“Zohran Mamdani has won the mayoralty of New York City. It was an incredible come-from-behind victory against Andrew Cuomo, who ran one of the most well-funded campaigns in city history, and was endorsed by Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Still, Mamdani’s margin of victory was fairly small—less than ten percentage points—compared to the usual whopping Democratic landslide in this particular contest. One reason for that is a number of nationally prominent New York Democrats refused to endorse their own party’s nominee. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries waffled on the question for months, and only endorsed at the very last minute, while both Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand — who implied Mamdani is a jihadist — and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer refused to do it at all. And now it turns out Schumer almost certainly voted for Andrew Cuomo.” (11/06/25)
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Charlotte Kuperwasser
“I’m going to touch on a highly controversial subject, one that has become the third rail among cancer biologists and the broader medical community: the possible link between Covid-19 vaccination and cancer. Because my laboratory’s mission is centered on cancer prevention, I cannot in good conscience ignore the elephant in the room. As my colleague, internationally renowned cancer biologist Dr. Wafik El-Deiry, and I articulated in the September ACIP meeting on Covid vaccines, nearly 50 publications have reported a temporal association between Covid-19 mRNA vaccination and the onset of cancer.” (11/05/25)
“More or less open corruption in the White House. Pardons for sale. Wanton murder on the high seas. Using the Justice Department as a political hit squad. Chief Justice John Roberts’[s] creation, ex nihilo, of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution looks dumber every day. … While the DOJ has long held a prudential policy of not indicting presidents, there is no legitimate constitutional principle holding that the president or any other elected official is constitutionally immune from prosecution for crimes committed while in office and under color of official deeds. The separation of powers does not require one: We do not, for example, insist that corrupt senators cannot be arrested by the FBI or prosecuted by the DOJ because FBI agents and DOJ lawyers are part of the executive branch.” (11/05/25)
“That the ‘government shutdown’ is disruptive is an indictment of just how far we’ve let the federal Leviathan intrude into areas it doesn’t belong. Of course, it’s not really a shutdown; it’s a temporary suspension of nonessential activities while lawmakers posture over budget issues for the edification of their core supporters. But we still see the air traffic control system in chaos and all too many Americans complaining that they won’t get full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits because government officials always inconvenience the public first even as most of the federal behemoth chugs on as always. They want to convince us we need the state and get us begging for it to reopen. Instead, we should ween ourselves from government and relegate the federal apparatus to the irrelevance — or even nonexistence — that it deserves.” (11/05/25)
“The SNAP crisis has shown a flaw in encouraging people to become dependent on government for anything essential. If you allow yourself to become dependent on government, it will own you. Why would you do this to yourself? To your family? This isn’t only about food, but about a job, your personal safety, health care, or anything else you expect government to provide. Being dependent on government — something you have no real control over, and which relies on a steady stream of stolen money — is a terrible idea. Pure self-sufficiency is impossible, but it should remain a guiding principle.” (11/05/25)
“On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Hencely v. Fluor Corporation, a case that asks whether private military contractors can be held liable in state court for negligence and other violations of law, or whether they are immune from lawsuits brought by people they injure. Its outcome could signal how the current majority feels about deputizing private actors with federal immunity even if they engage in blatantly illegal acts. … The Supreme Court hasn’t considered the issue of private contractor liability since 1988, when in Boyle v. United Technologies, it manufactured civil immunity for military equipment manufacturers. It did so even though Congress had specifically refused to protect private contractors under a statute that otherwise allows for negligence suits against the federal government.” (1/05/25)
“Most Americans learn about the Revolution as a fight against unfair taxes and British tyranny. But dig deeper into the Declaration of Independence, and one grievance leaps off the page: ‘He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.’ Thomas Jefferson wasn’t just talking about soldiers traipsing about in their scarlet coats. It was about the notion that soldiers would be present in the first place. For the colonists, the idea of having troops quartered in towns enforcing royal edicts at the end of a bayonet was an egregious example of oppression. Yet, when compared to what we see in 2025, it is not difficult to notice how far we have gone — in the wrong direction.” (11/05/25)
“In case you hadn’t noticed, former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is a black woman, as she repeatedly reminds readers in her memoir, Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines. Jean-Pierre also is ‘openly queer’ (her words, not mine, scattered like breadcrumbs throughout her 177-page treatment of her two-plus years as former President Joe Biden’s top spokesperson). If it weren’t for identity politics, Jean-Pierre wouldn’t have any identity at all. She tosses around labels, not arguments. Jean-Pierre told The New Yorker that the ‘broken’ White House in her book title refers not to the White House of her former boss, but that of current President Donald Trump. And yet, by her own account, KJP’s defection from the Democratic Party was a reaction to serving in an administration that was burdened with ‘racism, misogyny and double standards.'” (11/05/25)
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“According to NBC News, the Trump administration is now considering a military attack on Mexico. That’s on top of Trump’s obvious internal struggle on whether to do the same to Venezuela. Another possibility is Columbia, whose president, according to Trump, is an ‘illegal drug leader.’ Oh, the difficult life of an interventionist drug-war president who is ostensibly set on making America great again. Who to attack first? Who to kill? How many to kill? Which killing route will be more apt to make America great again? How best to win the Nobel Prize for Peace?” (11/05/25)
