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In Northern Ireland, there have been recent protests about the numbers of Muslim migrants being allowed to settle in the territory, and about their placement in public housing ahead of the indigenous poor. Now someone in Northern Ireland has chosen to express his fury at this state of affairs by setting alight an effigy of an Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist and his mosque. For thus expressing his view, he has been charged with “incitement to hatred.” And that has caused quite a stir. More on the resulting uproar can be found here.
A man has been charged with incitement to hatred over an effigy of a mosque and Isis terrorist
New York Democratic congressman Josh Riley's father-in-law cofounded an institute at a Chinese government-controlled university that routinely boosts the Chinese Communist Party's Belt and Road Initiative, a massive international economic strategy aimed at bringing foreign nations closer to Beijing and further from the United States, a Washington Free Beacon review found. Riley himself attended at least three of the group's events and later voted against legislation targeting Chinese influence peddling in the United States.
Riley's father-in-law, Harinder Kohli, is the founding director and
There are a lot of ways to describe what this proposed Massachusetts bill is, but I don't think 'diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)' is precisely what I would use, as some other major outlets are. I think it's much too sinister for a thoroughly discredited, despicable concept that's hopefully in its death throes while being relentlessly driven from business, academia, and government at all levels. Most DEI proponents have either gone to ground or given it grudgingly, faced with the overwhelming backlash against the inherent unfairness of something built on a false pretext of that very thing - fairness. Not to mention, amazingly enough, the lucrative cottage industry
World Top Female Tennis Player Follows
Sophie’s Lead — Demands Testing to
Keep Men Out of Her Sport replies
Sophie’s Lead — Demands Testing to
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Aryna Sabalenka, the current No. 1 women's tennis player in the world and a four-time major champion, is endorsing the Women’s Tennis Association’s (WTA) newly implemented genetic testing requirements for its athletes.
Speaking at a press conference during the Canadian Open, the Belarusian star discussed the need to preserve fairness on the women’s tour.
"Biologically, men are way stronger than women, so I feel like it would not really be fair for women to compete against biological men," she told reporters. Sabalenka added that she is fully prepared to undergo the genetic screening herself, calling the policy a necessary step to protect the integrity of the sport.
Intrepid investigative journalist Nick Shirley isn't one to shrink from danger. He had to escape from Cuba when spies followed him during his trip to the communist island and was forced to hire 24/7 security after exposing Somali fraud in Minneapolis. In his latest video, Shirley once again finds himself in serious peril when a Muslim man chases him through the streets while wielding a knife and threatening to stab him. The scene of the pursuit was the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta, which has made headlines in recent days after 60,000 illegal migrants poured in from Morocco.
Republican US Senator Darline Graham (R-SC) came out in favor of nuking the filibuster to get the SAVE Act passed.
Graham, the sister of former Senator Lindsey Graham, came out in support of the SAVE Act and says she is in favor of eliminating the senate filibuster to get it to pass. Darline made the comments during the South Carolina Republican US Senate debate.
Graham added that Democrats will abolish the filibuster if they take control of the US Senate anyway.
What a breath of fresh air.
This past weekend, Russia’s main domestic security agency, the FSB, announced that Telegram founder Pavel Durov has been charged with aiding terrorism and put on an international wanted list.
CBS News reported: The charges against Durov, who was born and began his career in Russia but later moved abroad, came as the Russian authorities restrict Telegram, one of the most popular messaging apps in the country – […] Soon after the charges were announced, Telegram’s official account on X posted an image of Durov making an obscene gesture with his middle finger. There was no other immediate comment from Durov or Telegram.”
NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers came out of the gates slinging darts on The Pat McAfee Show on Monday.
When the ESPN host invited the firebrand on the show, he may not have expected the legendary football player to unleash a rant for the ages on Dr. Anthony Fauci. McAfee opened up his line of questioning about a potential retirement, but Rodgers seized the opportunity to bash the disgraced doctor. "I’m gonna plead the Fifth," Rodgers quipped, "like that absolute coward Tony Fauci. Absolute coward. Are you kidding me? You get a pardon, and you pleaded over 100 times at the White House?
Some of my earliest memories are from a grocery store.
My mother, and later her sister, worked at a locally owned Key Market running the deli department. Baked goods, hot meals, sliced meats and fresh salads, and the best donuts you ever tasted made from scratch every day — it was a kid’s paradise. She would sometimes take me to work on Saturdays, and I’d help, doing everything but slicing the meat (age-restricted because it’s dangerous). It was fun for me, and I learned things I would not have learned watching cartoons.
DSA Co-Chair Admits: Not One Dem Has Asked
Her to Tone Down Calls to Abolish Senate, Presidency replies
Her to Tone Down Calls to Abolish Senate, Presidency replies
For all the talk out there of supposedly moderate Democrats terrified of the socialist takeover within their party, concerned that extremists will hurt their general election chances, you'd think some in the party would be urging them to tone things down a bit.
That doesn't appear to be the case.
In a recent NewsNation interview, DSA Co-Chair Megan Romer was asked whether Democratic operatives had been calling on her to rein in the group’s more radical proposals.
Proposals she has previously outlined, which include abolishing numerous core institutions
New York State’s continuing quest to kneecap efforts by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in dealing with the illegal alien crisis that former President Joe Biden brought us took a big blow Monday when a federal judge said the state did not have the conditional authority to order a mask ban for federal agents.
The ruling did also say, however, that the state could ban masks for its own law enforcement agents and continue to refuse to cooperate with ICE.
The agency has argued repeatedly that agents have been subject to violence, threats, and doxing as the Democrats’ anti-ICE rhetoric has maintained a fever
Monday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” former Vice President Mike Pence said it is time for President Donald Trump to “unleash” the military to “finish the job” in Iran.
Host Bill Hemmer said, “I want to ask you about Iran. We had a Fox poll that came out about two weeks ago. We asked the question on the ultimate outcome with Iran. The U.S. will reach what good deal, bad deal or no deal. And 48% said no deal. What’s your view?”
Pence said, “Well, I have more confidence in President Trump than that. I think the Iranians should be very wary at this moment. Look, I strongly supported
After enduring the malign White House ghosts and the Machiavellian Autopen, President Trump’s transparency sure is refreshing. His Truth Social posts are a major vehicle for promulgating his nearly real-time machinations, and official statements on policy, to anyone who follows.
Now, certain potentially market-moving posts will only be timely for paid subscribers, while the general public are initially excluded from this important corner of the public square. Paying customers like financial firms will be alerted to President Trump’s market-moving posts while the common schmuck remains oblivious — perhaps until it is too late to leverage the news.
Mamdani proposes de facto ration cards
for New Yorkers to buy his cheap government groceries replies
for New Yorkers to buy his cheap government groceries replies
So New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has a solution to the obvious problems of his free government groceries going out the door to speculators and out-of-staters who can buy and can resell the discounted foods at a profit.
Here he is: The July 27 exchange, transcribed by Grok and me:
Q: How you gonna keep people from taking advantage of that deal basically, and is there going to be a limit on the number of items that someone can take that are discounted at that level from that essential basket?
You might be thinking, "Why, of course they did. They are Democrats, after all."
But actually, it is more than a little surprising that the California Democratic Party took this stand, because it is stabbing their financial base in the back and a threat to the organized crime ring that is at the heart of the Democratic Party in that state.
In other words, they chose ideological fealty to the growing socialist movement in the party over the self-interest of the political class, which ought to surprise you just a bit. Whatever they say, almost everybody in the Establishment is in it for themselves, not to create a socialist utopia.
Politico has dropped a story about Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI).
It's mostly about how she's doing in Michigan and how she's dealing with the fight between Rep. Haley Stevens (MI-11) and Abdul El-Sayed for the Democratic nomination for the Senate to replace Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI)
But there's also a bit suggesting she might be interested in a presidential run.
Later, I asked Slotkin about who she might lean on to staff a presidential campaign.
“I think the idea that there would be like a playbook for how to run for president, if you think there is, and you’re just following that playbook, you’re going to lose,
As the United States settles into a recurring cycle of Iranian attacks followed by American airstrikes followed by short-lived peace talks, the burning question on everyone’s minds is how to bring the conflict to an end. Some analysts see the central challenge as technological and economic: Iran’s drones and inexpensive cruise missiles often cost far less than the high-end interceptors the United States and its allies use to defeat them. They therefore advocate larger inventories of low-cost interceptors and weapons. The immediate question is whether the United States can field them in sufficient numbers. The more significant question, however, is how to defeat the weapon in Iran’s arsenal: time.
Something like 80% of Americans oppose allowing men to play in women’s sports leagues. That is, after all, the entire point of having women’s divisions and leagues–women play against other women, not against men.
For a sports organization like the Women’s National Basketball Association to come out in favor of allowing men (“trans women”) to play in their league is the height of perversity. If men could play in the WNBA, there soon would be no women left and no purpose to the league. And yet, multiple WNBA coaches and others associated with the league have come out in favor of letting men play. I can think of no reason
Mum's the Word
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A single tweet from Mr Musk was enough to catapult the industrial-scale gang-rape of English girls into greater public prominence than it had ever received - which is pretty amazing considering that it is "the worst scandal in British history"(SNIP)By contrast, comparative fertility rates is a more subtle and elusive concept for the average citizen, so Elon's dissemination of an ancient Mark Steyn clip will not have the same impact. Nevertheless, way back when, my point was correct, and so is Mr Musk's amplification of it a generation on.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is moving way past irony and taking things to an entirely new level: Lie-rony.
Mamdani recently blew away political observers with his proposal to have government-backed grocery stores.
New Yorkers will soon enjoy a 30 percent discount on their meat, seafood, milk, and bread — so long as they shop at a city-owned store. [snip]Now, we come to the hitch in Mamdani's program: You've got to present a government ID proving residency in order for the government to recognize your "human right" to grocery prices that are 30 percent below retail.
Dem Senator Outrageously Calls Dead Narco-Terrorists
'Murder Victims' in New Letter to Trump replies
'Murder Victims' in New Letter to Trump replies
You remember Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA). He's the former governor of Virginia who's now the commonwealth's junior senator. He's a Catholic who loves abortion. He'd like to nuke the Second Amendment. And the more illegal aliens in the U.S., the happier he is.
Oh, and he was Hillary Clinton's vice presidential pick back in 2016. As one of his constituents, I like to think of him as Tim "Jazz Hands" Walz 1.0 – Tim Kaine was "weird, white beta male trying to be normal, but failing miserably" before his party and the "other Tim" made it popular. (X) Quite the pair, those two.
Ever since Donald Trump sent the dynamic duo
They’re trying to protect the paesan!
A new nonprofit is planning to unveil a Christopher Columbus statue in Brooklyn this October — dodging Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other haters who’d rather cancel the Italian-born explorer.
The Preserving Italian Heritage Coalition, brought together by Chinese-American state Assemblyman Lester Chang (R-Brooklyn), is planning to house the statue at the John Hughes Club in Dyker Heights, private property that keeps it out of the clutches of city officials.
Rosie O'Donnell to RETURN to The View
after leaving the show twice and clashing
with Whoopi Goldberg replies
after leaving the show twice and clashing
with Whoopi Goldberg replies
The View alumna Rosie O'Donnell announced this week that she will return to the show for the upcoming 30th anniversary special.
O'Donnell, 64, served as a host of the daytime program twice, first from 2006 to 2007 and then from 2014 to 2015, and left each time after a single season.
During her tenures, she developed a reputation for clashes with her fellow panelists Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Whoopi Goldberg.
Now she has confirmed: 'I will go on the 30th anniversary next year and be on in whatever way they want me, just as a guest,' on the podcast The Tangle.
Rosie O’Donnell recently opened up, candidly speaking about the possibility of hosting a new streaming show, America’s love for nostalgia, the death of celebrity culture, how she could bring back hope, and why she won’t return to the small screen while Donald Trump is still in the White House. (snip)
Of course, there is one major caveat: “It would be when Trump is no longer in power. That’s when I would want to start. And that’s really when the healing must begin. The healing must begin in this country. And if I could be in any way part of that, I would be very, very happy.”