16 years later we still mourn those callously murdered on September 11, 2001 here in New York, the Pentagon and in Shanksville, PA.  

Pray for America.

Good news for those of us who value life!  NY High Court Rejects Constitutional Right to Assisted Suicide.  New York’s highest court rejected the argument Wednesday that mentally competent, terminally ill patients have a constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, upholding lower court rulings.  The NY Law Journal has more on this here, but you will have to register (free) to access the article.  US News and World Reports has a shorter article here.  

From the Daily Signal:  House Republicans Unhappy That Trump Siding With Democrats on Debt Ceiling.  The Conservative Action Project issued a memo yesterday calling for no debt limit increase without fiscal reforms which Chairman Long signed onto.  It is imperative that Congress adopts fiscal reforms as noted in the memo: With Republicans in unified control of the government this time around, settling for minor reforms – or, worse, for a debt ceiling increase with no reforms – would be a squandered opportunity.  We cannot sustain, certainly not increase, the current 77 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).  Here is our current national debt.  

Is this our future?  How many migrants in Europe are Jihadists? Will American courts mandate that we take in migrants?  If we fail at what President Trump promised campaigning and since taking office, there is the possibility that Sen. Schumer and Nancy Pelosi will return as leaders in 2018 and stifle any hope of making America great again.  Sen. Schumer refuses to understand why President Trump halted DACA for six months despite what he said in 2009.  Watch the video; what happened to the man speaking in it? (Politics and the lust to be the majority leader by pandering to those who have taken over the democratic party?)  Here is more on the biometric based federal employment verification system mentioned by Sen. Schumer.  Here is the Washington Times view of waking up from an impossible dream.  

Ben Shapiro’s op-ed in the NY Post lays out why the Republicans should get radical.  

Betsy McCaughey lets us know ObamaCare is making the middle class the new uninsured.  

Just when I thought she was reasonable, Sen. Feinstein does this:  Feinstein Attacks Catholic Judicial Nominee at Hearing.  I guess it only proved the old adage that even a clock is right twice a day.  

Why would anyone in New York City vote for Mayor de Bolshevik?   He despises capitalist and finds new ways to take their money, while turning a blind-eye to the real problems in New York City.  

Hillary, stop writing, or should that be stop whining.  You lost, get over it.  We already know What Happened, you were a terrible candidate and you lost it all on your own!

Progressive leftist have little or no respect for the rule of law, for example, Mayor de Blasio insists that NYC will continue to support people who rely on DACA even as Trump axes the program while Cuomo and Schneiderman vow New York will sue Trump over move to end DACA.  Even President Obama dumped on Trump despite knowing full well that his DACA Executive Order overstepped his presidential role…Congress makes laws, presidents sign or veto them.

Some honest liberals understand the rule of law.  Will Sen. Feinstein face backlash for speaking the truth that DACA is on shaky legal ground? 

Rich Lowry writes in today’s NY Post that Trump just took a giant step toward truly legalizing the Dreamers.  Investor’s Business Daily writes how President Trump upholds the Constitution by dumping DACA, and critics freak out.  National Review has an article by Fred Bauer that deals with the politics of the DACA fix.   We have all learned this week that Americans are a very generous and understanding society, yet, we also understand that we are a society that relies on the rule of law…and it is long past the time that progressive leftist learn that as a society who have created the greatest nation the rule of law prevails.  

How ironic:  Planned Parenthood president says “we firmly believe that every person has the right to live, work, and raise a family freely and without the threat of deportation or separation,” (Except, of course, the those whose lives are ripped from their mother’s womb.)

Michele Malkin puts DACA into perspective with her article on there is no such thing as a ‘Deserving DREAMer‘.  

Mayor de Blasio, the more you try to explain what you meant, the more people know how disingenuous you sound.  Even your fellow democrat, Michael Goodwin, is calling on democrats to vote for anyone but you.  We urge voters to cast their vote for Nicole Malliotakis, a clear alternative to the self-absorbed, egocentric occupant of Gracie Mansion.  

Governor Cuomo’s summer of hell is bringing him an autumn of frost.  

The last time taxpayers had to pay for a Constitutional Convention, it was turned down by a 3-1 vote; a colossal boondoggle.    Unfortunately, some think it is a good idea; but as they learn more about it, the support falls off.  

Here is a great book if you want to know about the rise of conservatism from the inside, and then some, in a political memoir for all seasons,   Whiplash! From JFK to Donald Trump: A Political Odyssey  is written by  Arnold L. Steinberg and anyone with just a passing interest in politics will enjoy this book.  

Wednesday’s with Walter E. Williams.  

Unbelievable!  All I will say is that pride comes before the fall and that the NY Post is correct in calling Mayor de Blasio a jerk.  

The NY Times calls Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis “a gutsy GOP challenger.”  The NY Times ends its article with this:  “What’s not clear is if she will raise enough money to qualify for city matching funds and for a place in a debate against Mr. de Blasio, assuming he wins his party’s nomination. Should she fall short, we’d encourage the mayor to debate her anyway. The city would be the better for it.  (emphasis added.)  If you want to help Nicole click here.  

Comptroller DiNapoli reports what upstate already knew:  upstate work force is dwindling.  

Strange bedfellows emerge as convention debate intensifies.  The Village Voice also gives some pros and cons to holding a Constitutional Convention.  We are urging a NO vote in November.  

Charles Hurt, writing in the Washington Times, has the best response to the left’s frantic DACA suspension, including Mayor de Blasio, and Governor Cuomo’s threat of litigation when President Trump ends DACA  pay attention Gentlemen, DACA is against the US Constitution. Guy Benson thinks President Trump may be bluffing on ending DACA, but is right to put the issue squarely on the shoulders of Congress.  

Dennis Prager opines on Conservatives in America – Like Marranos in Medieval Spain.  

Some reading material you may have missed over the Labor Day Weekend:

It Wasn’t Comey’s Decision to Exonerate Hillary – It Was Obama’s.  

Comey drafted announcement closing Hillary Clinton probe before key witnesses interviewed: Senators.

The case for a special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton.

Judge orders feds to release details of Clinton email probe after FBI refused request.  

Trump Rolls Back Onerous Diversity Regs.  

The Trump Administration Believes in the Dignity of Work.  

What It Means That The Right Is Animated By Principle And The Left By Power.  

Trump’s national security advisers give warning, hope to avoid ‘total annihilation’ of North Korea.

The Empire Center on pensions:  Still ticking, all the same.  

Americans are getting clobbered by their tax bills.   

Inside the NYC schools critics call ‘failure factories’. 

The Washington Times reported this yesterday:  “Hillary Clinton’s case isn’t interesting enough to the public to justify releasing the FBI’s files on her, the bureau said this week in rejecting an open-records request by a lawyer seeking to have the former secretary of state punished for perjury.”  This struck me as a very strange statement by the FBI — “isn’t interesting enough” — since when does the FBI consider the public’s interest when it decides to reject an open-records request.  I checked the FBI website, and looked at the tab that said “What we Investigate”.   Public Corruption was front and center and if you scroll down, the FBI listed 8 cases under “Public Corruption News”… of the 8 listed, not one was familiar to me…(and believe me, I read a lot of public corruption news articles) yet, FBI records management section chief, David M. Hardey in denying the FOIA request stated, “It is incumbent upon the requester to provide documentation regarding the public’s interest in the operations and activities of the government before records can be processed pursuant to the FOIA.”  Very strange that he thinks the “public” has no interest in how Hillary handled her emails while Secretary of State, yet had press releases on the 8 listed.   I’m very surprised to learn that government transparency is not “interesting enough” to justify releasing the FBI’s files on her.  Maybe Hillary will tell us what happened when the FBI investigated her in her new book What Happened instead of blaming everyone but herself. 

As your children leave for college, consider the differences in how colleges educate our young: Berkeley and University of Tampa.  Even before going to college, parents must know what is being taught in their schools.  

Is this our future:  Vandals behead Christopher Columbus statue in Westchester.  Mayor de Blasio did not help the situation when he said  he would have a commission review New York’s statutes., albeit he is trying to walk that back a bit.   The NY Post editorial calls him out on his self-inflicted problem.  

Betsy McCaughey reminds us again about America’s deadly nursing homes. 

VOTE NO on the first ballot question in November’s election: Shall there be a Constitutional Convention?  Here are some articles on the Con-Con:  Davis: A Constitutional Convention would pander to special-interest groups and New York constitutional convention vote raises hopes, fears.  

Leopards never change their spots:  Linda Sarsour Criticized for Grifting for Fake Hurricane Harvey Charity.  Cruel and heartless and very un-American.

This is the true face of Americans! If you are in a position to do so; please donate to help Texas and Louisiana stand strong once again.  

Wednesday’s with Walter E. Williams:  Racial Lies and Racism.  

The headline reads “Mayor de Blasio signs bill to hike cigarette pack price to $13 minimum, reduce smoking” but it should read, “Mayor de Blasio signs bill to help the black market by hiking the cost of a pack of cigarettes to $13 minimum.”  This article is from 2010 and nothing has been done to change the situation, except the Mayor’s action yesterday which will only increase black market sales...and fund terrorism.    

Mayor de Blasio, NYC’s homeless problem needs your attention.  Assemblywoman Malliotakis is right when she states, “New York City taxpayers are footing the bill for homeless shelters they deserve to know what’s going on inside them.”  

By the way, Mr. Mayor, giving the homeless “tenants’ rights” is not the answer to the homeless problem, but it is another way to push your progressive agenda.   

If history — not the revisionist history the left has pushed for years — was being taught in schools, a plaque would not be necessary, Mr. Mayor.  Mayor de Blasio perhaps you should read this to understand the history behind the Christopher Columbus statute that you think needs a plaque. 

Dennis Prager wrote this for those who think like Mayor de Blasio:  Those Who Don’t Fight Evil Fight Statues.  

This catholic school should just remove itself from its catholic identity since it is removing the catholic identity from its grounds.  

When will the left admit the TEA Party never did this?  

Larry Horist opines on why the left-wing authoritarianism will be rejected by Americans. 

Daniel Oliver questions why the Navy goes bump in the night…and makes some interesting points doing so.  

One didn’t have to be a genius to know this:  Upstate New York Casinos Failing to Meet Gaming Revenue Expectations.  One does have to ask the obvious question now — how much of a deficit will be in the state and local budgets?

Larry Horist writes in PunchingBag Media that more money will not fix health care.

This is America:  3 Scenes From Rescue Effort and Flooding in Houston.  If you can’t volunteer, please consider a donation to a reputable charity, here is a list of charitable organizations that have good reputations and will help the thousands who need help now and in the coming months.  If you budget doesn’t allow for a donation, prayers for those who have lost everything, are still free and a strong part of American heritage.    

Two articles regarding the de Blasio Administration are quite concerning, both show how mismanaged New York City is under his leadership.  First, taxpayers will have to replace 36,000 smartphones issued to the NYPD and second, the Education Department failed to track $84 million for disabled students.  Here is Assemblywoman Malliotakis taking the Mayor to task on his lack of accountability.  

Nicole Gelinas explains how, even though New York City’s economy is good, Mayor de Blasio is spending New York into trouble.  

The NY Post editorial board is not impressed with Mayor de Blasio’s $383 million school Renewal program.  Mr. Mayor, please give students a real chance; expand Charter Schools.  

Governor Cuomo’s “clear energy” con.  

Does the revenue from marijuana sales in Colorado effect how authorities judge this simple fact?  

A rose by any other name is still a rose.   Sen. Ruben Diaz opines on the Christopher Columbus statue and the Tappan Zee Bridge and makes some very good points.  

Kansas has good news:  Welfare Reform in Kansas Caused Individuals to Reenter Labor Force Earning Higher Incomes.    

More Good News:  The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Arkansas can kick Planned Parenthood out of its network of Medicaid-approved health providers.  

Our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone in Houston and all those impacted by Hurricane Harvey.  If you are able, here is a list of charitable organizations that have good reputations and will help the thousands who need help now and in the coming months.  Thank you for considering.  

Jeremiah Kittredge, writes in today’s NY Post, that there is fresh proof that de Blasio’s war on charters hurts kids..

If students could donate to the Mayor they would have more of his attention.  

It appears this NYC housing developer– the Stagg Group — has developed quite the “soak the taxpayers” scheme by baiting and switching who is eligible for their buildings.  Here is what our candidate, Nicole Malliotakis, has to say about de Blasio’s administration and the homeless.  

After reading articles like this, I would hope that parents take back control of the education system and until that happens they home school their innocent children.  If one needs another reason to take back the education system, read this article on monument mayhem, history hysteria, rooted in poor public education.  This is only part of what students should be learning about the statutes far too many want to destroy.

Larry Elders asks the questions, Why Stop at Reassessing Confederate Monuments? What About the Kennedy Brothers?

File this under another dumb waste of taxpayers’ money.  

File this under a very poor decision by Governor Cuomo:  Cuomo’s Natural Gas Blockade

You know the left has gone off the deep end when David Axelrod questions what they are saying. Here is Dr. Keith Ablow’s take on President Donald J. Trump’s sanity.  

Can you imagine what the media’s reaction would be if TEA Party members did stalked democrats at home and in their offices.  Do you see any reporting of this?  

Did you know praying on a football field is against the US Constitution?  Just ask the 9th Circuit Court, they will tell you it is not protected by the First Amendment.  

Maybe the solar eclipse is responsible, perhaps it is years of being politically correct, but the latest bizarre example of the phenomena of removing and toppling statutes has reached the apex of absurdity with the removal, by ESPN, of Robert Lee as the announcer of the UVA game. 

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio isn’t much brighter than the person at ESPN who removed Robert Lee as an announcer.  In his zest to defend himself he said “We’re trying to unpack 400 years of American history here — that’s really what’s going on.”   The only way we have 400 years of American history is if we calculate from the minute the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.  Does anyone think the Mayor needs a refresher course in History?  The bigger question is, would he make the same type of historical mistake on Cuba’s history...since he loves Cuba so much he had to honeymoon there.  

Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito displays her ignorance in Columbus kerfuffle.  

Fortunately, Italian-American leaders vow to fight for Columbus statue and I am certain the leaders of every nationality will stand strong with them.  

New York City isn’t the only area suffering from this phenomena, here is a list of 8 monuments around our nation that have been attacked since Charlottesville.

History isn’t the only refresher course needed by Mayor de Blasio; a refresher in ethics is desperately needed also.   

More kids should get the chance to excel at Success Academy.  

This is alarming, but, unfortunately not surprising:  U.N.: North Korea supplying Syrian chemical weapons program.  All the more reason Larry Horist is right: No Nukes for North Korea.  

Heather MacDonald on Culture, Not Culture Wars.  

Wednesday’s with Walter E. Williams — Charlottesville Donnybrook, a must read.  

What has happened to our republic?  When was it hijacked by left-leaning political leaders who are  exercising what amounts to mob rule?  This phenomena of removing and toppling statutes that have been the symbol of our history for years is mob rule, albeit, there is no movement to remove statutes of left-wing icons whose works are appalling (Margaret Sanger comes to mind; so does Franklin Delano Roosevelt.)  City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, who embraces the convicted terrorists Oscar Lopez Rivera, a thug who brought terrorism to NYC for the first time, is calling for the removal of statutes throughout the city, including the Christopher Columbus monument in Columbus Circle.  Leftist political leaders have succumbed to mob rule; unable to embrace what we have learned from our past and the extraordinary country we have become.  They discredit the honor bestowed on them by the citizens of New York City and America.

Cal Thomas opines on Historical Hysteria.  

Victor Davis Hanson opines on our war against memory.  

Alan Dershowitz on tearing down statutes.  

Mayor de Blasio has lost touch with New Yorkers; how does any one person need nearly 300 “special assistants”?  Do any of the “Special Assistants” ever check on the residents of the City Housing Authority.  Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis did and came away calling the authority — under the mayor’s control — the biggest slum lord in the city.  

Mayor de Blasio is in charge of the NYC Schools, yet, taxpayers are paying $25 million for teachers no one wants.  Mr. Mayor, when will you resolve this outrageous waste of money and actually help students?  

Governor Cuomo, another leftist political leader who is part of the mob rule, is joining forces with a national group to identify inmates who may qualify for clemency and help them apply.  

Trump lays out a winning strategy for Afghanistan.  

Ambassador John Bolton writes that Trump must stop North Korea from striking American Soil.  

Thomas Jefferson’s personal belief of democracy…”“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”

You know one is an influential person when the New York Times writes their obituary.  On Saturday, both the NY Times, the Washing Post and Politico wrote about the death of Arthur J. Finkelstein, a man who changed the world.  Craig Shirley wrote, in January of this year – after learning of his being ill – this moving tribute to Arthur.  Conservatives mourn the loss of Arthur and know this: Arthur’s legacy as a political consultant and his personal dedication to his “kids” is one that conservatives celebrate.  Rest in peace, Arthur.

Couldn’t, no shouldn’t, this money be put into educating students, not paying teachers permanently removed from teaching, yet still being paid.  There has to be a better way to protect taxpayers and students.  

Then you add this to what taxpayers are forced to pay and you have to wonder why people don’t force government to stop wasting money.  

Nicole Gelinas writes that connections trump justice in de Blasio’s New York.  

The Beat gives you facts you need to know on Mayor Mum.  

Cheryl K. Chumley writes in the Washington Times on monument madness a leftist cover to crumble America from within.  The NY Post editorial board says:  NY Democrats’ race to wipe out history is a monumental mistake.  Rasmussen Reports says that voters strongly believe that it is better to learn from the past than erase it.  Peter Heck says If we’re tearing down statues, let’s be consistent.  Imagine for a moment what the left would do if anyone ever tried to take down Margaret Sanger … Charles Darwin … Robert Byrd … and Alfred Kinsey..  

Valerie Richardson writes that the rise of antifa after violence in Charlottesville alarms free-speech advocates.  Why is it that photos of far-left groups always wear items that try to conceal their identity?  The only credit this Dartmouth professor should get is he doesn’t disguise himself.  

What Europe Should Be Doing to Prevent Another Terrorist Attack Like Barcelona.   If Europe doesn’t take heed of their advice, this article in Gatestone Institute may well be a prophecy.  

When is the main stream media going to cover this:  A spy story for our times?

Robert Knight opines on guarding election integrity. 

So, Mr. Mayor, when you over tax me to help others, will I be eligible to live here?  The original rent was going to be $631 per room for non-homeless shelter rent, but because of you taxpayers will have to pay $1028 per room for a homeless shelter rent.  Pretty good deal for the developer but he doesn’t think it is such a good deal.  Our Mayor, always thinking of those less fortunate and punishing those who work hard for a better life.  Maybe he would learn a thing to two if he reads Katherine Timpf’s great article in National Review:  What’s so generous about spending other people’s money?  I know, it is silly of me to think he would even read it or admit his beliefs are so misguided.

Governor Cuomo certainly had his finger in the air seeking the political direction of the current crisis and suddenly remembered that CUNY’s Hall of Fame has Confederate bust on display …and ordered them removed.  Such courage.  By the way, Governor Cuomo, you probably didn’t know that the “cleaning of the voter rolls” you are so against, began under President Obama.  

Another know-it-all slams the door shut on the First Amendment.  

Arthur Herman says Charlottesville never had to happen.  

The battle of Charlottesville: The center must hold.  

Ben Shapiro explains the 3-step argument the left makes to justify violence against conservative speakers.  

More news to make snowflakes happy and parents wondering why they are spending thousands of dollars on a college education: ‘Stress Reduction Policies’ Let Students Choose Their Own Grades.  

Ever wonder why health care costs are constantly going up?  Here is one reason why.  

Betsy McCaughey explains why workers need a corporate tax cut.  

Here are two positives articles for Pro-Lifers:  Court Rules Arkansas Can Defund Planned Parenthood and Why This Veteran With Terminal Brain Cancer Opposes Legalizing Assisted Suicide.    (Many who attended our CPPAC in 2016 remember J.J. Hanson’s moving presentation.)