New Yorkers are still grieving the loss of Police Officer Miosotis Familia.  Her sister believes that Mayor de Blasio is not doing enough to protect NY’s Finest.  Heather MacDonald writes in today’s NY Post how politically fueled cop hatred has taken another innocent officer’s life.  Bob McManus explains how our leaders are piling on the risks for cops.   The NY Post calls Police Officer Miosotis Familia “a true New York heroine” in their editorial.   Rest in peace Officer Miosotis Familia.

Here is an excellent editorial in the Chicago Tribune on the consequences of signal-payer health care.  

Do you really want four more years of this?   De Blasio’s real homeless policy: Hide the bad news.     Annual Street Homeless Count Shows 40 Percent Increase Over 2016.  

The Manhattan Institute says there is no easy fix for the MTA.  

Governor Cuomo:  Here is your summer reading assignment.  

This will make you question the government of our northern neighbor.    Another reason to question Canada’s government and be certain that they keep their ideas to themselves. 

Hacked computer server that handled DNC email remains out of reach of Russia investigators. 

Malliotakis: NYC should comply with all federal requests to hand over immigrants.  The fact of the matter is, that one cannot choose which laws they want to follow.  If you disagree with a particular law, you work to change it, but until you can, it binds you.  You may not like it, or agree with it, but the law is the law.  We, as a political party,  do not agree with many laws and we work to change what we can,  we will also speak out on those we do not agree with even when that candidate is our candidate.  

  Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks 07/04/2017

America celebrated her 241st birthday yesterday while Americans enjoyed the day with family and friends.  Today our hearts are heavy with the news that another member of NY’s Finest was assassinated while in her police patrol car.  Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of Police Officer  Miosotis Familia.  

Meanwhile, Manhattan’s DA has a new experiment in unpolicing that will most likely backfire.  

It wasn’t enough to know that the Puerto Rican Day Parade honored a terrorist, now we learn that your money help pay for the float he rode in!

De Blasio’s laughable ‘moral’ case for handing you his legal bill.  

Is anyone surprised by this:   Obamaphone fraud as high as 65%.  

The liberals won’t like this news:  Food stamp rolls plummet in states that restore work requirements.  

This is heartbreaking:  I’m a Pediatrician. How Transgender Ideology Has Infiltrated My Field and Produced Large-Scale Child Abuse.

Sam Adolphsen asks the question:  Has Medicaid Made the Opioid Epidemic Worse?  Something to consider as the discussion of Obamacare continues…until it is repealed.  Betsy McCaughey opines in today’s NY Post on the partisan hysterics ignore the real Medicaid horrors.  

John Gizzi, a longtime political reporter, has a column in Newsmax titled, All eyes on GOP Assemblywoman for Mayor.  The NY Post wrote this:  GOP mayoral candidate star of Fourth of July parade.  

Wednesday’s with Walter E. Williams.  

Seriously, Senator Schumer?  When are you going to stop putting politics ahead of national security?  

CUNY’s obscene pay hike for its top brass.  Workers in private industry would love a 10% pay raise two years in a row.  

Ignoring the will of the people, Governor Andrew Cuomo, pledged a $10 million grant to expand the Purple Heart Hall of Honor in the Hudson Valley, in return for naming the new Tappan Zee Bridge after his father.   How pathetic that Gov. Andrew Cuomo thought the quid pro quo was necessary. Westchester County Executive, Rob Astorino, reacts to the Governor’s naming of the bridge.   

Even the Fresno Bee covered the fact that Paul Massey dropped out of the NYC mayoral race. Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis puts the blame for the transit debacle where it belongs.  As the NY Post editorial states today, with Paul Massey’s withdrawal, the race is now on for mayor of New York.  Carl Campanile writes that Nicole Malliotakis (is) set to become GOP’s top pick in mayoral race.  

Mayor de Blasio is granted a two-year extension on his control of the NYC public school system among other items included in the Extraordinary Session.  Legislators seem to think it is okay to reach into your pocket and take your money then hand it over to their pet projects so they can get re-elected.  

