A second victim, John Pena (also referred to as Jhon Rodriguez), 30, was shoved onto the tracks alongside Williams but heroically helped pull the veteran back onto the platform seconds before a train arrived. Chilling cellphone video captured Hernandez casually strolling along the platform afterward.
"In yet another preventable tragedy enabled by soft-on-crime policies in blue cities, a repeat offender walked out of a psychiatric ward and immediately murdered an innocent man in New York City.
"Ross Falzone, a 76-year-old retired teacher and social worker for children with special needs, is dead after being shoved down a flight of stairs in Manhattan by a career criminal who should never have been on the streets.
"According to the New York Post, the suspect had been detained earlier that afternoon as an “emotionally disturbed person” outside an NYPD station house.
The medical examiner ruled the death a homicide. Prosecutors had earlier described Williams as “brain-dead.” His daughter, Debbie Williams, told The Post days after the incident that her father “was not likely to pull through.”
"This is the deadly update to the story we first reported here, when Williams was left in critical condition with multiple fractures and brain bleeding." . . .
"Still, it’s a great deal of fun watching Scott Pelley preen and inveigh against the new bosses as though he’s the last good man in the news business. If he took the whole show down with him, we still wouldn’t care."
"Long-time readers of this space surely know of my delight in the demise of CBS News and 60 Minutes; I give them far too much attention based on the merits. Of late, though, the misfortunes of the elite communists being slowly turned out of the newsroom at the organ Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather built (talk about two of the most overrated personages in the history of media) have become utterly fascinating.
"Last week, Sharyn Alfonsi was fired. She was a correspondent on 60 Minutes who utterly stunk at her job. If you don’t know anything about her but read this column often, you might remember that Alfonsi was the reporter who, two days after Vice President JD Vance went to Munich and delivered a landmark speech about the clear disconnect between the stated values of Western Civilization NATO is supposed to protect and the execution of those values by increasingly authoritarian socialist governments in Europe, delivered a decidedly favorable report on German efforts to suppress online speech the government doesn’t like. (RELATED: Margaret Brennan and the Good Germans at CBS News)
"It was one of the most bizarre bits of Trump Derangement Syndrome we’ve ever seen. Alfonsi voiced it like there was nothing particularly untoward in breaking down people’s doors and pilfering their phones and computers as a consequence of trolling stupid Green Party communist politicians on Facebook.
"Well, now she’s off to Podcast Land, fat severance check in tow. And the old bulls in the 60 Minutes newsroom are quite ornery. CBS News head Bari Weiss hired a veteran investigative journalist, Nick Bilton, as the new executive producer of 60 Minutes. Bilton’s curriculum vitae is more interesting than anybody else at that show, if for no other reason than Martin Scorsese has, to my knowledge, not asked any of them to write the screenplay for a movie." . . .More...
Scott McKay is a contributing editor at The American Spectator and publisher of the Hayride, which offers news and commentary on Louisiana and national politics, and RVIVR.com, a national political news aggregation and opinion site. Scott is also the author of and, more recently, , available November 21. He’s also a writer of fiction — check out his four Tales of Ardenia novels , Perdition, Retribution and at Amazon.
NY Post "Two hundred ten years ago this summer, a 19-year-old woman named Mary Shelley, bored one stormy afternoon, decided to write the scariest story ever told.
"It was a tale of a brilliant and arrogant man who wanted to change the world but ended up creating a monster. She named him Barack Obama.
"All right, she named him Dr. Frankenstein. But had the great author been around to witness Adam Hamawy win the Democratic primary in New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District, she would’ve understood right away that she was looking at a familiar tale of hubris, malice and ghouls on the loose.
"Like Shelley’s mad physician, Obama, too, had an appetite for reordering the natural world. He took Bill Clinton’s party — one that allowed candidates in some parts of the country to be pro-gun and pro-life and still consider themselves Democrats in good standing — strapped it to the slab and shocked it with a lightning bolt of radicalism.
"The creature that emerged from the experiment no longer talked about fiscal responsibility and government reform. It howled instead about opening our borders, legalizing gay marriage and redefining politics as the pursuit of identity by other means.
