When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard. -Sun Tzu Those barriers are designed to prevent a repeat of the massacre that occurred this week at a Christmas market in Berlin. Thankfully, the perpetrator behind that particular atrocity has been put down by a brave...
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Taking a break from the towering inferno that is our presidential election, it’s worth noting some disturbing, yet sadly predictable, developments in our own backyard. The ad you see above is now plastered over subway cars taken by straphangers traveling to and from their jobs, which they have obtained legally in most cases. Even...
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Update: FBI detains 5 in connection to the Chelsea bombing. Surveillance video of the moment of the explosion and its immediate aftermath. An interview with Councilman Corey Johnson, who represents the district targeted in this attack.
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I took the image you see above in my old stomping grounds of Bay Ridge, which has earned the moniker Beirut in recent years, for obvious reasons. Aside from the Alpine Theater-which was in danger of being added to the adjacent mosque at one point-and Galaxy Comics, you would be hard-pressed to find a...
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One of the benefits of living in New York City-a place which often feels like it was expressly designed to discourage your presence-is the seemingly endless opportunities to see amazing, live music acts. Just within the past decade I’ve had the chance to watch the New York Festival Orchestra perform a remarkable tribute to the victims of...
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One of the underreported benefits of open borders is its seemingly inexhaustible capacity to enable cronyism. A perfect example being the recent decision by Mayor Bill De Blasio to give a six figure salary-courtesy of New York taxpayers-to his aide’s girlfriend.
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This week’s thwarting of a plot to behead Pamela Geller by a jihadist cell in Massachusetts might have surprised those of you who aren’t familiar with the deep roots that Islamists have sunk into the Bay State. Even though the Boston Marathon bombing by the Tsarnaev brothers has shed some light on this disturbing phenomenon,...
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This week’s guilty verdict returned in the trial of Chechen Islamic terrorist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev gives us the perfect opportunity to reflect upon the dysfunctional nature of our government’s immigration system. Not simply its implicit endorsement of specific individuals who are confirmed terrorists in other parts of the globe, but its mass importation of refugees...
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Update: Seth Barron, of City Council Watch, has an invaluable op-ed in the New York Post exploring why this law is so galling. As most of you probably know by now, the verminous members of the New York City Council have enacted yet another law intended to allay any fears the thousands of...
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James Fulford has provided a service to those of us wondering just how many unaccompanied minors will be deposited into our state, and where they’ll be taking up residence once they’re trafficked out of Texas. These cases are already flooding the docket of New York City’s immigration court, as the New York Post explains....
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