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Mayor Karen Bass just made it official: Los Angeles is a sanctuary city when it comes to enforcing food safety laws with thousands of street stands that have popped up all over the city — many of them run by illegal aliens.
Bass’s announcement this week ordering police to stop issuing violations to unpermitted vendors follows a Breitbart News investigation last month that revealed the widespread lack of enforcement of city and county food safety laws, with street food stands run by illegal migrants getting a free pass while citizen restaurateurs and licensed food stands are subject to fines, high costs, burdensome regulations and even closure.
When I was sick and delirious I took on a digital subscription to Conde Nast’s flagship magazines — the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Architectural Digest. This was my world, sortof, when I began to write and publish. The company paid very well, and everyone wanted to be them. I wrote for Vogue, and God help me, Tatler, and one of my friends was the Managing Editor of British Vogue, the sanity in the newsroom.
Country singer Aaron Lee Tasjan claimed several fans walked out of his concert after he performed his politically charged song “I Love America Better Than You†— prompting him to warn of the country’s “descent into fracture.â€
Tasjan estimated that eight concertgoers got up and left during his show at 1859 St. Joseph’s Church in Galveston, Texas, because they were “very clearly put off by the messages†in the lyrics, the 39-year-old wrote on Facebook after the incident.
For most of human history, the rich were well-fed and rarely worked whereas the poor were often overworked and underfed. Yet in 21st century America, many of our poorest citizens resemble the rich of the past because they rarely work and suffer from the ‘Diseases of Affluence’ — obesity and diabetes (Fig. 1). This unprecedented reversal in the relation between labor, diet, and disease is an unintended consequence of America’s ‘War on Poverty’.
(The Center Square) - A legal battle over public access and transparency has erupted in a community with major data center projects that once were on Gov. Josh Shapiro's "fast track" list, and a group of citizens acting without a lawyer scored a victory.
A Luzerne County judge on Tuesday ruled verbally that the Salem Township Planning Commission violated the Sunshine Act last month by holding a data center ordinance meeting from which - according to the eight plaintiffs - some people who wanted to attend were locked out.
Democratic candidates in competitive election races are taking different tacks this cycle over how close to affiliate themselves with former Vice President Kamala Harris, who’s lent her support to many of them but whose loss in the 2024 election has made her a more polarizing figure.
Iowa state Rep. Josh Turek (D) told reporters this week he didn’t want Harris to campaign for him as he pursues a Senate seat this cycle — a sentiment Iowa gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand, the state’s auditor, also shared about Harris and former President Biden.
President Donald Trump directed his administration Friday to prepare legal documents intended to make it easier for farmers and ranchers to process and sell their own meat, two days after Glenn Beck raised the issue during an interview with the President.
The proposal could expand local processing capacity and give producers alternatives to the country’s dominant beef packers. However, Trump did not sign a final order Friday, and existing federal inspection and sales restrictions remain in effect.
Former White House teleprompter operator
surrenders $100K in betting profits after
CFTC settlement replies
surrenders $100K in betting profits after
CFTC settlement replies
former White House teleprompter operator will surrender more than $100,000 in trading profits and pay a $65,000 civil penalty after federal regulators concluded that he used privileged access to presidential speeches to place bets on prediction markets.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced the settlement Friday involving Gabriel Perez, who also received a three-year ban from trading.
Perez had been placed on unpaid leave from his White House job after reports surfaced that he had allegedly used advance knowledge of President Donald Trump’s speeches to bet on which words and phrases the president would say publicly.
Bruce Blakeman, the chief executive of Nassau County, New York, has agreed to abide by the state’s new law banning cooperation with ICE, but he also announced that his county is joining a lawsuit to scuttle the law. New York Democrats pushed through a bill banning state law enforcement agencies from entering into the federal 287(g) program that allows them to cooperate with Immigration enforcement, but 15 counties have since launched a lawsuit to have the law shut down [snip] The act summarily cancelled the contracts the counties had signed with ICE, and local officials are furious .
