It’s been a tough week for the Republican Establishment and the party’s self-proclaimed leaders, and the one-and-only Rush Limbaugh let the party elites have it on Hannity this week.

What do you think is the Republican Establishment’s biggest problem heading into 2018? That is the first question in our new Weekly Poll.

President Trump set a winning path for the GOP in introducing his tax plan this week – and some are optimistic that tax relief will be an easier task than Obamacare repeal. The Trump plan has the power to spark economic growth and help all Americans. New York could take some lessons.

Here are ten key tax cuts in the President’s plan – will the GOP sabotage itself by buying into the liberals’ phony “fairness” arguments? Will tax relief be torpedoed by the Democrats’ “tax cuts for the rich” propaganda? Chuck Schumer is already cranking out the fake news.

What do you think is the biggest lie that Chuck Schumer and the Democrats will spread about President Trump’s tax relief plan over the next few weeks? That’s the second question in our new Weekly Poll.

Speaking of fake news – here is a prime example. And you can file this under “Can You Imagine if President Trump Said That?”

Here in New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio refuses to get serious about school safety, and this is the result. Yet another reason for New York City to choose a different path.

If anyone was going to partake in cheap symbolism, you’d think it would be Barack Obama, but at a recent golf event he stood with two of his fellow former Presidents for the national anthem. So why can’t pro football get the message?

Maybe the NFL is afraid of its players, as President Trump says.  The league should certainly be worried when players snub fans like this.

From lawmakers to race car drivers, people are explaining why they stand for the Star-Spangled Banner. Why do you stand? That’s the third and final question in our new Weekly Poll.

Have a great weekend!

As Democrats play politics with America’s national security, President Trump gave the United Nations a much-needed dose of true straight talk. 

When everybody from Hillary Clinton to the President of Iran is outraged, you know Trump is doing something right.

And he’s following up his words on North Korea with action.

What was your favorite line from President Trump’s United Nation’s speech? That’s the first question in our new Weekly Poll – and let me tell you, it was almost impossible to narrow it down to a reasonable number of choices. Here is a transcript: I encourage you to read the whole thing several times, to fully grasp how well our President defends our country.

I’m also wondering what you think is the biggest (and best) difference between President Trump and President Obama. That’s our second Poll question for the week.

And finally – what do you think is the biggest problem with the United Nations? The endless corruption? The exorbitant cost? The waste and mismanagement? The coddling of dictators and anti-Semites?

As President Trump continues to keep his conservative promises, Hillary’s sour grapes tour is going full-speed-ahead. She seems delusional, as do many of her supporters.

Right now the Democrats’ biggest health care thinkers are a Socialist, a late-night talk show host, and a dishonest ex-President. No wonder their party is in shambles.

There’s nothing the Democrats’ won’t exploit to save Obamacare, or to defend illegal immigration, for that matter.

Speaking of Obama and dishonesty – we could be reaching Nixon-levels of corruption here.

You’ve probably heard liberals talk endlessly about how this year’s hurricanes are the result of global warming.  Don’t believe them.

But this you can believe – Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio have made a mess of New York’s subways, among many other things. And if you ever hear Cuomo talk about health care for the “indigent” – remember the real story.

Have a great weekend!

Immigration is front-and-center in this week’s news.

President Trump’s DACA negotiations with the Democrats have all sides scrambling.  Is this set to be the next big win for the Trump Administration and the country? Is it too problematic to proceed? Or is it President Trump’s “read my lips” moment?

Meanwhile in New York, Andrew Cuomo has signed an executive order prohibiting state agencies from inquiring about individuals’ immigration status – another sell-out to the left, and the latest step in Cuomo’s presidential campaign.

Here is our statement on this upending of the law. Now I want to know what you think – Just how destructive do you think Governor Cuomo’s executive order protecting illegal immigrants will be? That’s the first question in our new Weekly Poll.

