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Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh calls Somalia "our home" even though he is born and raised here pic.twitter.com/2ins5rUz3Q
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 14, 2025
Ed: Meanwhile, I'm living my best life in central Texas. This is insane, and yet we all know how this will end; Fateh will get elected so that Minneapolis denizens can sprain their shoulders patting themselves on the back for their "diversity."
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In a video, Cuomo, who last month suffered a bruising loss to Mamdani in the Democratic primary, announced he was making another run to combat the progressive Mamdani, who he said “offers slick slogans but no real solutions.”
“The fight to save our city isn’t over,” Cuomo said. “Only 13 percent of New Yorkers voted in the June primary. The general election is in November and I am in it to win it.”
Incumbent Mayor Eric Adams also is running as an independent in the general election and Curtis Sliwa — founder of the 1970s-era Guardian Angels anti-crime patrol — is again on the Republican line.
Ed: So New Yorkers will have to choose between the intifada-cheering Marxist, a predatory creep responsible for the deaths of hundreds of elderly New Yorkers, a scandal-tinged incumbent, and Curtis Sliwa, who probably is the only one who deserves to win but won't come within a country mile. Capital may as well start fleeing now; New York is entering a doom loop.
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If they don't give President @realDonaldTrump a Nobel Peace Prize, it will be an absolute travesty.
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) July 14, 2025
P.S. Make sure to check out the brand new Scott Jennings Radio Show at 2-3PM daily 🔥 pic.twitter.com/6kozvlnsIH
Ed: Today was Scott's first day on the Salem Radio Network. Be sure tune in every weekday at 2 pm ET. Speaking of Barack Obama though ...
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Obama also argued that Democrats need to focus on how to “deliver for people,” acknowledging the different views within the party about how best to do that.
“There’s been, I gather, some argument between the left of the party and people who are promoting the quote-unquote abundance agenda. Listen, those things are not contradictory. You want to deliver for people and make their lives better? You got to figure out how to do it,” he said.
“I don’t care how much you love working people. They can’t afford a house because all the rules in your state make it prohibitive to build. And zoning prevents multifamily structures because of NIMBY,” he said, referring to “not in my backyard” views. “I don’t want to know your ideology, because you can’t build anything. It does not matter.”
Ed: Yeah, right. Obama was all about the politics of envy as president; he just wasn't as insane about it as Bernie Sanders and AOC are now. He's right, but Obama certainly didn't govern with this philosophy in mind.
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https://t.co/nrToStn1Qp pic.twitter.com/MP0UDi0sf5
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) July 14, 2025
Ed: Abundance for me but not for thee! I do seem to recall that Obama once advised, "At some point, you've made enough money." Maybe he can let us know when that applies to him.
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President Trump’s big tax-and-spending law includes new restrictions on how much students can borrow and how they repay. The provisions begin to reverse the government’s near takeover of the $1.7 trillion student lending market over the past six decades.
As a result, families are reassessing the costs and risks of college. Many are likely to turn to private lenders, which typically charge higher interest rates and require creditworthy cosigners. Those lenders recently accounted for some 8% of outstanding loans, according to data from Enterval Analytics. ...
Republican lawmakers say they want to reduce taxpayer risk from the ballooning federal student-loan portfolio while forcing colleges to curb their prices.
Ed: We need to stop subsidizing this market in order to get tuition prices back under control. But more importantly, this is the consequence of attempting to stick taxpayers with the student-loan debt load. The only rational response to that wealth transfer is to end that debt train for good.
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It has come to my attention that the New York Times does not agree with what we are doing at the FCC.
— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) July 14, 2025
My official response: https://t.co/IlWvNSthf4 pic.twitter.com/PunmIYOFqr
Ed: Point taken, Brendan. Can we now ban that song from the airwaves? I kid, I kid ... Speaking of clueless media, if you dig these Final Word posts and want to get into the conversations in the comments, why not help us stand up to the mainstream media? Become a VIP member to support Hot Air and access our premium content, and check out our VIP Gold and VIP Platinum levels too. Use the promo code FIGHT to join or to upgrade your existing membership level today, and get 60% off!
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The U.S. Justice Department unit charged with defending against legal challenges to signature Trump administration policies - such as restricting birthright citizenship and slashing funding to Harvard University - has lost nearly two-thirds of its staff, according to a list seen by Reuters.
Sixty-nine of the roughly 110 lawyers in the Federal Programs Branch have voluntarily left the unit since President Donald Trump's election in November or have announced plans to leave, according to the list compiled by former Justice Department lawyers and reviewed by Reuters.
Ed: And thus comes an end to the myth of apolitical civil service. These 'career' attorneys wanted their jobs in order to push their preferred agenda. Now that the Trump administration plans to enforce its own policies, they can't be bothered. This may be addition by substraction, but I'd also bet that there are plenty of apolitical or right-leaning young attorneys that would want a chance to build their resumés.
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Today I will reissue my criminal referral of Anthony Fauci to Trump DOJ! https://t.co/trIhJHAOlx
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) July 14, 2025
Ed: Sounds satisfying, but it's not much more than a stunt. The best way to deal with Fauci is to force him to testify again with his pardon in place, which means he has no grounds to take the Fifth Amendment. Then if he lies, he's subject to a new instance of perjury that the pardon won't cover. Shipwreckedcrew explains why in the next entry ...
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For what possible purpose would any court want to answer that question? The presentation of a Pardon bearing the signature of Joe Biden, no matter how generated, is going to be presumptive on the question absent some incontrovertible evidence that Joe Biden did not sanction the pardon.
A Court is not going to weigh evidence and decide a dispute of fact as to that question. A Court is not going to revisit the mental competency of Joe Biden while in office and at the time the Pardon was granted. He was never determined to be incompetent while in office and there isn’t going to be a judicial retrospective examination of that question as part of a judicial determination on the exercise of plenary powers possessed and exercised only by the President.
Ed: Shipwreckedcrew gets to the heart of what I argued earlier today. It would take an overwhelming amount of evidence of fraud in a clemency action for a court to even CONSIDER challenging it. The autopen issue is an entrée to the larger question of Joe Biden's incompetence and the pressing question of who ran the White House in his name. Focusing efforts on reversing pardons misses the forest for the trees.
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I also wish Smith had spent more time talking about why he loves football and, even more, what it is about the players that he loves. That would have made the book much more interesting and compelling. Smith mentions his “memories [of] going to RFK Stadium to watch my hometown Washington Redskins alongside my dad. John Riggins, Brig Owens, Charley Taylor: Those are the guys I remember, the players I wanted to be when I grew up. That’s about as clearly as I can sum it up: I do love football. It just so happens that I love the players more.” That’s a nice sentiment, but it’s left to hang there by itself and, given the much stronger theme of complaint in the book, it’s not as convincing as it could have been. ...
Smith repeatedly uses these discreet examples of problems—which, after all, it was his job to discover and address—to indict the entire league and, worse, America itself.
Ed: DeMaurice Smith's book should sell well on Ivy League campuses, then. I'm not sure who else would be interested in the memoirs of the NFL Players Association former chief.
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Ben Shapiro: "No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old. Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem."pic.twitter.com/vWyn67l915
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) July 14, 2025
Ed: [checks calendar, sighs ... ]
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