Calif. suspect in Walgreens killing held "grudge" against pharmacies

It seems we've got another dangerous nutcase with a grudge making headlines. This time, it's an alleged gunman who decided to take out his pharmacy frustrations on a Walgreens in Madera, California.

According to the police, 30-year-old Narciso Gallardo Fernandez was caught on video waving a gun around like a lunatic before opening fire, leaving 34-year-old employee Erick Velazquez dead. 

Madera Police Chief Giachino Chiaramonte, who’s probably seen his fair share of crazy, [after all, it's California] said they’re still piecing together the "why" behind this mess, but Fernandez apparently had some choice words about big pharmacies. "We're having difficulties because some of the statements show that he had anger towards pharmacies in general, not specifically Walgreens," Chiaramonte noted, adding that the guy even told some victims "this isn’t about you." 

How thoughtful of him—rage with a side of courtesy.

Fernandez didn’t get far before he was captured and hauled his sorry self to Madera County Jail on homicide charges. 

Meanwhile, Walgreens put out a statement that hits all the right PR notes: "We are deeply saddened by last night's tragic event, which resulted in the death of one of our team members. Our thoughts and prayers are with their loved ones during this difficult time." 

Good ol' thoughts and prayers. Cliché much?

They’re also rolling out the corporate playbook—counseling services, cooperation with the authorities, the whole nine yards. "The safety of our customers and team members is our top priority," they added, because of course it is.

So, there you have it: one unhinged dude, a pharmacy vendetta, and a community left picking up the pieces. Just another Tuesday night in America, right? Stay classy, folks.

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Hamas-Hezbollah plot to kill Israelis foiled

The Israelis have once again demonstrated their resolve in the face of barbarism. 

On Tuesday, authorities announced they had foiled a major terrorist plot targeting Israeli interests abroad - a scheme they described as one of the gravest in recent memory. In a precision strike, the IDF and Shin Bet took out Hassan Ali Mahmoud Bdeir, a senior Hezbollah operative in Beirut's Dahieh district, a stronghold of the terrorist group.

Bdeir, it seems, was no mere foot soldier, but a key player in Hezbollah's Unit 3900 and Iran's Quds Force. Israeli intelligence revealed he was the linchpin in an unholy alliance between Hezbollah and Hamas - a rare coming together of Shiite and Sunni fanatics. 

Their plan? A large-scale attack abroad that could have left hundreds of Israelis dead.

The operation was the fruit of a long intelligence effort by a crack Shin Bet unit dedicated to smashing Hamas' overseas networks - networks that have been especially busy since the killing of Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut last year. With Military Intelligence providing support and the Israeli Air Force delivering the fatal blow, the strike was a triumph of coordination and will.

Shin Bet and IDF chiefs say this prevented a catastrophe and dealt a serious setback to Hezbollah-Hamas collaboration beyond Israel's borders. 

Hamas' tentacles, we are told, stretch from Turkey to the edges of Europe. Meanwhile, in a related development, Israeli flights have been barred from Paphos, Cyprus since January over unspecified "security concerns", now landing in Larnaca instead for a 90-minute trek to Paphos each way.

Once more, Israel stands as a bulwark against those who would slaughter the innocent. The civilized world should take note.

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Former Biden aide describes him as "fatigued, befuddled, and disengaged: before the June debate

Former White House chief of staff the execrable Ron Klain revealed that President Joe Biden was "fatigued, befuddled and disengaged" before his debate with President Donald Trump in June, according to a new book.

Well, folks, the cat’s out of the bag, and it’s not a pretty sight. 

According to Chris Whipple’s [no relation to the Charmin toilet paper guy] upcoming book, Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History, our former fearless leader Joe Biden was less “commander-in-chief” and more “nap-time-in-chief” during his final days in the game. 

Whipple dishes out some juicy details in an excerpt published by The Guardian, and it’s a doozy.