Meanwhile Democrats are stampeding to support Bernie Sanders’s disastrous “health care for all” plan and follow the old-school socialist right off the fiscal cliff. Does the left understand just how radical socialized health care really is? Or, to put it less charitably, what a joke it is? Even supporters of the Canadian version acknowledge the wait times involved. (There’ll be no waiting, of course, for taxpayer-funded abortions.)

What do you think is the WORST aspect of the Bernie Sanders-Democrats’ “Medicare for All” socialized health care plan?  That’s the second question in our new Weekly Poll.

Also this week, Hillary Clinton’s giant carousel of self-pity continued spinning out of control. Here is a pie-chart of blame – there’s plenty to go around. Between attacking the Constitution and showing Americans how to breathe, Hillary also arrogantly instructed President Trump to read her book “It Takes a Village.”

I’ve compiled a few titles that Hillary might do well to read over – from self–help works to accounts of true leadership to policy analysis and character studies, and even a work from the President himself. Which book do you think Hillary should be reading? Make your pick in the third question in our new Weekly Poll.

Have a great weekend!

Is Chuck Schumer now the most powerful man in America? That would be bad news for America, which is why many conservatives are deeply troubled by this week’s budget deal between President Trump, Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.

But do House Republicans have any room to criticize, when the only thing they seem capable of doing is spending money?

For the first question in our new Weekly Poll, I want to know how concerned you are over the Trump/Schumer/Pelosi deal. I look forward to seeing the response on this one.

Our second Weekly Poll question deals with the upcoming statewide vote on the proposed Constitutional Convention. In his New York Post column, George Marlin outlines key reasons why the Conservative Party and other groups oppose the Constitutional Convention. Which potential outcome of the Convention alarms you the MOST?

Speaking of the upcoming elections, conservative mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis is out with her first campaign ad, and it is literally a hard-hitting piece. You can watch it here.

This week President Trump kept a campaign promise by ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) implemented unilaterally by Barack Obama for illegal alien “dreamers” that are celebrated by the left. The issue now goes to Congress for a proper legislative solution.

While there may be no such thing as a “deserving” dreamer, many believe that President Trump was right to make Congress resolve this issue through its legislative powers, combined with the checks-and-balances outlined in the Constitution.

What do you think is the BEST reason for eliminating the DACA program? That’s the third and final question in our new Weekly Poll.

As all this is going on, President Trump is doing a great job of nominating lower-level judges and reshaping the federal judiciary. Now if liberals in the Senate would stop their gridlock and end their religious tests and anti-Catholic bigotry. Could you imagine if a Muslim judicial nominee was attacked this way by a Republican?

Finally – we’ve been discussing the problem of voter fraud in recent weeks, and this week saw new evidence from New Hampshire that fake voters can decide an election.  We’ll be keeping an eye on this.

Have a great weekend!

Have a great weekend.

This week President Trump confronted the first great challenge of his administration. I believe the President is rising to the challenge, and his words after visiting Texas are inspiring: 

“In difficult times such as these, we see the true character of the American people, their strength, their love and their resolve. We see friend helping friend, neighbor helping neighbor, and stranger helping stranger. And together, we will endure and we will overcome.”

Even the New York Times is giving Trump some credit for his leadership, but of course liberals who hate Trump are finding ways to criticize him and especially the First Lady. The Left can’t even resist the temptation to take swipes at the American people in general. Sad, indeed.

How would you BEST describe President Trump’s leadership during the Harvey disaster so far? That’s the first question in our new Weekly Poll. 

Hurricane Harvey’s wrath is revealing the worst of Mother Nature, but the best of America.

What has inspired you the most in the American people’s response to Hurricane Harvey?  And what do you feel is the most important thing you are doing to help victims of Hurricane Harvey? 

Those are the second and third questions in our new Weekly Poll. 

If you want to give, here are some options – and I imagine JJ Watt of the Houston Texans will be cheered wherever he plays this football season, after his Texas-sized fundraising effort that is still going strong. 

This unfolding disaster is also showing the perils of Big Government, and will soon be a test for Congress – can lawmakers pass an emergency bill that’s not littered with pork spending? 

