Funny: we’ve all said this since the first time it erupted like a boil on the public epidermis, yet a huge number of morons are still cheering it on

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UNEXPECTEDLY! Khanna reveals the billionaire tax is just the beginning.

Last week, Khanna confirmed that the “billionaire tax” is just the start and that they will go on to target the wealth of other citizens as an untapped resource of new revenue.

For years, some of us have warned that the billionaire tax was a ruse. Sponsors like Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Khanna were using billionaires as an easy political target, but they were unlikely to stop there.
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That is precisely what Khanna finally admitted last week in a Substack post, arguing that “the tax should not stop at billionaires; it must reach centimillionaires. The tax has to reach all fortunes $50 million and up.”
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If they can pack the Court and greenlight a billionaire tax, there would be no limit to then moving the threshold wealth level downward. Once that Rubicon is crossed, Democrats would suddenly be able to tax trillions in the property and possessions of citizens.

Stephen Green:

And then it’s all over. Nobody owns anything, except by someone else’s favor.

Vote as though your life, liberty, and property depend upon it — because they do.

If — when this comes to pass, be assured that Khanna and his fellow felons won’t be sharing the pain.

‘Ro’ Me the Money! How Progressive Class Warrior Ro Khanna Lives Like the Oligarchs He ‘Fights,’ With In-Home Elevator, $190K Range Rover, and Family-Owned Golf Courses.

Khanna’s ultra-wealthy family depends on the same kind of secretive financial accounting and unearned wealth that he criticizes on the stump

Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.) has emerged as a potential contender for the Democratic presidential nomination while denouncing the ultra-rich who "hoard wealth and engage in financial speculation." But the progressive, Silicon Valley congressman and his family live a life of staggering luxury, fueled by dynastic wealth they did not earn and protected by the same thicket of trusts, anonymous corporations, and foundations that Khanna condemns.

Khanna lives in a $6 million, 8,000-square-foot luxury home with a four-story elevator and so much premium marble that even the two laundry rooms have marble counters. The Northwest Washington, D.C., home is now for sale, as the Khanna family prepares to move to an even larger, more expensive house a few miles away in the Northern Virginia suburbs. Khanna’s two children, who are minors, have large ownership shares in three private golf clubs, a significant stake in a $65 billion wealth management firm, and investments in hedge funds that focus on distressed debt, of which Khanna has been critical. Khanna’s wife drives a $190,000 Range Rover she was so displeased with that she sued the dealer.

A Washington Free Beacon investigation into Khanna’s finances finds that the progressive truthteller’s lifestyle is funded by his wife, Ritu Ahuja Khanna, an heiress to her father’s Cleveland auto parts fortune. An analysis of Khanna’s financial disclosures reveals his gilded life is enriched by the same sort of investment vehicles that Khanna has said he has a "moral" duty to oppose and that Khanna’s family is a beneficiary of the "New Gilded Age" he condemns.

Khanna’s family wealth comes from his father in law, Monte Ahuja, an Indian-born, Cleveland auto parts magnate turned investor and philanthropist. Like many of the global ultra-rich with generational wealth, Ahuja has set up various trusts and other financial models to benefit his children and grandchildren. These complex financial structures are deliberately opaque, but Khanna, as a member of Congress, is legally required to disclose his family’s financial affairs to the public. This visibility, however, has been somewhat obscured by Khanna’s decision to file his financial disclosures in the old analog format, effectively rendering it immune to a thorough examination without the use of sophisticated data analysis tools.

In 2024, Khanna’s financial disclosures clocked in at 333 pages of non-text-searchable tables, listing over 3,000 individual assets owned by him, his wife, and his children, with each asset having ticked one of 13 available boxes corresponding to an asset valuation range. Put together, those assets are worth anywhere from $103 million to more than $340 million, according to a Free Beacon review. It’s possible that the net worth of Khanna’s nuclear family could far exceed $340 million. He reported a total of 10 assets held by his wife and two children—including the stakes they hold in three golf clubs—as simply being worth more than $1 million with no disclosed ceiling.

For his two young children, Khanna reported in 2024 they own between $26 million and more than $73 million in irrevocable trusts, a wealth transfer vehicle that could shield them from future inheritance taxes.

Not all pigs are created equal — nor billionaires, apparently

JB Pritzker celebrates breaking the $4 billion threshold

…. [Khanna] is reportedly worth roughly half a billion dollars thanks to his wife’s inheritance. He is not alone among the super wealthy Democrats declaring themselves the champions of the proletariat. 

After all, there’s Illinois Gov. Jay Robert “JB” Pritzker, who also inherited his fortune. In a July interview with CNN, Pritzker virtually begged the mob that he is a different kind of billionaire, pointing at Trump billionaires as the rightful targets (not him with $4.3 billion).

No, no, not me — It’s all the fault of orange man! Ya gotta believe me!

Market Trends

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35 Deep Gorge Road in Glenville was put on the market at $2.3 million on February 21, 2025 and had dropped to $2.170 by May 29th, 2025, when its owners gave up, and rented it out for $11,500. They put it back on the market April 2, 2026, had a contract the same day, and it closed yesterday at $2.4.

