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The race is on. Not just the race for California governor, but the race to be the first (or perhaps last) gubernatorial candidate to be raided by the FBI, arrested and sent to jail. California is the most corrupt state in the country. 576 California officials were convicted of federal crimes in just the last decade. Its future governor could be the 577th criminal. The current front runner is Attorney General Rob Bonta, Gov. Newsom’s handpicked successor, whose political prospects hit a slight bump in the road when he was forced to disclose spending $468,000 in campaign funds on lawyers due to, what he claims is, being a witness in a federal bribery investigation. That’s a lot of money for a mere “witness” to a bribery investigation (and how exactly does a state attorney general become a ‘witness’ to a bribery investigation without making any arrests), but Bonta explained that “the attorneys that I have had been working around the clock, to be responsive, to be efficient, to be compre...

Zohran Mamdani ran for office promising New Yorkers free everything. And then he asked them to give him $4 million to fund his transition team. In a fundraising video, Mamdani claimed that he only had $1 million to keep paying his “incredible team” for the next 50 days. He also had to “vet the 50,000 resumes we’ve received” for that incredible team. Now we know where those millions for Mamdani’s “incredible team” are actually going. Mamdani has brought on 400 people to his transition team across 17 committees including a committee on community organizing, on worker justice, and on immigrant justice. Despite the claims that the Muslim socialist needed millions of dollars to go through tens of thousands of resumes, the ‘team’ is mostly drawn from his political allies in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Islamists and other people who were already involved in his campaign. The Mamdani transition team has a disproportionate number of Arabs and Muslims on it. For example, the Co...

The latest brutal act of Afghan refugee terrorism claimed the lives of two brave members of the National Guard in D.C.. Since their arrival in the United States, Afghan ‘refugees’ have been involved in violent attacks, in assorted crimes, and in sexual assaults on women and girls. The attack by Rahmanullah Lakanwal took place a mere week after another Afghan, Abdullah Haji Zada, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in the Election Day plot. Abdullah and Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi , his Afghan brother-in-law, a former ‘guard’ at an American facility in Afghanistan, had plotted a mass shooting attack directed at “large groups of people” on Election Day. A video showed Tawhedi reading to Zada and his daughter “a text that describes the rewards a martyr receives in the afterlife.” Politicians and the media have claimed that Afghans guards and soldiers like Rahmanullah and Nasir were ‘heroes’ and ‘allies’ who protected our soldiers. In reality, they were insider threats. The claims that they can’t ...

Aber Kawas claims that her activism began when her illegal alien father was deported after being arrested for a crime in New Jersey. Now she’s Zohran Mamdani’s first endorsement. Kawas had described Fahad Hashmi, convicted of providing material support to Al Qaeda, a synagogue bomber and the Hamas fundraisers known as the ‘Holy Land 5” as “imprisoned heroes” and “living martyrs”. (Mamdani had previously also expressed his support for the jailed Hamas fundraisers.) She expressed support for Ahmed Ferhani, who plotted to throw grenades into a synagogue, calling him “my brother, whose case I’ve followed and whose family I know.” “A father of a friend, a brother of a friend, a cousin of a friend, a friend of a friend- from Fahad Hashmi, to the Holy Land 5, Tarek Mahena, or Muhammad Soltan, ect., sometimes it really strikes me how little of a degree of separation we all have to these imprisoned heroes. I often reflect about how in a more just world these names would not have just been h...

It wouldn't be Thanksgiving without turkey, long lines, and people browsing their phones for Black Friday deals in which the products had their prices raised by 80% and then cut by 80% before being stealthily replaced by Amazon with identical looking Chinese knockoffs. And it also wouldn't be Thanksgiving without the media launching another round of shots in its endless war on America with 'explainers' claiming that the Pilgrims were racist and that we should be ashamed of the holiday. After a year of agonizing over why America hates them, the media returned once more as a dog to its vomit to despising everything American and trying to destroy it. The point of the Thanksgiving story is not what eventually happened between the pilgrims and some of the local Indian tribes, it's that two groups were able to set aside their conflicts, eat together and show gratitude. It's a point even more important at a time when the media repeatedly encourages conflicts over Thank...

In 2014, Ro Khanna, a former Obama official, was on the campaign trail in his congressional race while touting his support from LinkedIn billionaire Reid Hoffman. Around the same time, Hoffman was visiting Jeffrey Epstein’s island. A decade later, Hoffman and Khanna have become some of the most vocal crusaders against the long dead Epstein. Hoffman dropped an estimated six figures on a Monday Night Football ad by supposed Epstein ‘survivors’ demanding the release of the ‘Epstein files’. None of the ‘survivors’ in the ad mentioned the names of any of the men who abused them or revealed that the ad was being paid for by an associate of Jeffrey Epstein and a visitor to his ‘island’. The ad, in support of Rep. Ro Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie’s performative Epstein bill, highlighted the longstanding connections between Khanna, Hoffman and Epstein. When Rep. Khanna appeared on CNN to demand that “the Epstein class needs to go”, Reid Hoffman chimed in to agree, “we need the full truth.” The...

Nearly a year after LA’s worst wildfires, we’re closer than ever to knowing what happened. And the answers were DEI, a small weed and fish. And an obsessive hatred for Ronald Reagan. The roots of the environmentalist insanity that killed a dozen people and destroyed over 5,000 buildings actually go back a generation to the construction of the Reagan Library in Simi Valley. While RDS or Reagan Derangement Syndrome has become a distant memory, it was burning fiercely back then and the construction of the library seemed to be adding insult to injury.. Leftists looking for some way to block the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library seized on the presence of any plants in the area that they could brand as endangered including Lyon’s pentachaeta, a tiny daisy, and a weed, and a variety of milk vetch, an otherwise unremarkable plant that has a short life and tends to sprout after wildfires. The Reagan library was forced to agree to transplant the weeds, which didn’t work, but ate up time and mon...

In 2025, Hamas and Hezbollah flags became regular sights on Ivy League college campuses, a Muslim immigrant who embraced an unindicted coconspirator in bombing plots in New York City became its mayor, presidential envoys chatted with Hamas and an Al Qaeda leader who used to have a $10 million reward on his head visited the White House and met with the president. The mainstreaming of Islamic terrorism didn’t happen overnight. A decade ago, the Obama administration backed the Al Qaeda militias that would eventually go on to take over Syria and first forced Israel to negotiate with Hamas after the kidnapping and murder of three teens. What went on under the cover of plausible deniability a decade ago, where our government pretended we were backing the Free Syrian Army, a ‘democratic’ and ‘secular’ movement, (which critics like me pointed out was just Al-Qaeda in drag), or where our negotiators did not directly meet with Hamas, where anti-Israel campus groups claimed that they supported BD...