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By Cam Edwards New Jersey Acting Attorney General Matthew Platkin’s office is telling local violence prevention groups that grants they’ve received from the state in recent years will be cut due to a lack of funds, though his office apparently has the money to spend on a new office designed to target the firearms industry. The community violence intervention programs endangered by the AG’s move don’t involve the type of heavy-handed gun prohibitions favored by New Jersey Democrats. Instead, they focus exclusively on individuals who wind up at a local hospital with gunshot wounds.  Liza Chowdhury, who heads the Paterson Healing Collective, says  violent crime rates are likely to rise  if programs like hers are forced to shut down or scale back their outreach. Chowdhury, who said for months she’d been asking both the state and St. Joseph’s whether more funding was coming, said she felt blindsided when she got the email letting her know it wouldn’t. Now, Chowdhury said she a...

By Dana Kennedy Billionaire  David Rubenstein ’s philanthropic efforts trash the Founding Fathers, even though his own business has made a fortune from deals that have profited off the less fortunate. Since 2013, Rubenstein, 72, who co-founded the private equity giant the Carlyle Group, has  given millions  to entities that repair and upgrade historical monuments and landmarks like the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument as well as Monticello and Montpelier, the homes of US presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.  But some say the restoration at the presidential homes has recast the presidents as sinister racists  while downplaying their accomplishments. Recent visitors to Monticello and Montpelier  have flooded Trip Advisor with complaints  about how the former presidents have been  virtually reduced to villainous slaveholders  in lectures by the tour guides while books on anti-racism and critical race theory by Ibram X. Kend...

By Larry Johnson China’s iconic symbol is the “Dragon”. Hence my title. The next two weeks could be two of the most dangerous in the history of the United States because it appears Joe Biden and his clueless national security team are bumbling their way towards a showdown with China that is fraught with the peril of war. The Chinese Government now rejects the One China Policy that has been the foundation of U.S./Chinese relations for 43 years. CSIS boils it down nicely : When the United States moved to recognize the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and de-recognize the Republic of China (ROC) in 1979, the United States stated that the government of the People’s Republic of China was “the sole legal Government of China.” Sole, meaning the PRC was and is the only China, with no consideration of the ROC as a separate sovereign entity. The United States did not, however, give in to Chinese demands that it recognize Chinese sovereignty over Taiwan (which is the name preferred ...

By Mark Alexander “This bill is going to fuel even more inflation. It’s not going to fight inflation.” Chalk up two more losers under the “ Biden’s Biggest Blunders ” column. First, it’s official. Biden and his merry band of Demos have now  driven the economy into recession . Predictably,  Joe Biden  insisted the economy is  not in recession : “Coming off of last year’s historic economic growth — and regaining all the private sector jobs lost during the pandemic crisis — it’s no surprise that the economy is slowing down as the Federal Reserve acts to bring down inflation. But even as we face historic global challenges, we are on the right path and we will come through this transition stronger and more secure.” To be clear, the “historic economic growth” last year was all about businesses trying to get back on their feet and restoring a degree of the economic growth momentum the  Trump administration’s  policies created before the  ChiCom Virus pandemic...