Think' Tanks vs. Doers
Posted By: Mercedes44, 11/9/2025 4:59:53 AM
I confess to a bias against political think tanks. If candidates can’t figure out what they believe in and why they do, armies of bow-tied college grads aren’t the answer: Better candidates are. I feel the same way about campaign consultants. You need people to keep track of filing requirements, but not how to answer reporters and constituents. You know where you’re going or you don’t belong there, even if grifters are happy to sit in a D.C. office placing ads no one watches to get 15% placement percentages on top of their salaries. It’s a well-funded racket.
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The Heritage Foundation’s Meltdown
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Is there anything left to say about the Heritage Foundation’s pre-Halloween melodrama? It was quite a scary show. I am confident that when Kevin Roberts, president of that venerable bastion of conservatism, got outside his morning egg on October 30, he had no inkling that his two-minute and thirty-nine-second video clip would precipitate a seismic detonation that would rock the foundation and monopolize the news cycle for days.
The main purpose of the video, Roberts said, was to reaffirm that the commentator Tucker Carlson “remains and always will be a close friend of the Heritage Foundation.” This came on the heels of Carlson’s long interview with Nick Fuentes, the obnoxious twenty-seven-year-old
Zohran Mamdani is starting to exemplify the old saying, "A cheetah does not change his spots."
The self-proclaimed Democrat Socialist mayor-elect of New York City has already made statements that have even some Democrats, like former Obama administration green energy czar, and current CNN host and commentator Van Jones, questioning how much of a 180 he has done since the results came in on Election Day on Nov. 4. And it's not like Democrat leaders don't know what Mamdani is all about, as we wrote just days before the off-year elections, with Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) decrying making the extremists in his party the face of its future--
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As awful as the mayoral election outcome was for sensible New Yorkers, misguided Washington Republicans plan to use the results as a club to further punish the city.
If they succeed in hitting Gotham with enormous financial penalties for electing socialist radical Zohran Mamdani, the GOP wackos will end up penalizing all 8 million New Yorkers, including the 1 million who rejected Mamdani to vote for other candidates.
The efforts also could turn Mamdani into a martyr, which would boost his popularity and inspire far-leftist copycat candidates across America.
Another unintended consequence of the daffy congressional effort could be the death of the election chances of one of their own.
Mayor-elect Mamdani reeks of Lenin —
but NYC’s wise safeguard against Marxism
stands in his way 5 replies
but NYC’s wise safeguard against Marxism
stands in his way 5 replies
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But instead of commanding a Red Army, the mayor-elect should be aware he will be facing lots of red ink.
That’s on top of some very strict and sensible financial rules put in place some 50 years ago — just in case a deranged Marxist ended up running New York City.
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Iran in crisis as major drought forces
regime to cut off water to Tehran, consider evacuation 8 replies
regime to cut off water to Tehran, consider evacuation 8 replies
Iran is set to turn off the water in several regions, including Tehran — as the country falls into the grips of its worst drought in decades.
The Islamic Republic announced it would be shutting off its water supply on Saturday night due to the mounting crisis which will see the capital dry up — with officials contemplating evacuating it, Haaretz reported.
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Think' Tanks vs. Doers
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I confess to a bias against political think tanks. If candidates can’t figure out what they believe in and why they do, armies of bow-tied college grads aren’t the answer: Better candidates are.
I feel the same way about campaign consultants. You need people to keep track of filing requirements, but not how to answer reporters and constituents. You know where you’re going or you don’t belong there, even if grifters are happy to sit in a D.C. office placing ads no one watches to get 15% placement percentages on top of their salaries. It’s a well-funded racket.
Fifty years after a Republican administration ignited New York City residents in opposition with an attitude summed up by the classic headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead,” a New York Republican wants to lower the volume of the partisan political outrage over the city’s political embrace of far-left Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, the only Republican member of Congress who represents New York City, took issue with a proposal by fellow Republican Rep. Buddy Carter of Georgia that would deny New York City any federal funds as long as Mamdani is mayor, according to Fox News.
Thousands of Ballots Discovered in Maricopa
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To Be Mistakes’ 12 replies
County 3 Days After Election: ‘Going
To Be Mistakes’ 12 replies
An election official in Maricopa County, Arizona, on Friday downplayed the discovery of roughly 2,288 ballot envelopes that were misplaced by poll workers and discovered days after the election. Two bins containing the envelopes with ballots were improperly left in a ballot drop box on Election Day, according to ABC 15, and were discovered three days later.
The sealed bins were processed and tabulated within hours of their discovery. Of those, about 30 envelopes showed evidence of signature verification issues, according to AZ Central, and it was unclear how many remained unresolved and uncounted by the deadline.
If he gets his way, Democratic Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will do immense economic damage to New York City.
Democrat operatives in the media, however, seem most concerned about the damage he will inflict upon establishment Democrats’ political fortunes.
For instance, in a lengthy opinion piece published Tuesday, Alex Griffing of the left-wing news outlet Mediaite lamented Mamdani’s (then impending) election as a sign that swing voters weary of intense polarization under President Donald Trump will no longer view the Democratic Party as a viable alternative.
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NYPD already losing officers with morale
plunging as anti-cop Zohran Mamdani prepares
to take reins 16 replies
plunging as anti-cop Zohran Mamdani prepares
to take reins 16 replies
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The NYPD saw a 35% hike in cops of all ranks leaving in October – 245 police officers compared to 181 in the same month last year, according to Police Pension Fund data.
“Morale is down because everyone is concerned about the policies Mamdani wants to put in place,” said Detectives Endowment Association President Scott Munro.
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NYPD already losing officers with morale
plunging as anti-cop Zohran Mamdani prepares
to take reins 16 replies
plunging as anti-cop Zohran Mamdani prepares
to take reins 16 replies
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The NYPD saw a 35% hike in cops of all ranks leaving in October – 245 police officers compared to 181 in the same month last year, according to Police Pension Fund data.
“Morale is down because everyone is concerned about the policies Mamdani wants to put in place,” said Detectives Endowment Association President Scott Munro.
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As awful as the mayoral election outcome was for sensible New Yorkers, misguided Washington Republicans plan to use the results as a club to further punish the city.
If they succeed in hitting Gotham with enormous financial penalties for electing socialist radical Zohran Mamdani, the GOP wackos will end up penalizing all 8 million New Yorkers, including the 1 million who rejected Mamdani to vote for other candidates.
The efforts also could turn Mamdani into a martyr, which would boost his popularity and inspire far-leftist copycat candidates across America.
Another unintended consequence of the daffy congressional effort could be the death of the election chances of one of their own.
Thousands of Ballots Discovered in Maricopa
County 3 Days After Election: ‘Going
To Be Mistakes’ 12 replies
County 3 Days After Election: ‘Going
To Be Mistakes’ 12 replies
An election official in Maricopa County, Arizona, on Friday downplayed the discovery of roughly 2,288 ballot envelopes that were misplaced by poll workers and discovered days after the election. Two bins containing the envelopes with ballots were improperly left in a ballot drop box on Election Day, according to ABC 15, and were discovered three days later.
The sealed bins were processed and tabulated within hours of their discovery. Of those, about 30 envelopes showed evidence of signature verification issues, according to AZ Central, and it was unclear how many remained unresolved and uncounted by the deadline.