Meanwhile even a disaster can’t stop the left’s fake news.

Some good news amid this week’s tragedy: The economy is growing at the fastest pace in more than two years, and President Trump is launching his tax reform plan to “Bring Back Main Street” and accelerate our economy. Can he close the deal with the American people? 

Speaking of fake news, be ready for the Democrats’ endless tax cut lies.

Finally, Christopher Columbus is under attack – literally here in New York, and figuratively in California. President Trump called it – where will the political correctness end? 

Have a great Labor Day weekend!

This week was a tale of three speeches. President Trump loves Arizona, and on Tuesday he delivered a fiery speech in Phoenix that called out the news media for its obsession with fake news.

CNN of course delivered again and again with the biased news coverage, but I want to know what you think: What was your favorite line from the President’s Arizona speech? It took some time narrowing it down to just a handful of options, but I have several for you to choose from in the first question of our new Weekly Poll.

The Phoenix speech came after President Trump’s more somber, subdued speech outlining his strategy for Afghanistan. The President listened to his generals, according to UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, and has put a blunt focus on “killing terrorists.”

There were many inspiring lines from the President’s Afghanistan speech – which was your favorite? That’s the second question in our new Weekly Poll.

Finally, the President also delivered a powerful speech to the American Legion National Convention, where he also signed an important Veterans Administration reform bill.

I’m curious to know this: Which kind of Trump speech do you prefer? Would you rather he sticks to the more serious, measured tone of his Afghanistan speech? Or do you look forward to his more freewheeling, energizing speeches like the one he delivered in Phoenix?

That’s the final question in our new Weekly Poll. I look forward to seeing what you think!

It hardly qualifies as news at this point, but biased CNN chose to slander 63 million Americans as white supremacists – another instance of so-called journalists proving President Trump’s points about our out-of-touch, untrustworthy media.

What else caught our attention this week? Peak politically-correct stupidity thanks to ESPN and the Robert (no-E) Lee debacle. Corporate hypocrisy from companies that refuse to work with President Trump while cozying up to Iran. And Nancy Pelosi crying wolf in a crowded theater. You can’t make this stuff up.

We were also given a stark reminder of the importance of President Trump’s unwavering stance against illegal immigration and sanctuary cities, and the lawlessness they represent.

Have a great weekend!

Another week, another terrorist strike unleashed by radical Islam. 

But no doubt our media and political elites will stay focused on their top priority – proving that the President they hate is a racist. What has happened to America’s sanity?

The Left is doing exactly what the white nationalists want, and exposing their own double standards in the process. 

Remember that the goal of the liberal media and the Democrats is to “vilify and isolate anyone that doesn’t agree with their very extremist leftist policy and ideology.”

Obviously, President Trump could have handled the Charlottesville situation better, but I don’t think there’s anything President Trump could say about white-nationalist protesters and counter-protesters that would satisfy the media and the Democrats. They hate him no matter what. Do you agree? That’s the first question in our new Weekly Poll. 

Last week I featured this article from Larry Horist on the problem of voter fraud, and this week we have new evidence – about 3.5 million reasons, in fact – showing that this is a major problem for our country. 

In your view, how big of a problem is voter fraud? That’s the second question in our new Weekly Poll.

While Andrew Cuomo carries on his pipe dream of taking over the White House, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has let the lobbyists run City Hall – the latest in bad behavior from the Mayor and his associates.  

How would you describe the level of corruption in the New York City Mayor’s office under Bill de Blasio? That’s the third and final question in our new Weekly Poll.

And remember, New Yorkers don’t have to settle for this sleaziness – there’s a better way forward for New York City. 

With all the fake news running rampant this week, it’s great to see a group trying to set the record straight about a painful chapter in America’s history: The Vietnam War. How many times have we heard that Americans put politics before patriotism and turned their backs on fighting men returning from Vietnam? A new website – Home with Honor – shares the truth.  

Have a great weekend!

