ICYMI:  NY Post editorial of 04/208/2022, Andrew Cuomo can’t stop spinning self-serving lies.

New York comptroller audit finds nearly $1B in Medicaid billing errors.  Every year there is an article on Medicaid billing errors…when will they end?   When will DOH remove those who cannot fix these errors?

From Empire Center:  Legislative Spending Unevenly Divided Among Members/Total Set to Rise Under New Budget.

Dems’ happy talk can’t hide havoc inflation wreaking on working Americans.

Despite Raging Inflation, Congress Bent on Continuing Spending Spree.

Kudlow: US in early stages of difficult housing slump.

Critical-race-theory advocates are gaslighting Americans for power and profit.

Science shows transgender education doesn’t belong in schools.

Wokeness is stalking your kids. Here’s how to protect them

Florida Follows the Science With New Guidelines on Transgender Treatment for Kid.

Florida House passes bill stripping Disney of self- governing status.

Is Disney About to Fire Its CEO?

The Driver Behind the Recent Historic Collapse of Hispanic Support for Democrats.

Thomas Hogan writes in City Journal:  More Progressive Prosecutors On the Way?/A new wave of left-wing advocates aims to take over district attorney’s offices in small cities.

Charlie Kirk writes in Human Events:  POLLS SHOW YOUNG PEOPLE GET IT – BUT WILL REPUBLICANS TAKE ADVANTAGE?

Why the Feds Are Clinging to Their Mask Mandate.

These Democrats Say Health Care Is a Human Right for All, Except Their Campaign Staff.

Secret Service claims it has ‘no records’ of who visits Biden in Delaware. It they do not have any records, the obvious question is, why not?

Wendy Davis Gears Up for Next Failure.

New World Disorder: What the UN Vote on Russia Really Reveals About Global Politics.

Are We Letting Putin Win?

Sorry, Mayor Adams: Comparing today’s crime to the ’80s won’t cut it.

File this under “grasping at straws” or “desperate to win,” Hochul: ‘Options’ exist for replacing Benjamin on ballot.

The Biden Administration cannot end soon enough.  New Rule Would Force Climate Change Reporting Requirements on Most Companies in America;  Biden Admin Claims More Red Tape Will Boost Efficiency. He is also restoring some environmental permitting requirements loosened by Trump.  Then there is this:  Biden resumes ‘air illegal’ into Westchester as migrant tide grows even worse and this Democrats pressure Biden to back off Title 42 decision.  (You know Biden’s open border is a very serious problem when this news is public.) But alas, Biden has told Obama he’s running again.

Biden doesn’t need Title 42 to stop the border crisis — he needs ‘Remain in Mexico’.

The White House’s Swift Surrender on Federal Mask Order Underscores the Tricky Politics of Mask Mandates.

From the Washington Times:  COVID-19 lockdowns not worth the cost/Free states did disproportionally better than those with mandates

Jen Psaki will be a star on MSNBC, albeit, MSNBC will continue with low ratings.  Psaki fights back tears over Florida’s parental rights bill, says it’s hurting children’s ‘lives’.  President Biden, there is nothing hateful about this bill, what is wrong is an administration trying to usurp the parent’s rights as to when their children learn about transgenderism and sexuality.

From Mercator.net, a review of the book: 100 Years of Identity Crisis: Culture War over Socialisation by Frank Furedi, De Gruyter, 2021, 259 pp,  Mapping identity politics in the culture war.  From the article: “In the words of anthropologist, Weston LaBarre, “the single, most important thing in human behaviour is literally and specifically, the way we bring up our children”. They “play a critical role in the realisation of social change”, as educationalist John Dewey observed. For political and social ideologues, their malleable minds can absorb novel ideas, provided they can control their education and formation.”

Rev. Franklin Graham: School board member is ‘most important elected official’ in America today.

From the Washington Times:  Fla. law sparks wave of bills: States move to protect parents’ control of childhood sexual education.

Black Lives Matter leaders aren’t capitalist converts, they still want to dismantle the US.  It appears that the main stream media is avoiding the fact that co-founder Patrisse Cullors purchased a $6M house in California and went through great duplicitous lengths to keep it hidden.  The main stream media is quite comfortable filtering the news to only let you know what they want you to know; fortunately, there is competition to get the unpleasant facts (Hunter Biden’s laptop) out in the open.  It is unfortunate that Ms. Cullors hasn’t done more to prevent headlines like this:  Massive increase in Black Americans murdered was result of defund police movement: experts

From the NY Post editorial page; The verdict is in: The Trump slandering is a pack of lies.

Deroy Murdock writes in the NY Post that Democrats who claim white supremacy is top problem ignore black racist killers.

