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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani claims that the city budget has a $5.4 billion shortfall, and one of the ways he proposes to close that gap is by changing the state's estate tax laws.

At present, New York imposes a death tax of 16% on estates worth more than $7 million. Mamdani wants to lower that threshold to estates worth only $750,000, ...Read more

In retrospect, removing Venezuela's socialist-drug thug dictatorship was Domino One -- the first criminal regime to topple in the Trump administration's calculated campaign to give China a harsh and instructive taste of Beijing's own grand strategy of resource deprivation and denial.

As I write this column, Iranian threats to oil tankers ...Read more

Don't fall for the propaganda. Iran is not holding its own in this conflict. It is being systematically dismantled.

One by one, the senior figures of the Islamic Republic have been eliminated: generals, security chiefs and regime power brokers. The country's leadership has been decapitated at the highest levels, leaving behind a hollowed-out ...Read more

At the height of the energy crisis in the 1970s, when oil prices more than sextupled, The Economist magazine showed a map of the Persian Gulf on its cover with the headline, "What's a Nice Thing Like Oil Doing in a Place Like This?"

The Iranian miscreants, with whom we are now at war, understand that, although they could care less what their ...Read more

If New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani gets his way, half of everything New Yorkers work a lifetime for -- including their homes, their businesses or farms and their savings -- could be stripped away on their deathbeds.

No more Empire State; he'd make it the Expropriation State.

Only one thing in life is certain: We all die.

Mamdani is ...Read more

Do you eat steak?

You're killing the planet!

So say climate activists.

Silly media agree:

Vox warns that beef is the "worst thing we eat when it comes to global warming."

The World Economic Forum, which says it's "committed to improving the state of the world," released a video promoting a future where "you'll own nothing and you'll be ...Read more

When former President Barack Obama was in office, his administration fought all the way to the Supreme Court in an attempt to force Americans to act against their consciences by providing insurance coverage for contraceptives -- including abortifacients -- through a federal regulation issued under the so-called Affordable Care Act.

The ...Read more

The concept of freedom of the press isn't ruined by criticism of the press. But when liberal TV hosts roll out their lectures, they sound a little like the president they routinely attack. Any criticism of their work must be Fake News.

MS NOW host Ana Cabrera expressed indignation on March 16 after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr tweeted that ...Read more

Early this year, we learned that Elon Musk may become the first trillionaire in world history.

My friends on the left of the political spectrum have been fuming about this story as the ultimate example of the rich getting richer and the poor getting crumbs.

When I appeared on "Real Time with Bill Maher" not long ago, Bill questioned me about ...Read more

On Tuesday, TMZ published a story with a dramatic all-caps headline, "PETE HEGSETH BLEW BILLION$ ON FRUIT BASKETS, LOBSTER," that was accompanied by a manufactured photo of the secretary of war surrounded by a bunch of plastic lobsters. The initial story was followed by several other "news" organizations repeating the claims.

If you've never ...Read more

Importing people who hate America didn't end well.

See if you can spot any similarities in these four events.

During the weekend, President Donald Trump attacked Iran, Ndiaga Diagne opened fire at a bar in Austin. He wore a "Property of Allah" sweatshirt on top of an Iranian flag shirt. He killed three people and injured more than a dozen ...Read more

Six days after the commencement of Operation Epic Fury, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to announce, in the context of the ongoing joint American-Israeli military campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran: "There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!" In the same post, the president seemed to equate such "...Read more

It was recently reported that the wife of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Rama Duwaji, had liked Instagram posts celebrating the mass murder of over 1,200 innocent Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, 2023, and other similarly themed posts, including one calling the rape of women on that day a "hoax."

Duwaji liked her posts before Israel had retaliated ...Read more

"Hegseth spent $93 billion in one month -- roughly the cost of extending the ACA tax credits for THREE YEARS. But instead of lowering Americans' healthcare costs, Hegseth used millions of taxpayer dollars on fruit baskets, Herman Miller recliners, ice cream machines, Alaskan King Crabs and a Steinway & Sons grand piano. A true grifter in every...Read more

On March 7, two teenaged Muslims were arrested for lighting and throwing improvised explosive devices at an anti-Islam protest outside Gracie Mansion, the home of New York's Democrat Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

This provided the latest exhibit of how our elitist media seek to protect Muslims from the "Islamophobia" of conservatives. It's fascinating ...Read more

As Donald Trump's Republicans look askance as he launches what looks to some like another long-term war in the Middle East, and as the anti-Trump Democrats hold up Homeland Security funding in what looks to some like prioritizing illegal immigrants over U.S. citizens, one is tempted to ask, what's going on with America's political parties?

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During the first Trump administration, the FBI quietly spent $5 million on Pegasus, an Israeli-developed software product known generically as zero click. Zero click permits the user to download the contents of another mobile or desktop device without tricking the user of that device into clicking on a viral link.

When FBI Director Christopher ...Read more