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announced an internal policy change Friday, explaining why it had previously told reporters and editors to refrain from describing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as “terrorist attacks.â€
The memo was authored by Basem Boshra, CBC News’ senior director of journalistic standards and public trust, and surfaced ahead of the attacks’ 25th anniversary.
The directive was first reported by Toronto Sun columnist Warren Kinsella, who said it was addressed to CBC News staff.
“Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks,†the memo said.
The memo instead described the events as hijackings that led to passenger jet crashes in Washington, DC, Pennsylvania and Manhattan.
The Ashkenazi Jews are a remnant of the Jewish diaspora. A couple thousand years ago, they fled from Judea to Europe, and then were driven east. They did not assimilate, but deliberately kept to themselves to practice a religion and engage in a culture that was persecuted through the ages.
Just in case they had aspirations for integrating into the local population, the locals ensured that they did not. Marrying a Jew was a good way for a gentile to get disowned and disinherited, and vice versa.
The only way to save the country... is building an atomic bomb and firing it, no other way is left for us. We should create a tsunami whose waves hit the American coasts." — Iranian cleric Mohammad Bagher Kharrazi, secretary-general of Iran's proxy, Hezbollah, and closely tied to Iran's current Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei
The real question needs to be: What happens after Trump leaves office?
The regime's character — Islamist, anti-Western, any American and expansionist — has not changed. If Western powers are truly serious, they must work to completely eliminate Iran's present regime.
Recent developments show the danger of permitting recovery.
Dolly Parton’s music was never my taste, but somehow I always had only favorable impressions of her when she came into public view over the last 50 years. And just now I recall that a big Broadway play of my youth was “Hello, Dolly!†The film version would have been so much better with Dolly Parton instead of Barbra “Strident†Streisand. And so just now we need to improvise “Goodbye, Dolly.†Is it true that she’s the last figure in the country that everyone loved? Maybe. But let’s not overlook Tim Curry while we’re at it. And let’s salute America’s newest Great Lake!
"The only way to save the country... is building an atomic bomb and firing it, no other way is left for us. We should create a tsunami whose waves hit the American coasts." — Iranian cleric Mohammad Bagher Kharrazi, secretary-general of Iran's proxy, Hezbollah, and closely tied to Iran's current Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei
The real question needs to be: What happens after Trump leaves office?
The regime's character — Islamist, anti-Western, any American and expansionist — has not changed. If Western powers are truly serious, they must work to completely eliminate Iran's present regime.
Recent developments show the danger of permitting recovery.
Trump’s historic oil deal with Venezuela
realigns global energy and puts OPEC,
Canada on notice replies
realigns global energy and puts OPEC,
Canada on notice replies
President Donald Trump's historic deal to secure rights to 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil not only doubles America's energy reserves but also puts pressure on OPEC and Canada in the race for energy supremacy.
Trump announced the deal Friday night, saying it would not cost American taxpayers any money, and experts immediately predicted the move substantially realigns global energy in the favor of the United States.
"What I think you're seeing is really, truly a long-term vision for how our country, the United States of America, wants to be the leader in the oil markets -- American energy dominance. And this means getting out of this OPEC cartel.
Council on American-Islamic Relations, the US’s largest Muslim charity, blamed the 9/11 terror attacks on the country’s “support of Israel†and accused it of “state-sponsored Islamophobia†in its aftermath, according to since-deleted back-to-school material.
The embattled nonprofit released its annual “Back to school resource guide†for K-12 students Monday, containing a link outlining the outrageous claims – but it was inexplicably yanked a day later.
Screenshots obtained by The Post show the 16-page guide linked to a page that claimed the devastating Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans were masterminded not by Islamic terrorists but a “group self-identifying as Al Quaeda hailing from the mountains of Afghanistan.â€
Earlier this week, the Council on American-Islamic Relations sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice asking officials to reject Gov. Greg Abbott’s request for an investigation into Texas airports.
