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  • New York City Mayor Eric Adams Facing Decades-Old Allegations of Sexual Assault

    03/18/2024 10:10:51 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 13 replies
    Red State ^ | 03/18/2024 | Jeff Charles
    New York City Mayor Eric Adams is facing serious allegations of sexual assault dating back to 1993. The accusations come from a lawsuit filed against the mayor by a former NYPD aide and could cause some significant problems for Adams. At the heart of this legal action is a complaint filed under the Adult Survivors Act, a law that reopened the window for pursuing justice for past sexual assault cases that exceeded the statute of limitations.The plaintiff, once an administrative aide for the police department’s transit division, claims Adams assaulted her in a vacant lot after she sought his advice...
  • News Summary-Intelligence Report Monday 3/18/2024 Netanyahu-Biden Talk, EU Foreign Policy Chief Blasts Israel For "Provoking Famine", "Chilling Ruling" From British Media Regulator, Gulf Arab Leaders Congratulate Putin

    03/18/2024 7:03:16 PM PDT · by Nextrush · 3 replies
    Nextrush Free ^ | 3/18/2024 | Nextrush/Self
    Israeli attacks on targets in the Damascus, Syria area... In Poland tonight an emergency landing for a US MQ-9 Reaper drone... The US military launching attacks in Yemen today... Cuba is blaming the United States for street protests over electricity cuts... Attorneys for President Trump filing an appeal to disqualify Atlanta Democrat prosecutor Fani Willis... Word that officials from Israel will go to Washington to talk about a potential Israeli military operations... The US Supreme Court heard arguments today on lower court rulings against the Biden Administration colluding with social media companies... Idaho medical conglomerate St. Luke's Hospital continuing to...
  • 138 Democrat Congressmen Sign Letter Against Amendment Allowing Certain Veterans to Own Firearms

    03/18/2024 2:57:31 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 8 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | March 18, 2024 | Brian Lupo
    Democrat lawmakers in the House signed a joint letter suggesting infringements on certain veterans’ Second Amendment Rights because of a “mentally incompetent” diagnosis from Veterans Affairs (VA) rating agencies. The current regulation regarding VA pensions, 38 CFR 3.353, defines “mentally incompetent” as “A…person is one who because of injury or disease lacks the mental capacity to contract or to manage his or her own affairs, including disbursement of funds without limitation.” The “official determination” of mental incompetency is made by the VA rating agencies, who have “sole authority” in making such a determination. According to the regulation, the determination is...
  • Commercial Real Estate Implosion: Half Of Downtown Pittsburgh Office Space Could Be Empty In 4 Years

    03/18/2024 9:50:24 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 21 replies
    Mish Talk ^ | 03/18/2024 | Mike Shedlock
    The CRE implosion is picking up steam. Check out the grim stats on Pittsburgh.Unions are also a problem in Pittsburgh as they are in Illinois and California.Downtown Pittsburgh ImplosionThe Post Gazette reports nearly half of Downtown Pittsburgh office space could be empty in 4 years.Confidential real estate information obtained by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette estimates that 17 buildings are in “significant distress” and another nine are in “pending distress,” meaning they are either approaching foreclosure or at risk of foreclosure. Those properties represent 63% of the Downtown office stock and account for $30.5 million in real estate taxes, according to the...
  • Why Leftism Fails: A Historical Study, Part One

    03/18/2024 9:35:40 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 7 replies
    Townhall ^ | 03/18/2024 | Mark Lewis
    Leftism fails for a lot of reasons and I can’t go into all of them without writing an encyclopedia. But I can establish the most important. I would like to begin this series by sharing with you a passage from historian Will Durant in his book Our Oriental Heritage, regarding the fall of the Persian empire in the 4th century B.C.:“It is in the nature of an empire to disintegrate soon, for the energy that created it disappears from those who inherit it, at the very time that its subject peoples are gathering strength to fight for their lost liberty....
  • Law and Order in Flux: Crafting a New Image for Justice in America

    03/18/2024 5:50:13 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 3 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 18 Mar 2024 | Roger Kimball
    The rule of law is inoperative in the United States. With every passing day, it becomes more obvious that we live under a two-tier justice system. It is not justice, but a form of injustice.Were I of a more entrepreneurial bent, I might go into the statuary business. I would specialize in those statues of “Justice” one sees, or used to see, decorating the façades of courthouses. The old-fashioned, now deprecated models featured a berobed and blindfolded female figure holding aloft a pair of scales. The symbology, now on its way to the graveyard of discarded ideas, was simple but...
  • KunstlerCast 397 — Matt Bracken, Navy SEAL, Views The Field Of Operations

    03/18/2024 5:03:32 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 26 replies
    Kunstler.com ^ | 17 Mar, 2024 | Matt Bracken and host James Howard Kunstler
    Matt and James discuss the situation in government and society today, from the presidential election, open borders, terrorism in the middle east and a lot in between. This is a 1 hour and 12 minute discussion so be sure to bookmark it if you can't listen to all of it at one time. Matt graduated from Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training class 105 in Coronado California. He served on east coast UDT and SEAL teams, taking a Naval Special Warfare detachment to Beirut in 1983. He is also an author (with a new book coming out soon) and is "Travis McGee"...
  • British NHS Hospital ‘Accidentally’ Chops Off 6 People’s Limbs in 3 Years.

