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by | Sep 26, 2023

In the early days of the last century, the city of New York faced a serious horse-manure crisis. “Experts” were predicting that by 1930, the stuff would be piled three stories high in the streets. But then, just in time,…

by | Sep 11, 2023

Before you ask, no, I don’t remember what it was like to fly in an airplane without TSA commanding you to sacrifice your privacy and your shoes before you ever reached your aircraft. As far as I remember, airports have…

by | Sep 11, 2023

Last night, 60 Minutes broadcast a moving story of firefighters in the World Trade Center 22 years ago. Scott Pelley carefully used that word, “firefighter,” throughout the elongated feature. 60 Minutes, choosing diversity when it clashes with truth, highlighted several…

by | Aug 29, 2023

New York City is grappling with an unprecedented migrant crisis, as the city has experienced a staggering influx of over 100,000 migrants since the spring of 2022. More than 2,000 new immigrants continue to arrive every week. The once harmonious…

by | Aug 9, 2023

New York City is considering housing its 108,000 illegal migrants in more than 3,000 different locations — an increase from the city’s current 194. NYC’s migrant crisis made national headlines when videos and photos emerged online of hundreds of migrants…

by | Aug 8, 2023

In the 1930s, New York City was at the height of its heyday. Its population was booming, the world was watching Wall Street, and the city had become Franklin Roosevelt’s poster child for New Deal spending. This was the age…

by | Jul 19, 2023

Ten minutes after downloading Richard Bradford’s Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer, I was wondering what the hell I’d been thinking. No, that’s not it. I did know what I’d been thinking: It had been a long time since…

by | May 22, 2023

While riding a train in France in August 2015, three American buddies — one a member of the Air Force, one a National Guardsman recently back from Afghanistan, and a third civilian friend — found themselves facing an armed terrorist….

by | May 16, 2023

New York bail reform efforts have taken the life of yet another Gotham resident, 30-year-old subway performer Jordan Neely. These reforms, originally passed in 2019, have caused a wave of violent crime while tying the hands of judges tasked with…

by | May 15, 2023

The coverage of Jordan Neely’s death on the New York City subway displays, yet again, the media’s tendency to overstate the relevance of race. The mainstream media’s obsession with race has been clear to any casual consumer of news in…

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