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Zohran Mamdani, NYC’s youngest mayor at 34, swept to victory on November 4, 2025, with a viral rap and a socialist vow to make “This City Belong to You” through rent freezes and free buses. Yet this charismatic outsider, lacking the managerial scars to navigate a $100 billion budget, embodies a competence vacuum. His promise of radical excellence arrives as the rentier economy — fueled by tax loopholes and asset inflation — starves the city’s treasury, sounding the alarm of institutional collapse. The juxtaposition is shocking, yet deeply illuminating: an administration, defined by the rise of an inexperienced elite, declares...

"Socialism is a wonderful idea. It's only as a reality that it has been disastrous." —Thomas Sowell. Brothers in Arms: Alex Soros (L), Zohran (R)Does Zohran’s radiant smile put you in mind of a labradoodle puppy? The guy was just that soft and fluffy during the mayoral election campaign, beaming remorselessly for the cameras, summoning a cushy nirvana of give-aways that would deliver an “affordable” life to the moiling masses of under-employed latte-clutchers doomed by their unpayable college loans and the gender-study diplomas they innocently bought with all that money. Under Zohran, New York City will soon be one colossal...

Ephesians 1:9-10 (King James Version) Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: Havana on the Hudson has sunk to new lows as they have elected an avowed Communist as their mayor. Mayor elect Mandy has offered the working poor and Karens enough free candy as well as virtue signaling their proving they are not...

A member of the city council in New York recently outlined a plan to allocate almost $200 million in taxpayer funds to be used to legally defend illegal immigrants from ICE and the Trump administration.If you watch the video below, it is crystal clear that this woman and the people like her believe that their power supersedes the power of the federal government and federal immigration laws.It’s almost like these people think that New York City is a country within the country and that it belongs to them.From Stu Smith on Twitter/X:NYC Council Member Tiffany Cabán, a Democratic Socialists of...

There is an unhappy history of left-wing Britons getting involved in US elections. Back in 2004, the Guardian – the flagship organ of the British left – organized a letter-writing campaign, urging voters in the swing state of Ohio not to re-elect George W. Bush. The good people of Ohio didn’t take kindly to a bunch of North Londoners telling them how to vote, and although the Guardian’s campaign probably can’t be given all the credit, the voters of Ohio duly went to the polls and swung firmly behind Bush.One wishes that London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s intervention in this week’s...