Antisemitic alliance
"Under Obama, the Democrats became a gorgeous mosaic of victimized minorities, encouraged to seek retribution for wrongs real or perceived by grabbing a pitchfork and going out in search of a conservative to blame.
"For a while, it all went swimmingly. Obama built a forever campaign that encouraged everyone to give to the party — not only their money but also their loyalty. Endless chatter about “the right side of history” was designed to make it clear that unless you wholeheartedly supported whatever the president and his aides told you was proper, good and desired, you’d be transgressing against history itself.
"Tech companies, universities and other institutions soon fell in line, giving us execrable phenomena like cancel culture.
"We all saw the might of Obama’s creation during Donald Trump’s disastrous first term in office: At the push of a button, a democratically elected president was made to appear to be the second coming of Mussolini.
"And we saw it even more clearly during Obama’s third term, conducted via another Frankenstein-like creation, the brain-dead Joe Biden." . . . More...
"Democrats in New Jersey just handed a primary win to Adam Hamawy, a candidate with actual ties to the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda, which is credited with carrying out the attacks of 9/11."
"This is in a district where Todd Beamer is buried. You may remember Todd Beamer as the airline passenger on Flight 93 who famously said “Let’s roll” as his last known words, referring to other passengers as they prepared to retake control of the plane, which crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania instead of somewhere in DC.
"This is what Democrats have come to. Utterly shameful." . . .
"Hamawy was a close associate and translator to Omar Abdel-Rahman, aka the ‘Blind Sheikh,’ an arch terrorist convicted of masterminding multiple plots against targets in NYC — including the World Trade Center. Hamawy testified at Adbel-Rahman’s trial, as a defense witness."
"His victory was bolstered by endorsements from prominent anti-Israel leftists like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), “Squad” members Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), as well as Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), whom he treated as a combat surgeon in Iraq."
"Not only could Nolan have made a fortune with this new movie, he could have created something beautiful and enduring. Instead, he and his team seem primed to make an epic flop that few people will remember."
"When Christopher Nolan’s new The Odyssey film was announced, many people were understandably excited. Although composed nearly three millennia ago, the epic was tailor-made for today’s big screen, featuring exotic locations, tons of spectacle, strong men and beautiful women, and dealing with the enduring themes of home, heroism, and survival.
"And yet, for all this, the only relatively recent, large-scale adaptation for the screen was a made-for-TV film in 1997 with cheap production (just a small step above a typical episode of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys with Kevin Sorbo). Despite its shortcomings, the movie at least stayed faithful to the source material and maintained a brisk pace as well as a spirit of fun.
"Nevertheless, in an era of reboots, it only made sense for Hollywood to give the Odyssey the epic treatment it deserved under the direction of a guy like Christopher Nolan. He could enlist the necessary talent and apply the necessary cinematic techniques to do to Odysseus what he did for Batman.
"But every piece of news, particularly the new lengthy (4000+ words) puff piece from Time magazine, has quickly eroded any hope this movie is worth seeing. With his horrible casting, drab cinematography, and intent to explore Odysseus’ inner demons, Nolan seems committed to ruining his most ambitious film yet. Rather than save American cinema from its current death spiral, he has somehow brought all of its worst qualities together in this new project.
DEI Casting
"The most obvious offense has been his choice of actors. Outside of Matt Damon playing Odysseus, nearly every other person in this movie has little reason to be there. Starting from the top, Anne Hathaway is a mediocre actress with too little depth, range, or charisma to play Odysseus’ wife Penelope. The same should be said for Tom Holland, playing Odysseus’ son Telemachus. Although both of them have risen to fame playing likable young adults, they will be difficult to believe as a grief-stricken queen desperately waiting for her husband and an adult son growing up in his father’s shadow.
"Of course, what has elicited more outcry has been Nolan’s brazenly woke casting for the other characters. To play Athena, he cast Zendaya, an actress who suffers from incurable “resting bitch face,” can’t act, and is too young and unserious for the part. For Helen of Troy, the princess whose superlative beauty “launched a thousand ships,” he cast Lupita Nyong’o, a mostly forgettable actress who is known more for appearing in the Black Panther movies than being a paragon of female perfection. If one had to guess why exactly Nolan picked these actresses, it seems that being a woman of color had something to do with it.