North Korea is by far this week’s biggest news story. Fox News has ongoing coverage here. Ralph Peters has a plan for taking out North Korea’s nukes, while Rich Lowry says the Trump Administration needs to pick a strategy and stick to it.

How worried are you over the possibility of a conflict between the U.S. and North Korea? That’s the first of three questions in our new Weekly Poll focused on the North Korea situation.

For the second Weekly Poll question, I’ve collected some of my personal thoughts on the matter, on everything from President Trump’s leadership to the power of our military to the wonderful absence of Hillary Clinton in this situation. They’re laid out for you in question #2 – you can select the statement you agree with the most. I look forward to seeing what you think.

Investor’s Business Daily puts it best: “Since at least the early 1990s, presidents have kicked the nuclear can way down the road, and now we’re running out of road. Trump inherited this mess. Now he’s dealing with it.” 

Even the biased media can’t deny that previous presidents dropped the ball on North Korea – the country’s path to becoming a major threat started with a Clinton-Era deal.

Liberals are shocked at any suggestion that President Obama’s failures might have led us to the current North Korea situation, but of course they’re perfectly okay with blaming President George W. Bush.

And speaking of Obama – his failures are many, from North Korea to Iran to Cuba. 

Rush Limbaugh has a good overview of how we got to the situation that President Trump and our nation now face together.

Which recent U.S. President do you believe bears the most responsibility for North Korea’s rise to power? That’s the third and final question in our new Weekly Poll.

This isn’t what you want to read as an international threat takes center stage.

In other news this week, we saw media bias and more media bias. 

Larry Horist reminds us that voter fraud is real – an alarming problem with major elections coming up this year and next.

In this year’s NYC mayoral campaign, Nicole Malliotakis continues to take the fight to Bill de Blasio.

And what seems to be a hateful act has inspired kindness and generosity towards New York’s finest and their hard work.

On that note, have a great weekend!
 

We are now past the 6-month mark of the Trump Administration, and though you wouldn’t know it from the endless fake news coverage there have been many accomplishments to celebrate, from cracking down on illegal immigration to reviving the U.S. economy to placing conservative Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court. 

Even CNN has been forced to acknowledge some of President Trump’s success!

President Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence have both set forth the White House’s success over the past six months – which accomplishment do you think is the most important? That’s the first question in our new Weekly Poll.

There have of course been setbacks and misfires since January – we all know that – and there’s only so much one President can do in six months… so there are still many goals to pursue and achieve for the Trump Administration over the next six months and beyond – whether it’s finally repealing Obamacare, or getting the border wall underway and laying down the law for sanctuary cities, or giving Hillary Clinton’s endless corruption the investigations it deserves. 

What do you think is the most important goal the Trump Administration can seek to achieve over the next six months and beyond? That’s the second question in our new Weekly Poll.

The big news this week – besides new evidence of Al Gore’s global warming hypocrisy and a party switch that won’t get nearly the attention it deserves (the media only cares when liberal Republicans abandon the GOP for the Democratic Party) – is the new immigration reform initiative being led by Republican Senators Tom Cotton and David Perdue and supported by President Trump.

The RAISE Act is of course being demonized by the left (including our very own Andrew Cuomo), but now is the time to make immigration work for America again.

Can it pass? We’ll have to wait and see, but what is certain is that the liberals’ immigration fantasy world is plainly trumped (so to speak) by facts. 

What do you like MOST about the new immigration plan endorsed by President Trump – that it focuses on skills and entrepreneurial spirit, or that it emphasizes the importance of the English language, or that it cracks down on the refugee crisis? Make your pick in the third and final question of our new Weekly Poll. 

And have a great weekend!

“What Happened” – that’s the title of Hillary Clinton’s new book about why she lost in 2016, and it will likely not do anything to explain what actually happened. Expect Hillary’s “blame game” to continue. Spoiler alert – Hillary was a terrible candidate. That’s what happened. 

What’s your take – which of Hillary’s many faults and flaws was the most decisive in causing her humiliating defeat? That’s the first question in our new Weekly Poll. 

