"In her response to the murder of Iryna Zarutska on a light-rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, the city's mayor demonstrated the mindset that allowed the heinous act to happen in the first place.

"The mayor, Vi Lyles, called the murder of the young Ukraine refugee woman 'a tragic situation that sheds light on problems with society safety nets related to mental health care.'

"This is euphemistic prattle. What Lyles calls 'a tragic situation' was a gruesome crime, and lack of 'society safety nets' must be her way of admitting that Charlotte serially failed to confine a deranged repeat offender so he couldn't continue to menace the public."

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"Donald Trump's recent floated proposal to deploy the National Guard to crime-overrun blue cities like Chicago and Baltimore has been met with howls of outrage from the usual suspects. For many liberal talking heads and Democratic officials, this is simply the latest evidence of Trump's 'authoritarianism.' But such specious analysis and manufactured hysteria distract from what all parties ought to properly focus on: the well-being of the people who actually live in such crime-addled jurisdictions.

"What's remarkable is not just the specific policy suggestion itself -- after all, federal force has been called in to assist state-level law enforcement plenty of times -- but rather how Trump is once again baiting his political opponents into defending the indefensible. He has a singular talent for making the Left clutch onto wildly unpopular positions and take the wrong side of clear 80-20 issues. It's political jiu-jitsu at its finest."

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"Following President Pen-And-Phone and President Autopen, President Donald Trump is also making use of the White House quill. But his directives have tended to be more practical than political. For instance, last week he issued an executive order banning employee collective bargaining at a number of federal agencies.

"The American people should be grateful that he's willing to take on the bureaucracy that has nullified voters' preferences and become an unaccountable political force -- the real power in the country.

"To support our point, we look back at the Obama administration's IRS targeting of Tea Party and conservative groups. It began the day after the late National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley visited the White House. A coincidence? Possibly. But it is not out of the realm that she was making a preemptive strike because Senate Republicans were thinking about banning unionization at the IRS. She needed to neuter the GOP.

"NTEU members eventually admitted 'they went after Obama's political opponents with the full power of the federal government.'

"Across all federal departments and agencies, unions have taken on the authority that elected officials have ceded to them."

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"The New York Times' Jeffery C. Mays set out on Saturday to rehabilitate Zohran Mamdani's image. Mamdani is the socialist front-runner for New York City's mayoral race. Mays' job was to make socialism sound respectable -- even harmless.

"According to Mays, it is 'derogatory' to call Mamdani a socialist -- even though that is what Mamdani is. If anything, this piece is a tacit admission that socialism is bad -- why else would Mays be working so hard to distance Mamdani from it? The answer is simple: Mays, a propagandist working for a propaganda outlet, is trying to desensitize Americans to socialism.

"'He is a democratic socialist, which means his beliefs are similar to those of socialists but not exactly the same,' Mays assured readers, before conceding: 'He is a member of both the national Democratic Socialists of America and its local New York City chapter.'"

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"Billy Joel says 'it's always been a matter of trust.' That could not be more relevant today when it comes to money. Trust is the intangible factor that allows money to move and economies to succeed. When it erodes, as it did in 2008, balance sheets can melt before our very eyes.

So why are we now trying to create a financial system[ ] with less trust?

The growth of digital assets, the passage of the GENIUS Act, and an array of government and Wall Street actions have welcomed cryptocurrencies into traditional markets and signaled a new age in finance built on blockchains, rather than traditional institutions, to move money and execute investments. But has anyone really thought through the implications of such a 'redistricting' of the country's monetary channels?

Credit cards, check processing, wire transfers, security trades and real estate transactions have typically relied on trusted intermediaries -- commercial banks, broker-dealers, payments system pipelines, the FDIC, etc. Tech advocates see these processes as archaic and their trusted intermediaries as luddite interlopers that interpose themselves simply to take a piece of the action. To some extent, these assertions may be true, but throwing the baby out with the bath water makes no sense."

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"'I want to present some facts to the president of the United States, and I imagine this is alarming to the president to learn these facts.' -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

"In one of his endless attempts to grab a headline, California Gov. Gavin Newsom last week taunted President Donald Trump, saying that if he's serious about fighting crime, he should be sending the National Guard to red states such as Louisiana, which has a murder rate far higher than California.

"Newsom's attempt to troll the president failed on Sunday, when Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem took the attention-starved governor up on his offer.

"'Absolutely,' she said on 'Face the Nation,' when asked if the Trump administration would send National Guard troops into cities or states run by Republicans. 'Every single city is evaluated for what we need to do there to make it safer.'

"But even if Trump were to follow up on this, he'd likely still end up sending National Guard troops almost exclusively into Democratic strongholds."

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"It is either true or false that Governor Cook misrepresented her primary residence status on one or more mortgage applications. The evidence put forth publicly by @pulte strongly suggests that she lied on one or more mortgage applications, in other words, mortgage fraud.

"It should be straightforward for Governor Cook to disprove the alleged fraud and it shouldn't require a team of lawyers and litigation to do so. She just needs to answer a simple question:

"Did she or didn't she sign an affidavit declaring that the subject properties were her primary residences? Yes or no.

"Whether President @realDonaldTrump has the technical legal authority to terminate Gov Cook is not that relevant in my view. What matters here is whether a Fed governor has committed mortgage fraud or not. It is not a political question. It is a question of fact.

"Governor Cook should immediately put forth the facts to clear her name or she should resign in the best interests of the integrity of our financial system. The sooner this occurs, the better for her and our country."

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"A Democratic National Committee meeting on Tuesday devolved into an anti-Israel slugfest, leading its chairman, Ken Martin, to pull a resolution many party members believed was not harsh enough on the Jewish state. Instead, Martin invited the anti-Israel members to join a committee to reevaluate the party's position on Israel.

"The Martin-backed resolution, which the DNC initially approved, called for 'unrestricted' aid to Gaza and a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, language that moderate Democrats have long used. An alternate resolution championed by the party's anti-Israel wing went significantly further, calling for a full-scale arms embargo on Israel, the suspension of American military aid, and recognition of 'Palestine as a country.'"

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"The Trump administration has issued $6.1 billion in fines to immigrants it says have ignored deportation orders. Now it is moving to collect those penalties.

"In recent weeks, the government has threatened immigrants with lawsuits, debt collectors and ruinous tax bills if they don't pay financial penalties. If the recipient self-deports, Homeland Security says the fine will be waived and they will receive a $1,000 'exit bonus.'

"Since President Trump's return to office, the Department of Homeland Security has issued 21,500 fines to persuade people in the backlogged immigration court system to leave the U.S. The penalties come as the department struggles to fulfill Trump's promise for the largest deportation campaign in U.S. history."

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"Speaking from the Oval Office Monday morning, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller gave additional details about how the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department was cooking the books on data in order to make the argument crime was 'going down.'

"'When we share the results, it will stun you,' Miller said. 'There are even accusations that murders and homicides were reported as accidents not murders. This is how severe the manipulation of the crime data has been in this city. It will all be uncovered and it will all be brought to light.'"

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