get you!

The World Economic Forum is using Maui as Ground Zero to launch a devastating attack on the people, which has laid the groundwork for the rapid reconstruction of the island into 15 minute cities designed to lock down ordinary people in vast outdoor prisons from which there will be no escape.This evil plan has been in the works for years, and now we are seeing it play out in all its grisly details before our very eyes.

Talk about being sold a bill of duds. Michael Shellenberger (that wonderful, courageous man) had a series of tweets this afternoon and I could not believe my eyes. "People say solar panels don't produce carbon emissions, but they do. And now, a major new investigation by Environmental Progress, drawing on the research of @enricomariutti, finds that solar panels made in China produce at least 3x more carbon emissions than IPCC claims." The report from Environmental Progress points out a fatal flaw in the solar panel data all of this frenzied switch to renewables is based on: it’s either industry sourced,...

As the situation at the southern border spirals out of control, one migrant let slip the true cause of the surge. At 11:59 pm on Thursday night, Biden allowed Title 42, a Trump-era policy allowing for the quick removal of illegal immigrants, to expire. As anyone with common sense could have guessed, this led to absolute chaos at the border. With communities along the US-Mexico border struggling to grapple with the dire situation, a CNN reporter interviewed one migrant about his reasons for coming across, and what he said completely demolished the left's border narrative. The reporter asked him, "Were...

Shortly after 4 p.m. Monday three carloads of federal agents raided an office in Washington, DC. They weren’t after money launderers or Janary 6 participants. The agents were from the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Protective Service, the agency charged with providing security to federal government facilities. Their quarry was a senior civil servant named Brian Sulc, executive director of the Transnational Organized Crime Mission Center at DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis in Washington. This office was established by Joe Biden in December 2021 and, along with parallel organizations in State, Treasury, Defense, Justice, and the DNI, with the...

Speaking on The Benny Show, DeSantis said: ‘Why would you want to drink Bud Light? I mean, like, honestly that’s like them rubbing our faces in it and it’s like these companies that do this, if they never have any response, they’re just going to keep doing it. ‘So, if you as a consumer are like … “Like, yeah, they’re doing that, but I’m just going to keep drinking anyways.” Well, then they’re going to keep doing it.’‘You know, my wife and I, they (bars) don’t have (Budweiser) here if we ever go out to just have a beer —...

The Nevada Secretary of State just issued data that show the 2022 election was a mess. Why? Because of vote by mail. In Nevada, all “active” registered voters are automatically mailed ballots. That might sound good, but the new data proves that mass vote by mail should have remained a pandemic experiment. An analysis by the Public Interest Legal Foundation found that 8,036 mail ballots were rejected by election officials. To put this figure into perspective, the Nevada Senate race between Laxalt and Masto was decided by 7,928 votes. More mail ballots were rejected than Masto’s margin of victory over...

Chicago Mayor-Elect Brandon Johnson (D) told CBS News on Thursday his plan to tackle the city's crime problem: Send more social workers to crime scenes. Johnson, a staunch progressive, pointed to instances where police killed black men as evidence to say more police officers are not the solution. "This is really about making sure that people understand the context of the level of frustration when you see that type of brutalization over and over again, it can be discouraging," Johnson explained. "We're working to double the amount of young people we hire, not just for summer jobs, but for year-round...

We know that electric vehicles, whose manufacture requires rare earth minerals mined by third-world children, aren't clean. We also know that electric vehicles, which get their electrical charge from coal-fired plants and emit more carbon dioxide than conventional vehicles, aren't green. We also know that electric vehicles, as recent storms and heat waves have indicated, aren't reliable Now we learn that even at $70,000 a pop, complete with tax savings and government subsidies, green vehicles aren't profitable, either. According to Breitbart News: Ford Motor Company says its electric vehicle (EV) unit, “Ford Model e,” is losing billions of dollars, and...

The United Kingdom has been forced to use its emergency coal-fired backup generators for the first time as renewables failed to supply enough energy. Britain’s crusade for net zero saw another major failure on Tuesday, with the country having to resort to using its emergency coal-fired power plants as renewables were unable to keep up with demand. The country has been focused on moving away from burning fossil fuels and towards green energy sources in recent years, with the last twelve months in particular seeing the country struggle to keep the lights on at times due to the green agenda...

DISPATCH FROM ADMIRAL PORTER. UNITED STATES MISSISSIPPI SQUADRON, Feb. 27, Via MEMPHIS, March 1. Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy: SIR: I regret to inform you that the Indianola has also fallen into the hands of the enemy. The rams Webb and Queen of the West attacked her, 25 miles from here, and rammed her until she surrendered, all of which can be traced to a non-compliance with my instructions. I do not know the particulars. DAVID D. POCTER, Commander. SPECIAL DISPATCH FROM MEMPHIS. MEMPHIS, Monday, March 2. Arrivals from below to-day confirm the report of the sinking of...

Russia is flouting its obligations under a major arms control treaty with the United States, according to State Department officials. “Russia is not complying with its obligation under the New START Treaty to facilitate inspection activities on its territory,” a State Department spokesman said Tuesday. "Russia’s refusal to facilitate inspection activities prevents the United States from exercising important rights under the treaty and threatens the viability of U.S.-Russian nuclear arms control.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s team outlined that breakdown in a notification to key congressional leaders on Tuesday. The assessment points to the degeneration of the last major arms...

On Monday, Penn State and Utah compete in this year's Rose Bowl, with Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and his wife, former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ) having taken part in the coin toss. The senator had his phone with him as he awkwardly stood behind his wife to film it. "Mark Kelly" has been trending over Twitter as a result, and not just because of the Democratic politicians' presence. While head referee Michael Vandervelde referred to Giffords correctly, he incorrectly referred to her husband as "Senator Mark Lewis." In addition to people reacting to the referee flubbing Kelly's name, many also...