Now let’s talk about “what happened” to Obamacare repeal. Ignoring the large number of Obamacare victims and turning their backs on conservative Republicans, while at the same time sabotaging President Donald Trump, three Republicans joined Chuck Schumer and the Democrats in killing off repeal and saving Obamacare – which Schumer himself has said is a mistake. 

President Trump is not happy, as you can imagine – and I don’t blame him. What about you… how angry are you that a few Republicans turned their backs on conservative voters and supported Obamacare? That’s the second question in our new Weekly Poll.

Liberals can’t decide whether they love or hate John McCain, who was the deciding vote against Obamacare.  I think it’s important to remember that just because someone has acted courageously in the past and undergone recent struggles, does not mean that they are permanently exempt from criticism. At any rate, McCain certainly has a strange definition of his campaign promise to “lead the fight against Obamacare.” 

Here’s what’s happening in New York this week – Gov. Cuomo was caught red-handed using a non-profit to boost his image and political profile. 

And Mayor de Blasio, blinded by his privileged bubble, continues to be an embarrassment to ALL New Yorkers. How would you describe Mayor de Blasio and his administration – out-of-touch? Incompetent? Untrustworthy? There are many options for you to choose from in question #3 from our new Weekly Poll.

There’s no doubt in my mind that de Blasio’s bad ideas just get worse, and his policies are downright deceitful. Conservatives are fortunate that Nicole Malliotakis is out there talking common sense and holding de Blasio accountable. 

Have a great weekend!

What’s next for Obamacare repeal? There are many possibilities, none of them completely satisfying. 

One thing is for sure: There’s plenty of blame to go around, from phony numbers to political posturing to abysmal Republican leadership. 

Where do you put most of the blame for the Obamacare debacle? That’s the first question in our new Weekly Poll.

Another thing that’s becoming clear: Democrats will soon regret that the GOP failed to repeal the collapsing Obamacare. 

But doing nothing isn’t always bad – sometimes when Washington snoozes, the economy wins.  And President Trump is helping this along by putting the kibosh on hundreds of Obama-Era regulations before they can stifle our economy. Good for him.

“A Better Deal: Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Wages.” – that is supposedly the Democrats’ new slogan that they’ve been researching, testing and tweaking for eons… and if that’s the best they can do it’s no wonder they lost in 2016. I have two questions: 

1.    Do the Democrats really think that the best way to connect with working-class voters is to tell them that their skills aren’t up to snuff? 
2.    Is anyone else suddenly hungry for Papa John’s pizza?   

What do you think would be the best slogan for the Democrats right now? That’s the second question in our new Weekly Poll – I hope you enjoy some of the options I’ve come up with! 

It looks to be another scorcher this weekend, and it’s been hot all across the state – what are you doing to beat the New York heat? That’s the third and final question in our new Weekly Poll. 

Stay cool, and have a great weekend!

President Trump’s priority is protecting America – while the Democrats are focused on… using defense dollars to fund sex-change operations. 

In your opinion, how would military funds used to subsidize sex-change treatments be better spent? That’s the first question in our new Weekly Poll.

On this and virtually every issue, the media – or the left, if you prefer… it’s hard to tell the difference – continues to show an astounding level of bias. Think about Russia (how can we not, as much as the media elites harp on it), or immigration, or even how the First Lady is portrayed – the liberal slant of news coverage that has always been obvious is even more insidious now. 

What would you say is the most glaring example of liberal media bias that Americans are witnessing right now? That’s the second question in our new Weekly Poll.

Will the Democrats’ anti-Trump overreach backfire? Are they especially overplaying the Russia card? Time will tell – but we’re seeing case after case after case where the media liberals have a stark double standard for President Trump and Democrats.

It’s almost time for Congress to take its August recess – but it seems this year’s summer break will be delayed at least for a short while and maybe more to catch up on keeping campaign promises about Obamacare, taxes and other matters.

How much of a difference do you think it will make if the House and Senate cut back on their August recess? Let me know in our final Weekly Poll question. 

And have a great weekend!