Paul Mauro

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Say It Ain’t So, Joe!

What to make of President Biden as he fades from the scene? Is he simply sticking it to a nation that he feels rejected him?
Or is he making none of the calls, and sleeping in — as the radicals run the show?

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The Manhunt Continues

So the NYPD, FBI, and Atlanta PD are presently scouring for the cold-blooded killer of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson. At this writing, the killer remains unapprehended.

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An Historic Possibility For President Trump

So are Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker, Brandon Johnson, Michelle Wu, et al, all bluffing? Will these powerful elected officials actually seek to “fight” the incoming Trump administration’s efforts to apprehend and deport migrant criminals?

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Weekend Buff: Narcos – Mexico

The streaming series Narcos, detailing the DEA’s pursuit of Colombia’s Medellin cartel and Pablo Escobar, proved so successful that Netflix subsequently launched a follow-on: Narcos Mexico (2018). The three seasons of the latter iteration are, if anything, better than the original, and are made all the more riveting by how close they hew to history.

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Welp, We Called It — And We Wish We Hadn’t

So now comes word that Viktor Bout, the so-called “Merchant of Death” Russian arms dealer, is back to selling arms to America’s enemies after being traded by the Biden administration to Putin for WNBA player Brittney Griner. Who’da thunk it?

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The Adams Trap

Another day — another resignation of a top government official here in NYC. At this rate, we’re going to be down to the Mayor and the dog-catcher.

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Chaos — It’s What They Want

Protesting for fun and profit

So looks like we’re in protest season again. Expect more, coming to a campus near you.

But what do the protestors really want? Do they actually expect Israel will disappear, “from the river to the sea”?

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The Eric Adams Case: A Primer

So what’s behind the indictment of New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams? Biden administration-vindictiveness? Or diligent anti-corruption enforcement?

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Did We Predict Routh’s Plan?

Just to highlight the issue, we’re rerunning a post from last week that took a cop’s-eye look at what Donald Trump’s second would-be assassin, Ryan Routh, might have been planning for after the event.

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Weekend Buff: The Irishman

The American mafia is exactly that — very American. While its roots are in Sicilian brigands who terrorized that Italian island to varying degrees for centuries, the American version is very much wrapped up in issues of immigration and insularity in the new world.

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