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New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) announced that the city’s Department of Corrections was prepared to imprison former President Donald Trump at Rikers Island. Adams’ comments came a day after New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, the judge presiding over Trump’s business records trial, threatened to jail the former president after finding him in contempt for violating a gag order for the tenth time.

Your Democratic neighbors won’t be ordered to vote for laws that ostracize you from society, steal your property, or send you away to a concentration camp. They will do it burning with pride.

U.S.—Progressives and conservatives alike were concerned after it was revealed that there is an evil, giant corporation that is literally murdering, imprisoning, and oppressing millions of people all around the world. The corporation is run by corrupt people, accountable to no one, makes trillions of dollars every year, and continues to enrich its wealthy elite shareholders by exploiting the poor and the middle class. Even worse, it was discovered that this corporation has a monopoly. Everyone agreed that it's well past time to keep this evil corporation accountable and that it should be broken up to prevent future oppression by...

Pelosi: We are the most ethical Congress By Jordan Fabian - 02/26/10 11:46 AM ET House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday said that she is running the most ethical Congress in history. Asked at a press conference whether or not her Congress is the most ethical in light of new findings that Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) broke House rules, Pelosi responded "We are." But Pelosi dodged on whether or not she would officially discipline Rangel, who helms the powerful Ways and Means Committee. After Democrats reclaimed the majority in the House of Representatives in 2006, Pelosi, who at the...

"Islamic fascists"--used by President George W. Bush for the conspirators in the alleged trans-Atlantic airline bombing plot--and references by other prominent figures to "Islamofascism," have been met by protests from Muslims who say the term is an insult to their religion. The meaning and origin of the concept, as well as the legitimacy of complaints about it, have become relevant--perhaps urgently so. I admit to a lack of modesty or neutrality about this discussion, since I was, as I will explain, the first Westerner to use the neologism in this context. In my analysis, as originally put in print directly...

Washington Post intelligence reporter Dana Priest will be online Wednesday, Jan. 5, at Noon ET to discuss reports that the administration has long-range plans for indefinitely imprisoning suspected terrorists plus the CIA's secret plane allegedly used to transport terrorists for detention and interrogation.

As we reported last week, Venezuela's vengeful dictator, Hugo Chavez, continues to target eight helpless fired oil workers for long prison terms. Their "crime" was leading a strike. Former Venezuelan oil company executive Gustavo Coronel points out that they are, shockingly, being charged with crimes and neglect against the state oil company that happened after they were fired from their jobs by Chavez himself on live television. In today's El Universal, another Unapetrol oil union leader speaks out, pointing out the shifty legal maneuvers the Chavez court has engaged in over Christmas to deny the eight arrested strike leaders any...

On the surface, it's a little puzzling for a communist supremo to go after a labor union leader. After all, aren't communists the self-proclaimed vanguard of the proletariat? And more to the point, aren't unions full of communist leaders anyway? The answer to both is yes. But only in a liberal democracy. It's quite different under a working communist dictatorship. In the Russia of Lenin, or the Poland of Jaruzelski, the destruction of labor unions in the name of "the people" was the earmark of consolidating communist power. Few groups suffer more than independent labor unions when communists roll in....

Phoenix, U.S., January 14, 2003 (EFE)- The governor of Arizona promised visiting Mexican lawmakers that she would sign legislation that would allow undocumented immigrants in that state to obtain driver's licenses. Janet Napolitano met with five members of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies' Foreign Relations Committee last weekend, just days before she was scheduled to be sworn in as governor of Arizona. In 1994, Arizona passed a law prohibiting those without social security numbers from obtaining a driver's license. Since then, undocumented immigrants have been forced to drive without a license and without auto insurance, which requires applicants to have...

<p>KETZIOT, Israel (AP) --  Israel reopened a sprawling desert detention camp this week to hold some of the thousands of Palestinians it has rounded up during its 19-day West Bank sweep, an Israeli military official said Tuesday.</p> <p>The confirmation came after Associated Press reporters saw resumed activity at the Ketziot camp in the southern Negev Desert. Towering spotlights beamed down on the site and soldiers stood in guard towers. Civilian and military trucks entered and left and bright new Israeli flags and corps banners of the military police hung limply in the baking desert air.</p>