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With Zohran Kwame Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, and Curtis Sliwa on the ballot, New York City’s choices for mayor are a self-styled democratic socialist, a social democrat, and a capitalist. How non-binary. Gotham voters deserve sharply contrasting mayoral options. To that end, Cuomo should wave goodbye and bequeath New Yorkers a stark, Communist vs. Capitalist choice on Election Day. Former Empire State governor Cuomo botched the June 24 Democrat primary. Mamdani, then an unknown state assemblyman from Queens, stunned the man with the household name — 43.9 percent to 36.2 percent. Alas, Cuomo could not take a hint. He is harder to shake than psoriasis. Alas, Cuomo could not take a hint. He is harder to shake than psoriasis. Shame on him for staying in this race. Cuomo is no centrist knight, riding to New York City’s rescue. He is an approaching-the-precipice Leftist, even if not an over-the-cliff, plunging-to-the-desert-floor Marxist-Leninist. (RELATED: The Democrats Choose the World Over America) Cuomo kissed the career-criminal class on both cheeks at the Global Citizen Festival on September 29, 2018. “Rikers Island has to be closed, and it has to be closed now!” Cuomo shouted in Central Park, long before it was cool to denounce this local prison. Cuomo also announced at this event: “We’re going to end the cash-bail system, once and for all.” Cuomo signed the 2019 state budget, complete with language that scrapped cash bail for misdemeanors and non-violent felonies, no matter how extensive a criminal’s rap sheet. In 2015, Cuomo began an ultimately successful campaign to padlock the Indian Point atomic-power plant in Westchester. Unfortunately, he had no plan to replace its 2,000 megawatts of electricity. And from 1997 to 2001, as Bill Clinton’s Housing and Urban Development secretary, Cuomo planted the weeds that eventually overwhelmed the mortgage market and prompted the 2007-08 financial meltdown. Veteran banking analyst Dick Bove called Cuomo the “father of the subprime crisis.” Bove told CNBC: “It’s also thought by many that the hundreds of thousands of people who are losing their homes are [doing so] to a great degree because of the actions taken by Mr. Cuomo at HUD.” CNBC explained that Cuomo “has been blamed in some quarters for helping to trigger the financial crisis by pushing Fannie and Freddie to buy more subprime mortgages to increase home ownership among the poor. Many of those homeowners eventually defaulted, and the mortgage-backed securities market later collapsed.” Unforgivably, Cuomo ordered nursing homes to admit COVID-positive senior citizens and even prohibited these facilities from mandating COVID tests for seemingly healthy entrants. The totally predictable result: the COVID-positive elderly innocently transmitted it to COVID-negative seniors; 8,711 of the latter got infected and died, the Cuomo administration reported. But that number turned out to be a lie. Attorney General Letitia James (D-New York) revealed on Jan. 28, 2021, that the real death toll was 12,743 — 46.3 percent higher. Evidently, Team Cuomo minimized his nursing-home carnage to camouflage his deadly incompetence and, thus, protect the $4 million cash advance that Crown Publishing paid him to pen a book about his pandemic “leadership.” With a bold anti-Mamdani attack ad as his swan song (which he quickly chickened out and deleted), Cuomo should exit this campaign and enter a prison cell for negligent homicide. Gotham voters deserve a clear choice on Election Day (Image generated by Deroy Murdock via ChatGPT, Oct. 26, 2025) A Mamdani-Sliwa face-off would let New Yorkers pick between two distinct visions, not least on taxes. (RELATED: This Is Why Sliwa Can’t Save NY By Not Showing Up to the Fight) Mamdani cannot wait to give New Yorkers tax hikes — good and hard. He wants “the top 1 percent of New Yorkers” firmly in his embrace. Hoover Institution scholar David R. Henderson calculates that a married couple who earn more than $1 million annually and file jointly would see their local taxes soar from 3.876 percent to 5.876 percent. This is not the “2 percent” increase that Mamdani breezily peddles. (That would be a mild rise to 3.953 percent.) His threatened increase of two full percentage points would boost this couple’s tax bill by 51.6 percent — a hike that borders on domestic abuse. (RELATED: New Yorkers Will Pay the Price for Mamdani’s Hubris) As for the business sector, Mamdani wants the top state corporate tax rate to skyrocket from 7.25 percent to 11.5 percent — up 58.6 percent. Such exorbitant levies would send companies running and repel incoming entrepreneurs like sparrows avoiding scarecrows. (RELATED: Zohran Has Two Daddies) Conversely, Sliwa would sing from the Trump-Giuliani-Reagan-JFK-Coolidge tax-cut hymnal — perfectly