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Tag: New York City
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Mamdani’s ‘Marxism’ Gives Cover to Conservative Inc.
Establishment conservatives are still dwelling on old tropes about socialism and Marxism, and avoid noticing the left’s real motives are racial.
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Mamdani’s ‘Warm Collectivism’ Is Just Anti-White Hatred
The ideology that’s operating behind the curtain of New York City’s mayoralty.
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The Siege of a Synagogue and of a Cathedral
The mob that recently attacked a New York City synagogue is different from the one that attacked St. Patrick’s Cathedral in 1989, but its spirit and intention to intimidate was the same.
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‘Iryna’s Law’ and the Bad Judges Who Make It Necessary
Where judges egregiously endanger the public with their leniency toward criminals, they should be impeached and removed from office.
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Hey, New York: ‘I Told You So!’
Observations on the city’s recent election from the once-maligned baseball great who long ago had New York’s number.
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When Zohran Met Barry
The Mamdani factor, like the Obama factor that preceded it, is a plan of managed decline that must be lived through to thoroughly despise it.
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From Giuliani’s Golden Age to Mamdani’s Sanctuary Gangland
Extreme sanctuary policies will turn New York and other like-minded cities into shooting galleries.
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The Off-Year Elections Say Little About GOP Prospects in 2026
There are plenty of reasons not to overreact to the “disaster” of the off-term elections.
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Just Deserts for a Once-Coddled Neocon Elite
The confusion exhibited by onetime neocon allies of Bill Kristol’s for his support of Zohran Mamdani is an occasion for schadenfreude and reflection about the state of conservatism.
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The Time to Stop Mamdani Was 30 Years Ago
In the wake of 9/11 America should have tightened its borders instead of cracking down on its own citizens and launching pointless wars.
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NYC Should Take the Plunge Sooner Rather Than Later
The sooner New York City is made to suffer the consequences of its electoral imprudence the better.
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Brazen Theft of the French Crown Jewels Is Nothing Next to Macron’s Heist
The French president is bleeding support as he’s crushed French citizens under public debt, galloping inflation, and the threat of wealth confiscation.
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What Will It Take to Squash the Pending Insurrection?
There is no reason to believe that yet another Republican victory at the ballot box will be enough to put a stop to the insurrectionist behavior of the global left.
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Blaming the Blamable
Con Inc. talking heads like to frame inner-city voters as victims of Democratic administrations. In reality, urban populations, especially college-educated white women, are the U.S.'s most radical voters.
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Mamdani Could Lose Even in Crowded Field
Mamdani has become a vulnerable candidate because crime has become a driving issue.
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Mamdani, Man From Nowhere
A rootless, third-world would-be cosmopolitan wants to impart his special blend of regressive, anti-Western grievance on America. We should stop inviting it.
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Mamdani Shows Democrats Can’t Quit Obamaism
Obamaism is sinking the Democratic Party but they can’t quit it.
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A Progressive Bonfire of the Vanities, ‘Mad-Mani’ Style
In New York City, a new coalition of sanity needs to be built and built quickly.
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A Clear Path for a GOP Mayor in NYC?
A path to victory is there for the Republican Party, if they have the guts to take it.
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Democratic Party Gets Its Left-Wing Battering Ram
Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York represents nothing new in Democratic Party politics. He is merely a new state-of-the-art version of what they’ve always been begging for.
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A New York City Comeback?
Statistics and a recent renaissance in the arts suggests that it’s not impossible.
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U.S. Attorney Sassoon’s Dubious ‘Principled Resignation’
Former federal prosecutor Danielle Sassoon’s stated reasons for resigning rather than dropping charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams are legally suspect.
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Reality Finally Defeats Sanctuary Utopianism
Nothing has been so thoroughly discredited during the Biden years as the policy of sanctuary cities.
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‘Daniel Penny Effect’ and New York’s Surging Crime Rates
Who can blame New Yorkers for refusing to intervene to prevent crime when they live in a city where such heroes are treated as criminals?