    03/17/2024 6:43:16 PM PDT · by Roman_War_Criminal · 21 replies
    The National Pulse ^ | 3/5/24 | Staff
    A British hospital has admitted that it mistakenly performed six amputations in three years, a small fraction of an ‘accidental’ amputation epidemic occurring at UK hospitals with as many as 105 over three years. York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust acknowledged the mistakes — the highest number of incidents in any UK hospital — resulting from medical negligence. The Yorkshire hospital revealed that four of the accidental amputations occurred in 2020, while the remaining two happened in 2021. However, the Yorkshire hospital is not the only hospital operating under Britain’s socialized healthcare system to have ‘accidentally’ cut off...
  • Illegal Alien Caught at Border Admits He is a Hezbollah Terrorist, Said “I’m Going to Try to Make a Bomb”

    03/17/2024 4:48:04 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 27 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | March 17, 2024 | David Greyson
    An illegal alien from Lebanon who admitted to being a Hezbollah terrorist was caught at the US border near El Paso, Texas. 22-year-old Basel Bassel Ebbadi was apprehended by Border Patrol on March 9th. After being questioned, he told authorities, “I’m going to try to make a bomb.” He intended to go to New York to carry out his plans. He also confessed that he trained with the terrorist organization Hezbollah for many years and was an active member involved with guarding weapons.
  • THE LIBERAL ARTS ARE A RIGHT-WING PLOT!

    03/17/2024 2:42:14 PM PDT · by Rummyfan · 3 replies
    Powrline ^ | 17 Mar 2024 | Steven Hayward
    In its typically clueless way, The New Yorker is hot on the topic of whether the liberal arts—and especially classical education—have gone conservative. (The article is titled, “Have the Liberal Arts Gone Conservative?”) Better break out the smelling salts.You’d think this is an easy question. The left have attacked or hollowed out the liberal arts on campus, and the only people who take the classics seriously, and on their own terms, are conservatives. Leftist intellectuals insist on reading all classical literature through the current ideological filters, and students find it repellent, irrelevant, and above all boring.Emma Green, The New Yorker‘s...
  • ARE DEMS HEADING FOR EXTINCTION-LEVEL ELECTION?

    03/17/2024 2:34:19 PM PDT · by Rummyfan · 79 replies
    Powerline ^ | 17 Mar 2024 | Scott Johnson
    Donald Trump has held a narrow but consistent lead in just about every poll for several months now—having never led in the polls in either the 2016 and 2020 election cycles. More significant is where this lead has come from. Trump has not improved his share of white vote at all; his improved standing has come from huge gains in minority votes, as John pointed out recently in drawing our attention to a Financial Times meta-analysis of polls going back several cycles. That chart, in case you don’t remember, looks like this:Nate Silver looks closer at the trend in a...
  • With New 'Bloodbath' Claim Against Trump, We're Watching 'Hoax-Making In Progress'

    03/17/2024 1:44:29 PM PDT · by Rummyfan · 33 replies
    Red State ^ | 17 Mar 2024 | Nick Arama
    I have a basic rule of thumb: Any time you hear a wild story about former President Donald Trump where the media is claiming he said something/did something outrageous, wait 48 hours, and then the spin or the truth on the matter will be revealed. We've seen the fake stories before, like the "fine people" hoax. Joe Biden is still spreading that lie to this day when he talks about his reasons for running for office. On Saturday, you could watch the making of a hoax in real time. In the latest fake story that the media, the Biden campaign,...
  • Consequences Minus Truth

    03/17/2024 5:41:57 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 3 replies
    Kunstler.com ^ | 15 Mar, 2024 | James Howard Kunstler
    “People crave trust in others, because God is found there.” — Dom de Bailleul. The rewards of civilization have come to seem rather trashy in these bleak days of late empire; so, why even bother pretending to be civilized? This appears to be the ethos driving our politics and culture now. But driving us where? Why, to a spectacular sort of crack-up, and at warp speed, compared to the more leisurely breakdown of past societies that arrived at a similar inflection point where Murphy’s Law replaced the rule of law. The US Military Academy at West point decided to “upgrade”...
  • Nextrush Unplugged Weekend: Before They Heat Up Wars And Confiscate Our Wealth...,God Bless Lauren Boebert, Geert Wilders Locked Out Of Power, Biden "Leading Us To The Lord"