timed for the 50th anniversary of the Laffer Curve. “I will make it so that, for senior citizens who are 65 and older, they will be paying no property tax,” Sliwa told Fox News Channel’s Maria Bartiromo on October 19. For those just starting their careers, Sliwa said: “For young men and young women, 19 to 28, who have just graduated college and have the skills that our industry needs, a holiday from income tax. They shouldn’t have to pay because they’re fleeing, too.” As for New York’s overtaxed companies. Sliwa’s website pledges to “Reduce NYC’s general corporate income tax rate from 8.85 percent to 6.00 percent” — down 32.2 percent — “to compete with cities like Boston (8.0), Chicago (7.0), and Miami (5.50).” And, to stimulate jobs, Sliwa would give employers a $7,500 tax credit for each local graduate hired and retained for at least two years “in industries like finance, tech, healthcare, education, logistics, and trades.” With nothing to lose, Sliwa should cut taxes even lower: Sliwa should go beyond this list of industries eligible for these $7,500 new-hire tax credits. Why not offer them to museums, bars, restaurants, comedy clubs, and theatrical companies? Sliwa should expand his fine idea across Gotham’s entire private-sector economy. Homeowners may write off their mortgage-interest payments against their taxes. That’s lovely — for homeowners. How about renters? What if they could write off at least a portion of their rent payments? Even a partial, local-tax deduction would give renters residential tax relief, which homeowners have treasured, essentially since 1913. This would leave more money in renters’ hands — to spend, save, or invest. Most important, it would not go to City Hall, to be wasted on crazy, Left-wing nonsense. NYC is drowning in retail vacancies, including huge, flagship storefronts, massive restaurants, and other enormous, empty spaces. They ooze sadness and soon vanish behind boarded-up windows, and often get mutilated with graffiti. Unattended, adjacent sidewalks devolve into pop-up shelters, mini-drug dens, and open-air toilets for bums. (Oops! Make that “the unhoused.”) The quality of life plunges down the chute, and all else follows. Sliwa should announce that any business that revitalizes a space that has stood empty for all least one year would get a one-year property-tax holiday. Two-year vacancy? Two-year holiday. That benefit could go directly to the business or, if necessary, its landlord. Even in the latter case, square-footage owners (from individuals up to Silverstein Properties) would enjoy a powerful incentive to rehabilitate empty spaces and fill them with tenants, rather than watch them stay vacant while NYC slowly dies. Gotham needs tax incentives to fill these dormant properties with entrepreneurs, employers, employees, clients, customers, patrons, audiences, diners, drinkers, and partiers. Such commerce would create jobs, generate tax revenue, and wake up the city that doesn’t sleep. If Sliwa wins, he could implement his own tax-cutting agenda and embrace some or all of these ideas. However, if Mamdani prevails, God forbid, please enjoy these concepts now. During his tenure, they will not see the light of day. For now, these proposals could help Sliwa beat Mamdani. In a two-man race, Sliwa — not Cuomo — would enjoy the enviable position. An October 22-23 Victory Insights survey of 500 likely voters found Cuomo trailing Sliwa, head-to-head against Mamdani. Mamdani would beat Cuomo 49 percent to 39 percent — a 10-point race. Mamdani vs. Sliwa would run 49 percent to 41 percent — an 8-point gap, and a better showing by the Republican crime fighter than the crooked, independent Democrat granny killer. A Mamdani win could prompt more than a quarter of New Yorkers to evacuate. (RELATED: The Spectacle Ep. 291: From Empire State to Empty State: Zohran Mamdani’s New York) “A whopping 26 percent of voters are considering moving out of the city if Mamdani is elected. This includes 49 percent of Cuomo voters and 69 percent of Sliwa voters,” according to Ben Galbraith, senior pollster for Victory Insights. “Vast swaths of the electorate not only want Mamdani to lose; they see Mamdani as an existential threat to the city, to the point where they are considering leaving NYC entirely if he is elected Mayor.” If this happens, Mamdani could launch a Two Million Man March out of Gotham. Galbraith adds, “39 percent of voters believe Mamdani is a threat to the future of the city. Cuomo and Sliwa voters are widely considering fleeing the city if he’s elected. New York City seems to be nearing an inflection point, one that could reshape the city for years to come.” READ MORE from Deroy Murdock: The USA Can Dominate AI and Make STEM Great Again Zohran Has Two Daddies Repentance First, Forgiveness Second Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News Contributor.