"As for men of color, Nolan has this covered by casting the rapper Travis Scott as a bard in order to communicate “the idea that this story has been handed down as oral poetry, which is analogous to rap.” Considering that the epic poem is an art form that celebrates the ideals of an ancient culture with larger-than-life characters in a larger-than-life setting while rap is a contemporary art form that glamorizes urban decay, vice, and criminality, this connection is a bit of a stretch."
"Nolan also made sure to represent the elderly" . . . More...
“Isn’t it so coincidental that now all these leftist activists are saying, ‘Maybe we got it wrong for the past 50 years,’ just as Politico reports that Democrats are actually backing off of the climate change narrative, because it’s so politically toxic and detrimental to their midterm chances. And it’s amazing that Americans were told: ‘You had to give up your gas powered car, your gas-powered leaf blower, your gas-powered boiler, in order to save the climate.’ And all we got in exchange for that were higher energy prices, like in New Jersey. You saw disinvestment in places like Pennsylvania,” The Federalist’s Brianna Lyman said on Hannity. “Meanwhile, you have China responsible for a third of the world’s global emissions — they’re not changing any of their patterns.”
"Staglianò actually stated, “Let’s abolish religion, let’s abolish God, let’s abolish heaven. Who says that? John Lennon, in the most beautiful song in the world, Imagine.'”
. . . "Staglianò actually stated, “Let’s abolish religion, let’s abolish God, let’s abolish heaven. Who says that? John Lennon, in the most beautiful song in the world, Imagine.”
"The bishop made his remarks in the context of asserting that no religion — and therefore no concept, idea, or principle — should be worth killing or dying for.
"Per lifesitenews.com, he concluded his remarks by stating his own interpretation of the Gospel:
“I too, like John Lennon,” Staglianò continued, “do not want a religion for which I must kill or die, I do not want a heaven for which I must kill or die, I do not want a God for whom I must kill or die. And don’t worry – this was said, before John Lennon, two thousand years ago by Jesus of Nazareth.”
Staglianò concluded by stating his interpretation of the Gospel: “Standing before the High Priest, Jesus said: Get it out of your head that my Abba, my God, my Father killed the firstborn sons of Egypt or the charioteers and horses of the Egyptian army, or that He ordered Saul to put prisoners to the sword… Get it out of your head, because my Abba is always and only love. With my Abba you can only make peace, reconciliation, and forgiveness.”
"A Catholic bishop, president of the Pontifical Academy of Theology, touting a song whose lyrics read “Imagine there’s no heaven” as the most beautiful in the world seems to me to be a tad heretical. I mean, Jesus dying on the cross and being resurrected so that our sins might be expunged and we might have a chance at eternal life probably infers the existence of a heaven, no?'" . . .
"The third verse of Lennon’s Opus begins, “Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can.”
Well, the citizens of New York City under Zohran Mamdani may soon find out. They will own nothing and like it! Yay, communism! Am I right?!
Imagine that there is no heaven, above us only sky. Imagine a Catholic bishop thinking that is a beautiful thing. Imagine that. Sadly, we don’t have to." . . .
"UK - Have you ever tried to imagine living in a perfect world ruled by communism, but previously only received the information from catchy folk songs which praise the system? Well, lucky for you, it is now easier than ever to understand what a full-blown communist utopia actually looks like.
That's because John Lennon's commie classic "Imagine" has been rereleased with more realistic lyrics to reflect the harsh realities of communism. Lennon, long dead---though not by way of communism, since he was blessed to live in a capitalist country---would be proud of the change, due to its artistic value in realism.
While the classic folk song does do a fantastic job of laying out the basics of communism---no religion, no possessions, no food---it never invites the listener to imagine all the people in their true form, which is dead---usually by firing squad, but often by way of starvation as well.
"John Lennon wrote this once-beautiful song way back in the seventies," a communist music snob told us. "However, in the years since, we have found out that what communism actually was, was basically a non-stop killing machine. It was beautiful, really. May have saved the planet. So that's why they changed the lyrics. To make it more realistic."
