New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani (D.) has developed a close relationship with an influential Muslim sheikh in Queens with a history of Holocaust denial, the Washington Free Beacon can reveal. Mamdani has met with Sheikh Fadhel Al-Sahlani, imam of the Al-Khoei Islamic Center in Jamaica, Queens, on…
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New Fed Chair Has Chance to Right-Size ‘Disaster’ of Bloated Staff
A new chairman of the Federal Reserve is an opportunity to scale back the system’s staff, whose numbers have swollen in recent years and now far exceed that of similar institutions in other countries. The Bank of Japan says it has 4,601 employees. The European Central Bank says…
Graham Platner Disparaged Army Soldiers in Deleted Reddit Posts: ‘Full of Fat, Lazy Trash Who Would Rather Not Be in Uniform’
Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner disparaged Army soldiers in since-deleted Reddit posts, calling the Army an “awful” organization “full of fat, lazy trash who would rather not be in uniform.” “The Army does things differently, and as a whole, they do things much worse,” Platner, who served…
5 Things We Learned from This Week’s Primary Elections
Tuesday’s primary elections delivered some notable results across the country. Here are five things we learned this week that are worth pondering as the midterms approach: (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) 1) Trump runs the GOP (but the Jews run the world) Rep. Thomas Massie (R., Ky.) deserved to lose…
Colorado Dem Uses State Capitol for Campaign Video in Apparent Violation of State Law
Manny Rutinel, a Democrat running in a Colorado swing district, said he was “not campaigning” when he filmed a confrontation with his Republican opponent in the state capitol building, which is critical because Colorado law prohibits elected officials from using state resources, including their access to…
Michigan’s El-Sayed Endorsed ‘Reparations’ for ‘Indigenous Peoples’ in Deleted Tweet Attacking Thanksgiving
Michigan’s left-wing Democratic Senate candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, called for reparations for Native Americans in a since-deleted social media post that criticized the holiday of Thanksgiving and said the United States “was built on the systematic annihilation of Indigenous Peoples,” an archived copy of the post reviewed by the…
Graham Planter Smeared Murdered ‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle in Podcast Rant, Claiming Navy SEAL Shot Innocent Civilians ‘To Get High Numbers’
Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner (D.) suggested that legendary “American Sniper” Chris Kyle shot innocent civilians in Iraq in order to inflate his kill numbers. Platner also bristled at the idea of the former Navy SEAL and his platoon being dubbed “heroes.” Platner, running for Senate against Sen….
Caught on Camera: Transgender Anti-Israel Rabbi and Congressional Hopeful Brad Lander Among Small Crowd of Far-Left Jews To Attend Mamdani’s Embattled Shavuot Party
New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani (D.) celebrated the Jewish holiday of Shavuot at Gracie Mansion on Monday evening with a bevy of his progressive allies, including anti-Israel Jews such as congressional hopeful Brad Lander and the transgender rabbi who once held an interfaith dialogue meeting with the…
JB Pritzker Admin Depicts White People, Cops as Mosquitoes in Microaggression Training That Rails Against ‘Color Blindness’
Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker’s (D.) administration offers a taxpayer-funded training on “microaggressions” and other “exclusionary behaviors” that depicts white people and police officers as mosquitoes who suck blood from people of color. The training—which Pritzker’s Department of Human Rights offers to “private-sector, government, and public participants” and which…
The ‘Working Class,’ According to Graham Platner
Graham Platner, the Carhartt communist nepo-baby running for U.S. Senate in Maine, continues to identify as “working class” in the face of all evidence. The grandson of a world-renowned architect, Platner attended private prep schools and has often relied on his attorney father for financial assistance. He runs…