“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it”-Ronald Reagan
After 40 years, Senator Farley had decided he won’t run for Senate again.
A new Siena Poll say voters want reform. The Conservative Party sent each member of the legislature a letter this morning, calling for the one true reform that will help end the culture of corruption in Albany: Term Limits! You can read the letter here, then click on our petition, sign it and return to the NYS Conservative Party @ 486 78th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11209. The number of petitions returned really matters to the members, so please circulate to your friends, family and neighbors.
This blog is not very supportive of President Obama, but when he does get something right, he deserves the credit. President Obama appointed Preet Bharara in 2009 and New York politicians have certainly made him a household name. Chairman Long tells Ken Lovett intoday’s NY Daily News that US Attorney Bharara should be reappointed, should that be what he wants. Chairman Long also said, “”I certainly laud him for what I consider the beginning of the cleanup, the cleansing, of New York State politics. It seems like the whole state is infested — the city of New York, Assembly members, state senators and now the executive branch.”
While we include articles on the constant signs of corruption in our blog, it really is disheartening to those of us who are involved in politics because they truly appreciate all that America and New York State have accomplished through our form of government; a republic (supreme power is held by the people through their elected representatives) — to see the headlines scream corruption and have our elected officials being investigated. Ariel and Will Durant wrote in The Story of Civilization that a great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. Voters must make the right choices in every election to be certain the chilling words of the Durant’s are not a prophesy of our future.
In case you missed this headline, McAuliffe restores voting rights for 206K ex-felons; GOP calls it move to boost Clinton. Virginia only allows a governor to serve one term; but they are eligible after sitting out the next election. Hopefully, he will not run again and if he did, the voters will remember his executive order allowing ex-felons to vote.
Someone should tell Senator Schumer that this is not new. Obviously, his mobile device does not have links to his favorite places to shop otherwise he would know every time he came close to a favorite store, his phone would send him text messages. Since Senator Schumer is always looking for an angle to grab a headline, I guess he thought the “spying bill boards” would get people’s attention. It did, not because consumers are worried about it, but rather to show how he is totally out of touch with the real world of today’s modern technology. Time to retire Senator Schumer!
Mr. President, have you seen what this “JV” team is doing lately? On Monday, United States President Barack Obama said that he expects Mosul to be retaken from ISIS “eventually.” Seems to me that this “JV” team is at varsity level and you are still in denial.
A word of advice to President Obama and whomever follows: Let’s protect what we have before we waste any more taxpayers dollars in failed solar issues.
While we are talking about wasting taxpayer’s money, the $3071 spent on this, hardly registers in the federal budget. However, multiply every minute waste of money and soon you are talking about real tax dollars that we work very hard for.
The Tax Foundation gives us a handy chart as to what the state and local individual income tax collections per capita are. Alas, this is not the chart you want to be number 1 on, yet New York State is number 1.
As we noted yesterday, the NY Post questions how the handpicked successor to Sheldon Silver is going to clean up Albany.
The American Conservative Union released the 2015 Ratings of Congress and the US Senate. Congressman Collins scored the highest with a 65% while 12 Democrats scored ZERO. Both Senators Schumer and Gillibrand also scored ZERO.
This is an election year that is rewriting political science. In the 9th Senate District, the person who voted for Shelly Silver to be Speaker — convicted of corruption — and for Carl Heastie to be Speaker — currently being investigated — appears to be rewarded with a Senate Seat. Meanwhile the hand picked candidate– by Silver’s loyalists — for Silver’s Assembly Seat Alice Cancel easily won. These are the people who may write ethics rules for themselves and their fellow legislators. Do you think they will include term limits? No Pension if convicted? Or continue the ambiguous ones currently in place. Look where they come from, the answer is obvious.
This is undoubtedly one of the most disturbing articles we have posted to date; but it is necessary to do so. Despite what Hillary said, an unborn child is a human being and an abortedchild must not be sold for spare body parts.
The Fourth Circuit Federal Court is becoming as radical as the Ninth. If this Daily Signal post does not point out the consequences of a far left president appointing judges for life, life in America is almost past the brink of profound constitutional changes.
The AP is reporting more bad news on Obamacare — UnitedHealth, the nation’s biggest health insurer, will cut its participation in public health insurance exchanges to only a handful of states next year after expanding to nearly three dozen for this year. Read more here.
The Daily Signal recaps the latest case to be heard by the equally divided US Supreme Court. The Justices listened to the oral arguments in a case brought by Texas and 25 other states challenging the Obama administration’s attempt to give legal status and work authorizations to more than four million illegal immigrants. The Hill also reviews the arguments before the Court and believed that the Administration may not win.
The Empire Center examines what is driving the K-12 school costs increase.
Are we heading for another recession? According to Investor’s Business Daily, the signs are there that we are. USA Today is reporting that defaults are at the highest level since 2009, another bad sign.
The Sun opines on the possibility of a super high tax on guns, first reported by Americans for Tax Reform and disclosed on Drudge Report. While the editorial becomes a little far-fetched, it does provide food for thought.
Michael Goodwin’s Sunday column in the NY Post makes the case for NOT voting for Hillary. In part “As The New York Times documented, and as Sanders has emphasized, Clinton’s regime-change strategy for Libya was a colossal failure that created a humanitarian disaster and a terrorist base.” Read the rest of what he has to say here.
