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One of the top honchos with the Democratic Socialist of America struggled to explain what “taxing the rich” meant and appeared clueless about the Clinton era landmark Israeli Palestinian peace effort, during an embarrassing radio interview with The New Yorker Friday. Megan Romer, one of the two national co-chairs of the organization, seemed bewildered by a question from the magazine’s editor David Remnick about one of the DSA’s signature positions. “Well, what does ‘taxing the hell out of them’ mean?’” Remnick asked on the episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour titled “How Socialist Is the DSA? Megan Romer Explains“....

Two weeks ago, I discussed the committee authorship of the Declaration of Independence and its adoption (after significant edits) by the Continental Congress.Today, I want to discuss the extraordinary edits concerning the issue of slavery. As is well known, the Continental Congress assigned an editorial committee of five men: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston and Benjamin Franklin.Thomas Jefferson penned the first draft, which was then edited by the committee and then the Continental Congress in session. As noted before in my July 24th column, they made significant edits. However, the most significant and the most extensive edit...

National Republicans are rallying around a complete political unknown who stunned the party by winning a Michigan congressional primary over President Trump’s hand-picked candidate. Thomas Smith, a retired GM engineer who sells salsa that retails at Flint farmer’s markets, spent virtually nothing yet convincingly beat Trump-backed Amir Hassan — a US Navy vet and former federal law enforcement officer who raised $727,000. “He’s just as shocked as everyone was on election night,” a Smith campaign consultant told The Post. “He understands that this was not expected, but he also understands that people have spoken.” Smith won 50.4% of the vote...

Conservative activist Scott LoBaido was dead for two minutes after a confrontation with Mayor Zohran Mamdani at a pro-cop event on Tuesday ended in a heart attack — but he promised The Post not even a coronary could stop his crusade to keep the socialist away from the 25th anniversary of 9/11 at Ground Zero. Even while recovering from his near-fatal heart attack — in which witnesses and friends said his heart stopped for two minutes and he had no pulse — LoBaido orchestrated a plane to fly around Manhattan on Friday with a banner bearing a warning to the...

They’re lowering the bar. New Mexico is the newest state in the country to offer an alternative to the traditional bar exam — which critics bashed as yet another woke example of lowering academic standards. New Mexico has become the latest state to give law school graduates an alternative to the traditional bar exam, allowing them to earn a license by completing 675 hours of supervised legal work under an attorney or approved host organization. Law school grads will now be able to get their license after finishing 675 hours of supervised legal work under an attorney or host organization,...

I'm looking to introduce my future husband to some film noir, either on DVD, streaming or film (I have a number of projectors to choose from). He didn't watch a lot of classic movies growing up, and we're both late eighties babies, so there wasn't a ton of it on TV to begin with. I didn't really get to indulge this hobby until my dad started restoring projectors. List me your favorite noir films, popular or obscure. I'd like to see some I haven't heard of before. Thank you in advance!

(WJAR) — Rhode Island U.S. Attorney’s Office said a former Rhode Island Department of Human Services supervisor pleaded guilty in a scheme to defraud the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). According to federal prosecutors, 59-year-old Nadine Jean Baptiste used her position to improperly access and exploit the personal information and benefits of SNAP recipients. On Tuesday, officials said Jean Baptiste admitted to accessing SNAP EBT card information, conducting unauthorized telephone balance inquiries, and altering PINs associated with those cards. Those impacted by this scheme included juveniles, homeless individuals, or people that were incarcerated at the time their information was accessed,...

The unlikely rise of Judy Holliday from Greenwich Village cabaret performer to movie star begins – if you believe Garson Kanin's account in his memoir Hollywood – with a brief conversation he had with a friend: Main Bocher, the American fashion designer, who had designed the wardrobe for Jean Arthur in the floundering out-of-town previews of Kanin's new play, Born Yesterday. Bocher mentions Holliday, at that point known to Kanin from The Revuers, a nightclub act that also featured Betty Comden and Adolph Green (and occasionally a young pianist and composer named Leonard Bernstein, who would play piano for them...

Enough is enough. Iran’s soul is not defined by Islam....

An attorney defending the Alaska Division of Elections against a lawsuit argued in state court Friday that candidates for state office are not obliged to disclose their finances when they file for office. If that argument is upheld in court, it would upend existing practices and could end voters’ ability to examine political candidates’ personal finances in the early stages of a primary election. The lawsuit in court on Friday was filed by the Alaska Democratic Party, which is challenging the eligibility of Jose Roel Tagle to run for Alaska House District 22. Tagle, a Republican, is the only challenger...

A trio of Big Apple homeowners has filed suit to delay the state’s controversial new tax on luxury second homes — claiming Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration bungled the rollout and unfairly put the burden on homeowners. The disgruntled owners charge that City Hall is unfairly burdening them by forcing them to prove they are full-time New Yorkers if they do not want to pay the pied-à-terre tax, according to the suit filed Friday in Staten Island Supreme Court. The city Department of Finance “has arbitrarily and capriciously foisted onto New York City residents the burden of proving they are not...

Born during the Roman Empire's consolidation, Titus Flavius Domitianus was the youngest son of Emperor Vespasian and brother to Titus. As The People Profiles explores, their career included notable military campaigns and a dramatic rise to power during the turbulent Year of the Four Emperors. Emperor Domitian - Rome's Tragic Tyrant Documentary | 55:45 The People Profiles | 1.66M subscribers | 185,137 views | April 10, 2024

Tracing the rise of the Flavian dynasty, this documentary explores the political climate of a transforming Rome. It examines the military career of a future emperor during the tumultuous Jewish Revolt. Titus - The Good Emperor Documentary | 1:10:49 The People Profiles | 1.66M subscribers | 643,007 views | June 14, 2023

Tracing a journey from a minor equestrian family to the pinnacle of Roman power, this documentary explores the career of the future Emperor Vespasian. Follow the path through early military service in Britain and political challenges during the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Vespasian - The General Who Became Emperor Documentary | 1:06:04 The People Profiles | 1.66M subscribers | 275,077 views | April 21, 2023

Screengrab Social Media/X ====================================================================== VIDEOS AT LINK............. The blue Danube is showing its secrets. We have been reporting on Europe’s summer from hell, where they are battling high temperatures, wildfires, and droughts. One of the most dramatic cases if the mythical Danube river that is so low that the Nuclear Power Plants in Hungary and Romania had to be shut. Now the situation has worsened even more to the point where remnants of the past are arising from the bottom of the river: dozens of WW2 ships and boats – and a mystery from a 1,000 years ago. CBS News...

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President Trump issued an order Thursday to crack down on “birth tourism” after he was defeated at the Supreme Court earlier this summer on the birthright citizenship issue. Trump said the executive order would stop wealthy people from “buying their way” into citizenship with pregnant women traveling to the US birth an American baby. “They’ve taken birthright citizenship and they’ve made a joke out of it,” he said during a signing ceremony in the Oval Office. The order bars citizenship for children born to mothers who enter the United States for the sole purpose of having a child on American...

One of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s top aides — who helps select judicial nominees — bragged about his connections to Big Apple politicians in an ad for a Manhattan law firm, raising eyebrows among ethics experts, The Post can reveal. Ali Najmi, a longtime ally of Hizzoner who chairs the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary, released the video, which features a picture with Mamdani, on social media to promote personal injury law firm Liakas Law, PC. “We know how to get good results. We have a deep network that extends throughout the city of New York,” Najmi says — as...

Abdul El-Sayed is the latest Islamo-socialist terrorist-sympathizer star of the Democrat Party, after squeaking to a win in the Michigan Senate primary Tuesday. Although he underperformed his poll numbers and the predictions of his media boosters, the lockdown-loving health bureaucrat has accelerated the radical left’s conquest of the Democrat Party from within. If El-Sayed can pull off a victory in November in the Midwest, in the swingiest of swing states, what will stop a Marxist heading for the White House? This menacing hard-left takeover is disastrous for Democrats and frightening for America, but it is also a potential golden opportunity...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Nashville drivers could soon face new restrictions at red lights across much of the city. Metro Council is weighing a proposal that would ban most right turns on red within the Urban Services District as part of a broader effort to reduce traffic deaths and serious injuries. District 16 Council Member Ginny Welsch, one of the bill's sponsors, said Nashville's roads have become increasingly dangerous. "We know overall that the streets of Nashville are extremely dangerous. For the past several years, we've had over 100 people killed on our roads," Welsch said. The bill is led...