JoAnna Mendoza (D) Definitely Doesn't Support Defunding the Police, She Just Cashes Checks From Groups That Do

The presumptive Democratic nominee in Arizona's Sixth Congressional District, comrade JoAnna Mendoza, is heroically attempting to distance herself from her past comments calling to defund police. At the same time, she's holding fundraisers with far-left groups that have called to defund police, the conservative outlet, The Washington Free Beacon review found. 

Consistency is for losers, after all.

On Friday, for example, Mendoza headlined a big-ticket fundraiser in Los Angeles's affluent Brentwood neighborhood, cohosted by the Heart of LA Democratic Club. The club, which describes its mission as "championing feminist leadership and women's full representation in politics and policy," repeatedly backed the Defund the Police movement. 

In a since-deleted June 2020 tweet, it praised the Los Angeles Black Lives Matter chapter's "compelling presentation to LA City Council on defunding the police" as "a big step towards progress." The club backed a bill to defund police around the same time, and one of its officers, Sarah Kate Levy, said she "see[s] clearly the need to defund." 

She says, "I don't support defunding the police" while raising money with people who do.

Months earlier, in January, Mendoza held another Brentwood fundraiser with the Los Angeles-based Stonewall Democratic Club, which signed a 2020 letter calling for the "divestment of public funding from police" and a resolution calling for "budget reallocation" from police departments "to programs that end systemic, abusive, and unlawful use of lethal force on Black and Brown People." The move, the group said, was about joining "the struggle to end white supremacy, institutional racism, individual bigotry, and mass denial." 

Mendoza, of course, was just there for the finger food, and definitely not the ideology. 

The fundraisers come as Mendoza attempts to distance herself from her prior support for anti-police policies in her campaign against incumbent Republican congressman Juan Ciscomani in a district President Donald Trump carried narrowly in 2024. In 2020, when the comrade ran unsuccessfully for Arizona's State Senate, an audience member at a virtual town hall asked her whether she would "defund the police," to which she replied that she supports "the reallocation of funding" away from law enforcement. 

Reallocation. Such a gentle, non-threatening word for taking money from cops and giving it to someone else.

"Police reform is just one aspect of addressing systemic racism in our nation, and specifically here in Arizona," Mendoza said. "I support the reallocation of funding to programs that would allow people to live their best lives, such as the social service programs, such as housing, public education, health care, ensuring that we're addressing economic stability and environmental safety." 

In that same virtual town hall, Mendoza accused police officers of violating their "oath to protect and serve their communities" and appeared to justify the anti-police riots that swept the United States following George Floyd's death. "There are hundreds, hundreds of deaths at the hands—murders—at the hands of police brutality," she said. "And so what we're seeing right now from folks is we're seeing the demand for change through the protests, through the civil unrest. We are seeing that folks no longer trust law enforcement agencies who, by the way, have taken an oath to protect and serve their communities and have clearly violated that oath time and time again."

When Fox News reported on Mendoza's comments in March, her campaign lied that she "has been on the record for years that police need MORE resources to do their jobs, not less, including body cameras and training," adding that "she has repeatedly stated that she does not support defunding the police."

Mendoza also attempted to walk back her comments about the "reallocation of funding" several months following her initial remarks, saying during a different town hall that she did "not support defunding the police." The Arizona Police Association endorsed Ciscomani in May, not long after the "reallocation" video came to light. Apparently the cops can read. 

Policing is not the only area of inconsistency for Mendoza. Shortly after the Free Beacon reported that she had a net worth of up to $4.7 million, according to her 2025 financial disclosure, Mendoza issued a new financial disclosure claiming she is worth no more than $336,000. The new filing also revealed that she had concealed ownership of a rental property in Tucson worth between $250,000 and $500,000. 

This is how socialism works: those in power have the money while everyone else is equal . . .  equally poor.

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Charlotte Man Charged with Killing Man Hours After Release on Bond

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A convicted killer allegedly shot two men, killing one, less than two hours after he was released from a North Carolina jail on bond last week. 

This stunning timeline raises fresh questions about why the repeat violent offender was free in the first place. 

