“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
John Gizzi opines on Chairman Long’s thirty year history as Chairman of the Conservative Party.
Every person I know is repelled by what Kermit Gosnell was justifiably convicted of and sent to jail for three life sentences. Nick Searcy states in his Townhall.com column, that on Jan. 22, 2019, almost everything Gosnell and his staff did was legalized by the state of New York. How pathetic that Governor Cuomo and those who celebrated the passage of this horrendous bill do not understand the barbarity of what they celebrate.
Jim Geraghty berates Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s defense of his indefensible remarks.
Rich Lowry explains that “assimilation” is not a racist word..
Possibly the most dangerous piece of legislation for our Republic – HR 1, For the People Act of 2019 — has been introduced by the current democratic congress. Read about it here.
According to this article by Carl Campanile, Gov. Cuomo does not have to worry about losing the Catholic vote. Perhaps Carl is right, based on what William D’Antonio, a Catholic University sociology professor who has written books tracking Catholic voters since 1987, has published. He (D’Antonio) said younger generations are drifting away from church leadership on social issues, especially abortion and same-sex marriage. While it is true, many young Catholics do not attend Mass on a regular basis and have drifted away from Catholic teachings, he fails to consider the thousands who march in the March for Life. While our younger generation is more secular, they are convinced by science than an unborn baby is a human being and deserves a chance at life. When the facts of this bill are explained; support for it plummets.
Timothy Cardinal Dolan asks the question in today’s NY Post that many Catholics are asking: Why are Cuomo Democrats alienating Catholics? And why the vitriol when signing the legislation? He was incensed because ““They compounded the problem by covering it up and not taking responsibility…” Gov. Cuomo goes on to say “Tell the truth. Jesus Christ teaches about truth and justice — social justice — and that’s not what the church did here … referring to the church’s resistance to the Child Victims Act.” May I remind the Governor, that Jesus also said “He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.” Governor Cuomo is not known asbeing the most transparent elected official nor is he known for accepting responsibility.
The Times Union only covered one session at our 52nd Conference, the one they consider most controversial. It is unfortunate that it turns into another article on why the bill was passed. No matter how many articles are written on the need for this bill – it is a dastardly bill that allows for taking the life of an innocent unborn baby up until that child is born. Until his untimely death, Steve Jobs, expressed gratitude that his mother didn’t abort him. I would venture to guess that most of today’s Apple users are happy that he was ultimately given up for adoption. I can’t help but ask, has the person who could cure cancer been aborted, the person who would find a way to eliminate world hunger or even the person who would discover the path to peace in today’s agitated world.
Yesterday was a poignant day for the leaders of the Conservative Party. As leaders of the Party, we really do not want our Chairman to leave his position as State Chairman. But that is selfish of us. If Diogenes was among us today, he would have found what he was looking for in Michael R. Long. He is our leader, our confidant, our friend and our heavy hearts will wish him well when his chairmanship ends when we elect a new leader in late February. Chairman Long has earned his retirement and a very special place in our hearts. Job well done, Mr. Chairman.
What a heartbreaking week for New York. So many innocent lives will be lost because of the so-called Reproductive Health Act that our legislature passed and Andrew Cuomo signed into law on Tuesday – and how sickening to see One World Trade Center used to celebrate death.
Remember that 11 unborn babies are memorialized at the site of the fallen World Trade Center – according to the Cuomo liberals, their lives don’t count.
Which word do you think best describes Andrew Cuomo’s enactment of the “Reproductive Health Act” that allows abortion up until birth?
Matt Walsh notes that, as documented by LifeNews.com, already more African-American babies are aborted than born alive in New York City – and the disparity will now certainly increase thanks to Andrew Cuomo and the left.
And Rush Limbaugh poses a pointed question: Why are liberals willing to celebrate the murder of viable unborn children? His answer is devastating:
“They hate us to the point that anything that gives them the feeling of victory, the feeling of having trounced us, that’s worth the standing ovation. ‘Us’ being religion, God, the Catholic Church, Christianity at large, conservatives, the conservative movement.”