Well, of course. Here’s this headline over there at Real Clear Politics: “Newsom: Trump Is ‘Code Red’ For America, ‘I’m Disgusted That People Aren’t More Outraged.’” The story reports that California’s Governor Gavin Newsom was recently interviewed by ABC’s Jonathan Karl, saying this: “I really am scared to death about what’s going on in this country. I really believe it is Code Red,” he said. “We won’t have a country. We won’t have an election that’s fair and free if we don’t stand up. We won’t. There will not be a fair and free election. It’ll be a Putin election. Was it 87 percent or is it 87.3 percent? That’s what Trump wants.” “All the pardoning, all the, this, this great grift — the biggest, most corrupt administration in history. Not just the $400 million plane, but the billion dollars of your tax money, as we’re cutting food stamps to pay for the damn plane so he can take that toy home with his foundation when he’s 93 or whatever he’s done with his fourth or fifth term. …I really am scared to death about what’s going on in this country. I really believe it is Code Red. We won’t have a country. We won’t have an election that’s fair and free if we don’t stand up. We won’t. There will not be a fair and free election. It’ll be a Putin election. Was it 87 percent or is it 87.3 percent? That’s what Trump wants.” Well, aside from the hysteria, one can only wonder: Where was Gavin Newsom when clan Biden was using the presidency to loot for the family business of enriching that family business? Where was the Newsom outrage? It didn’t exist. Here’s a headline from Newsweek: “Joe Biden May Have ‘Fostered’ Family’s Corruption, Legal Analyst Warns.” This gem, straight from a liberal media outlet, reports: Legal analyst Jonathan Turley paints a stark picture of President Joe Biden and his family as corrupt “grifters” and “influence peddlers.” Turley, a professor of public interest law at the George Washington University Law School, said the Bidens are leaning into the “grifter defense” because it makes any alleged crimes or improper business dealings look less serious. However, Turley told Newsweek, grifting is still corruption. “If the president knew his family was engaged in ‘influence peddling,’ the president by definition is corrupt. The current defense doesn’t have the legs to carry the president out of the scandal,” Turley said via a telephone interview on Saturday. “Factually, it’s becoming more difficult to see how the president wasn’t aware of the influence peddling.” All of that and nary a peep from Gavin Newsom while all of this Biden corruption was ongoing in the White House? Imagine that. (RELATED: The Biden Corruption) Laughably, Newsom is now suddenly worried about America having a “fair and free election.” Yet he has been remarkably silent when the Heritage Foundation released its election fraud map, as here, the introduction from Heritage reports: The Election Fraud Map displays a sampling of proven instances of election fraud. Every case ended in a finding that the individual engaged in wrongdoing in an election hoping to affect its outcome — or that the results were sufficiently in question to be overturned. While not comprehensive, this map demonstrates vulnerabilities in the election process and the ways in which fraud is committed. The map is set up state-by-state. And right there in black and white, the report shows 69 cases of election fraud in Newsom’s own California, all by itself. There, in black and white, is one name after another with the designation that there had been a “Criminal Conviction” of the named individual. (RELATED: Gavin Newsom’s California Is a Crashing Caliphate of Chaos) And with the hard, cold, factual evidence of criminal interference in California elections, not to mention in the other states, there is the governor of California blaming, of all people, President Trump as a “five-alarm fire” for America’s democracy. Really. Ya can’t make it up. Unless, of course, you’re Governor Newsom. Which is to say, there is in fact a Code Red for America. But it isn’t President Trump. The Code Red’s name is California’s Governor Gavin Newsom. And he wants to be president. Buckle in. READ MORE from Jeffrey Lord: Trump Improves the White House East Wing Trump the Builder Improves the White House The ‘No Kings’ Phonies  

The highly progressive left-wing dominance on most college campuses has turned off not only the Trump administration but large portions of the American public whose financial support is critical to higher education’s survival. Attempts to reform colleges from within have had limited success. (RELATED: Can Artificial Intelligence Reduce the Left-Wing Bias in University Classrooms?) One such approach is to create new colleges, like the new University of Austin. But that takes enormous amounts of money — amidst a declining number of college-age individuals because of the birth dearth. Another approach is to have a collegiate civil war, toppling the institution’s governing board and firing overly woke administrators, which seemingly worked at New College in Florida, but not many other places. A third approach, creating traditional and more conservative-oriented civic centers within universities, has met some limited success, but they face continued resistance from the dominant campus power structure. (RELATED: From the Top Down: The Erosion of Faith at Georgetown University) But there is an approach that would bring a fair amount of viewpoint diversity at a low cost and probably even often only modest objection from the campus leftish power structure: create a campus-wide debate series using primarily outside speakers. (RELATED: How the Classical Education Movement Is Rescuing a Lost Generation) Let me give one possible model. Create an Athenian Dialogue: Debates on Critical Issues of the Day. Let me give one possible model. Create an Athenian Dialogue: Debates on Critical Issues of the Day. Allocate $150,000 annually (barely the cost of one tenured professor) for a series of four debates, two each semester, with nationally recognized speakers. At each debate, a well-known conservative-libertarian would debate a nationally recognized liberal-progressive on a topic of current national interest, each paid honoraria averaging perhaps $10,000 or $15,000. The participants would typically formally debate for up to an hour, followed by another 30 minutes of questions. (RELATED: Higher Education’s Triple Crisis: Finances, Integrity, Leadership) A baker’s dozen examples of debate topics: Should the U.S. have high tariffs to promote domestic industry? Should the U.S. restrict fossil fuel development on environmental and climate grounds? Should the U.S. Department of Education be eliminated? Should the U.S. have a balanced budget constitutional amendment that restricts federal deficit spending? Should young people be required to do at least one year of public service (military, Peace Corps, Teach for America, etc.)? Should we allow large numbers of highly productive immigrants who are willing to buy an expensive visa to become American workers and ultimately citizens? Should federal health insurance be made available at low or no cost to all Americans, financed by higher income and wealth taxes on the affluent? Should the government fund gender-affirming surgery? Should we legalize the use of marijuana and cocaine, and lower the drinking age to 18? Should primary and secondary students be given government-funded vouchers towards tuition at the school of their choice, even religiously affiliated ones? Should the United States leave NATO? Should the U.S. support Taiwan in the event of an invasion by China? Is the exclusion of consideration of race, gender, religion, and national origin appropriate in hiring, admissions, and contracting decisions? At small liberal arts colleges, in-person student attendance at the debates could be made mandatory, sometimes using big buildings like basketball gymnasiums. At larger schools, students should be encouraged or enticed to attend, perhaps via computer. The Gates, Lumina, and Ford Foundations could finance the debates at 100 schools each for probably under $50 million total annually. There are many possible variants on the idea. Have debates featuring local students and faculty. Copy the tradition of the Oxford Union, now in its third century. Mandate that all students participate in at least one debate as a graduation requirement. Have politically oriented student groups, such as the College Republicans or College Democrats, jointly organize debates. Follow the Open to Debate series moderated by John Donvan for tips. I have personally appeared in one such debate (under the previous name Intelligence Squared) at Lincoln Center, and at another at NYU, and found them both entertaining and informative. To be sure, having a few debates a year on campus is typically not going to dramatically change the campus culture for most students. But it would increase, somewhat, academic viewpoint diversity at a reasonable cost and with minimal battles with the woke bureaucracy. Bringing in individuals of distinction from other locations reduces campus provinciality and sometimes offers students new perspectives on life on a smaller and less expensive scale than, for example, study abroad programs. Let’s give it a try. READ MORE from Richard Vedder: Concierge Service for Favored Universities? Higher Education’s Triple Crisis: Finances, Integrity, Leadership Why Are People Fleeing Highly Educated States? Richard Vedder is a distinguished professor emeritus at Ohio University, senior fellow at both the Independent Institute and Unleash Prosperity, and author of Let Colleges Fail: The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education.    

