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Frontline healthcare workers were heroes last year. Today, the radical left is making them unemployed.When disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo finally resigned, many in and out of his state rejoiced. But lopping off one Democrat in this manner only yields a new one to take their place, and in this case Cuomo’s successor is authoritarian globalist Kathy Hochul.The new Governor flexed her Neo-Marxist muscles today by calling on medical organizations to fire unvaccinated employees on Monday. Those with medical exemptions are allowed to stay, but those with religious exemptions must wait to hear their fate on October 12...

However the presidential election turns out, one thing is clear, half the country will believe that the man officially sitting in the White House is an illegitimate pretender. And that’s the way it’s been throughout this century. The crisis of presidential legitimacy really kicked into gear in 2000. Before that people might hate the president, but the opposing political party wouldn’t insist on his illegitimacy. Afterward every president has been treated as an illegitimate criminal to be opposed and driven out. Twenty years later, the Democrat strategy of presidential illegitimacy has brought the country to the brink of civil war....

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is increasingly under fire because of his unilateral style of leadership. Officials in Berlin and Brussels are losing their patience and EU legal experts have cast doubt on some of his methods. […] … According to the European treaties, the body Juncker leads is a normal government agency that must ensure that agreements reached are in fact adhered to. Juncker, though, sees himself as the head of a government — one who has made it his job to break agreements if it appears politically advantageous. The list of his unilateral forays is a long one....

President Obama liked wearing his emperor costume a little too much...

[T]he rise of administrative law is essentially a re-emergence of the absolute power practiced by pre-modern kings. The constitutional history of the past thousand years in common law countries records the repeated ebb and flow of absolutism... [O]rdinarily kings bound their subjects through proclamations or decrees—or what we today call rules or regulations...dispensations and suspensions—or what we today call waivers...their prerogative courts—courts such as the King’s Council, the Star Chamber, and the High Commission—or what we today call administrative courts. [D]efenders of this sort of prerogative power were not squeamish about describing it as absolute power. Absolutism was their justification....

David Bossie, chairman of Citizens United—which President Barack Obama has repeatedly blamed for many of Washington’s problems—says the commander-in-chief is frustrated because he wants “absolute power.” “He hates Citizens United, he hates our organization, he knows that we are responsible for the House of Representatives’ not being under Democratic control, or being one of the groups that helped do that, but, you know, he wants to have full, total control,” Bossie told The Steve Malzberg Show on Newsmax TV. …

Chicago area has most corruption convictions in nation, UIC study says The Chicago area logged the most public corruption convictions of any federal jurisdiction in the United States during the past 36 years, according to a report released today by the University of Illinois at Chicago. Federal prosecutors secured a total of 1,531 public corruption convictions in the Northern District of Illinois since 1976, said Dick Simpson, head of the university’s political science department. Meanwhile, Illinois logged 1,828 public corruption convictions, the third most of any state, according to the report. Only California and New York had more. But those...

HAVANA—Cuba's Communist Party will consider reforms this weekend that could impose term limits on its leaders in what would be a striking change on an island that Fidel Castro ruled for 49 years and was succeeded by his brother. President Raul Castro said in an April Communist Party congress that this conference, which starts on Saturday and is the first in the party's history, would consider limiting Cuban leaders to two five-year terms. The party has said it was also pondering age limits for high-ranking officials as it tries to bring younger people into its aging leadership. … The party...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has directed nearly $100,000 from her political action committee to her husband's real estate and investment firm over the past decade, a practice of paying a spouse with political donations that she voted to ban last year. Financial Leasing Services Inc. (FLS), owned by Paul F. Pelosi, has received $99,000 in rent, utilities and accounting fees from the speaker's "PAC to the Future" over the PAC's nine-year history.

I don't think things can get more screwed up with airport security. This isn't about how investigators were able to smuggle liquid explosives and detonators past TSA screeners earlier this year. It's about the atrocious treatment endured by some Fort Lewis soldiers who were escorting the remains of a colleague home to Virginia earlier this month. Brief background: On the tarmac, an honor guard had been formed by Port of Seattle Police, airport fire and rescue and military personnel as the soldier's body was placed on the plane. A police officer then took the escort soldiers up to security. The...

CIA Official's Home, Office SearchedBy KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer Law enforcement officials executed search warrants Friday on the house and office of CIA's outgoing executive director, the FBI said. The agency's third ranking official, Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, has been under investigation by the FBI, IRS, Defense Criminal Investigative Service and the CIA's inspector general, said FBI spokeswoman April Langwell in San Diego. Under a sealed warrant, officials searched Foggo's Virginia home and his office at the CIA's Langley, Va., campus, Langwell said. She could provide no other details.

I have been arranging my extensive CD collection which lead me to play some of those long forgotten CD. This afternoon it was Mendelssohn "Reformation" Symphony. This might not be the best symphony of this rather underrated composer. The 5th popularity has suffered from being a "heftier" work, more intellectual, less crafted and vital than the "Italian". As if trying to encompass the reformation movement in music were possible. Still, the last movement opening is one of the most stirring moments of the repertoire, and a powerful musical image of the liberation of the spirit, no matter what religious connotation...

MOSCOW - A quick succession of terror attacks has shattered the image of strength assiduously cultivated by President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites), leaving the Kremlin grasping for a response to what has widely been dubbed "Russia's Sept. 11." Stunned by the bloodbath at the school in the southern town of Beslan, even some of Putin's most fervent supporters are urging him to reverse his practice of sidelining the opposition and muzzling the media. Russia's top liberal politicians and commentators are calling for stronger public control over ineffectual law enforcement and other government agencies. Most expect, however, that the...

/begin my translationA Powerful Force of Change Unleashed in N. Korea N. Korea is such a changed country now. It is not the same country I had left two years ago. They say, "Rivers and mountains change after 10 years." However, N. Korea is changing so much in just a year. While the country remains the same, people have been changing dramatically. Seen across Tumen and Yalu River, N. Korean landscape has hardly changed. Crumbling apartments and houses, no cars in the streets except some ox carts making noise while passing. Every hill is denuded to the last tree, making...

Nov. 4, 2003 Inner power struggle delays announcement of PA cabinet IMG SRC="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?ssbinary=true&cachecontrol=*%3A0%2C30%3A10+*%2F*%2F*&blobtable=JPImage&blobcol=urlimage&blobwhere=1067920690476&blobkey=id&blobheader=image/jpeg"> An ongoing power struggle between Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat and Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei on Tuesday spoiled plans to announce a new PA cabinet. Hours before the 30-day mandate of the emergency cabinet was due to expire on Tuesday midnight, Arafat summoned Qurei and asked him to remain at the head of a caretaker cabinet until the two resolve their dispute over the appointment of an interior minister responsible for the PA police and security forces. "Arafat asked Ahmed Qurei to continue his job as the...

• FOX40 viewer's voice poll: Do you believe Hillary Clinton's account of how she learned about Bill's affair with Monica Lewinsky? Yes, I think she's telling the truth No, she's just trying to look sympathetic