David Simpson, 29, is charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, and possession of a firearm by a felon in the July 29 shooting at an east Charlotte apartment complex. A Mecklenburg County judge on Friday ordered that he be held without bond . . . this time.

Court records obtained by WCNC (AM): A radio station on 1240 AM licensed to Elizabeth City, North Carolina, show Simpson was set free from the Mecklenburg County Jail at 12:20 a.m. after posting a $10,000 bond [probably at 10% cash] on an unrelated charge of possession of a weapon by a prisoner. Police said the shooting happened less than two hours later, around 1:45 a.m., leaving one man dead and another seriously wounded. 

Police said the shooting followed a long-running dispute over a parking space outside the apartment complex. Cops had already been called to the property twice that night after arguments broke out between the victims and residents over where they had parked. Surveillance video cited in the documents appears to show Simpson outside with his "shorty" when the victims' SUV drove past. Detectives said Simpson went inside, returned carrying what they described as a weighted black bag, and ran toward the victims. 

About 10 minutes later, problem solved, as two gunshots can be heard on the video. Roughly 30 seconds after that, Simpson is seen running back toward his apartment while handling the bag before driving away, investigators said. 

Officers recovered two spent 7.62-caliber rifle casings at the scene, where one victim had died. The second victim made it inside an apartment before collapsing and later underwent life saving surgery. 

Court records show Simpson was previously charged with first-degree murder in a 2013 fatal shooting but pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in 2015, Queen City News reported. He served merely five years in prison before being released on parole in 2020. 

Since then, he has been arrested several more times, including on multiple charges of possession of a firearm by a felon, WBTV reported. He also had pending charges this year for possession of a firearm by a felon, resisting a public officer and misdemeanor larceny, WCNC reported, citing court records. 

Charlotte defense attorney Tim Cannady, who is not involved in the case, questioned why Simpson remained free despite his violent history. "If you look at his history, it seems like this gentleman has picked up just about every year up to this point some kind of a violent crime," Cannady told WCNC. "So you kind of have to ask the question: Why wasn't he already in jail?" 

Former Charlotte City Council member Tariq Bokhari offered a similar criticism. "We know what these top 1% of repeat offenders are going to do, and for some reason, we just don't have the appetite to take action," Bokhari told WBTV. "It feels like 'Groundhog Day,' to be quite honest." 

Simpson refused to leave his jail cell for his first scheduled court appearance Friday morning, delaying the hearing until a judge ordered him to appear later that afternoon. His girlfriend, Shakema Scott, has also been charged with accessory after the fact. Simpson is due back in court on Aug. 21.

This is what happens when the revolving door of soft justice keeps spinning. A man with a lengthy rap sheet of violence walks free on a modest bond, and within two hours another life is lost over a parking space. The pattern is familiar, the excuses predictable, and the body count keeps climbing while the system pretends surprise.

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Israel's Political Class Flirts With Civilian Control Becoming Political Control

Yashar leader Gadi Eisenkot (Channel 12 screenshot)

There are moments in the life of a democracy when the greatest danger does not come from an external enemy, but from the temptation of those in power to bend the state's institutions to their own political ambitions. Israel, a nation whose security depends on an independent and professional military, has once again found itself confronting that uncomfortable reality.

The latest controversy erupted after Defense Minister Israel Katz announced during a live television appearance that he was replacing IDF Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth, despite lacking the legal authority to make such a decision. Whether one supports or opposes the current government, the episode raises a far more consequential question than the fate of a single general. It asks whether political theater is beginning to eclipse the rule of law in matters of national defense.

Opposition leader and former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot wasted little time condemning the move.


"The spectacle that took place on [Channel 14] was an unprecedented lowpoint in relations between the political and military echelons, an improper and unlawful act," Eisenkot wrote on X. "The State of Israel is no one's private property, and the IDF is not a tool to be used in primaries by politicians who've lost their way."

His criticism lands at an especially delicate political moment. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party is preparing for August 17 primaries, where more than 100,000 party members will determine the party's Knesset slate ahead of Israel's October 27 general election. Katz is widely viewed as seeking a higher position on that list, making any appearance of politicizing military leadership especially damaging.

Eisenkot did not stop there. He argued that the government "is not fit to safeguard the security of the state," adding that "very soon, the people of Israel will have worthy and responsible leadership, with Israel's welfare and security as its sole concern."

Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was equally unsparing, accusing the government of turning against the very institution charged with defending the nation.


"After dismantling the IDF from the outside and paving the way for mass draft evasion, the October 7 government has now decided to dismantle the IDF from within and guarantee complete chaos," Bennett wrote. "Tonight, I say to every citizen of Israel, and to all IDF soldiers and commanders, both active-duty and reservists: Hold on tight, the reinforcements are on their way. Soon, we will replace them, and together we will set things right."

Israel's security has always rested on a delicate constitutional understanding. Civilian leaders rightly command the military, but they do so through established legal authority and institutional restraint, not televised declarations or campaign calculations. Democracies survive because governments change while institutions endure.

Whether this latest dispute proves to be an isolated political misjudgment or a symptom of something more corrosive remains to be seen. But history offers a consistent lesson: once military appointments become instruments of partisan advantage, public confidence in both government and the armed forces begins to erode. That is a price Israel, surrounded by enemies and dependent upon the professionalism of the IDF, can scarcely afford to pay.

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Israeli Consul-General says Mamdani is an anti-Semite behind a fake smile

Israel’s Consul-General in New York City, Ofir Akunis, has accused the city’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, of being an anti-Semite who conceals himself behind a false smile, which some would call a sh*t-eating-grin.

The charge was made in an interview with CBS News on Sunday.

“He is saying, I will ensure the security of the Jewish community in New York. How will you do it if you are saying that Israel is responsible for a genocide in Gaza?” Akunis said. “This is a disgusting lie, Mr. mayor. You know that there is no genocide in the Gaza Strip.”

In fact, the Gazan population has grown significantly since 1948 as the graph shows [below].

1948: Approximately 80,000 residents (pre-refugee influx). Large numbers of Palestinian refugees arrived after the 1948 war, raising the population to roughly 240,000–245,000 by 1950.

Steady growth followed (driven largely by high fertility rates), with a temporary dip after the 1967 war.
By the early 2020s the population exceeded 2 million (US Census Bureau International Database estimates used in the main series: ~2.10 million in 2023 and ~2.14 million in 2024).

End of 2025 (PCBS): About 2.13 million. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reports a decline of roughly 10.6% relative to pre-war projections, attributed to deaths, missing persons, outflows, and lower births during the war that began in October 2023.

Sources: Annual figures 1950–2024 primarily from the US Census Bureau International Database

So if that's what Mamdani, or any other jihadi calls genocide, they're peeing on your leg and telling you it's raining.

His S.E.G.

Akunis further condemned comrade Mamdani for applying the word “monsters” to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the influential pro-Israel lobby group in the United States. He didn't even have to mention Mamdani's anti-Semitic history and how she "Liked" a post on X praising the October 7, 2023 attack on innocent Israelis at a music festival and in their homes.

“It’s the same word that the Germans, that the Nazi regime used against the Jewish community,” Akunis said. 

The consul-general closed the interview by issuing a warning to the United States, a nation of which he declared himself a devoted admirer. “It’s very emotional to me to see the American flag right here in the streets of Manhattan,” he stated. “I don’t want to see them force the Sharia laws on you. You must stop them now before it will be too late for you.”

Mamdani and his ilk need to get thrown out of office either by vote or impeachment. Please repost of you agree and feel free to comment.

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Defense Expert Decides the Guy He Was Hired to Help Should Probably Fry Anyway

 Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. (Instagram @xanakernodle / @maddiemogen / @kayleegoncalves)

Every now and then a story comes along that reminds us reality has a better sense of humor than Hollywood. Bryan Kohberger's former defense expert has now landed on a position that probably wasn't in the original job description: "Yeah, the guy's guilty, give him the death penalty."

That's got to make for one awkward invoice.

Sy Ray, a former Arizona homicide investigator turned digital forensics expert, was hired by Kohberger's defense team before the admitted killer pleaded guilty to avoid facing execution for the brutal murders of four University of Idaho students: Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin.

Now, with Kohberger serving four consecutive life sentences without parole and trying to wriggle out of his guilty plea for yet another trip through the legal system, Ray says he'd be perfectly happy if that meant putting the death penalty back on the table.

