The left-wing candidate in the Democratic primary for Michigan’s open Senate seat, Abdul El-Sayed, compared a move to ban Sharia law in Oklahoma to the Trail of Tears. “You can’t understand a Sharia ban without understanding the Trail of Tears,” El-Sayed told the Oklahoma chapter of the Council…
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Take My Governor—Please
Editor’s note: The week before Kamala Harris tapped Tim Walz as her running mate last August, we ran this piece from Minneapolis’s Scott W. Johnson. We are reposting it now, in the wake of Walz’s announcement that he will not run for a third term. Tim Walz has reportedly…
The Dumbest Year by Far (Until the Next One)
Merry Christmas and all that. We’ve just a few days left in what has been by far the dumbest year on record. Don’t worry—the next one will be even dumber, and 2028 is going to reach forbidding heights of stupidity for which none of us are adequately prepared. Enjoy…
Nuclear Firm Working With Chinese Military Companies Pushes for $900 Million US Uranium Contract
On its face, Orano Federal Services, a North Carolina-based nuclear fuel cycle company, is a plausible partner for a $900 million Department of Energy contract to produce uranium for America’s nuclear plants. But the firm’s parent company, the French majority state-owned Orano Group, works with two Chinese military…
In Deleted Social Media Posts, Michigan Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Repeatedly Drew Equivalence Between 9/11 and the US Response
Abdul El-Sayed, a candidate in the Democratic primary for Michigan’s open Senate seat, repeatedly drew an equivalence between 9/11 and the ensuing war on terror in since-deleted posts on X and a 2021 op-ed, arguing that both were “perpetrated ignorantly” and driven by “tribalistic grievance.” “Today, I mourn…
The Tim Walz of Labor: Zohran Mamdani Taps Biden Labor Secretary Who Presided Over Mass Fraud in California for Top NYC Post
New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D.) on Friday announced that former U.S. acting labor secretary Julie Su, who presided over mass welfare fraud as California labor secretary, will join the New York City government as the city’s first deputy mayor for economic justice. “Welcome to a New…
Northwestern Says Its Qatar Campus Gives Middle Eastern Women a Quality Education. Nearly 40 Percent of Its 2020 Graduates Came From Elite Qatari Families.
Northwestern University has defended its campus in Hamas-friendly Qatar by arguing that it provides Middle Eastern women access to an “elite” education. An outsized share of the campus’s graduates, however, are themselves members of the Qatari elite, including the ruling Al Thani family, a new report shared exclusively…
EXCLUSIVE: ‘The Height of Hypocrisy’: Wes Moore Filmed Campaign Ad Praising Maryland Public Schools Inside His Kids’ Elite Private School
“Maryland is home to some of the nation’s best public schools, but also some of its most neglected,” then-gubernatorial candidate Wes Moore (D.) said in a 2022 campaign ad. “We can’t settle for that. We must make sure that every Maryland student gets that fair shot…
Radical Anti-Israel Group Planned To Bomb Los Angeles Buildings Marked With Hamas Triangles, FBI Reveals
The FBI foiled a New Year’s Eve terrorist plot, arresting four members of a radical anti-Israel extremist group accused of planning five coordinated bombings across Los Angeles, the Department of Justice announced Monday. The scheme involved painting Hamas triangles near their targets, and photos show “Free Palestine” stickers…
Australian PM Anthony Albanese Omits Jews in Statement on Hanukkah Massacre
Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese released a statement after Sunday’s terror attack on a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney in which he made no mention of Jews or anti-Semitism. Albanese wrote shortly after the shooting that “the scenes in Bondi are shocking and distressing” and that his “thoughts are…