The controversy surrounding Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner’s tattoo is still making the rounds among the chattering classes. In 2007, while off duty as a Marine in Croatia, Platner reportedly got drunk and woke up with a Nazi SS symbol etched into his chest. Nazis are evil; everyone knows that. But this fussy mess isn’t really about moral outrage or bad judgment. It’s about what tattoos have become. Once upon a time, tattoos marked danger, defiance, and badassery. They were attached to men who’d been around the block — sailors, soldiers, bikers, and outlaws. When I was a kid and came across a guy all tatted up, I took a pause and then a step back. Nowadays, you step toward them and pick your venti caramel crunch frappuccino with soy milk and extra caramel drizzle. He looks like a tame, domesticated puppy with a plastic spiked collar, though his campaign managers would have you believe he’s a dyed-in-the-wool Maine oysterman. Platner’s tattoo fits perfectly into this posh milieu. He looks like a tame, domesticated puppy with a plastic spiked collar, though his campaign managers would have you believe he’s a dyed-in-the-wool Maine oysterman. In truth, he’s a well-heeled rich kid walking the blue-collar tightrope with a massive safety net. He attended The Hotchkiss School — tuition north of $75,000 a year — and his grandfather was the celebrated modernist architect Warren Platner. His politics are straight outta the Swarthmore faculty lounge; boutique limousine liberal to the max. His tattoo, stupid as it is, is less a symbol of evil (which it is, to be sure) and more of the manufactured hipster-poser class he seems to represent. (RELATED: Meet Graham Platner: The Latest Democratic Dud for Senate) For centuries, tattoos recounted tales of grit, danger, and belonging. For Māori in New Zealand, tā moko was a rite of passage, a sacred record of a warrior’s lineage and roots. For sailors and bikers, ink chronicled voyages, crimes, and survival. Tattoos were masculine, exclusionary, and dangerous — markers of a hard life and a way to communicate with your tribe and distance yourself from the squares. (RELATED: The Rise of the Male Bimbo) Now everyone seems to have one. Kindergarten teachers, accountants, and dentists all sport ink. Getting tattooed today is about as rebellious as sending back a pumpkin spice latte because they used oat milk instead of soy. And these folks aren’t getting their art at the end of seedy wharves in Zanzibar, Macau, or Port Said. The Care Bear crowd gets inked in sterile, well-lit suburban studios wedged between a Saladworks and a Bed Bath & Beyond. Afterward, they grab some fro-yo, pick up their kids from field hockey practice, and upload the photos to Facebook. And their permanent adornments seem just as hollow: tired tribal bands, dopey dreamcatchers, Roman numerals of the death date of “Iko,” their golden doodle. Gone are the renderings of sailors clinging to masts as the Andaman boiled around them, or markings of a biker’s mad run to the border after a late-night shanking of a few Mongols in Montebello. My father had a tattoo — and hated it. He served in the 101st Airborne during the Korean War and must’ve gotten it on a long, strange night somewhere on the outskirts of Fort Bragg. The next morning, there it was: the iconic Screaming Eagle on his shoulder. As a kid, I thought it was the coolest thing ever. But for my father, it was a shameful reminder — not for his service or his beloved unit, but for his deep immaturity. That sense of regret is gone now. The new tattoo class seems to treat every blotchy mark on their skin as a sacred covenant with “their truth.” For this crowd, there appears to be little self-awareness or humility. Unlike the sailors and bikers, their tattoos are chips in a big phony game, not a signifier that they don’t want any part of it. They are, like so much in our society, all about aesthetics and appearance — completely detached from substance or reality. Tattoos once marked that you’d been through something tough; now they just mark that you bought something cheap. Platner might have gotten a good deal on his ink that tipsy night in Croatia — too bad his branding and marketing people weren’t there to talk him out of it. They would have explained to him that Nazis quite repel most focus groups. READ MORE from Pete Connolly: Shohei Ohtani Plays Baseball Differently The New York Times Op-Ed on HBO’s Task Highlights Our Two Americas. AI Can Save Education

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