Picture this: Biden’s first sit-down with his then-chief of staff Ron Klain at Aspen Lodge, the presidential cabin retreat. Klain, an execrable Biden loyalist who stuck with him from 2021 to 2023 and even helped prep him for that train wreck of a June debate against Trump, walks in expecting a strategy session. Instead, he finds Biden looking like he just stumbled out of a week-long Netflix binge. 

“At his first meeting with Biden in Aspen Lodge, the president’s cabin,” Whipple writes, Klain “was startled. He’d never seen him so exhausted and out of it. Biden was unaware of what was happening in his own campaign. Halfway through the session, the president excused himself and went off to sit by the pool.” Yep, while the campaign was circling the drain, Joe was apparently channeling his inner lifeguard. Nobody was there to rub his leg hairs however.

Whipple doesn’t pull punches. “The president was fatigued, befuddled, and disengaged,” he writes. Klain, watching this slow-motion car crash, reportedly thought the Trump debate would be “a nationally televised disaster.” 

Spoiler alert: he wasn’t wrong. 

So, the team scrambled to set up two mock debates to get Biden in fighting shape. How’d that go? First one was supposed to last 90 minutes, but Klain yanked the plug after 45. “The president’s voice was shot and so was his grasp of the subject,” Whipple notes. “All he really could talk about was his infrastructure plan and how he was rebuilding America and 16 million jobs. He had nothing to say about his agenda for a second term.” 

Infrastructure? Jobs? Joe, the election wasn’t a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Second mock debate? Even worse. “Twenty-five minutes into the second mock debate, the president was done for the day,” Whipple writes. Klain recalls Biden whining, “‘I’m just too tired to continue and I’m afraid of losing my voice here and I feel bad. I just need some sleep. I’ll be fine tomorrow.’ He went off to bed.” 

Sleep it off, champ—meanwhile, Trump’s out there swinging like it’s the ninth inning. Klain tried to nudge him in the right direction, but Biden was having none of it, getting cranky when anyone dared suggest he step up his game and maybe open his eyes.

Whipple’s not just spilling tea here; he’s tipping over the whole pot. In a chat with Politico, he says Biden’s inner circle was less “cover-up” and more “fog of delusion.” “I have fresh reporting on an hour-by-hour, day-by-day basis of Biden’s final days, and obviously his decline is a major part of the story,” he told them. “I happen to think that to call it a ‘cover-up’ is simplistic. I think it was stranger and way more troubling than that. Biden’s inner circle, his closest advisers, many of them were in a fog of delusion and denial. They believed what they wanted to believe.” 

Ouch. That’s not a staff; that’s a support group.

The Biden camp’s gone radio silent—no surprise there. But Whipple’s book isn’t the only one peeling back the curtain on this mess. You’ve got The Hill’s Amie Parnes and NBC’s Jonathan Allen dropping their own 2024 tell-all, with Allen claiming Obama was pulling strings to keep Kamala Harris off the ticket. 

Then there’s CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson with Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, hitting shelves in May. Sounds like 2025’s shaping up to be the year of “What the heck happened to Joe?”

So, there you have it—Biden’s last hurrah, as told by the folks who watched him shuffle off the stage. If this is what “rebuilding America” looks like, I’d hate to see the demolition phase. Stay tuned, patriots; the bookshelf’s about to get a lot heavier.

There was never a "build back better" by Biden. Just a pant-load of promises.

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Gov. Hochul releases convicts from prisons after firings of officers during shortage

New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul fired thousands of correction officers after they went on strike over dangerous work conditions, and now, after she has created the shortage, she's releasing hundreds of convicts. In other words, she created the problem and now has created another one to handle the problem she created.

New York State Department of Corrections (DOCCS) Commissioner Daniel Martuscello released a memo on Monday, ordering prison superintendents to start figuring out which inmates qualify for early release, per new rules. Who are they to release: those who only killed one person? Those who have been convicted only four times of DUI? Domestic violence offenders? Politicians?

“In view of the current staffing crisis, and in order to have the appropriate balance between safety and well-being of those working and residing in DOCCS Correctional Facilities and public safety, it is appropriate that I, as Commissioner, exercise my authority pursuant to … move individuals from the Department’s general conferment facilities, into Residential Treatment outcount status,” the memo states.

Hochul, hoping to put a bandaid on an arterial bleed, approved the memo, with the governor’s spokesman Matt Janiszewski saying that her “top priority is the safety and well-being of all New Yorkers.” And if you believe that, you might think Jimmy Hoffa is buried below home plate in Yankee Stadium.

“The Governor is aware of Commissioner Martuscello’s memo and supports his efforts to safely address staffing shortages and personnel concerns,” Janiszewski added.

You knew it was coming. Citing staffing shortages — caused by the governor’s firing of 2,000 guards — the state of New York is releasing convicts from prison. pic.twitter.com/NVteaO6USI

— Bob Lonsberry (@BobLonsberry)

Hochul was criticized for the move, especially considering the debacle is her fault. 

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) called Hochul’s decision to back the early release of some inmates “a dangerous misstep that puts all New Yorkers at risk.”

But decisions like Hochul's rarely if ever affect the politicians who make them. 

“Albany Democrats’ pro-criminal policies, like the HALT Act, have crippled our prisons, leaving them understaffed and unsafe while crime surges in our communities,” Lawler’s statement said. “We need leaders who will tackle tough problems head-on, not resort to quick fixes that compromise the safety of law-abiding citizens. New Yorkers deserve better than policies that prioritize criminals over victims.”

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— Mike Lawler (@lawler4ny) April 1, 2025

“Kathy Hochul closed prisons and fired prison guards and now — citing overcrowding and insufficient staff — is releasing convicts from prison, just in time to buy favor with pro-criminal Democrats in the Assembly and Senate,” Rochester-based journalist and radio host Bob Lonsberry reacted. “What a funny coincidence.”

Any crimes committed by any of the releasees is on Hochul's empty head.

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Hamas lowers Gaza death toll on the down-low

Last month, Hamas performed a sleight of hand that would make even the most cynical propagandist blush, quietly erasing thousands of deaths from its war casualty count—including over a thousand children it had loudly accused Israel of slaughtering. This, according to a report from a media watchdog that has grown weary of the terror group’s endless charade, released on Monday.

“Hamas’s new March 2025 fatality list quietly drops 3,400 fully ‘identified’ deaths listed in its August and October 2024 reports – including 1,080 children,” wrote Salo Aizenberg, a board member of Honest Reporting, with the precision of a man who’s had enough of lies masquerading as statistics. “These ‘deaths’ never happened. The numbers were falsified – again.” It’s not a revelation so much as a confirmation of what anyone with a shred of intellectual honesty already suspected: Hamas doesn’t deal in truth; it deals in narrative.

Aizenberg, with the patience of a prosecutor dismantling a flimsy alibi, lays bare Hamas’s habit of inflating casualty figures like some grotesque parody of wartime accounting.

Early in the conflict, they claimed 471 people were killed in an IDF airstrike on Al-Ahli Hospital—a number swallowed whole by a credulous global press. The reality? An errant Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket had landed in the hospital parking lot, wounding a handful. Those “victims” were later scrubbed from the list, as if no one would notice the disappearing act.

In March, Hamas announced that Gaza’s death toll from this 18-month war had breached 50,000—a figure trumpeted across the world’s newsrooms to Israel’s predictable vilification. They’ve also clung to the claim that 70% of the dead are women and children, a statistic so perfectly engineered to inflame outrage that it’s almost admirable in its cynicism. It’s the kind of accusation that fuels genocide charges against the IDF, while the accusers sit smugly atop their edifice of half-truths.

But Aizenberg and his team, poring over Hamas’s PDF-disseminated lists of names and ages, uncovered a less convenient picture. Among those aged 13-55—combatant age, by any reasonable measure—72% were male. And of the teen deaths, 65% of those aged 13-17 were boys, a detail that points to Hamas’s use of child soldiers. 

This isn’t speculation; it’s arithmetic. Deploying minors in combat violates international law, but don’t expect the UN to muster much indignation over that.

The world’s media, meanwhile, dutifully recite figures from the Gazan Health Ministry without a whisper of skepticism—never mind that it’s run by Hamas, a belligerent in the conflict and thus about as impartial as a fox guarding a henhouse. 

Hamas doesn’t distinguish between fighters and civilians in its tallies, and it has scarcely acknowledged the deaths of its own gunmen in battles with the Israeli army. Instead, it sweeps everyone into the count—combatants, non-combatants, even those who died of natural causes like old age. The report estimates 8,300 of these “war victims” were just that: natural deaths, consistent with Gaza’s pre-war averages. It’s a grimly absurd inflation, but not a surprising one.

The IDF, for its part, has tracked the enemy combatants its forces have killed, putting the number at 20,000. That leaves a civilian-to-combatant death ratio of roughly one-to-one—an astonishingly low figure in the annals of warfare, where five-to-one is considered par for the course. 

This isn’t the indiscriminate carnage Hamas and its cheerleaders describe; it’s a military operation conducted with a precision that defies the chaos of urban conflict. In fact, the one-to-one ratio is the lowest recorded in human history.

Aizenberg, however, isn’t buying the notion that this latest revision makes Hamas a credible source. “Is the March 2025 list suddenly credible? No. Dropping names does not equal accuracy,” he writes, with a tone that suggests he’s tired of stating the obvious. “Hamas’ Ministry of Health was never reliable,” he adds, calling their stab at transparency “Managed fakery, dressed up as precision.” 

The verdict is damning: “From day one, Hamas has gamed the fatality data.” This isn’t their first foray into statistical fiction, nor will it be their last.

Here we are, then, in a world where a terror group’s lies are laundered through respectable headlines, where Israel is perpetually cast as the villain, and where the truth is an afterthought. Hamas falsifies, the press amplifies, and the cycle of moral blackmail rolls on. It’s not just a war of bullets and bombs—it’s a war of numbers, and Hamas knows exactly how to play it.

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Darrell Issa destroys Jasmine Crockett With real-time fact check re: impeaching judges

Well folks, it looks like Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) decided to play a quick game of "Gotcha!" with Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) during Tuesday’s hearing, and he didn’t even need to break a sweat. 

Issa took Crockett’s sanctimonious grandstanding and turned it into a self-inflicted wound faster than you can say "hypocrisy-suppository." All he had to do was point to her own rap sheet of judicial impeachment cheerleading to shut down her whining about Republicans threatening the sacred halls of justice.

Crockett, bless her racist heart, joined the usual chorus of Democrats clutching their pearls and wailing that democracy itself—yes, democracy itself—would crumble into dust if those mean ol’ Republicans dared to impeach any of the sainted judges who’ve been single-handedly thwarting President Donald Trump’s administration at every turn. Sniff.

Here’s where it gets good. Crockett went full drama queen, practically hyperventilating as she preached about protecting the judiciary’s pristine honor. That is, until Issa swooped in like a hawk with a memory and reminded everyone that Crockett herself co-sponsored legislation to impeach Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. 

Whoops! Townhall.com caught the fireworks on X: “Jasmine Crockett starts HYPERVENTILATING about protecting the institution of the judiciary — before PROMPTLY being reminded by @repdarrellissa that she cosponsored legislation to impeach Justices Thomas & Alito! ‘AOC filed articles of impeachment on Justice Thomas & Alito.…’” Oof, that’s gotta sting.

Then came the hypocrite's sermon. “The problem that we have right now is that if we continue down this road, we will not have a rule of law because we have people that are currently serving and they’re saying things like, ‘Ignore the judge’s order,’” she huffed, while conveniently forgetting to mention that her pal President Joe Biden pulled the exact same stunt when he rammed through his student loan forgiveness scheme after the Supreme Court told him to take a hike. 

Details, schmetails.

She kept going, laying it on thick: “What it means to have law and order in this country is that you follow the order and you go through the appeals process even if you dislike what the judge did,” she along with her mega-lashes declared, before flouncing back to her seat. 

Noble words—too bad they’re dripping with irony, given her own track record.

Crockett, like her fellow Democrats and their media parrots, leaned hard into the tired line that Republicans just want to axe federal judges over rulings they “don’t like.” Never mind that the actual beef is about alleged abuses of power—nah, that’s too complicated for the narrative.

Enter Issa, stage right, with the mic drop. 

Issa casually pointed out that when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) cooked up her impeachment articles against conservative Supreme Court heavyweights Alito and Thomas, Crockett was right there with pom-poms, co-sponsoring the whole circus. “It does seem interesting that when the shoe is on the other foot, everyone is self-righteous!” Issa quipped, before moving on like a boss.

And there you have it, guys—another day, another Democrat caught in the hypocrisy spin cycle. Gag me with a spoon.

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Iran-born Yale researcher fired over allegedly working with terror-tied "sham charity"

Let us consider the curious case of Helyeh Doutaghi, an Iranian-born associate research scholar at Yale University Law School, whose tenure has come to an abrupt and ignominious end. The reason? Her alleged ties to the Samidoun Network, a Canada-based outfit branded a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department, and a "sham charity" fronting for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, another U.S.-designated terrorist group. 

One might have thought that such affiliations would raise eyebrows at an institution of Yale's stature, but it seems the rot of ideological indulgence runs deep.

Doutaghi was sacked on Friday, three weeks after being placed on administrative leave following these damning allegations. Yale, in its wisdom, sought clarification. "Over the last three weeks, Yale has repeatedly requested to meet with Ms. Doutaghi and her attorney to obtain clarifying information and resolve this matter," said spokesperson Alden Ferro. "Unfortunately, she has refused to meet to provide any responses to critical questions, including whether she has ever engaged in prohibited activity with organizations or individuals that were placed on the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons list ('SDN List')." 

A refusal to cooperate, a silence that speaks volumes. And so, the university, perhaps belatedly grasping the gravity of the situation, terminated her forthwith.

This is no minor affair. Doutaghi held the lofty title of deputy director of the Law and Political Economy Project at Yale since October 2023. Her bio on the Palestine Center for Public Policy website boasts of her work on "the intersections of the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), encompassing Marxian and postcolonial critiques of law, sanctions, and international political economy." 

She is also slated to join the University of Tehran [Go Camel Jumpers] as a post-doctoral fellow, where she will toil on "completing her manuscript on Iranian sanctions regime and neoliberalism." Quite the résumé for someone now entangled in such a sordid mess.

The allegations first surfaced from Jewish Onliner, a Substack "Empowered by A.I. capabilities," and Doutaghi’s response was telling—not of innocence, but of indignation. 

"Rather than defend me, the Yale Law School moved within less than 24 hours of learning about the report to place me on leave," she whined on X. "I was given only a few hours’ notice by the administration to attend an interrogation based on far-right AI-generated allegations against me, while enduring a flood of online harassment, death threats, and abuse by Zionist trolls, exacerbating ongoing unprecedented distress and complications both at work and at home." 

No due process, she claims, no time to consult her attorney. One might ask: if the accusations are baseless, why not simply answer Yale’s questions and be done with it?

This saga unfolds against a broader backdrop. The Trump administration, to its credit, has taken a firm stand against the creeping anti-Semitism plaguing America’s Ivy League. "Immediate action will be taken by the Department of Justice to protect law and order, quell pro-Hamas vandalism and intimidation, and investigate and punish anti-Jewish racism in leftist, anti-American colleges and universities," declares a White House fact sheet. 

Trump promised to deport Hamas sympathizers and revoke student visas—a promise already bearing fruit. Columbia University, another hotbed of such unrest, saw $400 million in federal funding yanked after its feeble handling of anti-Israel protests. On Friday, it capitulated, promising "significant policy changes" to appease the administration.

Doutaghi’s fall is but a symptom of a larger malaise—a moral and intellectual decay within these once-venerable institutions. Yale, which weathered anti-Israel protests and a graduation walkout last year, now finds itself excising a figure whose short-term contract was, conveniently, nearing its April end. One wonders how many more such cases lurk beneath the surface, waiting to be exposed. The reckoning, it seems, has only just begun.

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Former fed officer sentenced for smuggling illegsl aliens and getting paid by cartel

LAREDO, Texas – A former Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer has been sentenced to nearly 10 years in federal prison for two separate crimes: letting undocumented immigrants and cocaine cross the U.S. border, according to U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.

Emanuel Isac Celedon, a 37-year-old from Laredo, admitted guilt on March 11, 2024, for illegally helping undocumented immigrants enter the U.S. through the Lincoln Juarez Port of Entry in Laredo. He also confessed to taking bribes and trying to smuggle cocaine by accepting cash to let what he believed was cocaine come into the U.S. from Mexico.

U.S. District Judge Diana Saldana sentenced Celedon to a total of 117 months (just under 10 years) in prison for both crimes, followed by four years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay $17,980. During the hearing, the judge pointed out that Celedon’s job was to stop drugs and unauthorized people from entering the U.S., but he failed at both. She noted that he was heavily involved in the criminal group and seemed eager to get even more involved.

“Anyone who helps or works for the cartel will end up facing serious federal charges,” Ganjei said. “This case is especially disturbing because of the trust the defendant was given in his role. His actions are the opposite of the brave work CBP officers do every day to keep our borders and ports safe.”

In 2023, while working as a CBP officer in Laredo, Celedon reached out to the Cartel del Noreste, a Mexican criminal group, to smuggle drugs and people through his inspection lane for money. During a secret police operation, he showed interest in smuggling cocaine for cash, shared his work schedule, and told a driver with a loaded vehicle to use his lane at the border crossing. He then let the vehicle enter the U.S. without trouble.

Using his position, Celedon allowed several kilograms of what he thought was cocaine into the U.S. on two occasions in October 2023, earning $6,000 in return. Investigations also showed he worked with at least three others to sneak undocumented immigrants into the country without proper checks. Celedon gave his lane assignment to Homero Romero-Hernandez, a 32-year-old Mexican national, who passed it to Jose Osvaldo Zapata-Vasquez, a 25-year-old with cartel connections. Zapata-Vasquez then hired Beatris Guadalupe Martinez, a 22-year-old from Cotulla, to drive.

Zapata-Vasquez gave Martinez directions based on Celedon’s tips about when to pick up immigrants in Mexico and which lane to use at the border. Evidence showed Martinez drove people through Celedon’s lane at least nine times between September and November 2023. Each time, Celedon let them in without checking the passengers. On at least two occasions, he even entered fake information into a CBP system to avoid sending Martinez for a required second inspection.

Celedon also asked Zapata-Vasquez and Romero-Hernandez to tell smugglers in Mexico that he was doing his part to help the cartel’s efforts. When he was arrested, police found $1,980 in cash on him, which he admitted came from smuggling people.

Judge Saldana had already sentenced Zapata-Vasquez to 46 months, Romero-Hernandez to 36 months, and Martinez to 42 months in prison. Celedon will stay in custody until he’s moved to a federal prison, which will be decided soon.

The investigation was carried out by several agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), and CBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility, with help from other law enforcement groups.

This case is part of a larger effort called the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), which targets major criminal organizations threatening the U.S. It also ties into Joint Task Force Alpha (JTFA), a Department of Homeland Security program focused on stopping cartels and human smuggling networks in Mexico and Central America that affect U.S. border security.

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Pro-Hamas carwash charges extra for Jewish holiday because "their cars are so dirty"

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Super 4 Seasons, a pro-Hamas car wash in Rockland County, N.Y., must stop discriminating against their Jewish customers who are preparing for Passover, or face a fine of $75,000, the office of Letitia James, the New York state attorney general, stated on Monday. 

This may be the first time Letitia James did the right thing.

An investigation by James’s office found that in the weeks leading up to the Jewish holiday, Super 4 Seasons advertised a “Passover special” cleaning promotion that cost more than three times its standard price for the same service, Jewish News Service reported.

“Targeting Jewish New Yorkers with deceptive pricing around Passover is a clear act of religious discrimination and will not be tolerated,” James stated. “Every New Yorker, regardless of their faith, deserves to be treated fairly and equally. My office will not hesitate to hold businesses accountable when they exploit families’ religious observance.”

Good for her.

The state opened an investigation of the car wash in April 2024, after several Jewish customers filed complaints with the attorney general’s office alleging that the business was charging $169 for a cleaning service that typically costs $47. 

Since at least 2018, the company has advertised its cleaning services specifically as a Passover holiday promotion, per James’s office.

Jewish customers reported that they were denied access to standard service packages and were instead steered toward the higher-priced Passover promotions, according to the state’s investigation.

In a sting operation, the state sent two investigators to the site—one dressed in a manner that suggested the person was an Orthodox Jew and the other in different attire. The investigator dressed as an Orthodox Jew was told that the company is “not doing anything except shampoos and Passover cleanings right now,” and “we are doing this just for you guys,” per the attorney general’s office.

The other state investigator, who wasn’t dressed as an Orthodox Jew, asked for standard service and was given one at a regular price.

Boom!

“When he inquired about the promotion, an employee responded that it was ‘for Jews,’ adding that they needed to pay more ‘because their cars are so dirty,’” per the attorney general’s office. What a crock.

The state “recovered sales records for this same period, confirming that regular services had, in fact, been provided throughout the holiday,” it added.

James issued a consumer alert last week warning Jewish New Yorkers to be cautious of illegal price-gouging practices ahead of the upcoming Passover holiday, by scumbags who would likely send the profits to Hamas as a "religious donation."

“As Passover approaches, I urge Jewish New Yorkers who feel that they may have been a victim of discriminatory price gouging to contact my office,” she stated on March 27. “My office has zero tolerance for any discrimination and anyone who engages in practices to unfairly raise prices on the Jewish community as they prepare for Passover will be held accountable.”

“No New Yorker should be taken advantage of during a holiday season and forced to pay more for a service because of their religion,” she added.

Again, good for Letitia James for doing the right thing.

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Hamassholes torture protester to death, leave his body on family's doorstep

A Gazan man who protested the terror group known as Hamas, was tortured to the point of death and his body was left on his family's doorstep. This was intended to be a warning to others in the Gaza Strip that if you are thinking of protesting the Hamassholes, this is what they will do to you.

The savagery of Hamas has no limits, like any terrorist group that believes they are doing G_d's work.

Uday Al Rabay, a mere 22 years old, was beaten to death last week in the so called Palestinian territories for the crime of daring to protest against the terrorist overlords who hold sway there. The New York Post reports that a senior officer tied to the opposition Fatah party confirmed the killing.

Mazen Shat, [imagine how much he was teased in school] a police officer affiliated with Fatah, told the Telegraph: "Uday was martyred by the criminals of Hamas. And what’s his crime? He told the truth, because he refused to be silent on injustice, because he did not kneel to Hamas." This young man’s fate was sealed, it seems, when pictures allegedly of him were circulated on Telegram following the protest. He was kidnapped and dispatched with ruthless efficiency.

Shat minced no words in describing the brutality: "Hamas is oppressing people in a brutal way. Like a puppy [with] a rope around his neck, they dragged [Uday’s body] to the door of his house and told his family that this is the punishment for those who complain about Hamas." 

Hamas has got to be totally destroyed--every single one of them.

The backdrop to this barbarism is the renewed Israeli bombardment of Gaza, which resumed after a two-month ceasefire with Hamas collapsed. The people of Gaza, caught between the hammer of Israeli airstrikes and the anvil of Hamas’s iron fist, have taken to the streets to vent their rage at the latter. Sam Habeeb, a Gazan based in London, told the Telegraph: "People have been under Israeli bombing since October 2023, they don’t want the war to continue by all means." Who can blame them?

The protesters’ demands are unequivocal. "The people do not want the rule of Hamas. The rule of Hamas is over," one declared, as reported by the Akron Jewish News. 

"This Hamas rule has destroyed us, killed us and displaced all the people." These are not the words of docile subjects content to live under tyranny. They are the cries of a people pushed beyond endurance by theocratic thugs who care nothing for their lives or liberties. Uday Al Rabay paid the ultimate price for giving voice to that desperation. How many more must die before the world takes notice?

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Trump team to audit $9,000,000,000 in Harvard grants, contracting anti-Semitism

Harvard University, once a towering beacon of intellectual rigor, now stands trembling at the edge of a self-inflicted abyss, its prestige unraveling like a cheap suit in a storm, or falling away like toilet paper on a shoe.

U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, a figure whose steely resolve could make even the most sanctimonious progressive squirm, has laid down the gauntlet with devastating precision: “Harvard’s failure to protect students on campus from anti-Semitic discrimination—all while promoting divisive ideologies over free inquiry—has put its reputation in serious jeopardy.” 

And so it has. 

The Trump administration, never one to mince words or dawdle in the face of moral rot, declared on a crisp Monday that it would launch a “comprehensive review” of the $9 billion in federal grants and contracts propping up this faltering Ivy League titan—all because Harvard couldn’t muster the spine to shield its Jewish students from a rising tide of bigotry.

The machinery of accountability is already in motion. A joint task force—comprising the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services, alongside the U.S. General Services Administration—has pledged to dissect “more than $255.6 million in contracts between Harvard University, its affiliates and the federal government,” not to mention “more than $8.7 billion in multi-year grant commitments.” These are numbers so astronomical they could fund a small nation, yet they’ve been squandered on an institution that seems more enamored with ideological posturing than safeguarding its own. 

McMahon, with a clarity that cuts through the fog of academic self-delusion, reflected on Harvard’s legacy: “Harvard has served as a symbol of the American dream for generations—the pinnacle aspiration for students all over the world to work hard and earn admission to the storied institution.” But then came the hammer blow: “Harvard’s failure to protect students on campus from anti-Semitic discrimination—all while promoting divisive ideologies over free inquiry—has put its reputation in serious jeopardy.”

Yet, ever the pragmatist, she offered a lifeline: “Harvard can right these wrongs and restore itself to a campus dedicated to academic excellence and truth-seeking, where all students feel safe on its campus.” A noble sentiment, though one wonders if Harvard’s leadership—steeped in the pieties of the age—has the stomach for such a return to first principles. 

Meanwhile, the announcement pointed to Columbia University, where a similar federal reckoning forced a list of nine Trump administration demands, including a ban on masked protests—an absurdity that should never have needed banning. Columbia’s interim president, caught in the crosshairs of this mess, fled the scene on a Friday, perhaps retreating to ponder the wreckage over a consolatory cup of latte.

The U.S. agencies are not playing games. They’ve signaled they could slap stop-work orders on Harvard’s contracts or, if the university’s noncompliance with federal rules is laid bare, sever the financial umbilical cord entirely. Josh Gruenbaum, commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service, put it with a firmness that brooks no dissent: “This administration has proven that we will take swift action to hold institutions accountable if they allow antisemitism to fester. We will not hesitate to act if Harvard fails to do so.” Here is a rare instance of government speaking plainly, without the usual varnish of equivocation.

So Harvard stands at a precipice, its fate dangling like a condemned man awaiting the noose. Will it summon the courage to confront its failures, or will it sink further into the morass of cowardice and conformity? The answer lies not in the stars, but in the choices of those who roam its ivy-clad corridors—choices that, for now, seem woefully out of reach.

Especially out of reach for the moral cowards.

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