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  On a warm spring night in ‘21, Tonya Molina was found strangled to death in a motel room. Molina, a 43-year-old mother, had been on vacation. She met Santiago Contreras, a transgender criminal who had been serving time for stalking and assault, before being released by Gov. Gavin Newsom with nothing but an ankle monitor. Contreras, a man who had told prison officials that he was struggling as a transgender woman, cut off the monitor and killed Tonya. Tonya Molina was one of 30 people killed by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ‘early releases’ of criminals. Even as Gov. Newsom engaged in an unprecedented lockdown of the state, as local officials chased surfers off beaches, filled skate parks with sand, roped off benches and cut power to small businesses, he also began releasing criminals to terrorize the state. “It’s always been top of mind, it’s always been a point of concern,” Gov. Newsom said of reported COVID cases at San Quentin prison, promising to expedite the release of w...

The Trump administration has pressed Harvard and other academic institutions to open themselves up to more “viewpoint diversity”. And, if nothing else, Harvard’s leadership has for the first time committed themselves to “viewpoint diversity”, but what they mean by that may be very different. Everyone is familiar with the negative argument for DEI, affirmative action and similar diversity programs which claim that our country and its institutions suffer from “systemic racism” that has to be remedied through equity programs that discriminate in favor of underrepresented groups and against those groups deemed to be overrepresented. Mostly white people and Asians. Anyone who has sat through corporate or government diversity training in the past few years probably also encountered the positive argument for DEI which is that a diversity of races, cultures, sexual identities and genders also provides viewpoint diversity. That was the argument that the Biden administration made in defense of i...

Iran has some of the cheapest electricity prices in the world. The average cost of electricity in the United States per kilowatt hour is $0.181. In Iran it’s $0.004. A country where electricity is vastly cheaper than America isn’t looking to lower power costs. Iran joins Libya, Kuwait, Iraq, Oman, Qatar and other oil-rich countries as having some of the cheapest electricity prices in the world. Countries with vast energy reserves and production don’t need nuclear energy the way that Germany or France, which depend on imports, do. Saudi Arabia, with $0.053 electricity, did not begin pursuing a nuclear program because it needed to lower its energy costs. Neither did the UAE. The Saudis and Emiratis became interested in developing a “civilian” nuclear program only as Iran’s nuclear program took off. If Iran were developing a nuclear program to lower energy costs, it would have long ago dropped the program after sanctions cost its economy an estimated $1 trillion. Losing $1 trillion to sh...

In May 2024, the Biden administration announced that it was providing $220 million in aid to Yemen which the United States had been at war with since the start of that year. Even while the US Navy was engaged in what the Associated Press would describe next month as the “most intense combat since World War II” with Yemen’s Houthi Jihadists, the U.S. Mission to Yemen boasted of having provided “nearly $5.9 billion” in aid beginning with the Obama administration, of being “the largest donor of humanitarian assistance” and urged that “other donors must join us in stepping up” to fund an Iranian-backed terror group at war with us. A terror group whose motto, like its Iranian patrons, is “Death to America.” One arm of the United States government, the Pentagon, was fighting the Houthis, while another arm, the State Department and USAID, were funding them. While Navy personnel on board US Navy vessels had seconds to prepare and counter Houthi strikes, State Department and USAID personnel wor...

The first of May for most people means flowers and springtime, but for Communists it’s May Day, a time to wear red, scrawl something on a poster and shout at people at a big rally. And perhaps block traffic. May Day 2025 is being billed as a major protest turnout event. In New York City, the Democratic Socialists of America, the Communist Party, a few useless unions, and Bend the Arc will be rallying in the streets to “stop the billionaire takeover”. Since Bend the Arc is run and funded by Alex Soros, a billionaire scion notorious for his Hampton parties, the takeover is already here. George Soros, Alex’s dad, put his billions to work building up the American Left. The Working Families Party, which benefited from hundreds of thousands of dollars in Soros money for its candidates, is another participant in the May Day anti-billionaire rallies. Its Instagram motto is “in this house we bully billionaires.” A video put out by WFP claims that the fight is “regular folk against the ultra wea...

In a pivotal moment of the campaign that may have helped Kamala lose the election, Barack Obama got up on a stage in Pennsylvania and rebuked men in general and black men specifically for not being enthusiastic enough about Kamala. “We have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all corners of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running,” Obama complained. “Now, I also want to say that that seems to be more pronounced with the brothers. You’re coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses. I’ve got a problem with that. Part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president.” “Putting women down? That’s not acceptable,” he warned. Not only did it not swing black men leftward, it led to a backlash even among many black Democrats. Obama’s claim that black men were more open to supporting Trump because they were sexists was not only insulting, it wasn’t even true because the swing began when Biden was the can...

When President Trump put forward his new envoy to combat antisemitism, Rep. Jerrold Nadler urged Senate Democrats “not to provide the Trump Administration with a single vote to confirm Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun.” Rep. Nadler had opposed the Antisemitism Awareness Act, opposed Trump’s crackdown on campus antisemitism, opposed the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, and opposed defunding colleges that tolerate antisemitism. CAIR, an Islamist group whose leader celebrated the Oct 7 Hamas attacks, praised Rep. Nadler’s opposition to the Antisemitism Awareness Act meant to protect Jewish students from campus Hamas supporters like the ones that the congressman had been defending in 2025. So it’s not too surprising that Rep. Nadler now also opposes the new antisemitism envoy. While many Jewish groups sent their good wishes to Rabbi Kaploun, joining Nadler in his opposition to the new antisemitism envoy was the anti-Israel group J Street which had lobbied for re...

A high school football team is an unlikely flash point for a national crisis, but before the Massapequa Chiefs can take on their traditional rivals in Farmingdale, East Meadow or Westbury, they have to take on a much tougher team with a much bigger roster (but much worse running skills): the New York State Department of Education. The Long Island team ran afoul of a movement by New York Democrats, the worst team in the state which long ago rigged all the games in its favor, to ban Indian team names. After their out-of-state counterparts took out the Cleveland Indians and the Washington Redskins, the New York Democrats have come for the Massapequa Chiefs. The Massapequa Chiefs have been accused of being offensive. But whom are they offending? The Massapequa have disappeared and members of other tribes are speaking for them. All the media could find to object to the high school football team was a local professor from a tribe whose old territory was 400 miles away What’s offensive about ...