    03/16/2024 10:02:23 PM PDT · by Nextrush · 3 replies
    Nextrush Free ^ | 3/16/2024 | Nextrush/Self
    Before they ramp up the wars and confiscate our wealth to pay for out-of-control spending the Uniparty powers that be in Washington DC have to censor our speech... The Moderate Centrist Liberal Capitalist Globalists are running the show pushing an agenda carry out "The Great Reset" demanding compliance from all nations including Israel... What I Have Been Posting This Week On "Free Republic"... This week Congressman Ken.... Lauren Boebert has been in that sexualized spotlight in the context of her conduct and I'm not here to talk about that but I am here to say it like I said it...
  • The Secret Service Finds Suspect in Swatting Attacks on DHS Secretary Mayorkas

    03/16/2024 8:21:21 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 18 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | March 16, 2024 | Sharika Soal
    Legacy media is reporting the FBI has allegedly located an individual of interest in over 100 swatting calls, including calls targeted at Alejandro Mayorkas, Director of the Cybersecurity, Infrastructure and Security Agency Jen Easterly, and other Biden administration officials. It is believed that the person of interest lives in Serbia. They have not yet been charged, but sources say charges will be brought soon. According to news reports, the suspect is alleged to have made the calls targeting officials over the Christmas holidays.
  • France Yellow Vests Week 279: Crackdown Follows Comments About A "Zionist" At Pro-Palestinian Demo, Macron Pushes Troops In Ukraine Narrative, Anti-War Protest This Week

    03/16/2024 6:13:57 PM PDT · by Nextrush · 1 replies
    Nextrush Free ^ | 3/16/2024 | Nextrush/Self
    French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal descending upon a prestigious political science school in Paris Wednesday announcing a referral to a public prosecutor. It stemmed from a Pro-Palestinian protest Tuesday involving 100 students occupying a lecture hall at the "Sciences Po". The protesters keeping others out. The outrage from government and mainstream media in particular surrounded a comment directed towards a Jewish student. "Don't let her in, she's a Zionist" President Emmanuel Macron saying those remarks were "unspeakable and perfectly intolerable"... "Assisted Death" The social issues push ahead of the European Parliament election on June 9th continues... On Thursday Mr. Macron...
  • Like Olden Times.

    03/16/2024 5:24:55 PM PDT · by Rummyfan · 46 replies
    Instapundit ^ | 16 Mar 2024 | James Lileks
    Seen on Twitter-X the other day: “How did people get airplane tickets before the internet? Did you call the airline and they mailed you the tickets physically?” The author’s bio said she was a neuroscientist. Apparently there’s a difference between knowing how the brain works and using it. Well, miss, lemme tell you. We’d crank up the crystal radio set and see if we could raise anyone down at the aerodrome. “Hello, Hank? You got a seat on the midnight pond-jumper there? Put me down for one.” They’d mail you a key, and you used it to open the plane...
  • The Prophets: D.A. Henderson

    03/16/2024 5:21:01 PM PDT · by Rummyfan · 4 replies
    The Free Press ^ | 16 Mar 2024 | Joe Nocera
    >Years before Covid, the scientist credited with eradicating smallpox warned against shutting down the world to combat an epidemic.,p>In 2006, ten years before his death at the age of 87, the legendary epidemiologist D.A. Henderson laid out a plan for how public health officials should respond to a major influenza pandemic. It was published in a small journal that focused mainly on bioterrorism—and was quickly forgotten.As it turns out, that paper, titled “Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza,” was Henderson’s prescient bequest to the future. If we had followed his advice, our country—indeed, our world—could have avoided...
  • Those pesky U.S. District Courts

    03/16/2024 9:54:06 AM PDT · by Auslander154 · 17 replies
    I am just asking. How hard Is it to move a U.S. District Court from one location to another? It seems to me that at certain Federal District Courts democrats usually get a jury of their peers but republicans almost usually do not. A conservative president can appoint as many conservative judges as he is able, but if the jury pool is decidedly one-party then justice is never served. As long as these courts are centered in major cities that are about as blue as they can get, justice will always be weighed for one side over another simply for...
  • News Summary-Intelligence Report Friday 3/15/2024 Newsdump Friday Principal Threatened By Knife Wielding Student In France, Prime Minister Says "No New Guns" In New Zealand, Atlanta Democrat Charges Against Trump Intact, Election Interference In Russia

    03/15/2024 8:07:43 PM PDT · by Nextrush · 4 replies
    Nextrush Free ^ | 3/15/2024 | Nextrush/Self
    A United Airlines Boeing 737-800 flight landing safety...missing external panel... The US Navy announcing an 18-month delay in delivery of the "USS Enterprise" aircraft carrier... "I could not be the man I am and abandon the fight at this point" Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowing to stay on even as his Liberal Party trails badly... In France a 15-year-old student taken into custody after threatening the principal of his middle school with a knife... Five wounded in a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's... North Korean ruler Kim Jong-Un overseeing air warfare drills today urging more... "no new guns" Those...