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    New York’s Embrace of Socialist Mayoral Candidate Is About Liberal Catharsis
    A far-left socialist who has supported defunding the police and replacing them with social workers, abolishing prisons, abolishing private health insurance, banning guns, decriminalizing pretty much every drug, and creating government-run grocery stores won the Democratic Party mayoral primary in New York City on Tuesday. The race is about more than New York. It’s a harbinger of…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    NYC Mayor: Democrats ‘Left Me’ and Working-Class Voters
    New York City Mayor Eric Adams defended his record and positioned himself as the working-class candidate in this year’s mayoral race during a Fox News interview Monday.  Adams, a former Democrat-turned-independent candidate, called out his former party of ahead of the Democrats’ June 24 primary. Republican Curtis Sliwa and independent Jim Walden are also challenging…
    Philip Roberts
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    Fact-Checking Justice Sotomayor’s Imaginary Birthright Citizenship Cases
    Last week, the Supreme Court held oral arguments in Trump v. CASA, Inc., a case that stems from President Donald Trump’s January executive order on birthright citizenship. At this point in the litigation, the court isn’t addressing the constitutionality of the order itself, but instead will resolve an important procedural question over the power of…
    Amy Swearer
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    The Serious Charges Against New York Mayor Eric Adams
    Did New York Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat and former police captain, accept foreign bribes and foreign campaign contributions? That’s the key issue in the federal indictment of New York’s mayor just handed down by a federal grand jury led by Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. The indictment…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Should Sotomayor Cry Some More?
    Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor visited Harvard University last week to accept the Radcliffe Medal, which, says Harvard, “is presented annually to an individual who has had a transformative impact on society.” In 2018, Harvard gave the award to Hillary Clinton—the former secretary of state who lost the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump. In…
    Terence Jeffrey
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    DC Resident to Mayor: Since Homeless Encampments Are Permitted, Can Tourists Camp Too?
    If Washington, D.C., isn’t going to clean up homeless encampments, it should embrace equal opportunity for all and allow tourists to pitch a tent and save on hotel costs, one city resident says.   “If … it is your policy to continue to allow individuals and groups to sleep, cook, and live on city-controlled grassy…
    Virginia Allen
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    Mayorkas Personally Denied RFK Jr.’s Secret Service Protection
    Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas personally declined a request from presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Secret Service protection last July. The newly revealed records were obtained by Judicial Watch, which sued the Department of Homeland Secretary in September over an unanswered Freedom of Information Act request. On July 21, 2023, Mayorkas sent the…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Tennessee Mayor’s ‘Hate’ Council Strategized With Far-Left Group Demonizing Moms for Liberty
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL — Tennessee's third-largest city launched a council to oppose "hate" and "extremism" in 2018, and that council has repeatedly collaborated with the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center, which is notorious for branding mainstream conservative and Christian nonprofits "hate groups," putting them on a "hate map" alongside the Ku Klux Klan….
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Suarez for Prez: Miami Mayor Launches Bid for White House
    Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, a Republican, announced Thursday that he is running for president of the United States. “I have always been a runner. It’s the best place to charge my body and clear my mind. We lived right here in Miami. This is where my parents began their American dream,” Suarez said in a…
    Samantha Aschieris
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    ‘Your Refusal to Do Your Job Is Revolting,’ Sen. Cruz Tells DHS Secretary Mayorkas
    Since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, an estimated nearly 5 million illegal immigrants have crossed America’s borders. The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Tuesday questioning Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about the porous nature of American borders and grilling him on his job performance in general. Mayorkas has…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Crime-Ridden Chicago Term-Limits Failed Mayor Lori Lightfoot With Landslide Loss
    A Democratic mayor in a big, blue city with escalating crime, civil dysfunction, and a crumbling economy lost an election Tuesday night. Can you guess what her excuse for defeat was? I’m sure you can guess. It was racism and sexism that brought down Chicago’s black, lesbian mayor—who won her initial election with more than…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    The Hypocrisy of ‘Sanctuary City’ Mayors
    Monday morning saw another busload of illegal border crossers arrive at New York City’s Port Authority terminal. The city’s commissioner of immigrant affairs, Manuel Castro, was there to personally welcome 52 people off the bus, of whom 80% were single men, witnesses said. “Many other people who are here have told us that the families…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Big City Mayors Welcome Illegal Immigrants, Except When They Don’t
    This morning, I watched on the news as a busload of mostly young, single men arrived at New York’s Port Authority bus terminal. In the bizarro-world of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 policies, the staff from the nongovernmental organizations that greeted them all wore masks, yet not one of the arrivals did. Maybe, like President Joe…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Catholic School Parents Ask Archdiocese to Fight DC Mayor’s Masking Order
    More than 1,000 Catholic school parents and parishioners are pressuring the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington to fight D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s mask mandate for schools.  The group ADW Parents has existed for several months, but revamped its efforts in light of Bowser’s recent announcement removing mask mandates for many businesses and government offices but…
    Maggie Hroncich
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    Mayor Eric Adams Is Half Right
    It is usually Republicans who blast the media for what they consider biased or unfair coverage of their policies, but increasingly we are hearing Democrats engaging in the same behavior, apparently frustrated their agenda is not being embraced by some of their fellow Democrats and the public. Last week, New York City Mayor Eric Adams,…
    Cal Thomas
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    At Age 25, She Was Just Elected Mayor of Her Tiny Hometown in Pennsylvania
    Brianna Howard says she never thought she would run for public office, but when no one else was on the ballot for mayor in her hometown of Mount Jewett, Pennsylvania, she rose to the challenge.  Howard ran as a write-in candidate, won, and will serve as mayor of the town for the next four years,…
    Virginia Allen
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    Former NYPD Captain Eric Adams to Become NYC Mayor
    In a campaign featuring two candidates with backgrounds in law enforcement, Democrat Eric Adams defeated Republican Curtis Sliwa on Tuesday to become the next mayor of New York City. The Associated Press called the race for Adams at 9:20 p.m., shortly after the polls closed.  With 62% of the vote counted as of 10:42 p.m.,…
    Fred Lucas
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    Chicago Mayor ‘Absolutely’ Would Deny Interviews Again to White Reporters
    Judicial Watch announced Tuesday that it has amended its lawsuit against Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a Democrat who claims to be “unapologetic” about her previous policy of granting interviews only to journalists of color. Lightfoot told The New York Times for a podcast released Monday that she “would absolutely” implement the interview policy again. “I’m…
    Steven Hall
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    ‘Botched’ NYC Mayor’s Race Casts Doubt on Ranked-Choice Voting
    After New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary election last week, the preliminary 10 percentage-point lead enjoyed by candidate Eric Adams suggested the outcome was a near-certainty, even under the city’s new ranked-choice voting system.  More than a week later, however, the nation’s biggest city has been cast into confusion and heated debate over whether the…
    Fred Lucas
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    US Civil Rights Commissioner Slams Chicago Mayor for Barring White Reporters From Interviews
    Peter Kirsanow, a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, blasted Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s policy that barred white reporters from interviewing her in a letter Monday. The Daily Caller News Foundation and Judicial Watch sued Lightfoot after she announced her policy on Twitter May 19. Thomas Catenacci, a foundation reporter, was denied…
    Andrew Trunsky
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