NY Dems Are Such A Mess Republicans Might Actually Win The Governorship.

NY Dems ‘scrambling’ for way to lift Hochul and boot Brian Benjamin from ballot.

AG James’ idiotic Big Oil investigation is just exploiting voters.

Opinion: New York taxpayers are getting ripped off with the deal for a new Buffalo Bills football stadium.  Study after study has shown that stadiums are terrible public investments.

NY’s new budget is packed with stealth giveaways for rich, special interests.

NY Needs to Fund Police and Stop Being Soft on Crime: Rep. Nicole Malliotakis.

These 5 States Will Have Highest Tax Burdens in 2022, New Analysis Reveals.

Ilhan Omar mocked for voicing outrage over Easter worship on plane: ‘Why do you hate Christians?’  Watch this to learn about the candidate running against Ilhan Omar.

Tackling the Iranian Regime’s Nuclear Threat.

Gordon G. Chang writes in Gatestone Institute about Deterring China: U.S. Should Arm Taiwan to the Hilt – Now.

And you thought the Biden Administration announcement on Friday was good news (and done out of the “goodness of their hearts”.)  From the Wall Street Journal (subscription required):  An Oil Leasing Fig Leaf/The Biden Interior Department does the bare minimum to comply with a court order to allow lease sales on federal land.

The Cost of New Energy in Europe, but Not in Money.

Border Patrol stopped 23 people on terrorist database at southern border in 2021: CBP data.

Democrats prepare to take second run at Biden spending plan.

Republican states v. Team Biden.

Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to SALT tax deduction.

Parental rights revolution is a problem for Democrats.

Corbin K. Barthold writes in City Journal how Musk Makes the Mask Slip/The Tesla CEO’s bid to buy Twitter has prompted many prominent figures to admit bluntly that they oppose free speech.

‘A Republic, If You Can Keep It’.

Heather MacDonald writes in the City-Journal:  Averting Our Eyes/The New York subway massacre has roots in mental illness, but the shooter’s delusions were likely fed by the relentless cultivation of racial resentment.

Joe Mahoney writes:  Hochul questioned on Lt. Gov. judgment.

Dr. Joel Zinberg’s Op-Ed in the NY Post: Brian Benjamin just the latest in a long line of sleazy New York pols. “Unless voters insist on leaders willing to aggressively address the issue of ethics in government, New York will retain its dubious distinction as a national leader in the production of sleazy politicians.”  As Dr. Zinberg notes in the above quote, voters must choose wisely.  Get involved, Save our State, by helping Lee Zeldin become our next governor.

John Gizzi writes in Newsmax: Resigned Lt. Gov. Benjamin Leaves NY Gov. Hochul a Big Dilemma

Thanks to the Empire Center we now know how much NY’s budget will cost: $6,987.37 per second.

NY Post editorial:  Do NY Democrats really believe their handpicked judges are racially biased?

U.S. Embassy Staff Destroyed Passports as Taliban Took Over, Trapping American Allies in Afghanistan.

Daniel Henninger writes in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required):  The Devil Resurfaces in Ukraine.

From Gatestone Institute:  Iran’s – and America’s – Plans to Fund Russia’s War In Ukraine.

Biden’s Iran deal would create a foreign policy disaster for US and hand Xi, Putin, Khamenei a major victory.

Like all gun control, Biden’s ghost gun push is conspicuous futility.

Biden uses Putin ‘genocide’ as distraction from inflation woes.

Biden’s welcome program for illegal immigrants.

Migrants snap selfies at border after crossing into US.

Migrant bus to Washington ups stakes in GOP-Biden border fight.

Noah Williams writes in City Journal about The Costs of Wishful Thinking on Inflation/Monetary and fiscal policymakers have not adapted well to the Covid-19 recession and subsequent recovery.

Zuckerberg won’t repeat 2020’s massive spending on elections offices, bows to conservative critics.  Why don’t I believe their spokesman Brian Baker?

No one wants a woke mouse in their house.

Christopher F. Rufo:  No Conspiracy Theory/Parents are right to worry about sexual abuse of students by school officials.

Lipton Matthews writes:  Whites Do Not Owe Blacks Anything.

Jeff Minick writes in Intellectual Takeout: Helping Kids Sprout Wings of Independence.

This carnage must end; please God, help us end this senseless violence.  Praying for all involved, the victims and their families and for the first responders who far too often have to rush to similar scenes.

Multiple People Shot, Undetonated Devices Found at Brooklyn Subway Station.

NY lieutenant governor arrested on bribery charges.  Gov. Hochul, loyalty is a great virtue to have, however, your loyalty must be to the citizens of New York state.  As long as you continue to “stand by your man,” New Yorkers will believe that “birds of a feather flock together.”  You’ve made your decision and noted just last week that you have the “utmost confidence” in him.  Today the Lt. Governor surrendered to federal authorities to face a five-count federal indictment brought after a two-year investigation.  Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin’s arrest exposes Kathy Hochul’s vast ethics problem.  Voters will remember and make their voices heard on November 8^th.  To our readers, get involved and help Lee Zeldin Save our State.

NYers buy Medicaid for illegal migrants in Gov. Hochul, Dems’ $220B budget

Albany’s ridiculous reluctance to lift the charter cap is based on fiction.

Youth violence needs more than federal crackdown on ‘ghost guns’.

Inflation surges 8.5% in March, hitting a new 40-year high.

Bidenflation Spikes to New High.

NYT Report Reveals White House in Chaos Over Border Crisis.

Cause for concern…In Medical Schools, Woke Ideology Trumps True Healthcare.

Why ‘Just Print More Money’ Was Always a Terrible (and Dangerous) Idea.

Xi’s zero-COVID policy shows why Communist China remains a threat.

David Keene writes in the Washington Times:   Thin-skinned Biden is the most dangerous man in the world.  Mr. Keene insightful article is well worth reading and explains why Joe Biden’ biggest fear is Rupert Murdock.

Judge Lindley gets it (mostly) wrong.

Where we draw the line: Hyperpartisan districts drawn by N.Y. Democrats must fall.

Hochul’s first budget rewards unions at taxpayers’ expense — and sets the state on the road to insolvency.

Hochul, lawmakers roll back pension reform in $220B budget.

Brian Benjamin’s errata: The lieutenant governor can’t seem to get ethics disclosures right.  The last sentence in this editorial by the NY Daily News is an excellent one, and Governor Hochul should address it.  If Gov. Hochul still has the “utmost support” for LG, we have to ask why?

Don’t expect Hochul’s new ethics panel to be better than the old one.

From: The Citizen in Auburn, NY Our view: NY budget process hardly something to celebrate.

California, New York handled COVID-19 lockdowns the worst, Florida among the best, a new study shows.

Students who oppose free speech and contracts should lose professional prospects.

How Spotify Is Pushing To Abolish Police and Prisons

Democrats face tough climb on winning Senate approval of legal marijuana.

All Drugged Up: Kids, Schools, and the Dulling of the Mind.

China Taking Over Africa: ‘China’s Second Continent’

White House paints rosy picture as recession fears increase.

Axios, Bloomberg, others forecast ‘nasty’ March inflation report: ‘Number likely to be ugly’

Is Rupert Murdoch one of the world’s most dangerous men? Biden’s attack on conservative press

Miranda Devine writes in the NY Post:  The Biden family scheme unravels

Stop Biden and the Democrats’ War on Charter Schools.

Don’t believe any of what China says about Putin’s Ukraine war.

Behind Every Masculine Man Is a Feminine Woman.

Oreos Gone Woke: Is Nothing Off Limits to LGBT Left?

Sometimes you just have to laugh:  We have an early frontrunner for dumbest reason to build a sports stadium of 2022.

Biden isn’t actually pressuring Merrick Garland? You’re Joe-king.

National Review asks What Did Joe Biden Know and When Did He Know It?

Here’s a dozen times Joe Biden played a role in son Hunter’s business dealings.

Larry Elder writes about the Media Collusion of Hunter Biden/Joe Biden Bombshell Story.

Hunter Biden, the Invisible Government, and the Laptop From Hell.

Democrat Members of Congress Break Ranks with Biden to Oppose Iran Deal.

UN Votes to Suspend Russia from Human Rights Council

Gatestone Institute writes about The Great Russian Energy Scam/Russian ‘Dark Money’ Funding ‘Green’ Groups in West.

Also, from Gatestone Institute:  Biden Sends Nearly $1 Billion to Afghanistan Since Taliban Takeover.

This nixed natural-gas project shows you just how absurd Biden’s energy policy is.

More energy insanity from Democrats.

Just in case you may have missed this:  Clinton 2016 campaign, lawyer, tech exec in ‘joint venture’ to smear Trump, Durham alleges.  (And Mrs. Clinton thinks about running for president again…)

Durham’s prosecution of Clinton’s campaign lawyer keeps getting stronger as more lies are exposed.

Michelle Malkin writes:  Beware the ‘Paper Shortage’ Election Ruse.

Immigration Experts Back Lawmaker in Decrying Biden’s ‘Reckless’ Plan for Border.

Totally arrogant or just a totally closed mind?  NY Sen. Gianaris on redistricting: There will be no contingency maps.

It is pathetic that this headline had to be written:  Midtown merchants plead with Hochul to clamp down on skyrocketing NYC crime.

FROM THE DISSIDENT’S DESK: OVERCOMING LIES, DAMN LIES, AND THE TENDENCY TO BELIEVE THEM.

What the Vanity Fair Article on the COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory Proved—and Didn’t Prove.

From National Review:  ‘Control Your Soul’s Desire for Freedom’: Shocking Videos Emerge as Brutal Shanghai Covid Lockdown Drags On.

Trans update: Sanity is winning the TERF wars.

DON’T ASK ME TO CONFIRM YOUR GENDER DELUSION.

There Is Greatness in the Past—Despite What Critical Theorists Try to Tell Us.

Photo by @rodrigodaibert

“The administration will do this for one reason: It wants to.” Biden’s radical Title IX plan would kill women’s sports.

Christopher F. Rufo writes in City Journal about Disney’s Child-Predator Problem/Instead of promoting gender ideology, the company would be better served by addressing a longstanding history among its employees.

Conservatives Need to Take Better Advantage of Gifts From Far Left

Will Business Fight Back? The Chamber of Commerce addresses the nation’s shoplifting outbreak—but its members need a more active strategy to combat the problem.

Biden’s new rules for charter schools would harm the neediest children.

Former Congressman Jason Chaffetz opines for Fox News the Top 10 reasons Democrats will lose power in November.

Dem Focus Group Shows How Out of Touch Biden’s Party Has Become.

Here is a great example of how out of touch some democrats are:  California city to give universal income to transgender, nonbinary residents regardless of earnings.

Biden has gone wobbly on Ukraine.

The Collectivist Horrors Against Ukraine Are Unparalleled in Its History.

Vulnerable Democrats brace for border surge.

Biden’s Title 42 immigration decision will create a national catastrophe.

New Fed study shows Biden owns our economic disaster.

The Left Is Melting Down Over Senator Tim Scott’s Vote on Judge Jackson.

John Durham: Ex-Clinton Lawyer Allegedly Lied to FBI in Writing.

Hochul claims she was unaware that Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin’s comptroller campaign received subpoenas from Manhattan DA.  Governor Hochul must live in a world without any media presence wearing rose-colored glasses, as Mrs. Hochul seldom knows anything about ethical problems in her administration or while she was the Lt. Governor.  Her rose-colored glasses must be working overtime.

How to Change Someone’s Mind.

Photo Credit Fox News

Hochul leads Lee Zeldin by slim 4 points in governor’s race: poll.

Hochul’s shameful move to try to save Dems’ unconstitutional voting map.

Wow, talk about a biased headline!  Publisher’s Corner: Republicans will play the bail reform card to the hilt.

ICYMI David Harsanyi wrote in Friday’s NY Post:  Democrats have a silly double standard for Clarence Thomas and Joe Biden.

The Ukraine war proves it: The West needs to end its reckless war on energy.

Landing on the Right Side of the Tracks: Trades vs. College.

If you only have time to read one article today, make it this one and then send to all of your liberal and semi-liberal friends:  Equality of Opportunity, Not Outcome, Is What Made America Awesome.

The Elites Who Never Say ‘Sorry’.

Tax specialist and journalist calls Bills’ stadium deal a loser for taxpayers.

Churchill: Bills giveaway is corporate welfare at its worst.

Please say it isn’t so:   Ketanji Brown Jackson chose leniency even in baby sex torture cases.

We can only ask why it has taken so long?  Liberal media flips on president’s controversial son after nearly 2 years of covering for him.

Hunter Biden’s laptop and emails are real but what legacy media does next is anyone’s guess/If Hunter Biden’s laptop’s real, what else is?

DOJ Warns State AGs Not to Block Access to Gender Affirming Care,  This, as far as I am concerned is overstepping their (DOJ) authority…if the person is of legal age, ok, however, if the person is under the legal age to sign contracts, get married, buy alcohol or cigarettes, get a tattoo or piercing, or a a myriad of other things, then the parents are the only ones who have a say what their child does to their body; NOT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.   Far too many of our youth are confused about this — the indoctrination begins as a very early age — and any life altering changes made when a person isn’t old enough to truly understand what the long term results will be is the responsibility of their parents.

Prudence as Excellence: Edmund Burke, Abraham Lincoln, & the Problem of Greatness.

ICYMI:  Read Chairman Gerard Kassar’s Op-P/Ed that appeared in  PoliticsNY.Com on April 1, 2022:  New Yorkers Deserve Political Options.