So now, with the updated lyrics, we can collectively "imagine all the people, sharing all the world," dead. And what better way to share the world than in a mass grave?
The full lyrics are reproduced below." . . . More...
"Decades ago, when buying a Christmas toy, I needed to look at the box carefully. If the box said “batteries not included,” I knew I would need to pick up some batteries so there would not be any tears on Christmas Day.
"These days, I often see new social media entries or opinion pieces that (should) contain labels saying, “Critical thinking not included.” Many of us spout off the most outrageous things without examining whether those thoughts are based in truth.
"Critical thinking is absent everywhere. We hear many unsubstantiated sayings:
“Men can get pregnant.”
“The world will end in ten years.”
“All whites are racist.”
"Many people accept them outright, simply because they are uttered by the “right people” (our friends, celebrities we admire, teachers). They never wonder whether they are true.
"In a recent podcast on Triggernometry, a young woman described how immersed she was in climate alarmism for several years without questioning any of its claims. Once she began her own investigation, she changed her mind, but it still took years to go public because she knew that her friends and coworkers would cancel her.
"The left does this whenever one of its members begins to question any woke concept. It has been reported that questioning any leftist heterodoxy on BlueSky or Slack will get you shut down almost immediately. Or you could get in trouble at work or school. Cancel culture has been felt by many who publicly air their disagreements, however minor. “The science is settled,” don’t you know?
"But it is also present on the right. Instead of referring to “the science,” many on the right depend on whatever Donald Trump says. Disagree with Trump in any way on conservative platforms, and some will call you “an infiltrator,” a “NeverTrump,” or a “traitor.” Trump himself does not easily tolerate dissension within his administration. (And for those who want to know, I really like Trump. I voted for him three times.)" . . .More...
John Long retired from a 33-year career in I.T. and now spends his time as a Christian activist. He occasionally writes satire at his blog Chicken Dentist.
"Winston Churchill is quoted, 'For a nation to try and tax itself into prosperity, is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself by the handles". The same can be said for a city such as NYC."
New York Brief..."and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's response is sending shockwaves through every boardroom in America.
In this video, we break down exactly what happened, why Griffin walked away,
what Mamdani said that should alarm every NYC taxpayer and business owner —
and why this pattern has already destroyed Chicago and San Francisco.
What we cover:
Why Ken Griffin pulled Citadel's $9B NYC development project
Mamdani's shocking response — and what it signals for NYC's economic future
NYC's $7.3 billion budget gap and what this cancellation means for it
The Chicago & San Francisco comparison — and why NYC may be next
What this means for small business owners, renters, and construction workers
The real cost of anti-investment governance on working-class New Yorkers
"The great comedy tradition of Johnny Carson, Jay Leno and even David Letterman was ruined by a few arrogant heirs and woke CBS and ABC/Disney executives. They slowly and “woke-ly” suffocated late-night comedy.
Late-night hosts became angry Progressives. Like the legacy media, which had become just a propaganda wing of the Democrat Party, they lost their way. We need an honest, fourth estate (media). I would argue that political satire is the fifth estate. Giving one party a monopoly on either is bad.
The difference in what I do, (in which I state up front that I am a libertarian op-ed humorist) and what Kimmell and Colbert did is that they pretend to be independent arbiters of truth. Their networks are given free airways via the FCC (essentially, a monopoly for 3 channels) to go into almost every household in America.
Political satire, done well, can make people think and speak truth to power. When the Taliban took back Afghanistan when our ill-planned debacle there ended, the first person they killed was a comedian known for making fun of them. It is why I have a pistol by my bed.
Elon Musk opened up social media to a broad range of uncensored views when he bought Twitter, and the stranglehold died. Back then, if you questioned the Russia Hoax, election integrity and forced Covid vaccines you were deplatformed. Thank you Elon; you are a great African-American." . . .
"Then Donald Trump came along, and The Late Show became something very different.
"From his early days on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, to the anti-Trump monologues, the election night meltdowns, the “fascist” rants, the voter insults, the CBS cancellation, and the final episode of The Late Show — this is the story of how Stephen Colbert’s comedy career turned into a decade-long obsession with Donald Trump.
"CBS said the show ended for financial reasons. But for a host who built his entire late-night identity around attacking Trump, the timing made the ending impossible to ignore.
"The Texas Rangers remain the only franchise that does not host an official Pride Night, making the organization an outlier among the league’s 30 teams."
"New York, NY— Major League Baseball has replaced its traditional logo across social media and digital platforms with a Pride-themed version for June, featuring the league’s iconic batter silhouette set against the colors of the Progress Pride flag as Pride Month begins across the United States.
"The annual logo change coincides with dozens of LGBTQ+ events planned by teams throughout the league, including Pride Nights, special merchandise giveaways, community partnerships, and fundraising efforts. Yet the campaign also highlights a longstanding reality within professional baseball: despite years of inclusion initiatives, there are currently no publicly out active players on a Major League Baseball roster.
"The culture within the league is not one that has been kind to those who publicly come out. The contrast has become one of the most discussed aspects of baseball’s Pride Month observances.
League-Wide Celebration Meets Representation Gap
"MLB has increasingly embraced Pride Month over the past decade, with nearly every franchise hosting events designed to celebrate LGBTQ+ fans and promote inclusion within the sport.
"This year, teams across the league are planning special promotions throughout June.
"The Toronto Blue Jays will host Pride Night on June 5 with a City Connect Pride hat giveaway. The Los Angeles Dodgers are also holding Pride Night on June 5, while the Houston Astros will celebrate on June 3 with pregame ceremonies recognizing members of the LGBTQ+ community.
"The New York Mets will host Pride Night on June 26 at Citi Field, benefiting anti-bullying programs through the NY LGBT Network while distributing Pride-themed merchandise to fans.
"Other clubs, including the Cleveland Guardians, Chicago Cubs, Colorado Rockies, and Cincinnati Reds, have scheduled similar events throughout the month.
One Team Remains an Outlier
"While MLB promotes Pride Month league-wide, not every club participates in the same way.
"The Texas Rangers remain the only franchise that does not host an official Pride Night, making the organization an outlier among the league’s 30 teams.
"The Rangers have previously stated that they welcome all fans but have not adopted the dedicated Pride Night format embraced by the rest of the league.
"That distinction has frequently drawn attention each June as other teams expand LGBTQ+ programming." . . . More...
“The evidence shows that Plaintiff displayed the 8647 flag to urge that Congress impeach and remove President Trump from office,” Moss wrote."
"An Obama-appointed federal judge temporarily blocked the National Park Service from removing an anti-Trump “86 47” flag displayed near the National Mall, siding with a progressive activist group in a dispute that has drawn criticism from President Donald Trump’s administration.
"The ruling allows the flag to remain in place for at least 14 days while litigation continues.
Trump Administration Pushes Back
"The case centers on a permit dispute between the National Park Service and Accountability Now USA, a progressive activist organization that raised the flag near the National Mall.
"The Department of the Interior sharply criticized the ruling.
“This opinion is from an Obama-appointed judge,” a Department of the Interior spokesperson said in a statement.
“In what world have we lost all decency, to demand that any threat against the President be taken very seriously.”
“While the Department shall and does comply with the Court’s orders, this type of behavior should not be tolerated.”
"U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss granted a temporary restraining order Monday after the group argued that efforts to revoke its permit violated its First Amendment rights." . . .
(KRON) — Democrat Katie Porter has conceded in the California governor’s race. Porter, a former Orange County congresswoman, had been trailing in recent polls — despite being considered an early frontrunner.
Her tumultuous campaign was undermined by viral videos that showed her berating a staffer and awkwardly threatening to end an interview with a reporter. Recent polls had shown Porter trailing a distant fifth in the governor’s race, behind leading Democrats Xavier Becerra and Tom Steyer, front-running Republican Steven Hilton, and even Republican Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco.
. . . Despite polling in single digits, Porter persisted with her campaign until Tuesday night. While she had no public appearances scheduled, she put out a statement thanking her supporters Tuesday night." . . . More...