In Old Greenwich, north of the Village, south of I-95, 52 Center Dive was originally listed at $1.675 million in May, 2025 and had dropped to $1.170 million by October 6, when the owners called a time out and pulled it off the market. They put it back on this July 1st at $1.495 million, and it’s under contract today, presumably at an over-ask price.

I'm so old, I remember when charges of voter fraud and stolen elections were dismissed by Democrats and their media monkeys as wild fantasies of the right; now they openly admit it

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And this:

Well of course it is: isn't everything?

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Historian says it’s racist to question her — after book about slavery pulled from shelves over inaccuracies

The author of an acclaimed book about slavery is crying racism after her writing came under scrutiny by scholars for questionable assertions and sloppy sourcing.

Kerri Greenidge’s 2022 book “The Grimkes,” which tells the story of a prominent South Carolina slaveholder family who later played a role in the abolitionist movement, was lauded by critics and won the American Historical Association’s Joan Kelly Memorial Prize.

But skepticism grew as her prose came under the microscope by historians and scholars, including Myra Glenn, an author and retired American history professor at Elmira College.

In a 2024 examination of “The Grimkes,” Glenn called it “deeply flawed,” and called out that Greenidge “all too often lacks the evidence to substantiate many of her major claims.”

She added that “her work is also riddled with factual errors and repeatedly omits needed endnotes.”

Presented with these and other disputed findings discovered through Glenn’s analysis by the New York Times, Greenidge immediately cast herself as the victim, and accused her growing roster of critics of racism.

“I am heartbroken that a field I have given my life to can treat me this way,” she told the outlet. “The attack on Black women academics is real.”

Though she claimed to have never plagiarized or fabricated anything, she conceded “are there citations that were misattributed? Probably.”

The resulting firestorm has since seen “The Grimkes” removed from her author page on the publisher’s website, and her entry as a winner of the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize was absent from the American Historical Association’s homepage.

She also seems to have lost her job as a tenured associate professor in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University, a spokesman for the greater Boston school telling the Times that she was no longer employed there.

The spokesman declined to elaborate on the reason for her departure, however.

Pressed by the outlet over the accelerating cascade of scrutiny, including her apparent removal from Tufts and the forfeiture of her prizes, Greenidge again claimed it was all the work of anti-black sentiment.

She accused two senior historians on the university’s peer review panel of being “hostile toward black women in academia,” and argued the review process by the school was kicked off by complaints from a white woman scholar. She declined to name any of the individuals in question.

She even hinted that her race played a part in the lefty New York Times writing about the accusations in the first place.

Now another one of Greenidge’s books, “Black Radical,” which also had praise heaped upon it, is now being given a closer look.

The 2019 biography about journalist and civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter also received a glowing review by the New York Times and won the Mark Lynton History Prize, awarded by Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation of Journalism at Harvard University.

Historian and author Stephen Fox, who wrote a biography about Trotter in 1970, said many of Greenidge’s sources cited in the book didn’t match the material when he checked after the book was published.

Then when he heard about the controversy bubbling up over “The Grimkes” he started questioning her rigor even more.

“I started to think maybe it wasn’t just sloppy,” he told the outlet. “I think it’s something deeper.”

Now go after the NY Times’ “1619 Project “and its lead essayist, Nikole Hannah-Jones.

It's Bastille Day — a good time to reflect on the respective fates of the Girondins and Montagnards

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The proposal to cram a modern day Versailles between its far smaller neighbors on Park Avenue (previous post) offends me, not so much because of some populist resentment against the rich — heck, I might have enjoyed being one of them myself — but because of its location: 10-acre, even 30-acre lots are a dime a dozen up in Conyers Farm, and the mansion that’s planned would fit in perfectly well there, but not here.

However, better to let a few rich, arrogant Masters of the Universe disport themselves than to fall into the trap the establishment Democrats have fallen into: hoping to appease and preempt the emerging communist faction of their party, they’re shifted far left, but still short of the demands of their new hardline base. Today seems an appropriate date to remember how that same approach worked out in France in 1789.

Soon after its founding, the revolutionary Jacobin movement split between the (relatively) moderate Girondins and the radical Montagnards. As the Montagnards’ demands grew ever wilder, the Girondins kept conceding ground, hoping that their acquiescence would mollify the mob and temper its fury. It didn’t work, and they were purged by the Montagnards in June 1793. The Reign of Terror followed, led by Robespierre until, as is the way of all such movements, he himself was led to the guillotine in 1794; Chuck Schumer, and especially, Zohran Mamdani should take note.

I suppose that if he has the right to do it, then he can, but I wouldn't want it (or even, perhaps, its owner) next door to my own house

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To be fair, I’m sure this owner with his 46 cars wouldn’t want to live next to me either, so there’s that

18,000+ Sq Ft Mega-Mansion Proposed to Replace Four Lot Assemblage in Central Greenwich

On Park Avenue and Maple

A new pre-application submitted to the Greenwich Planning & Zoning commission proposes a new house on the sites of four parcels in central Greenwich.

