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For a government in as deep kimchi financially as the current Labour government running the United Kingdom, you would think there would be significant thought given to collecting taxes as much as they do to handing out what they'd actually collected and what they've promised. Granted, none of it balances on either side of the ledger as it should - the 'incoming' column is decidedly less than the 'what I told them I'd give them' side, but most governments run on a deficit. The key is to try to continually reduce them, or at least keep them at bay in...

On Sunday, Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (“AfD”) won a landslide victory in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, taking roughly 44 percent of the vote and more than doubling the total of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats.Or, as readers of the American press learned, the “far right” had won a major victory. AP News declared, “Germany shocked by far-right election triumph.” The Reuters headline: “Far-right win leaves Germany’s Merz shaken.” NBC News: “Far-right Alternative for Germany party wins big in regional election but falls short of majority.” And of course, NPR: “Germany’s far-right achieves an electoral breakthrough.”Well, this is certainly troubling, isn’t...

Although a recent report on financial red flags said Chicago is on a path toward insolvency, Wirepoints founder Mark Glennon says Chapter Nine bankruptcy might not work for the Windy City like it previously did in Detroit. Reason Foundation’s report on state and local government finances said Detroit’s financial condition at the end of fiscal year 2012 would trigger seven red flags, just like Chicago received in the organization’s report last month. In July 2013, Detroit became the largest city in U.S. history to file for bankruptcy. Glennon said Chicago, unlike Detroit, has sold most of its future sales tax...

🚨 HUGE JUSTICE WIN! President Trump just announced Michael Cohen, the prosecution’s star witness and in reality the only witness in the New York AG and Manhattan DA witch hunts, has fully RECANTED. Not clarified. Not walked back. RECANTED. Pressured. Coerced. Said things that were not true. Trump is demanding every remnant of those politically weaponized cases be terminated and dismissed. Letitia James and Alvin Bragg built the whole thing on a witness who now says it was wrong and unlawful. Such a thing can never be allowed to happen again.

ICE spent months tracking down an MS-13 gang member known as “The Witch,” a convicted killer wanted in El Salvador for an execution-style murder. Now, ICE has been forced to set him free. U.S. District Judge Jinsook Ohta, a Biden appointee in California, ordered David Antonio Aviles Perez released from ICE custody after concluding that immigration authorities violated his due-process rights.Judge Ohta ruled that ICE erred by holding him for five months without an individualized determination of whether he posed a danger to the public or was likely to flee.A machete-wielding MS-13 executioner known as “the witch” has been cut...

Attorney Alex Thomason says he is using TikToks from Lindsay Clancy supporters to file motions to have children removed from their psychotic mothers.

Why was Argentina once wealthy? What caused Argentina’s economic decline? Is Javier Milei fixing things? Summarise the video This video explores the "Argentine Paradox"—how a nation that was one of the wealthiest in the world at the turn of the 20th century transformed into a cautionary tale of economic decline, hyperinflation, and political instability. Key Highlights: The Golden Age (1880–1914): Driven by massive exports of beef and grain to Britain, alongside heavy foreign investment and European immigration, Argentina boasted the world's highest GDP per capita by 1895 (0:41, 3:02). Structural Fragility: The economy remained overly dependent on agricultural commodities and...

A Virginia mother of five was convicted of "contributing to the delinquency of a minor" last week for allowing her 5-year-old son to walk from home to a nearby pond to collect goose feathers in their gated community earlier this summer. Karyann Parkinson, a law clerk who was eight months pregnant at the time of the incident, was also placed on a government child abuse and neglect registry, where she will remain for seven years. The judge immediately suspended a six-month jail sentence, but the charge remains. Now her attorney is planning an appeal that's expected to go to trial...

In the summer of 2021, as the fight over Harvard’s admission practices moved toward the Supreme Court, a peculiar new term began surfacing in op-eds, DEI training decks, and cable news panels: “white adjacent.” The phrase sounded almost clinical, like a term of art borrowed from sociology. In practice, it did something far more consequential: it gave the progressive racial justice apparatus a way to explain away an inconvenient fact. Asian Americans, by nearly every measure of educational and economic development, were outperforming the racial group that critical race theory holds up as the chief beneficiary of American structural power—in...

During his campaign for office last fall, our new Mayor Zohran Mamdani promised to make groceries “affordable” for New Yorkers; but he provided few specifics. Some specifics then emerged in late July, when Mamdani issued a big press release on his proposed public grocery store project. We learned that there are plans for five municipally-owned stores — one in each borough of the City — and that the groceries these stores will sell, or at least a “core basket” of them, will be “30% cheaper.” We know that the groceries will be “30% cheaper” because the Mayor’s press release says...

CBS staffers unleash 'storm of outrage' following report on Abdul El-Sayed's deleted 9/11 tweets. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers.Ladies and gentlemen, please keep the journalists in your thoughts and prayers this week. They are working through some very big feelings in the wake of a "scandal" involving a mainstream news outlet daring to publish an accurate story about a Democrat. The CBS newsroom has been in disarray since Monday, when the outlet posted a story about Abdul El-Sayed's deleted tweets about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Reporter Zak Hudak observed, rather obviously, that the U.S. Senate candidate...

A man in his 50s has died after being seriously assaulted outside a restaurant in Sweden after trying to defend his daughter from a group of young men who had been groping her. Authorities have not yet released information about the suspects’ nationality, ethnicity, or background, raising the suspicion among social media users that the perpetrators may be migrants. Police were called to the centre of the Swedish city of Karlstad at about 1:25 a.m. on Sunday, August 30th, after a violent disturbance broke out outside a fast food restaurant. Officers found a middle-aged man seriously injured at the scene....

Englishman in New York responds to Trump TDS and shows how Trump crushed Ford/Ontario.

President Donald Trump has been praised after it was revealed woke American professors are being poached by Canadian universities, including an academic who teaches transgender philosophy. California State University philosophy professor, Talia Mae Bettcher, who is transgender, is among the many American-based educators who have packed their bags and headed north to Canada to become a part of the $541 million research funding project. 'I knew I had to leave,' Bettcher, who is a native Canadian but taught in Los Angeles, told The University of Waterloo, her new home. 'As a green card-holding trans-woman and outspoken academic in an area...

Will Letitia James face any consequences for using the Attorney General's office to persecute political opponents? Or will voters in New York reward her for doing, well, pretty much what she explicitly promised to accomplish?I know which way I'm betting.Two days ago, one of James' assistant AGs went public to accuse her of ordering political vendettas, almost all of them without cause. The New York Post's editorial board called Daniel Wiesenfeld "the Whistleblower of the Year," but perhaps he might end up as the Jeremiah of the Empire State. Make no mistake, though – these allegations would certainly be abuses...

The NYPD is investigating a fatal police shooting that occurred in Times Square on Monday afternoon. Officers responded to West 43rd Street and Seventh Avenue just after 4:20 p.m. after receiving a call about "a woman armed with two knives who was stabbing people along Seventh Avenue," Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at an evening news conference. The suspect, identified as 49-year-old Pamela Cisneros of Queens, was killed by police. A female stabbing victim, identified as Erin Piacenti, later died at the hospital, police said. A male stabbing victim remains hospitalized. Tisch characterized the incident as an "unprovoked double stabbing,"...

A Marina Del Rey woman earned a slap on the wrist after she pled guilty to bombshell charges that she paid homeless people on Skid Row to register to vote in a 20-year scheme tied to illegal petition signature collection.Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, 64, also known as “Anika,” even let homeless people use her own address to register to vote — meaning mail-in ballots could be sent to her home, a plea agreement obtained by the California Post states. Armstrong in May took a plea deal for one felony count of paying another person to register to vote in a...

Today, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York ruled that the State of New York may not impose strict liability on energy companies for their alleged contributions to global greenhouse gas emissions. In 2024, New York enacted the “Climate Change Superfund Act,” which purported to impose billions of dollars on domestic and foreign energy companies that extract fossil fuels or refine crude oil. A coalition of states and trade organizations sued, alleging that the Act is preempted by the federal Clean Air Act and by the federal foreign affairs power, and that the Act violates the...

Have you found a girlfriend yet, young man? I ask because people are pairing off at the lowest rates in modern history. While many argue over the causes, everyone—both left and right—agrees on the culprit: men. The internet is awash in articles positing some variation of the title “Where have all the good men gone?” On the left, one of the most prominent works on this question is the New York Times’ essay “Men, Where Have You Gone? Please Come Back” by Rachel Drucker. Leftists never consider the mess that is the modern dating world—or their role in creating it—and...