You can see that very hatred in another of this week’s biggest stories – the demonization of Catholic schoolkids from Covington, Kentucky who demonstrably did nothing wrong.
This episode shows us that social media has been weaponized against conservatives… that the media’s Trump hatred can lead to alliances with even the most nauseating groups… that journalists are easily duped by liars who portray themselves as victims… and that news outlets and their liberal allies are out to get Christian schools (a goal made clear by at least one New York Times reporter).
What do you think is the PRIMARY takeaway from media’s fake-news attack on Catholic schoolkids from Kentucky? That’s the second question in our new Weekly Poll.
That’s it for this week – we’re looking forward to our 52nd Annual CPPAC gathering that starts Sunday. I hope to see many of our blog readers there.
Governor Cuomo does it again. Yesterday, we wrote about Governor Cuomo signing the Reproductive Health Act and showed how jovial he was while signing the legislation.
Today, we are appalled that he and his progressive democrats in control of both Houses have passed the Dream Act. We understand that Dreamers are not responsible for being brought to New York (and throughout America) as young children with no say in the matter. We understand that Dreamers have spent their whole lives here, what we do not understand is why taxpayers have to pay for their college education, while struggling to pay for their own children’s college degrees. How is that equitable? If they, and their parents, have spent years here as illegal immigrants, working and benefitting from being here, why didn’t they put aside, as most parents have, the money to attend college. If they didn’t earn enough, why not work while attending college, as so many before them have. Democrat control means no one is there to speak up for us.
Gov. Cuomo wants to expand the Red Flag law calling it an improvement on the SAFE Act. The SAFE Act infringes on our 2nd Amendment Rights, so rest assured expanding the Red Flag law will do even more to confiscate law-abiding citizens firearms.
By the time the progressive democrats finish the 2019 legislative session, New York will be unrecognizable and hemorrhaging people who live here.
Take a look at the picture with this article. It speaks volumes! Governor Andrew Cuomo is as jolly as he can be, while signing the death warrant on innocent unborn babies’ lives. His signature allows an unborn child to be ripped from their mother’s womb and have their lives snuffed out up until the actual moment of birth. And we call ourselves civilized. What is civilized about allowing – no, encouraging the death of a child yet unborn? As a measure of adding insult to injury, Governor Cuomo allows tax dollars – our money – to be used for this dastardly act.
We can only hope that the legislators (and public) who championed and voted for this Bill, will someday recognize, that a human life treated with such disdain, was and is the most precious gift ever bestowed on the human race.
In this age of instant news and knee-jerk reactions without verification (or just reviewing an extremely short video clip), reputations can be ruined and unfortunately live forever on the internet. The latest case in point is the saga of Native American Nathan Phillips and the students at Covington Catholic High School. Here is Jim Geraghty, who writes for National Review, analysis of what happened at the underreported March for Life on Friday. (Underreported as to the March for Life event; the aftermath was overreported.) Here is an update from Fox News this morning.
National Review has a comparison of the signs at the March for Life and the Woman’s March. Be forewarned: some of the photos are quite vulgar and very sad when you see the young ages of future Americans holding signs at the Woman’s March.
This has been a dark week for New York, as Andrew Cuomo hit our state with an avalanche of platitudes (all with a huge price tag – talk isn’t cheap!) and lawmakers began bombarding our state with radical legislation that:
provides free education to so-called “Dreamers” even as young citizens must fend for themselves.
What do you think is the WORST proposal being forced into law by Cuomo and the New York liberals? That’s the first question in our new Weekly Poll – and I’ll go ahead and jump right into the second question: Who do you think will suffer the MOST by these left-wing policies?
New York’s attacks on the unborn come as the country celebrates the March for Life – and while liberals’ feel a strange passion for abortion, sensible Americans disagree… even the young Americans that many believe to be blindly leftist.
