Rick

The lowest point in North America (Death Valley, CA) and the highest peak in the lower 48 (mt Whitney, CA) are only 85 miles apart. Pains me to say California has everything. You can see the tallest tree in the world, the largest tree in the world, tallest peak in lower 48 and the lowest point in NA all in one day…

As somebody who worked in the White House and the DOJ on immigration issues during the first Trump admin, I am often asked how many total illegal aliens I think are in our country. The actual answer to that question is we don’t know because we’ve never attempted to figure it out. Unlike most nations in Europe, we don’t tabulate illegal aliens— so the number of actual foreign nationals living in the U.S. is much higher than most people think. What I can say is there were at least 30 million illegal aliens in the U.S. going into the Biden admin and they allowed in anywhere between 25 to 35 million, whether across our borders or through the bastardization of our asylum laws. And those numbers exclude their children. All in all, I would venture to guess that the actual number of illegal foreign nationals and their children is close to 1/4th of the U.S. population.

a coalition of unions representing more than 300,000 workers is pushing New York lawmakers to raise taxes on wealthy residents and corporations in the state budget being negotiated in Albany: “This moment requires more,” they write in a letter to Gov. Hochul and state legislators