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Feelings Don’t Care About Facts
New Yorkers who sense that they have something to fear from crime are not irrational or crazy, whatever the numbers say.
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Americans Now See the Fraud of Sanctuary Cities
The high-water mark of virtue signaling sanctuary policies has been reached and the tide is now receding as common sense catches up to reality.
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Daniel Penny is Guilty … of Being White
Daniel Penny is up against a system that sees capable white men as enemies.
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What’s the Matter With Men?
Men have come to understand that it’s rarely in their interest to intervene on behalf of justice, order, or civilization.
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Supremes Refuse to Normalize Sleeping Rough
Municipalities can ban homeless encampments from sidewalks, parks and other public areas. Sleeping in the rough is not a constitutionally guaranteed right.
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Ban Sanctuary Laws
It’s time to give the law-abiding public sanctuary and safety, not migrant criminals.
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Alvin Bragg—Nothing to Brag About
New Yorkers need a DA who watches out for them, not for himself.
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The Rule of Law No Longer Reigns in New York
There was a time when the Big Apple was undoubtedly the legal capital of the country and an exciting and wonderful place to visit. That is no more.
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Stop the Migrant Invasion
The Left insists migration is a humanitarian crisis. Wrong. It’s a lawless invasion. Europeans are fighting back. Americans should, too.
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Witch Hunt at the New York Philharmonic Draws in Veteran Trump Hunter
U.S. federal judge Barbara S. Jones is among those engaged in an outrageous and unrelenting pursuit of two musicians formerly with the orchestra for sexual assault allegations. The evidence is dodgy but the determination to punish them is stronger than ever.
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Stop Importing Ungrateful, Spoiled Criminals
If one valid criticism of American society is that our high standard of living had made our population lazy, entitled, and unappreciative, then why are we importing so many new people with the same qualities?
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There’s No Right to Sleep Outdoors
Supreme Court arguments on Monday suggest the Court will rule 6-3 or 5-4 that municipalities can ban sleeping on public property. The ruling will affect the entire nation.
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Nation of Squatters
A state in which people are essentially free to plunder the property of their neighbors is in a state of war. And when the legal system tips the scales of justice in favor of the pillagers, it becomes a kind of institutionalized tyranny.
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New York Doomed to Be Migrant Central—Other Cities Take Note
Only New York has a "right to shelter," and it makes the city the top destination for migrants.
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The Left’s Beef With Beef
New York’s Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit against a beef producer is a warning to businesses not to expect impartial justice.
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If America is to Survive, the Sanctuary Delusion Must Go
The current immigration crisis has been called an invasion by many, but it is the result of a deluded sense of obligation to the rest of the world at the expense of our own families and communities.
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Migrant Surge Brings Killers and Criminal Gangs
Not everyone violating the border is a hardened criminal, but President Joe Biden's open borders are allowing the worst to get in.
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Democrats’ Open Border Trickery: Gaming the Census
The raw political interest of Democrats is at work in gaming the census numbers to increase the headcount in America’s leftist cities to maintain the political power.
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Migrant Crime Turning Cities Into War Zones
The Statue of Liberty says, "Give me your tired, your poor." It doesn't say your lawbreakers, brutes, and gang leaders. But criminals posing as asylum seekers are exploiting soft-hearted Americans and terrorizing their cities.
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Democrats Roll Out Welcome Mat for World’s Criminals
International crime rings are exploiting Joe Biden's open borders and heading to blue states with soft-on-crime policies.
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Pro-migrant Dems Playing Russian Roulette with Our Safety
Allowing migrants—or anyone—to board airplanes without photo ID, and promoting ID cards that blur the lines between legal and illegal, sabotage us.
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The Executive Branch Is Deliberately Failing Americans
America cannot afford another four years of an open-borders Democrat administration.
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The Profiteering Migrant-Industrial Complex
Migrants complain about rotten food. The worst rot is inside the Adams administration's handling of this emergency.