A lone, knife-wilding assailant killed two men and critically wounded a woman during an hourslong stabbing spree Monday morning through the streets of New York City, authorities said.

The two slain men — attacked near 444 W. 19th St. at 8:22 a.m. ET and then by 500 E. 30th St. at 10:27 a.m. — were taken to Bellevue Hospital before they were pronounced dead, officials said.

Then a woman was stabbed in the shadows of the United Nations, near East 42nd Street and First Avenue at 10:55 a.m., leaving her in critical condition.

The first victim was a Hispanic construction worker in his 30s. He was stabbed in the stomach and died at the hospital. The second victim was an Asian man in his late 60s who was fishing when he was attacked. The final victim was a 30-year-old black woman. None of the victim’s names have been released.

The suspect is already in custody. He was found covered in blood and carrying two kitchen knives also covered in blood. It’s believed he had no connection to the victims. He apparently just chose them at random.

The alleged attacker was caught at 46th Street and 1st Avenue and is currently in custody at a police precinct, police officials announced at a press conference Monday afternoon…

“These attacks appear to be unprovoked, that he just walked up to them and stabbed them with a knife,” said NYPD chief of detectives Joseph Kenny…

The suspect has “severe mental health issues” that need examination and there are questions about why he was out on the streets, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said at a news conference. […]

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Why?

For two reasons.

The first reason is that, thanks to the Left being in power for the last four years, Americans got a chance to see what it — and therefore the Democratic Party, which has become a left-wing, rather than a liberal, party — stands for.

• Most Americans now know that the Left and the Democrats could not care less about the average American. For example, Democrats and the rest of the Left still maintain that Americans have been fooled into thinking that inflation is devastating. This is understandable given that the Democratic Party and its defenders represent the wealthy — people who neither know nor care about the price of food and other everyday necessities.
• Most Americans now know that the Left is morally and psychologically sick. Unlike the Left, the vast majority of Americans do not believe that men give birth; that boys’ bathrooms in high schools should have tampon dispensers; that men who say they are women should be allowed to compete against women in women’s sports or be placed in women’s shelters and women’s prisons; that schools should not inform parents when their 10-year-old daughter says she is a boy and adopts a boy’s name at school; or that young women, not to mention teenage girls, should have their breasts surgically removed if they tell a psychologist — usually after a few hours of consultation — they think they are a boy.
• Most Americans now know that the Left holds America in contempt and breeds that contempt among young Americans. Most Americans do not believe, as the Left does, that America was founded in 1619, when the first black slaves were brought to America; they believe it was founded in 1776. Most Americans think Washington, Jefferson and the other Founders were great men, not racist and genocidal.
• Most Americans now know that the Left breeds chaos not only in America but around the world. About a year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I asked one of the greatest living historians, Niall Ferguson of Harvard and Stanford, if he thought Vladimir Putin would have invaded Ukraine if Donald Trump had been president at the time. Without a moment’s hesitation, he gave a one-word answer: “No.” […]

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The Democrats are going to provide you with all the entertainment you want for free! Good deal.

Yesterday I wrote about Democrat Congressman Seth Moulton’s sudden conversion on alphabet issues. Moulton was a leader of the alphabet ideology crowd in the last Congress, but this time around he has staked out a position on the opposite side.

Perhaps, he says, girls shouldn’t be forced to compete with boys or have to shower with them.

It hasn’t gone over well with his side of the aisle. […]

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The purpose of doing so, we are told, is that Trump supporters are dangerous to FEMA workers, and therefore should be avoided.

Trump was right…..AGAIN! pic.twitter.com/FID9f7z3Nv

— Spitfire (@DogRightGirl) November 12, 2024

I don’t know to what extent the accusation that Trump supporters are any more likely to be hostile to FEMA workers, but if so, I am pretty sure that cause and effect are reversed. Obviously, Trump supporters who suspect that FEMA was doing its best not to help them were right, and since that is the case, they have every reason to be less than friendly to FEMA workers.

However, I seriously doubt there is much to the accusation in the first place. After all, there are countless videos of people in hurricane-ravaged areas begging for help. No doubt there is some Trump supporter somewhere who was nasty to a FEMA worker after being left to suffer for days, but the claim that this was a trend is…doubtful. […]

REPORT: Fired FEMA Manager Claims Discrimination Against Trump Supporters Wasn’t Isolated, Says Agency ‘Made [Her] a Patsy’

This news comes after internal messages reveal FEMA employees were told to “avoid [helping] homes advertising Trump.”

Now, FEMA has been hit with more bad… pic.twitter.com/Vdgwnav4mQ

— The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) November 12, 2024

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While this was happening, an older woman wearing a Kamala Harris pin approached the group and started questioning one of the women waving a Trump flag. This is from a press release put out by Edmonds police.

Officers were called to the scene just before 1:00pm for a report of an assault. Officers arrived to find multiple community members supporting a specific political figure. They also observed the suspect engaging with these supporters. When officers contacted the suspect, she stated that she could not understand why people of color would support this particular candidate. The suspect was very animated and even attempted to push an officer while demonstrating how she had acted.

Officers interviewed a 55-year-old female victim from Edmonds victim who stated that the suspect had gotten into her face as she was rallying in support of her chosen candidate. The suspect commented on the victim’s attire and skin color before the suspect pushed the victim and punched her in the chin. A second victim, a 66year-old Edmonds woman, intervened and stepped between the suspect and the first victim. The suspect responded by punching her as well. Officers also interviewed multiple witnesses to the incident. Neither victim suffered significant injury nor required medical treatment.