CAIR’s letter comes after Abbott sent a letter referring Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and the George Bush Intercontinental Airport to the DOJ for an investigation into alleged religious discrimination.
“These ablution stations single out one subset of the population for special treatment based on religion,†Abbott said. “They are not interfaith chapels open to all. They exist to benefit the Muslim population alone. Government-owned airports cannot favor one religion over all others.â€
Milo Yiannopoulos may be permanently barred from returning to the United States after his expected deportation, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) post about his arrest. DHS said illegal aliens who voluntarily leave through the CBP Home App could preserve their ability to return legally.
“Being in detention is a choice. We encourage all illegal aliens to take control of their departure with the CBP Home App. The United States is offering illegal aliens $3,000 and a free flight to self-deport now,†DHS said.
Alexander Mamonov, a Russian national living in South Florida, was convicted on all 12 counts Thursday after secretly funneling nearly $1 million in American aircraft parts to Russia and state-owned airline Aeroflot, lying to U.S. suppliers at every step to make it happen. A federal jury didn't buy it.Mamonov, 62, a former Aeroflot employee, was found guilty of conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act, illegal exports, smuggling, submitting false export information, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
The Commerce Department tightened export controls on Russia after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. It also issued a temporary denial order barring Aeroflot from receiving U.S.-origin goods.
For many years after Thomas arrived on the court in the early 1990s, his conservative, originalist views were relegated to dissenting opinions. Three and a half decades later, Thomas, now the second-longest-serving justice in the court's history, regularly finds himself in the majority.
Thomas, in short, has won the long game. But how?
Thirty-five years ago, mainstream legal training and judicial practice suggested the proper way to interpret a legal document is to probe for nebulous concepts such as legislative history and legislative intent. It's now hard to believe, but the commonsense notion that one should begin the interpretive exercise with a document's text and plain meaning was pretty much unheard of.
Memory is a tricky thing. It can conveniently forget or gloss over your painful experiences of the past. In the case of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Lords of the Lockdown are banking on it.
Indeed, as noted previously, in his own obstinate way, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s tight-lipped non-testimony before a Senate hearing that garnered a contempt of Congress charge was intended to distance both himself and Leftist “experts†from evoking within citizens nightmarish memories of what these and “trust the science†Stalinists foisted upon our free people.
The Left’s entire “woke†movement has developed a bout of convenient amnesia. It is typified by this statement from Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.):
A federal judge on Friday declined to block President Trump’s Executive Order ending “birth tourism.â€
The other order bans birthright tourism, the practice by which people travel to the United States solely for the purpose of giving birth to a child on our soil.
President Trump, earlier this month, signed two executive orders on birthright citizenship and birth tourism, following the Supreme Court’s ruling against the Trump Administration’s executive order ending birthright citizenship.
During the Oval Office signing, Trump decried the “very, very unfortunate†Supreme Court decision, adding, “So we’re making adjustments because it’s very unfair.â€
A federal U.S. attorney in Southern California has made his first arrest in what he says will be an ongoing election fraud crackdown.
Bill Essayli, first assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, is a one-man fraud-fighting phenomenon. He figured out how to avoid sanctuary policies that defy ICE detainer requests by issuing federal arrest warrants against the illegal aliens, necessitating their hand-off. He has arrested numerous criminals who were stealing vast amounts of taxpayer money. And he is also trying to fix just a few of the problems with the fraud-riddled California voting system.
Iceland holds a national referendum on Saturday on whether to restart negotiations to join the European Union.
The Nordic nation has spent the better part of two decades wrestling with the question of becoming the bloc’s 28th member.
Iceland's left-leaning government, elected in 2024, originally vowed to hold a vote next year but brought it forward because of rising geopolitical tension over Russia's war in Ukraine and Greenland.