Victor Davis Hanson opines on the late, great Russian collusion myth.  

Justice Thomas Chides Colleagues for Ignoring Second Amendment Case.  

We fought for our freedom in 1776 but there are some elitist in America  today who want to emulate Europe’s government.  Is this really what they want?  If so, go live there and let us, those who respect life, live here with our values.  

You don’t see headlines like this every day:  Maine restaurant workers successfully lobby to lower the minimum wage.  

Mayoral candidate: Everyone thinks NYPD fudges crime stats.  Shortly after this morning’s debate, Paul Massey dropped out of the mayoral race, leaving our candidate, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, as the leading contender for the GOP nod to run against Mayor de Blasio.  Here is Assemblywoman’s statement on Mr. Massey’s withdrawal from the mayoral race.  

State legislators are back in Albany, but they are not certain what they will be doing other than passing a one-year extender on NYC mayoral control of public schools.  It is our sincere hope that the Assembly does not pass the naming of the new Tappan Zee bridge after the Governor’s late father.  As PressConnects is reporting, the Mario Cuomo bridge plan is facing pushback.  Governor Cuomo should take note that it was his father who added Gov. Wilson’s name to the Tappan Zee bridge and honor his father’s wishes.  (As of this posting, legislators are just milling around and no bills have been put on their respective calendars.)

Tammy Bruce opines on the alarming indifference of liberals.  

Ralph Z. Hallow takes on Politico in his column, GOP was never anti-Russia.  

Sen. Ron Johnson says the CBO used a dated baseline making their numbers inaccurate.   Meanwhile, the Washington Free Beacon is reporting that the 19th Obamacare Co-Op Folds, Leaving Only 4 Operating in 2018.  Betsy McCaughey explains that republicans are trying to undo Obama’s Medicaid disaster. Rich Lowry opines in National Review online that despite democrats’ continued hyperbole, the republicans’ Medicaid reform is not unreasonable.  

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. writes in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required):  Expect a Coverup – Russia may have indeed affected the election, through the farcical Mr. Comey.  ICYMI, here is the Washington Post article everyone is talking about.  

Pulitzer-Prize winner Michael Goodwin has come a long way from his career with the NY Times and the NY Daily News and his columns in the NY Post give readers the insight of his 30 plus years in journalism.  Today’s column does not disappoint.   

Wednesday’s with Walter E. Williams.  

Governor Cuomo is bringing the legislative members back, essentially to deal with mayoral control of the NYC school system…and whatever else the Governor may demand.  Contact your Member of the Assembly (518-455-4100) or email them and let them know you do not want the new Tappan Zee Bridge called the Mario Cuomo Bridge.  If you have not signed our petition yet, please do so now. 

Congressman John Faso appeared on Focus on the State Capitol with Fred Dicker  today and explained how his proposal in the new Health Care Bill helps New Yorkers.   Listen to him here, and understand that what Governor Cuomo, the ads being run by SEIU 1199 and editorial boards who are denigrating Congressman Faso’s proposal, are doing so because they do not 1) want any cuts to Medicaid and 2) if the Faso-Collins proposal passes it will mean far less money for their pet projects...and more money for you.  Here is Congressman Faso’s  written response to Governor Cuomo.  

Governor Cuomo:  The Empire Center knows where you can find a few billion dollars for the MTA.

Do headlines matter?  You be the judge:  CBO: Senate Health Care Bill Will Reduce Deficit By $321 Billion.   Or what most of the liberal papers write:  Budget office: Senate health bill adds 22 million uninsured.  The headline normally focusses on the article, so the liberal NY Daily News tries to tell you the “horrors” of the proposal, while the more conservative Washington Free Beacon chooses to focus on the positive.  The irony is when has the CBO even come close to being right?

Campfire Tales: Democrats Held Unplanned Sit-in On Capitol Hill To Discuss Evil GOP Health Care Bill.  