“Here’s what separates the March for Life from any other march,” Matt Walsh points out on Twitter. “Nobody in attendance is marching for themselves. Nobody is demanding rights or privileges for themselves. Everyone is marching on behalf of those who cannot march.”
This week we also celebrated Religious Freedom Day, and the need to recognize this precious right has never been greater as Democrats continue their assault on religious faith. Their targets include members of the Knights of Columbus and those who teach in Christian schools (and Christian schools themselves) – and there’s no doubt the left is coming for our churches next.
The Democrats’ lackluster candidates for 2020 are all running in lockstep with the left’s radical agenda, including our junior Senator and flip-flopper extraordinaire Kirsten Gillibrand, whose “moral compass” has pointed her to all sides of important issues including gun control and immigration, depending on political convenience.
That Gillibrand is a product of Albany’s corrupt political machine and an ally of the anti-Semitic “Women’s March” calls her qualifications in to questions – what would you say is the TOP reason why she would be a terrible President? That’s the third and final question in our new Weekly Poll.
Also this week: Washington’s socialists (i.e. the Democrats) continue to push catastrophic tax hikes; the government shutdown continues to show that much of government is unnecessary; and the “deep state” campaign against President Trump continues to be exposed.
BREAKING NEWS: President Donald J. Trump cancels Speaker Nancy Pelosi ‘s planned international travel over the partial government shutdown on Thursday. Read the developing account here.
The Daily Signal writes about the 25th anniversary of the Religious Freedom Law (a law, Gov. Cuomo should be aware of). Part of what the article says is: “Under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, “religious freedom is not absolute, but is protected by the highest standards under constitutional law,” (acting AG) Whitaker said at the Heritage Foundation. “Government is still able to fulfill its purposes, just without infringing on other people’s rights. It is a remarkable thing for a government to impose such a restraint on itself, and it is unique to the American system.” The Religious Freedom Law was signed by President Bill Clinton who presided over a Democrat House and Senate. In case you didn’t know, then Congressman Charles E. Schumer was the prime sponsor in the House where it passed unanimously. It passed the Senate 97-3. Does anyone think the Minority Leader of the Senate would carry that Bill today?
Perhaps, Mr. Churchill’s column isn’t so tongue-in-cheek after all. Governor Cuomo may need that wall since he is doing his best to encourage people to leave New York.
Governor Cuomo is releasing his proposed 2019-2020 budget today and it is expected to be approximately $170 Billion. It should be available here later today. For your information, New York’s population in 2017 was 19.85 million. Gov. Gavin Newsom (not know as a fiscal conservative), Governor of California, also released California’s budget for 2019-2020 and it is $144 billion. California’s population in 2017 was 39.51 million. New York has approximately 20 million less people and spends about $25 billion more. Am I the only one who sees a problem with this?
Nanny state government is back with a vengeance, and we all will be paying the price. We understand the harm that plastic is doing to our environment and believe it is morally wrong. Proper disposal is essential for plastic garbage bags and all items made of plastic — including syringes happily handed out by government agencies and strewn all over parks and subway stations. If government insists on banning plastic bags shouldn’t we insist on banning our tax dollars being used to provide syringes?
If you are 18, you can give your life for your country, you can vote in elections, you can get married, but if government has its way, you won’t be able to buy a product that is legal. Cigarettes, last time anyone checked, are still legal and will remain so even with restrictions, because government is addicted to the taxes they bring in.
If the government is a good as democrats portray it to be by passing Bills that give them more control over our lives, why are the residents that can only afford to live in the NYC Housing Authority living without heat on these bitter cold days. Do a google search on the living conditions for NYCHA, then ask yourself why do you want government running every aspect of our lives. Someone should ask Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that question. She would most likely agree with Mayor de Blasio who believes there is plenty of money in the world, it is just in the wrong hands. Oh, and if you think it is only NYCHA that has a serious problem, you certainly do not use the MTA facilities.