Investigating officers established probable cause for a Hate Crime arrest under RCW 9A.36.080. The suspect continued to show no remorse for the incident and the potential to continue her behavior toward others. A patrol supervisor approved the suspect’s booking into the Snohomish County Jail.

The entire incident was caught on police body cam. What we can see in that is that the woman who threw the punches was the first person police encountered at the scene. She claimed she had put her hand on someone’s chin but didn’t admit to punching anyone. Police then spoke to Gina Powell and Mary Jennings, the victims in the incident. Neither was hurt they were clearly upset at being attacked by a stranger because over skin color.

“And that’s when she shoved me, pushed me back, and I said don’t touch me. And then not even a second, she just popped me right in my chin,” said Powell…

That’s when Jennings said she stepped in between both women.

“I said you have no right to touch anyone, and she goes all I did was all it was barely like this, and she punched me, but she connected, and you know, it slammed my jaw shut,” Jennings said. Both women are physically okay, but it’s been an emotional toll.

Powell put the attack in perspective.

“He got shot by a bullet And he said ‘fight, fight, fight,’ I got a little jab in my chin, so I’m not sitting down,” said Powell, referring to the Trump assassination attempt in Bulter County, Pennsylvania last July. […]

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But I do think editorial boards can have some impact when their endorsements cut against the political grain. Case in point, the SF Chronicle has recently endorsed the recall of both progressive DA Pamela Price and embattled Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao. This is not what you’d necessarily expect from the city’s hometown liberal paper. First up, their take on DA Price.

Price’s short tenure has left us with deep concerns about her competency and fitness for office. Her lack of experience as a prosecutor — which we cited in our 2022 endorsement of one of her opponents — has proved costly.

The Chronicle reported this month that Price’s office missed deadlines to file charges in more than 1,000 misdemeanor cases that had been sitting on her desk for a year, a stunning miscarriage of justice that left victims hanging and eliminated rehabilitation and accountability opportunities for offenders. Following the Chronicle report, Price said she was assigning extra prosecutors to deal with the caseload but didn’t know how long it would take to clear or even how many cases were backed up…

Furthermore, Price’s office has been plagued by allegations of nepotism and unqualified hiring.

Price hired her boyfriend, who was previously investigated by the FBI on suspicion of extortion, as a “senior program specialist” with a six-figure salary — though his exact duties remain unclear. Price also hired a former Oakland Police Department deputy chief with a publicly documented history of misconduct as her office’s chief inspector. Another of her top deputies, who an independent investigation found to have manipulated employees and fostered a fear of retaliation at his former workplace, resigned in June. […]

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The doctor, Johanna Olson-Kennedy, began the study in 2015 as part of a broader, multimillion-dollar federal project on transgender youth. She and colleagues recruited 95 children from across the country and gave them puberty blockers, which stave off the permanent physical changes — like breasts or a deepening voice — that could exacerbate their gender distress, known as dysphoria.

The researchers followed the children for two years to see if the treatments improved their mental health. An older Dutch study had found that puberty blockers improved well-being, results that inspired clinics around the world to regularly prescribe the medications as part of what is now called gender-affirming care.

This study was an attempt to replicate that Dutch study. Dr. Olson-Kennedy was very clear about the benefits she expected to see from giving puberty blockers to 11-year-olds.

In a progress report submitted to the N.I.H. at that time, Dr. Olson-Kennedy outlined her hypothesis of how the children would fare after two years on puberty blockers: that they would show “decreased symptoms of depression, anxiety, trauma symptoms, self-injury, and suicidality, and increased body esteem and quality of life over time.”

That hypothesis does not seem to have borne out.

The data appears to show no real change or improvement at all. What Dr. Olson-Kennedy claims now is that everyone was doing so well when they came into the study that they were still in roughly the same place two years later: “They’re in really good shape when they come in, and they’re in really good shape after two years.” Except her previous description of the kids coming in said about a quarter were depressed and/or suicidal when the study began (again, we’re talking about 11-year-olds). […]

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Move to Canada, assuming they would open the border to Americans After all, Canada’s immigration policy clearly states that “non-citizens do not have an unqualified right to enter or remain in Canada.” Is it possible that Canada’s immigration laws would prevent liberals from escaping Trump’s fascist regime and might be forced to stay in the United States?

POLITICO interviewed some Michigan liberals who truly seem to believe that Trump is about to implement the vision from the Handmaid’s Tale and force women to reproduce, wear red robes, and be raped nightly before being carted into camps for extermination.

‘Canada, if they’ll take us’: Worried Michigan Democrats contemplate a Trump win – via @adamwren https://t.co/yVPqLEhxG7 via @politico

— David Siders (@davidsiders) October 19, 2024

It’s a bizarre world they describe. An alternate universe in which their fellow citizens are just itching to put them into camps. Perhaps this is a projection–after all, during COVID, liberals were fantasizing about putting the unvaxxed into quarantine camps, leaving them to die in the streets and rip children away from their families. […]

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As usual, I am prescient. Never, not once, have I ever been wrong.

Well, maybe I am not quite prescient or perfect, but I called this one all right. Star Wars is diving deeper into woke fantasy.

Star Wars unveils first look of its first trans woman stormtrooper called 'Sister' with armour in the colour of the transgender flag https://t.co/77iSVQWfbV pic.twitter.com/ifqZftOkl6

— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) October 10, 2024

Fans had already gone in this direction, but Disney has decided to accept it into its official canon a transgender character in armor painted the color of the transgender flag (which apparently, in a galaxy far, far away and a long time ago, happens to reflect the one here and now). […]

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