Breaking: Healthcare Vote Delayed; Trump To Meet With GOP Senate.  

The NY Post editorial opines that Sunday’s LGBTQ was the second time in a month that a New York parade featured cheering for someone who’d committed major crimes against the United States.  Sadly, there was a time when NYC parades honored true heroes, but the city I spent half my life in no longer abides by that tradition — now it sees fit to celebrate terrorists and traitors. 

Governor Cuomo is planning more taxes for New Yorkers outside of NYC if the health care proposal includes the “Faso-Collins” language that calls for the state to pay for the local share of Medicaid.  Governor Cuomo is so out of control, he even wants the local tax bill to label his proposed tax the “Faso-Collins Federal Tax” on the local tax bills.  Instead of cutting Medicaid costs, like other states have done, Governor Cuomo insists local taxpayers will continue to pay the $2.3 billion in taxes to “avoid decimation of our health care system.”  Gov. Cuomo also said,  “if this bill passes, Faso, Collins and other Republican members of New York’s delegation who supported it will have to answer to the people of this state for it.”  The reality is, Governor, Congressman Faso and Congressman Collins have the best interests of the taxpayer at heart, and you, Governor, do not.  New York’s Medicaid bill is more than Texas and Florida  combined.  Instead of rushing to add the “Faso-Collins Federal Tax” to property tax bills, Governor Cuomo MUST find ways to eliminate and reduce Medicaid’s bloated budget.  

New York is good at wasting taxpayers’ money.  

How long will it take Governor Cuomo to ban travel to Mississippi?  

By the way, Governor, you should read this:   Settled Science: On Minimum Wage, Basic Economics Again Rudely Intrudes on Liberal Dreams.  

Seth Barron opined on this NY Times story exposes the paper’s liberal hypocrisy over the weekend.

SCOTUS allows President Trump’s travel restrictions to take effect (with limited exceptions) and will revisit it in the Fall.  In another SCOTUS ruling, 7-2. the Court stated it may not deny the church a public benefit because of its religious status. In its policies against religious favoritism, the Court found, the state came dangerously close to preventing the free exercise of religion.

Michael Goodwin opines on how Obama’s liberalism paved the way for Donald Trump.  

Bob Lonsberry opines about a bridge for Mario Cuomo.  

Did you miss Chairman Long on Capitol Tonight last night.  Don’t worry, we have it here. 

The Members of the Legislature have gone home for the time being.  They will certainly return before January to deal with some of the issues — Mayor de Blasio’s control over NYC schools for example — they left on the table.

What should have been left on the table was the 11th hour introduction of the Governor’s Program Bill #14 with a “message of necessity” that waives the 3-day waiting period to age a bill, but more importantly, for the legislators and the public to study the bill.  Gov. Cuomo, while campaigning to be Governor criticized previous Governor’s use of this method to pass bills, yet it is becoming common place in his administration…the NY SAFE Act comes to mind as well as increasing the minimum wage, “marriage equality” and budget bills so he can say the budget was not late.  None of these bills were emergencies, but Gov. Cuomo used Article III, Section 14 of the NYS Constitution as if they were,  essentially to bypass discussion.  Last night, Gov. Cuomo though it was necessary to name the new bridge being built to replace the  Malcolm Wilson Tappan Zee Bridge — the Mario Cuomo Bridge.  (Readers of this blog, know that the Conservative Party believes that the new bridge should be called the Brown Paige O’Grady Bridge to honor the men who gave their lives when domestic terrorists robbed the Nanuet Mall.) The self- proclaimed “lobbyist for students”, thought it was more important to name a bridge after his father, than to put his bully pulpit to use for the students of New York City.  

The Speaker of the Assembly blames the GOP for not extending the Mayor’s control, to which we say…did he negotiate in good faith?  Heastie has been clear that he will not do any deal on mayoral control that includes a link to charter schools.

