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The best cities to live in the US are located in GOP states with conservative mayors

David Propper and Anna Young
New York Post
Wed, 20 May 2026 18:58 UTC
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© Chase – stock.adobe.coUS News & World Report in 2026-27 revealed that the 10 best US cities to live in are mostly in ruby-red states with mayors that lean into conservative values.
Nine of the 10 best American cities in which to live are located in GOP-led states with mayors that lean into conservative values like law and order and "more accountable" government spending, according to a new report.

Quality of life, affordability, a strong job market and overall desirability were taken into account when ranking the best places in the US to settle down.

The top-notch cities were revealed by US News & World Report this week and only one landed in a blue state — Rochester Hills, Michigan, which was ranked the 7th best spot.

US News & World Report in 2026-27 revealed that the 10 best US cities to live in are mostly in ruby-red states with mayors that lean into conservative values.

Comment: Alas, such publicity is not always good for the city in question. The very things that make it attractive tend to bring elements that degrade those qualities. It takes firm political leadership to maintain (conserve!) the quality of life.

On another note, how in the world did Frisco, TX make that list?







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Bad Guys

Authoritarianism arrives not with a coup, but with a login

Sam Lowry
The Daily Sceptic
Thu, 21 May 2026 18:24 UTC
surveillance security login thumbprint digital identification totalitarianism
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Authoritarianism doesn't usually arrive with a coup. It arrives with a login, a compliance form, a penalty notice for keeping records in the wrong format. It comes with a quietly extended electoral term, a cancelled bank account, a prison sentence for a social media post. Each measure has a reasonable-sounding justification. The problem is the direction — and how far it has already travelled.

Power is migrating from the visible arena of democratic politics to the less visible world of systems — compliance regimes, regulators with elastic mandates and an expanding mesh of rules governing more of daily life than most people have yet registered. No single measure looks like tyranny. The problem is the cumulative direction and the speed at which it is moving.

None of what follows was in any manifesto. All of it is happening.
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Arrow Down

Starmer government doubles down on anti-free speech policies

Johnathan Turley
jonathanturley,org
Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00 UTC
Keir Starmer
© WPA Pool/Getty ImagesSir Keir Starmer
When hundreds of thousands of Britons joined the recent Unite the Kingdom rally, the government of Keir Starmer wanted them to know that they were being watched for possible arrest. By deploying facial recognition systems and invoking the United Kingdom's anti-free speech laws, Starmer's government made it clear that it would not tolerate anything it considered hateful or xenophobic, on the heels of its losses to Reform UK in council elections.

Under its Online Safety Act, the government removed posts from social media platforms such as TikTok, including statements about Reform UK's immigration policies.

Among those impacted was Reform UK's shadow home secretary Zia Yusuf who reportedly had "two videos removed from TikTok — one for a user report under the UK's Online Safety Act and another for hate speech." They were later restored.

Starmer's government also reportedly prevented speakers from the rally from entering the county, citing concerns they might "incite" the crowd.

The Times reported last year that the government was arresting 30 people a day for speech crimes.
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Bizarro Earth

Land grab: The billionaires' club at the center of America's public lands fight

Evan Simon and Ames Alexander
High Country News
Wed, 13 May 2026 20:24 UTC
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© Evan Simon / FloodlightThe Yellowstone Club has a long history of transforming public lands across Montana and was deeply involved in reshaping the Crazy Mountains through a controversial land swap in 2025.
A controversial land swap orchestrated by the mega rich could be 'a harbinger of what's to come' for public lands under Trump.

At the end of a dirt road along the northeastern edge of Montana's Crazy Mountains, a simple sign warns visitors they are now entering private property.

For fifth-generation Montanan Brad Wilson, the notice marks a defeat with implications far beyond the Crazies.

"The fate of our public lands and our rights are in jeopardy right now," Wilson told Floodlight.

Wilson is a former sheriff's deputy and lifelong hunter. For most of his life, he has lived in the jagged shadows of the Crazy Mountains — their snow-capped peaks and twisting valleys watched him grow from a boy herding sheep on his grandfather's ranch to a grey-haired hunter tracking elk herds across their remote slopes.

"The loss of this access means a lot to me and everybody else," he said beside the gate, looking down and hiding the wet corners of his eyes.
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Attention

Small UK town forced to form 'vigilante' security team to protect women and kids from migrants

Steve Watson
Modernity
Wed, 20 May 2026 20:01 UTC
britain crowsborough security patrol migrants
© gbnews.comVolunteers in Crowsborough, UK have formed patrols in response to threatening behavior from migrants housed in a camp nearby.
Government plopped hundreds of them in former army barracks.

Residents of a quiet East Sussex town have been left with no choice but to patrol their own streets after the leftist Labour government dumped hundreds of unvetted male migrants into a former army camp on their doorstep.

Crowborough, a small community of around 20,000 people, is now home to a volunteer security force called Crowborough Aware. With 81 vetted locals stepping up, the group is conducting regular patrols to deter trouble and keep women and children safe.