The Daily Caller also reports on how Hillary repays her supporters. And this was done when Secretary of State, just think of what she can (and will) do if president with every federal agency under her control.
Now that your taxes have been filed, read this to find out where they are going. Federal spending is obviously out of control and whomever is elected in 2016 will have to make the right decisions to protect our Republic. Does anyone believe Bernie or Hillary are capable of doing that — if so, you are not paying attention to what they are saying. The Republic is in our hands. Sharon Kehnemui’s opinion piece is a good reminder to all.
This is a shameful lack of common sense. It is things like this — Department of Education bungles — that allowed a grade-fixing principal to be reinstated, it is no wonder parents are clamoring to place their children in charter schools.
After that debacle, Hillary (and Bernie this time) are off in Fantasyland according to this NY Post editorial.
A young officer was stripped of his gun, badge and paycheck just for speaking ill of the Mayor. The officer puts his life on the line every day, speaks his mind in a non-threatening way against the Mayor and is suspended for that? Will the “you can’t speak your mind police” start suspending others on the force. Maybe the Mayor should be suspended for his “joke”.
The Rockefeller Institute has a new report out on casino gambling. The Albany Times Union sums it up with this headline: Gambling tax revenues are not a safe bet. The Conservative Party knew that long before the report was considered.
Why Obama is forgiving the student loans of nearly 400,000 people, total amount of debt if everyone takes the disability discharge (and why wouldn’t they since no proof is required), $7.7 billion will be forgiven, for them, not taxpayers.
USA Today has a very harsh Op-Ed against the Attorney Generals who are conspiring to end free speech. Read it here. Maybe the reason the AG’s are trying to crack down on dissenters, is because more studies rebut the causes.
Kudos to the supervisors in Livingston County for trying to defy another state mandate that costs taxpayers. And it isn’t only Livingston County that is faced with the mandated increases by the NYS Legislative Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation. If you check out short biographies of the commissioners, you can rest assured that they will always see a need to increase compensation. If the commissioners were elected by the public and not appointed by those seeking increases, taxpayers may have a better chance of seeing their hard earned income being given to others, assuming they are still living in New York State.
Jonathan M. Bydlak, President of the Coalition to Reduce Spending, has a website, here, that is dedicated to advocating for reducing federal spending and balancing the budget. You can take an active role by suggesting a candidate who will support Reduce the Debt Pledge or a candidate that needs to be held accountable to the Reduce the Debt Pledge. Check it out here.
Ryan T. Anderson, also writing in the Daily Signal, on liberal hypocrisy, has the quintessential question for liberals who choose to boycott Mississippi and North Carolina: Bruce Springsteen and Bryan Adams Get to Follow Their Consciences, but the Baker and Florist Don’t? Read his column here.
The Media Research Center shows how the major media outlets discriminate on the bills signed in Mississippi and North Carolina.
According to the NY Post, Mayor de Blasio insisted on Sunday that he knows nothing about the investigation that has made headlines since Friday. Is anyone surprised at his response? Politico New York has more on the Mayor’s mess. Politico also reports that according to the minutes taken at the June 24, 2015 meeting of the Mayor’s Office of Contract Services, (the meeting was sparsely attended) that no one spoke against deed restriction change that allowed a health care facility on Manhattan’s Lower East Side to become a luxury condo development, another controversial subject the Mayor in embroiled in. Over the weekend, Michael Goodwin wrote about how de Blasio’s lust for power will be his final downfall. Sometimes you do not need a crystal ball to tell the future.
What would you think of a company that had no employees or assets, in fact, it seems to exist only to collect and hide large checks to a former president from foreign backers and Wall Street donors? And it was not disclosed by a certain woman running for president. Read more about WJC, LLC here. Then there is this — where WJC, LLC’s physical address is, and another company of interest, ZFS Holdings, LLC.
Charles Krauthammer says in today’s column that the “coming train wreck” on the republican side makes one think that the candidates are trying to lose the general election in November.
What do you think about the primary season? Let us know in our weekly poll.
Townhall.com reports that Environmental International has a new report about hydrofracking and is disappointed that the fears of “fracking” seem to be unfounded. The report is too late for New Yorker’s since we have a Governor who caved to the alarmist who believed a non-scientific documentary.
The NY Post is reporting how the shortened background check — from 12 to 18 months to just 3 months – is letting Syrian refugees into America to reach President Obama’s goal of 10,000 by September, the floor number, clearly not the ceiling.
Mayor de Blasio has some explaining to do says the NY Post and the NY Daily News.
This is very disturbing. The fact that a US Attorney General kept the public in the dark about Iranian hackers until after President Obama had his Iranian Deal, is more than disturbing. One has to ask what other investigations will be manipulated for the benefit of President Obama? Hillary’s rolls in myriad issues?
The Daily Signal exposes the good side of trade agreements.
US vows to block new Russian arms sales to Iran. How, President Obama? Will you draw a red line and tell Russia the arms cannot go past the red line? Mr. President: YOU gave Iran the money to make the deal with Russia. Putin will laugh all the way to the bank.
Townhall’s Katie Pavlich sums up Fox News’ weekend special featuring President Obama’s former Defense Secretaries in one word: Brutal.
Governor Cuomo: This is courage. Banning non-essential travel is so juvenile.
