Zohran Mamdani, New York City's mayor, set off a firestorm of criticism Wednesday morning with a social media post ostensibly intended to commemorate the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of Israelis. It devoted a brief paragraph to condemning Hamas and commiserating with its victims. The rest was a much longer denunciation of Israel's "ongoing genocide in Gaza," a "world in which occupation and apartheid continue" and a situation in which "our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment." In response, Ammiel Hirsch, the president of the New York Board of Rabbis, said the statement was "so offensive to so many Jews that it is hard to describe how offensive it is." In fact, it's a moral obscenity. Let me count the ways.
... It is hard -- no, it's impossible --to remember a President who has done more to hurt his own party than Donald Trump. read more
Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that she was appointing Letitia James as a special prosecutor to investigate the alleged 2024 gang rape at Cornell University. read more
A long list of prominent conservatives have referred to leftists and Democrats as dumb, stupid, incompetent, crazy, and insane. In 2007, Ann Coulter wrote the book "If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans." Both Rush Limbaugh and President Trump regularly referred to Democrats as "Dumbocrats." More recently, the leader of the House Freedom Caucus called Democrats "the crazy party," and JD Vance framed the contrast between the parties as "common sense vs. crazy." Matt Margolis titled a piece in PJ Media this year "Democrats Are Too Stupid to Heed This Warning," and posited that somewhere between the 1990s and today, the Democratic Party lost its mind. Some of this stuff gets a chuckle, but conservatives need to be careful with this narrative. read more
Imagine starting a fire and then standing by and filming with your mobile phone while a firefighter is engulfed in flames. That is one of the scenes emerging from France's latest wave of unrest. Elsewhere, rioters have doused a teacher in petrol, looted businesses, and set vehicles and schools on fire. The fact that many of the rioters are looting while waving Algerian and Palestinian flags is just a symptom of a much larger, unspoken failure. The ostensible grievance is the condition of French education. The proposed remedy, apparently, is fewer teachers and more ashes.
It is interesting to see the left oppose raising a politician's residence all of a sudden.