This is the direct result of years of open borders policies that have seen tiny, peaceful towns turned into testing grounds for mass migration.
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Wall Street

Economics: The sociological foundation of civilization

Joe Chavez
Mises Institute
Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00 UTC
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People often wonder about the origins of the civil world. Few, if any, have ever reached conclusions. Civilization begins in the imagination of gifted men. To make progress individuals must imagine the relationship between the physical world, the timing of events, and the control/influence they have of the world around them. It is in these subjective perspectives where value is created out of seemingly valueless items. It is in the mind of the individual where a unique perspective/insight gives rise to goods once considered useless into goods of value.

Carl Menger the founder of the Austrian School of economics wrote,
When a hunting people is passing over to sedentary agriculture, land and materials that were not previously used and are now employed for the first time for the satisfaction of human needs (lime, sand, timber, and stones for building, for example) usually maintain their non-economic character for some time after the transition has begun. It is therefore not the limited quantities of these goods that prevents economizing men in the first stages of civilization from making progress in the employment of goods of higher orders for the satisfaction of their needs.
The original limiting factor is the knowledge of the causal relationship and how it can satisfy human wants.
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Birthday Cake

A Comey Cake? Former prosecutor accused of stealing Smith Report files and hiding them as cake recipes

Jonathan Turley
jonathanturley.org
Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00 UTC
Biden cake
© UnknownJoe Biden's 81st birthday
Former Justice Department prosecutor Carmen Mercedes Lineberger has been indicted for allegedly removing confidential Justice Department material and then concealing her efforts. Lineberger is accused of secretly transferring Jack Smith's final report and hiding the material under files labeled "chocolate cake recipe" and "bundt cake recipe." There has not been a greater recipe for disaster since aides tried to fit all of Biden's candles on a cake. The case is particularly interesting because there was another person who was accused of a secret removal of Justice Department material who was not prosecuted: former FBI Director James Comey.

Linebarger, 62, of Port St. Lucie, Florida, has been indicted on four criminal charges: one felony count of obstruction of justice, one felony count of concealing government records and two misdemeanor counts of theft of government property valued at less than $1,000.

According to the indictment, Lineberger altered electronic file names of government records to conceal unauthorized transmissions of the documents to her personal email accounts and used file names for cake recipes to conceal her possession of the confidential information.
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Health

Multiple states begin removing illegal immigrants from subsidized healthcare

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 19 May 2026 19:23 UTC
illegal alien free health care
© Rich Pedroncelli/APSupporters of proposals to expand California’s government-funded health care benefits to undocumented immigrants gather on May 20, 2019, in Sacramento.
The political left often betrays their true agenda in the legislation they choose to oppose. The SAVE Act, for example, would require proof of citizenship to vote in US elections; a law which the majority of countries around the world enforce. It's widely supported by around 80% of the public, yet, Democrats stubbornly refuse to pass it.

Why? Because they know there are illegal immigrants voting in their favor, and they know that mail-in ballot fraud exists and often benefits them.

By extension, Democrats aggressively attempted to block Trump Administration efforts to ensure that illegal immigrants could not receive healthcare subsidies. Their argument was that "no illegals actually access those subsidies". Of course, if this was true, then it should not matter if Trump adds such restrictions - According to Dems, nothing would change.

Comment: And not just health care:

Generational betrayal: HUD reveals Biden gave illegal aliens FHA-backed mortgages

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Sheriff

Border czar Homan: Sanctuary jurisdictions must comply or face more ICE boots on the ground

Naveen Athrappully
ZeroHedge
Tue, 19 May 2026 19:14 UTC
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Federal law enforcement agents confront anti-ICE protesters during a demonstration outside the Bishop Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 15, 2026.
Sanctuary jurisdictions in the United States will see more Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel on the ground if they do not allow local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE officers, border czar Tom Homan said in a May 15 interview with the Daily Signal.

In the interview, Homan was specifically asked about New York. In January, the state's governor, Kathy Hochul, proposed the Local Cops, Local Crimes Act, which bars state and local law enforcement agencies from signing or maintaining any Section 287(g) agreements with ICE.

Such agreements authorize ICE to delegate certain immigration functions to local and state officers under the agency's oversight. Local and state officers can detain suspected illegal immigrants under the deal.

If passed, the New York bill would void all existing Section 287(g) agreements in the state. Homan said in the interview that he had talked to Hochul about the consequences.
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Star of David

I Know What a Terrorist Looks Like

Peter Girnus
Cyber Populist
Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00 UTC
Itamar Ben-Gvir
Itamar Ben-Gvir
I am the Minister of National Security of the State of Israel. In 2007, I was convicted of incitement to racism and support for a terrorist organization.

I tell you the second fact first because I want you to hold it in your mind for everything that follows.

Last week I visited Ashdod port. Four hundred people were kneeling on the ground. Hands bound behind their backs. Foreheads to the concrete. They came from forty countries on fifty boats. Three hundred tons of cargo in the holds. Medicine. Baby formula. Surgical supplies. Bandages.

Among the kneeling: a doctor from Ireland. The sister of a president. A retired ship captain. A parliamentarian's aide. Foreheads to my concrete. Wrists bound with my zip ties. Called terrorists by my loudspeaker. Every one of them carried medicine. Not one of them carried a weapon.

Comment: Itamar Ben-Gvir's most recent shining moment:



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