"Bring back the death penalty," Ray told journalist Brian Entin on a recent podcast. "I am all for this."

Well, that's one way to lose repeat business.

Ray says investigators overlooked key digital evidence that, in his view, makes the case against Kohberger even stronger than what prosecutors presented. According to him, cellphone geolocation data suggests Kohberger was not merely lurking around the neighborhood, but may have actually been inside the King Road house before the murders.

"I 100% believe that the offender, who is Bryan Kohberger — there’s no alternative theory in my head at this point," Ray said. "I 100% believe he’s been in the house before."

Human excrement

If true, that's a bombshell. It is also where things start getting messy.

Ray told Entin that several location "hits" landed directly on the victims' home.

"If you look at those precise measurements, there’s probably five that land directly on what would be the living room of the house," Ray said. "Like the latitude-longitude is the physical house itself, and if you put the house back on the map, and you map those, the hits are inside the house."

Entin, sounding like every listener at that moment, asked for clarification.

"I just want to make sure I understand correctly… because I haven't heard this before — so you're saying, based on the data you saw, the latitude-longitude for Bryan Kohberger’s Samsung was in the living room?"

The eyes are the mirrors of the soul? He may not even have one.

Ray replied, "The AT&T-derived latitude-longitude from the AT&T’s network that it estimates a location, it lands in the house — and it's a 25-meter range, so we're talking 75 feet, so it could be anywhere in the house on any floor. It could technically be outside the house, it could [be] on the property, but it's showing in the immediate area. My personal opinion is when I look at those, and I map what's happening before and after and I'm looking at all the other evidence. I think these are accurate locations."

There is just one tiny problem. Ray's own expert report from January 2025 appears to say almost the exact opposite.

"It is my opinion that the geolocation data I have been provided as of the writing this report does not provide any evidence of association between Mr. Kohberger and any of the decedents and/or Mr. Kohberger’s or decedent’s residence," he wrote.

That's not exactly a minor footnote. That's the legal equivalent of saying the weather is sunny on page one and reporting a blizzard on page two.

Ray also now believes Madison Mogen was Kohberger's intended target.

"I believe Maddie was the target," he said, arguing that repeated cellphone "collisions" placed the two in similar locations before the murders, including at a Pullman party and an A&W restaurant near the crime scene.

He also described what he believes was a broader stalking campaign.

But once again, his earlier report tells a different story.

"I am unable to locate any period of time between June 23, 2022 and November 13, 2022 where Mr. Kohberger’s mobile device is in the same specific area as any of the deceased’s mobile devices," he wrote.

Morgan Wright, CEO of the National Center for Open and Unsolved Cases and host of Crime: Reconstructed, didn't exactly let that contradiction slide.

"This is the sharpest contradiction," Wright said. "The state's search warrant sought records specifically to determine whether Kohberger 'stalked' any victim or 'conducted surveillance on the King Road Residence.'"

Ray insists investigators missed critical evidence.

"They didn’t even look at it," Ray said of the stalking evidence. "It’s incredible to me."

Maybe. Or maybe that's why consistency matters when you're presenting forensic conclusions that could decide whether someone lives or dies.

Even prosecutors have been more restrained. After Kohberger pleaded guilty, Moscow Police Cpl. Brett Payne acknowledged investigators still could not identify a specific target.

"The evidence suggested that there was a reason that this particular house was chosen," Payne said. "What that reason is, we don't know. We don't know who the target was, and we're not going to speculate on that up here today. But we can tell you that, for whatever reason, Mr. Kohberger chose that residence. Perhaps it's the location, layout, we do not know."

When Fox News Digital later asked investigators whether they had identified a motive, the answer remained refreshingly honest.

"We don't."

That sort of restraint is increasingly rare in a world where everyone with a podcast and a Wi-Fi signal believes they can solve a murder before lunch.

The Slammer

Ray says he even offered to brief the FBI after Kohberger pleaded guilty, claiming he had uncovered evidence investigators overlooked. According to Ray, they never responded.

Meanwhile, Kohberger is attempting to undo the guilty plea that spared him from execution by arguing he received ineffective assistance from his defense team. Ironically, if he somehow succeeded, he'd be reopening the very door that leads back to the death penalty.

Ray says that's exactly where the case should go.

"This can never be the standard investigation that we see in cases," Ray said. "This can never be acceptable."

Still, despite all the criticism, Ray says the outcome wouldn't change.

"The time is now to start this investigation over," he said.

He also believes Kohberger had multiple potential victims throughout the Moscow and Pullman area.

"I think he had multiple targets throughout the entire Moscow-Pullman area," Ray said. "Location information and pattern of life is by far the most telling."

And his final assessment leaves little room for ambiguity.

"If he ever does walk, he will kill again."

That may ultimately be the strangest twist in this already bizarre saga. The man hired to help the defense now sounds more convinced of Kohberger's guilt than many of the people who prosecuted him. The only unresolved mystery is whether Ray uncovered groundbreaking evidence, changed his mind after the fact, or somehow managed to argue both sides of the same forensic report. 

In a case already overflowing with twists, that may be the oddest one yet.

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Mass Passes Bill to allow killing babies up to birth

“The real question today is not when human life begins, but, What is the value of human life? The abortionist who reassembles the arms and legs of a tiny baby to make sure all its parts have been torn from its mother’s body can hardly doubt whether it is a human being. The real question for him and for all of us is whether that tiny human life has a God-given right to be protected by the law — the same right we have.”-- Ronald Reagan

The radical Massachusetts Senate on Friday rammed through a grotesque bill that greenlights the slaughter of healthy unborn babies right up until the moment of birth. Lawmakers have now shipped this atrocity to Gov. Maura Healey, a fervent abortion advocate who is all but certain to sign it into law and further cement the Commonwealth’s status as a sanctuary for the abortion industry.

Democrats [aka socialists] steamrolled the measure this afternoon, deliberately short-circuiting the normal committee process so the full Senate could rubber-stamp the bill before the legislature adjourned. House Bill 5595 had already sailed through the heavily Democrat-controlled House on July 22 by a lopsided 119-33 vote. The babies involved are too young to vote.

Under existing Massachusetts law, abortions are already permitted through 24 weeks—yet even that permissive regime contains only the flimsiest exceptions that effectively allow the procedure until birth. Abortions beyond that point have been restricted to cases where the mother’s life or health is purportedly threatened (a loophole so elastic it can mean virtually anything) or when the child is judged unlikely to survive outside the womb.

This new legislation shreds those last remaining fig leaves. It replaces specific medical criteria with a single, rubber-stamp approval from the abortionist himself. In plain English, it authorizes the killing of babies at any gestational age after 24 weeks—for any reason whatsoever. [If this isn't legal barbarianism, I don't know what is.]

Second- and third-trimester abortions typically involve either dismemberment [cutting off arms, legs, beheading, for example] or labor induction. The latter can and does result in a living child being delivered if the abortionist has not first injected a lethal dose into the baby’s heart to ensure “fetal demise”—a step many openly admit they skip. That is, the baby is born alive and then killed.

The Charlotte Lozier Institute documents that more than 60,000 abortions occur after 15 weeks every year in America, a developmental milestone at which science confirms the unborn child feels excruciating pain. The real science, not the Anthony Fauci version.

Pro-life defenders [aka decent human beings] sounded the alarm: this bill obliterates every remaining protection and licenses the execution of fully viable unborn children up to the very threshold of birth.

“This bill basically allows abortion at any time of the pregnancy and for any reason, so it is absolutely egregious,” said Michael King, president of the Massachusetts Family Institute. He noted that the measure would also “take this whole process of abortion outside of the hospital. So a doctor could do this perhaps anywhere they think is viable to do this kind of procedure and take out the safeguards of a hospital.” 

Massachusetts Citizens for Life President Myrna Maloney Flynn underscored that the legislation offers zero genuine help to women confronting real medical crises. “Women experiencing unimaginable, heart wrenching pregnancy complications absolutely deserve all the support they need, but that support is not what this bill provides,” Flynn remarked. “Instead, this bill ensures increased abortion industry profits and taxpayer-funded late-term procedures.” 

Flynn highlighted that the legislation allows a single doctor “to subjectively decide that any unborn infant can be killed in or outside of a hospital,” thus allowing them to play G_d for real. 

SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser mourned the news of the extreme law passing: “Massachusetts already allows abortion in the first 24 weeks, but that isn’t enough for Democrats whose party holds the position of no limits on abortion whatsoever. If Gov. Healey signs this bill into law, Massachusetts will join 10 states and Washington, D.C. with an all-trimester abortion policy where babies are killed after the point they can survive outside of the womb.” 

“These extreme laws that only 10% of Americans support are enabled by the ‘states-only’ philosophy on abortion. The GOP must abandon the failed ‘leave it to the states’ position and move the country toward a national protection for unborn children across this nation.”

Abortion advocates claim the change is necessary so women need not travel out of state because it should be easy to abort the soon-to-be-born so why should they have to schlep across states?

Responsible medical experts categorically reject the falsehood that intentionally ending a child’s life is ever required to save the mother. 

“It is never medically necessary to purposely end the life of a pre-born child in order to save her mother,” said Christina Francis, a board-certified OB-GYN and CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists. In true emergencies, she explained, a physician must separate the mother from the baby when necessary, but that is not an abortion: “AAPLOG recommends referring to these interventions as ‘maternal-fetal separations’ given the clear difference of intent between those lifesaving treatments and induced abortion.”

Should Healey affix her signature, which the witch likely will, Massachusetts will become the 11th state plus the District of Columbia with literally no limits on abortion—joining a tiny, radical minority. 

The United States remains one of only eight nations on earth, alongside Communist China, that permits abortion at any stage of pregnancy, according to a 2024 study. Meanwhile, another 2024 analysis shows that 46 of 50 European countries impose limits after 15 weeks.

If an alien from another planet came here and saw what we do to our unborn for convenience, or form of birth control, or any other reason, they would be appalled.

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The Spanish invasion from Morocco continues as death toll climbs to 67

Look at all the women and children [Adri Salido image]

Europe's borders are not mere lines on a map; they are the front line of civilization.

The latest death toll in Spain's border crisis at Ceuta has climbed to 67, according to the Spanish government. Some victims drowned attempting the crossing, while others were killed in the desperate crush of a human stampede at the breakwater barrier. It is a grim reminder that when governments surrender control of their borders, tragedy inevitably follows.

In response to the unprecedented breach, Spain announced it will install a 500 meter containment barrier extending into the sea after an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 migrants overwhelmed the tiny Spanish enclave's frontier between Thursday and Friday. That's like closing the barn door after the horses escaped.

On Saturday morning, a handful of exhausted migrants who swam to Ceuta's Tarajal Beach were met by Spanish soldiers and escorted back across the border. Spain's Interior Ministry said that most of those who entered the North African territory have already been returned to Morocco.

After days of disorder, Ceuta's streets have grown quieter. But calm is not the same as security.

"Life in this city has been disrupted as a result of the border incident," said Ceuta President Juan Jesus Vivas.

"The return of people has begun satisfactorily but the process must be completed," he said. "The city has not yet returned to normal."

That final sentence deserves far more attention than it will receive. A nation can restore traffic, reopen shops, and clear its streets, yet still suffer lasting damage to public confidence. Citizens who watch tens of thousands of people overwhelm a border in a matter of hours cannot easily be persuaded that their government remains fully in control.

Across the border in Tangier, Morocco, migrants who had either returned from Ceuta or failed to reach Europe slept on the floor of the city's main railway station. Many had gone days without food. Others remained determined to try again. 

Boo freaking hoo.

"I tried to cross, but I failed. I stayed near the border with Ceuta for two days, but I couldn't find anything to eat," said Abdalah, an aspiring jihadi, who withheld his surname for fear of retaliation after attempting to enter Spain illegally. 

Meanwhile, along the road to the Moroccan town of Fnideq, streams of migrants continued walking toward the border fence, some barefoot, apparently preparing for another attempt. Taxi drivers and bus operators refused to transport them, fearing retaliation from Moroccan authorities, while police established checkpoints to inspect every vehicle headed toward the frontier.

Yet many Islamic invaders who succeeded in reaching Ceuta made clear they had no intention of leaving voluntarily.

"They've closed everything down so that we can't buy anything to eat, to force us to return to our country," said 23 year old Moroccan illegal alien jihadi Mohamed Hatri.

"But even if they close it down ... we're round to stay here, whether we're hungry or not."

That declaration captures the central dilemma confronting Europe. 

Compassion alone cannot substitute for sovereignty. Every nation has a moral obligation to preserve life, but it also has a fundamental duty to determine who enters its territory and under what conditions. A border that exists only on paper soon ceases to exist at all.

The events in Ceuta should also serve as a warning to every Western democracy. 

Spain's crisis is not uniquely Spanish. It is a glimpse of what any nation can face if it convinces the world that its borders are negotiable rather than enforceable. Once the expectation spreads that illegal entry will ultimately be rewarded, the incentives become overwhelming, the humanitarian costs multiply, and public trust begins to erode. 

Other Western nations would do well to learn this lesson before finding themselves confronting the same crisis on their own shores.

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Mamdani's crackdown on food delivery tips inspires ire

New York City's newest socialist experiment in mayoral form, comrade-jihadi Zohran Mamdani, is out here acting like he just invented tipping after taking credit for a reported $104 million bump in delivery worker tips that critics note was locked in by legislation that hit the books long before he ever set foot in City Hall and was failing as a rapper.

The anti-Zionist mayor declared at a press conference Wednesday and in a social media post, "We've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets," pointing to changes in the Uber Eats and DoorDash apps that made tipping pop up more obviously."This is only the beginning," Mamdani wrote.

Those app tweaks come straight from a city law the New York City Council approved BEFORE Mamdani became mayor. [The way he's going with the lies, it wouldn't surprise me if he took credit for the Oct, 7, 2023 attack on Israel.]

Former Mayor Eric Adams (D) neither signed nor vetoed the thing, so it became law after 30 days. The rules kicked in this past January under the Mamdani administration, which handled the implementation and enforcement. Before that law took effect, the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection found that Uber Eats and DoorDash had hidden the tip buttons and set default tips under 10 percent, which helped cause a 79 percent drop in tips for delivery workers. 

The law forced the companies to make tipping more visible, and city officials claim those changes have generated an estimated $104 million in extra tips since. Mamdani's office brushed off the notion that the mayor was grabbing credit for work that wasn't his, much like Joe Biden did with the economy. Mamdani claimed that while the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection pushed the reforms earlier, the rules got implemented under his watch starting January 26.

"A law is only as good as its implementation," a spokesperson for Mamdani told Fox News Digital. "We have been intentional about enforcing the laws on the books so that we are putting money back into the pockets of working New Yorkers." 

Conservatives and political commentators on social media wasted no time calling out Mamdani over the already sky-high costs of everything in New York City, with more than a few accusing him of claiming ownership of legislation that predated his term.

"This guy is a fantastic lying politician," actor Michael Rapaport posted on X. "He had literally nothing to do with this. City Council passed the bill last August and 419 Eric Adams never signed it so after 30 days the bill became law. It went into effect when Mamdani was in office. He just taking the credit." [See meme below.]

"In other words you are trying to say that you forced Uber and Doordash to make it that New Yorkers pay more for their food deliveries by having the default tip amount be a lot higher," conservative influencer account Leftism posted on X."

Socialism 101 — have others pay for things and make as if it's your accomplishment. Coming soon — $50 avocado toast," Washington Free Beacon reporter Jon Levine posted on X.

"So you increased prices for your citizens?" National Review contributor Pradheep Shanker posted on X. "Congrats."

"Suckers"

"What really happened," finance podcaster Joseph Carlson posted on X. "They forced delivery drivers to be paid minimum wage of $22/hr. This wage is paid by higher fees passed on to DoorDash or Uber customer. Since the customer was already paying these higher fees, these apps made tipping optional. Then New York required them to also be tipped on top of the higher fees."

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So now New York (residents) get to enjoy paying both a high base pay and a tip on top of it. The customer is double-paying for delivery. All of this cost is passed onto the New Yorker resident. They’re paying more than the market demands for a product and service because of market manipulation."Leave it to a democratic socialist mayor to celebrate making your takeout order more expensive while pretending it's a personal victory for the working class. 

Classic.

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