One fronts onto Maple. Two are flag lots behind it, and the fourth is on Park Ave behind them, that would be used as a driveway.

The Maple Ave lots are roughly across from Mead House and Coffee for Good and Stanton House Inn.

According to the application narrative, as part of planning for the construction of a proposed single-family house and guest quarters, the applicants assembled these four parcels:

  • 63 Maple Avenue
    75 Maple Avenue
    59 Maple Avenue
    8 Park Avenue

The houses on 59, 63 and 75 Maple Avenue which totaled 15,753 square feet have already been demolished.

None were built before 1940, so they were not required to be publicly noticed for 45 days.

However, 8 Park Ave, which dates back to 1918, will be subject to a 45 day waiting period when an application for demolition is submitted to the building department.

• 63 Maple Ave was built in 2008. It sold  on August 19, 2020 from Daniel and Maira Pechman to KJH Investments LLC for $4,250,000.

• 75 Maple, a flag lot behind 63 Maple, had been improved with a house in 1970. It sold from Dean Nguyen and Miyoko Matsuo to 79 Maple LLC for $1,975,000 on February 21, 2020 and again sold on Sept 17, 2020 from 79 Maple LLC to KJH Investments LLC for 0.

• 59 Maple Ave, another flag lot, featured a house built in 1989. It sold from Matthew and Judith Harrison to 59 Maple Holdings LLC on Oct 2, 2024 for $4,400,000.

• 8 Park Ave sold from Luke and Molly Labella to 8 Park Holdings LLC on Nov 15, 2024 for $2,985,000.

According to the applicant’s narrative, in 2024 the P&Z commission approved a lot line revision between the parcels at 63  and 75 Maple Avenue removing 5,106 square feet from 75 Maple Avenue and adding it to 63 Maple Avenue. Subsequent to this lot line approval, the applicant also purchased 59  Maple Avenue and 8 Park Avenue.

The proposed dwelling would be 18,631 square feet, to contain five bedrooms, two three-car garages, a basement including an indoor pool, squash court and art gallery and an area for the applicant’s car collection would provide 40 spaces. As part of the house design, a center atrium would be provided, and as part of the patio adjacent to the first  floor of the house, an outdoor pool is proposed. A tennis court is also proposed, as well as a detached guest suite that would have a living room and two bedrooms.

Black dorms, blacklish, now this

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Once again, the Bee has abandoned satire and resorted to reporting factual news — sad

Activists Push For California Schools To Teach 'Girl Math'

SACRAMENTO, CA — Buoyed by recent efforts to teach "Black English" in California schools, a new coalition of activists demanded that "Girl Math" be officially incorporated into the state's K-12 math curriculum.

The Girl Math Liberation Front argued that traditional mathematics had been oppressively logical, binary, and dominated by dead white men like Pythagoras for far too long. Instead, they want classrooms to embrace a more inclusive, emotionally intelligent approach rooted in female financial intuition and vibes.

"For too long, the patriarchy has forced us to accept that two plus two equals four," said Karen Klipper, a 7th-grade math teacher and coalition spokesperson. "But what if two plus two is actually five if it's on sale? What if buying a $200 Sephora haul with a gift card you found in your purse makes the entire purchase free? These are the kind of real-world problems our girls need to solve."

Under the proposal, classic word problems about trains leaving stations at different speeds would be replaced with more relevant scenarios:

  • "If a latte has oat milk, does it count as groceries or discretionary spending?"

  • "Can two bowls of ice cream equal one if your boyfriend just dumped you?"

  • "You saved $12 by buying in bulk, so does that mean you can now afford the $85 skincare set?"

  • "Should you spend an additional $30 to hit the threshold for free shipping?"

"Math shouldn't be about finding the ‘right' answer," Klipper added. "It should be about making sure every student feels seen, validated, and able to justify whatever they want on their credit card statement."

At publishing time, the Girl Math Liberation Front had joined forces with Black English advocates to create a groundbreaking new program called "Woke Numeracy and Linguistics," which will finally dismantle the white cis-hetero oppression of both math and grammar once and for all.

Same buyer's agent, same day: same buyer? Each unit's only around 5,500 sq. ft., so it's easy to understand why someone might feel cramped in just one

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In a non-MLS sale, 75 Havemeyer Place Unit A has sold for $5.750 million and Unit B for $5.250. Same buyer Zip Code, Harrison, NY (10528), so unless it’s a flipper or investor, I’d guess we’re seeing a buyer with expansive tastes.

The original structure was demolished in 2024 and these new ones replaced it.

Interesting note: The owner of the lot tried for $1.195 million from September 15, 2010 to June 30, 2014, then $1.650 million from October 2020 to October 2022, all without success. Put back on at that same $1.650 million on December 23, 2023, it quickly sold for $1.850.

Here’s the data for one of the new units: