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Exclusive – Kobach: Losing the Lottery

The Halloween terrorist attack in New York City was horrifying for many reasons. Not the least of which was the fact that this was yet another jihadist attack committed by yet another alien who had been admitted into this country through legal immigration channels. It illustrated once again why extreme vetting is needed, especially when aliens come to the United States from dangerous regions of the world where radical Islamism is rampant. In this case, the terrorist — Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov — came from Uzbekistan, a country where terrorism is widespread.

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‘Evil’ in New York: Ideology Drives Murder and Welfare Up in NYC

In 1993, Rudy Giuliani defeated incumbent Mayor David Dinkins on a tough crime-fighting and welfare-to-work platform. The life-long New York intellectual Norman Podhoretz, reflecting on this moment in 1999, wrote that “neither I nor anyone else ever dreamed that the new mayor — or any other person occupying that office — would be able to turn the city around, let alone that he would do so almost overnight. How wrong we were!”

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NY City Sees First Murder in 12 Days

NYPD officials’ celebration of their city going twelve days without a murder had their celebration cut short on Friday, when Eric Roman, 28, was shot in the head, leg, and hand in Queens, dying on Saturday in Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.

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Bill de Blasio Issues Statement on Chapel Hill Shooting

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio released a statement applauding the FBI investigation of the murders of North Carolinians Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, and Deah Barakat on behalf of NYC’s “large and vibrant Muslim communities.”

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