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The FDNY is expected order more than half a dozen migrant centers across the Big Apple be vacated over increased fears the sites could become fiery death traps, The Post has learned. Officials from both the Office of Emergency Management and FDNY believe the vacate orders are necessary at seven migrant shelters and respite centers where various fire and health hazards have been discovered, according to sources with knowledge of the matter. Fire officials will return to the locations starting Sunday to issue their final inspections, the sources said. The controversial former Staten Island Catholic school, St. John’s Villa Academy,...

Subverting the Electoral Process: In his Gettysburg Address, President Lincoln reminded Americans that they were uniquely privileged to have a new birth of freedom that was contingent on “government of the people, by the people, and for the people.” That was then. What about now? Every week brings new revelations and details about a cabal in the federal government whose actions border on a conspiracy. The evidence suggests that specific high level officials in the Justice Department and the FBI colluded together to violate the law in unprecedented ways for the singular purpose of subverting the will of the people...

By Mr. CurmudgeonAre you upside-down on your mortgage? Would you like to refinance at a lower, more affordable rate? It's too bad you're not a congressman or a high-level federal bureaucrat.A just released report by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee shows that the now defunct Countrywide Financial Corp., the mortgage underwriter that turned subprime lending into a ticking time bomb, created a "VIP loan unit" to provide "hundreds of loans to current and former Members of Congress, congressional staff, high ranking government officials and executives and employees of Fannie Mae ... VIPs who worked at Fannie Mae enjoyed...

The Department of Health and Human Services has finally released its controversial report on the costs that will surround the recently passed Obamacare legislation and questions are being asked as to why it was not released earlier, when it might have made a difference during the health care debate. The simple answer is that the report would only further damage a bill that passed by the thinnest of margins and with the most questionable of means.

The discussion takes an "interesting" twist!

A few years back, I was watching my son play little league baseball. This is not the little league you and I might remember where a few of the older kids would pitch to you with the coach standing behind them, but our new liberalized "T-Ball" little league where the kids get to stand up at the plate and cut away at a stationary ball ad infinitum until they hit it and get to run to base. On this day the unthinkable happened. A boy hit the ball, and a player actually caught it, turned and made a strong throw...

When Abraham Lincoln declared that government of the people, by the people, and for the people would not perish from the earth, he could not have anticipated the times we live in. A time when politicians would allow themselves to be corrupted by money from the rich and powerful, whose desire is to stomp all over the rights of we the people. We the people, the citizenry, once the most powerful in this nation, have become the least powerful, and now the despised. Money is the name of the game, and money means power, and we the people have increasingly...

FOR DECADES, WE HAVE SAT HELPLESSLY WATCHING as a government intended to be of, by and for the people became increasingly all about the Party…All about the politics and the politician. So there is a good reason why the Internet is now the new target for censorship by Washington insiders and media elites alike…. Network news ratings are tanking, newspaper circulations are plummeting and Washington elites are growing weary of answering a steadily increasing volume of mail from we the people… This isn’t how it is supposed to work (in their minds). We the people are supposed to go to...

THEY say that in life you get what you deserve. Well, today America has deservedly got a lawless cowboy to lead them further into carnage and isolation and the unreserved contempt of most of the rest of the world. This once-great country has pulled up its drawbridge for another four years and stuck a finger up to the billions of us forced to share the same air. And in doing so, it has shown itself to be a fearful, backward-looking and very small nation. This should have been the day when Americans finally answered their critics by raising their eyes...

Now that George Bush has been re-elected, John Kerry has capitulated, and Rush Limbaugh has been gloating over the astounding electoral victory, I'm going to rain on the parade a bit. Yes, the 59 million votes cast for President Bush are the largest number of votes ever cast for a president, and yes, he is the first to win a majority of the popular vote since his father did so in 1988, and yes he did get 4 million more votes than John Kerry did. But - but - this election was decided by about 68,000 people. Not many, out...

Why July Fourth Is Important OK, do you want to live in an independent United States, or would you prefer to be incorporated into a world government? It's no contest, as far as I'm concerned. I will answer to no laws except those of the United States. I believe it would be a crime if the present generation resubmerged the United States into a world empire after our forefathers fought a bitter war to get us out of one. And why did they do that? Because they believed that the people in this land ought to have the right to...

What do the American people think? Ask President Bush. "The American people know this about me," he said on the subject of pre-Sept. 11 terrorism warnings. "Had I known that the enemy was going to use airplanes to kill on that fateful morning, I would have done everything in my power to protect the American people." Please click on the link for the rest of the article.