There are far more important issues than the naming of a bridge and we fully understand that, the problem is the way it was done.  Governor “Coriolanus Snow” Cuomo continues to show his true colors.  

The United Nations has no business in trying to influence the NYS Legislature on any issue, let alone abortion.  

The US Senate Unveils New Obamacare Repeal Bill.  The Faso-Collins Medicaid provision remains in Senate GOP health care bill.  

Chairman Mike Long will join NYCLU’s Donna Lieberman, Emily McNeil of the Labor-Religion Coalition, and Peter Iwanowicz of Environmental Advocates of NY. all members of New Yorkers Against Corruption to explain their opposition to a Constitutional Convention, tonight at 8:00 PM on Spectrum’s Capital Tonight.  Be sure to watch; it is repeated at 11:30 PM.

Governor Rick Scott was the keynote speaker at the GOP’s annual dinner last night along with Lara Trump.  Gov. Scott made headlines when he thanked Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio for creating policies that are responsible for so many New Yorkers  moving to Florida.  Florida’s economy is healthy, while New York’s is almost on life support, especially in upstate.  

As long as Governor Cuomo continues to do things like this, more and more people will flee to Florida.  

Michael Goodwin opines on The truth about mayoral control under de Blasio.   Another honest assessment of Mayor de Blasio and how Sen. Flanagan is doing his best for the children.   

Kellyanne Conway, who was our featured speaker earlier this month,  had the best tweet last evening, when Jon Ossoff lost in Georgia’s 6th CD..  Kellyanne tweeted:  Laughing my #Ossoff.  Jim Geraghty, even gave his readers the right to do a dance today.  Here is the Daily Signal’s take on yesterday’s big win by Karen Handel.  After Georgia, Republicans celebrating, Dems searching.  

This may surprise you:  What Feminist Camille Paglia Says About Transgenderism.  This certainly should not surprise you.  

The miracle of life…can you successfully change your mind after taking RU486?  Yes, there is an abortion pill reversal…read about it here. 

Guy Benson’s Friendly Reminder: The People Scaring You About Repeal Were Disastrously Wrong About Obamacare.  

Are some democrats determined to destroy, by lies and innuendos,  gifted classes?  These two certainly are doing their best to dilute the purpose of gifted classes.  

Wednesday’s with Walter E. Williams.  

Jim Geraghty writes about a brutal North Korean crime that must not be forgotten.  Rest in Peace Otto Warmbier, a young man, who should be enjoying life instead of being buried at the prime of his life.  

New study supports Trump: 5.7 million non-citizens may have cast illegal votes.   

The NY Post editorial asks the question, why won’t de Blasio compromise to save mayoral control?

E. J. McMahon and Josh B. McGee have a new report out:  How New York City’s Pension Costs Threaten Its Future.  

Governor Cuomo:  New report on hydrofracking finds it does not harm drinking water in Texas.  

North of the border, political correctness goes too far.  

The question is:  Who gets to define “hate group” ?  First they came for the hated ‘hate group’. YAF: Number Of Conservative Events Disrupted By Protestors Has Tripled Since Trump’s Election. MICHAEL BROWN Liberals’ typical knee-jerk reaction: Blame the right!  

Russia flexs its muscles:  Armed Russian jet comes within 5 feet of US recon jet.  

Investor’s Business Daily asks is Mueller too conflicted to investigate Trump fairly?

Reminder:  Vote No on the Constitutional Convention.  If you need to know more, read this.  

Even Mayor de Blasio knows that this proposed bill belongs in the trash can.  John Miller explains why in today’s NY Post.  Here’s what the NY Post editorial board had to say on Saturday:  Will the City Council ever stop aiming to kneecap the NYPD?  

Mayor de Blasio is in campaign mode, pandering his pipe dreams.  If he really wanted to help create jobs, he would cut taxes and regulations to make NYC a better business environment.  

The Washington Post exposes that MS-13 gains recruits and power in U.S. as teens surge across border.  

David Keene writes in praise of apprenticeship and after the attack in Alexandria.  

Chairman Long was on Kevin McCullough Radio on Friday…Chairman Long begins at about the 28:20 mark.  

CBS.s Scott Pelley does not help the situation with language like this.  

Vote No on the 2017 proposal for a Constitutional Convention.  Over 100 groups are united to prevent another taxpayer funded boondoggle.  

Cuba Says It Will Not Send Fugitives Back To the U.S.  

This Judge must be living in his own world if he thinks a cross in unconstitutional.  

BREAKING:  OTTO WARMBIER, WHO WAS HELD PRISONER IN NORTH KOREA FOR 17 MONTHS BEFORE COMING HOME LAST WEEK, HAS DIED, HIS FAMILY SAYS.  Rest in Peace, Otto Warmbier.  

Michael Goodwin writes in today’s NY Post that political death threats becoming new, unsettling normal.  Goodwin’s column, filled with facts and common sense, is well worth reading. 

Today’s NY Post editorial states that it is time to tone it down.  

While some continue to use a tragedy to call for gun control…Cheryl K.  Chumley, the online opinion editor for The Washington Times, says we don’t need gun control, we need democrat control.  

TODD STARNES: America teetering on the brink of political anarchy.  

Safe spaces are not for everyone…if you are conservative, it certainly isn’t for you.  Then again, we don’t require safe spaces.  

If the NYC Council continues to introduce bills like this, the citizens of NYC should call for it to be disbanded.  This proposal is beyond insane.  

The state is so good at wasting our hard earned dollars.   Be happy this project fell apart before it was paid any grant money. 

5 Ways Obamacare Proves That Government-Run Health Care Is a Disaster.  

$240,418,000,000: Feds Collect Record Taxes in May; Still Run $88,246,000,000 Deficit.  

This is heartbreaking, but unfortunately, not surprising:  Doctors: We Found No Evidence Otto Warmbier’s Coma Was Caused By Botulism As North Korea Claims.  

NY schools spend $21,206 per pupil.  This exceeds the national average by 86% and yet, if you read about school budgets, you would think that New York was spending less than every other state.  New York spends $64.8 billion with 2.6 million students (excluding Charter Schools), while California spends more, $75.5 billion with almost three times the number of students or 6.2 million. The figures are from the US Census Bureau and are only current through the 2014-2015 school year.  Something to think about the next time you have to vote on a school budget.

The Federalist writes that former FBI Director Comey has a long history of questionable obstruction cases.  

Our President, Donald J. Trump, is doing his best — as an outsider — to change how things are done in Washington.  Almost 6 months into his administration and things are struggling along. Anyone else would have been given more time to adjust from being a businessman — essentially a one-man show — to the head of the greatest government in the world without being criticized for every mistake.  Michael Goodwin writes today that perhaps Jeff Sessions should not have been President Trump’s AG.  He makes some good points, but we cannot go back and change facts, however Goodwin’s final paragraph is spot on.   Health care expert, Betsy McCaughey, opines on her concerns that VA Secretary David Shulkin is capitulating to the public-employee unions and their Democratic lackeys in Congress who oppose allowing vets to leave the VA.  At the end of her column, Ms. McCaughey does give President Trump credit for applying the brakes, but the federal gravy train is still rolling.

Donald Devine opines on Donald Trump and the Future of Conservatism.  

In response to this “Congressman, Capitol cops shot during GOP baseball practice,”  the Conservative Party issued the following statement:  “Today is a sad day in America.   Today you realize that the vitriol in the political world has become so dangerous, that unbalanced people become unhinged and shoot five people practicing baseball for a charity game. Enough is enough.  The contempt that certain individuals have for our system of government – the best in the world – must end.”

President Trump: We Are Strongest When We Are Unified And Working Together.  

Today is Flag Day, let us remember the symbolism of our Flag and honor what our Flag stands for:  I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Wednesday’s with Walter E. Williams.