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August 14, 2025
BLUE CITY BLUES: Inflation in NY outpaces national figures. It’s the rent, tuition, child care…
Bruce Bergman, an economist at the bureau, said the Consumer Price Index for the New York City area was up 3.2%, compared to the national figure of 2.7%. He attributed the increase in large part to the rise in rent, which is up 4.7% in New York and the region compared to 3.9% nationally.
But Bergman said the cost of living in the city, although higher than the national average, has eased somewhat from the steep rates of change in recent years, when it was as high as 6% in 2022 and over 4% through much of last year.
“ Recently we have seen those shelter numbers come down a bit,” Bergman said of local housing costs, “but we’re still at a point where it’s still elevated compared to where it was prior to COVID.”
Don’t worry, front-running Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has a plan to make things so much worse.
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THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GOD BEFORE WOKENESS: Lord’s Prayer halted at school board meeting: ‘We cannot have a religious prayer before the Land Acknowledgement.’
MEH, OBAMA SAID WE COULDN’T DRILL OUR WAY OUT OF AN OIL SHORTAGE. AND YET…
DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb says we "can't arrest our way out of crime" pic.twitter.com/hzvXO3e33i
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 11, 2025
Democrats want to dismiss the clear and simple and workable answers because they don’t produce enough graft. Also, once you solve a problem, you can’t use it anymore.
I HAD BEEN ASSURED THAT THIS WAS IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT AN ACT OF CONGRESS: Illegal Aliens Staying Away From Border Amid Trump Admin’s 3-Month Zero-Release Record.
In July, there were just 24,628 total encounters at the U.S. border, down from 170,180 in July 2024, marking the lowest monthly number of encounters in CBP history, according to the White House. No illegal aliens were paroled into the U.S. in July, compared to 12,365 in July 2024.
“Under President [Donald] Trump, the border is the most secure it’s ever been in American history,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday. “When you fortify the border, restore deterrence, and empower Border Patrol agents to do their jobs and enforce the laws on the books like President Trump has—this is the incredible result.”
Border Patrol encountered 4,601 illegal aliens between ports of entry at the southern border in July, marking a 23% decline from June and a 90% decline from July a year ago.
The crisis was always by design.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Oh, NOW the Dems Are Worried About ‘Rewriting History.’ “Conservatives have no need to rewrite American history — we’ve always liked it here, warts and all. We’ve never downplayed the awful stuff, and we’re still able to be patriotic. The Democrats rewrite American history because they hate the United States of America, it’s that simple. That’s why Obama blathered on about fundamentally transforming it. Democrats have been hell-bent on doing just that ever since, and won’t stop until they’ve Sovietized the place to their liking.”
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Next target for our arrogant, ignorant ‘experts’: organ donors.
CHANGE: Trump Signs Executive Order to Boost Commercial Space Industry.
Here’s the order and here’s the White House Fact Sheet. Excellent and overdue; helping to clear away the bureaucratic underbrush that’s slowed, for example, Space X.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Washington Gun Dealer Asks Supreme Court to Void State’s Magazine Capacity Limit Law. “It’s a longshot, since the country’s highest court receives 7,000 to 10,000 petitions each year, but typically only hears around 80 cases.”
#JOURNALISM:
Having worked in the business for 30+ years I can say journalism always had problems, but across-the-board wholesale invented narratives are new. https://t.co/uJFsiD1W64
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) August 13, 2025
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Bessent Targets ‘Eye-Popping’ Stock Gains Made By Members Of Congress.
IF ONLY THERE HAD BEEN SOME SORT OF WARNING ABOUT THESE CHANGES:
You're going to hear a lot in the coming year about universities restructuring and downsizing or closing many majors or PhD programs, and while it is understandable that many people will assume this is a response to Trump or "antiwoke" pressure, you should keep in mind that we…
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) August 13, 2025
Related:
I think it's worth noting that U Chicago is the same school whose English Dept in 2020-21 said that they'd only accept grad students interested in BLM / Black Studies. I said at the time (see link next post) that this was the same as a department basically shutting itself down. https://t.co/hVpPnKUIUh pic.twitter.com/P9YxinwflN
— Jacob Shell (@JacobAShell) August 13, 2025
CHANGE:
There’s a new sheriff in town. https://t.co/JClToZy5Ve
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) August 13, 2025
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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE KEEP TRYING TO MAKE “STACY” ABRAMS HAPPEN: Harvard touts two-time loser Stacey Abrams as ‘political mastermind’ in new seminar taught by radical professor.
Harvard University touted two-time failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams as a “political mastermind” in a description for a new seminar exploring the history of how race and gender impacted American laws.
The Democrat’s name is also embarrassingly misspelled as “Stacy” in the description for the fall 2025 class, titled “Race, Gender, and the Law Through the Archive,” which dives into “the role that Black women and non-binary people have played in shaping politics, grassroots organizing, the legal bar, and higher education during Jim (Jane) Crow and beyond.”
Abrams lost back-to-back bids to run for governor of Georgia in 2018 and 2022 to Republican Brian Kemp and has never held a federal office — but the Ivy League course names her as among the leading black female figures of 21st-century politics.
“From First Lady Michelle Obama to political mastermind Stacy Abrams [sic] to Vice President Kamala Harris, Black women have left their stamp on 21st-century politics and grassroots organizing,” reads the description of the course, taught by radical professor and historian Myisha Eatmon.
An undergrad year at Harvard now costs an estimated $86,926.
ROGER KIMBALL: Trump is liberating the Smithsonians from ‘Woke:’ Trump is giving Americans back their cultural and educational institutions.
What is happening, and what is going to happen, at the Smithsonian museums may seem like a footnote to the larger Trump agenda of “Making America Great Again.” In fact, it stands at the center of that project. Donald Trump understands something that the left has grasped at least since the 1960s but that conservatives have grasped dimly if at all. If you want to restore society, you must commandeer the institutions that represent elite culture. Over the last several decades, those institutions have gradually become captive of a woke ideology that denigrates America while simultaneously celebrating the entire radical menu of racialist redress, sexual exoticism and political intransigence.
There is no reason to give custody of our culture and history into the hands of people who basically hate us, just because they have somehow obtained credentials in hating us.
TO BE FAIR, LIBERALISM’S SOLUTIONS USUALLY MAKE THINGS WORSE: Mark Judge: Liberalism’s Cure for the Man Crisis Makes Men Worse.
And now a word from legendary anglophile Homer J. Simpson:
