NYC First Lady Rama Duwaji, the attractive wife of the popular mayor, will visit Syria and Lebanon starting 20 Sep. For her personal safety, the NYPD Intelligence Bureau will advise her Protective Service Detail (PSD) -- well-trained First Grade detectives -- which areas Israeli Death Forces (IDF) have been attacking and destroying in Lebanon and Syria. The First Lady's flight will certainly avoid Israeli airspace and PM Benjamin Netanyahu's nefarious clutches. The IDF have turned Lebanon into what the UN described as a "man-made catastrophe."
The UN: Israel killed 4,300 Lebanese people, wounded another 12,200, and displaced a staggering 1.2m civilians
"US Senate candidate Texas AG Ken Paxton (R) sat on the hospital board. Then he started pulling six-figure income from a cell phone tower on that same hospital's grounds. Just another "coincidence." It's just one source of his wealth and helps explain how he could afford to buy eleven real estate properties and possibly vote in multiple locations."
How does a mere Texas civil servant and lothario become an oligarch in just a few short years?
In a NYS courthouse in the Republican Party enclave of Staten Island, Judge Wayne Ozzi temporarily blocked NYC's new tax on luxury second homes.
White majority Staten Island is the home of Islamomisist Scott LoBaido who suffered a cardiac arrest while stalking NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D). His Horror Wayne Ozzi is a xenophobic anti-migrant Republican
Trump's reckless war on Iran is threatening global economic collapse " as the region breaks out into a matrix of conflagrations, Trump seemingly has no way out.
The United States and Israel's attacks on Iran have inflamed West Asia to the point that it has turned "into a matrix of smaller wars taking place across the region, all of which are interconnected, but all of which have quite separate agendas," describes Alistair Crooke of Conflicts Forum, a former diplomat who served in the Middle East and who authored, "Resistance: The Essence of the Islamist Revolution". Read more
"Top White House and administration officials engaged in an elaborate ruse to spirit President Trump out of Turkey during the NATO summit there last month, transporting him in a catering cart to a military jet because of a credible threat against him and Air Force One from Iran," the New York Times reports.
In a major setback to efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and cool Middle East tensions, Iran ruled out any future negotiations with United States (US) President Donald Trump, according to Iranian outlets and a X post by an adviser to Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. Headlines note that Tehran will wait until the US President's term ends on January 20, 2029, to resume talks. "Trump will not reach an agreement with us. We will accompany him until his term ends," Majid Shakeri, adviser to Ghalibaf, said
November 2017, Revised August 2020: "We investigate the Frontier Thesis and identify its long-run implications for culture and politics. We track the frontier throughout the 1790-1890 period and construct a novel, county-level measure of total frontier experience (TFE). Historically, frontier locations had distinctive demographics and greater individualism." Read more
According to the Congressional Budget Office, 2030 is the year when federal debt held by the public as a share of the economy will exceed the record set by World War II. Unlike in the '40s, this debt shows no signs of ever declining. The year 2030 is also roughly when the ratio of seniors to the total population will reach 1 in 5. As recently as 2008, the ratio was around 1 in 8. Seniors' rising share of the population mechanically raises Social Security and Medicare costs and pushes them onto a proportionally smaller working population. Medicare's budget-busting makes Social Security's look modest by comparison. Of the projected $138 trillion budget shortfall over the next 30 years, $109 trillion is from Medicare. The fiscal challenges scheduled to arrive in the 2030s are actually based on optimistic assumptions. They are from the CBO's baseline estimates, which assume no wars, no recessions, low and stable inflation and no new government programs or tax changes. Read more
Bill Maher called out Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) for betraying his own brand, comparing the hypocrisy of his abusive government overreach to if AOC wore a gown that said "tax the poor". Read more
Dummkopf Trumpf announced that Stephen Miller lookalike Will Scharf, an Ivy League MAGA lickspittle, will be the new White House legal counsel.
In 2008, charges of being a nuisance and serving alcohol to minors were dropped against this Princetonian
Former NJ governor Chris Christie -- the ex-AUSA who convicted tax cheat and sexual extortioner mega-oligarch Charles Kushner, a good-for-nothing miscreant described by the honorable US District Judge Jose L. Linares as "disgraceful and reprehensible" -- slammed the incontinent White House Windbag:
This idiotic, reckless, and illegal war against Iran on Israel's behalf is bankrupting the US economy and depleting our stock of missiles and drones for use against real enemies
An "astounding" amount of taxpayer dollars has been diverted from American national parks to fund President Donald Trump's beautification projects in Washington, D.C., journalist Scott MacFarlane revealed Sunday night after obtaining internal U.S. National Park Service records. "The topline dollar figures are astounding, according to multiple sources inside the US Department of Interior, who requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to news media," MacFarlane wrote in a report published Sunday on his Substack. "The records show more than $323 million have been made available for upgrades and projects on the White House grounds this year. That's a dramatic, nearly 5000 percent increase from the $7.5 million spent on White House grounds projects in 2024."
Top Pentagon policy advisor Elbridge Colby, who for years advocated for the US to develop additional capabilities to fight a "limited nuclear war," is reportedly drafting a new strategy that is expected to emphasize the use of tactical atomic weapons on the battlefield to give the president more "options" in a potential conflict with future adversaries.
This privileged double Ivy League university WASP was born the ultimate insider of the USIC and DOD establishment
Court records show five new counts filed August 6, including three felony child sexual exploitation charges. He bonded out August 9. His sentencing in two other cases is weeks away. Tyler Jay Boebert, the 21-year-old son of Rep. Lauren Boebert, is facing a new felony case in Garfield County, Colorado, and the charges are the most serious he has ever faced. According to Colorado court records reviewed by American Muckrakers, case 2026CR234 was filed in Garfield County District Court on August 6, 2026. The People of the State of Colorado v. Boebert, Tyler J lists five counts:
