Chairman Long reacts to state lawmakers heading to Russia.  

Another success for the schools de Blasio detests.  

Mr. Mayor:  Take the advice given in this NY Post editorial. 

Mayor de Blasio is “ready” to help elect next NYC Council Speaker.  

Democrats’ pathetic bid to swear their way into voters’ hearts.  

Sessions Pushes Back at ‘Appalling, Detestable’ Lies.   

Did you know the IRS can seize your money based on a hunch?  This bill would end this practice. 

The Daily Signal writes how new social media background checks could enhance homeland security.   

What would happen if sex-education programs were cut?  The United Kingdom has the not-so-surprising answer.  

The Mercatus Center has some good ideas on Medicare Reform.  

Chairman Long reacts to state lawmakers heading to Russia.  

Michael Goodwin, one of the most acuminous political opinion writers around, wrote over the weekend that Comey’s ‘truth’ crusade is really an anti-Trump one.  

Economy emerges as bright spot for Trump, but, NY’s tax revenues lower. Serious future problems develop when tax revenues do not equal what is projected in order to balance the state budget.

School-desegregation push doesn’t help the kids who need it.  

Local victims of bombings by the terror group FALN watched in disgust Sunday as one of the murderous organization’s former leaders led Manhattan’s Puerto Rican Day Parade — riding out in front as the guest of honor with his fist thrust defiantly in the air.  Here is what the NY Post editorial board has to say about Oscar Lopez Rivera’s appearance in the Puerto Rican Day Parade.

By the way, Puerto Rico upholds statehood demand in contentious vote., only 23% turnout in the non-binding vote.  

I know politicians love being in the limelight, but, Congressman Crowley can’t be too happy about this.   

Flanagan would reduce nuke subsidies.  

It is good to see corporations taking a stand on their own, without people calling for boycotts.  

Universal Basic Idiocy.  

Do we really want to devolve into this?  Or fact problems like this?  Are we frogs in boiling water, or will we realize what is going happening in Europe?

Robert Knight opines on bowing to Bernie’s secular gods.  

This week on the Journal Editorial Report on Fox News, Michael Mukasey dissects the Comey hearing, fallout.  

Dershowitz Tweetstorm: There’s No Evidence of Obstruction, and Inventing Crimes is Dangerous.  

It looks like a book deal is in the works for the former director, but how will we know if the book is honest and not just a fired employee looking to establish that he was fired without cause?  

New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito has an agenda, and this statement proves that she is deaf to where New York City residents stand when it comes to honoring a convicted terrorist.    The Speaker always seeks the spotlight, however, on this issue she avoids the press.  

The NY Post and the rest of New Yorkers want to know how would the mayor keep juvenile criminals off the streets?  

Talk about stirring the pot, what is Governor Cuomo talking about when he says “Start with me” regarding deporting immigrants.  Really, Governor Cuomo, how downright reprehensible to compare American citizens born here to those who enter our country illegally.  Do you lock your door at night or do you leave it open for anyone to come in your home?  (Of course, you don’t have to worry about locking your door since you have the constant presence of your taxpayer funded state police detail give you protection; ordinary citizens do not have that luxury.) My grandparents emigrated to America, as did yours, legally.  That is all we ask, that anyone who wants to live in America, to do so legally, by knocking on the front door and asking to come into our home.  Governor, identity politics, the politics that drives you, is reprehensible.

Congressman Chris Collins has no fear of the Governor’s stated plan to remove New York’s  GOP Members of Congress.  In fact, Congressman Collins says, bring it on!

New Report Shows Visa Overstays Are Up. How Congress Can Help Better Enforce Immigration Law.  

William McGurn, writing in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required), explains why the elites hate.  

‘The King and I,’ Starring Hillary Clinton by Bill O’Reilly’s staff.  

Comey’s Coy Testimony Indicts Himself, Not Trump.   Watch for yourself here.   Loretta Lynch Told Comey He Should Call Clinton Probe a “Matter,” Not An Investigation.  Comey Admits to Leaking: I Had a Friend Give My Memos To a Reporter.  Comey: Nobody, Including The President, Asked Me to Stop The FBI’s Russia Investigation.  Chris Matthews: Trump-Russia collusion theory ‘came apart’ with Comey testimony.  

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NY City increases its budget by $1.7B over last year’s budget and overall by 22% since de Blasio has been Mayor.  The Mayor and members of the City Council applauded themselves on the increased spending, while over-taxed middle-class families worry how they can sustain the constant increases in taxes to pay for all the new and expanded handouts.

Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis will march in a Puerto Rican Day Parade…in Sunset Park.  

A push for congesting pricing is back…. why do some keep pushing bad ideas?

Kudos to the Democrat & Chronicle for asking the question:  NY spends $8B each year on job programs. So where are the jobs?   

NY’s state health exchanges may have exorbitant rate hikes in 2018…. why is the Cuomo Administration not releasing the details of the rate increases?

Betsy McCaughey writes how the war on e-cigarettes is now national.  

I’m an Attorney General Asking Supreme Court to Uphold Trump’s Travel Ban. Here’s Why.  

President Trump continues to deliver on his campaign promises.  More good news from the Trump Administration.  Surprise: The United States is the Leading Reducer of Carbon Emissions…what will the naysayers say now?  10 Things to Know About Christopher Wray, President Trump’s Pick For FBI Director.  

Michael Brendan Dougherty writes in National Review:  Stop Comparing the London Attacks to Freak Accidents and Natural Disasters. 

Here is what some Imam’s are preaching…

BREAKING: Comey’s Opening Remarks Released Ahead of Thursday Testimony.  

Wednesday’s with Walter E. Williams.  

June 6, 1944…73 years later, we MUST remember D-Day and thank the greatest generation for their sacrifices.  Today we thank the brave young men and women who are protecting the values the greatest generation fought for … Freedom…the freedom to be all that we can be.  We Salute you and pray for you and your families.  

De Blasio’s Puerto-Rican-Parade pants are on fire.  

Right Mr. Mayor, like you have done such a great job…NOT. 

Bill Hammond questions Gov. Cuomo’s resistance Rx..   

Do you want to know how your property taxes become so high?  Unfunded mandates!  

Betsy McCaughey writes:  the war on e-cigs is now national.  Betsy certainly hits the nail on the head with this, “Hypocrisy has reached new heights, even by Washington’s standards. The same left-wing senators who support needle-exchange and methadone programs to reduce harm to drug addicts and demand condoms for high-schoolers are waging war against the most effective harm reducer of all — e-cigarettes.”

CA Governor Flying to China to Defy Trump on Climate Deal.  He really should read the US Constitution before he makes a complete fool of himself.  

Any doubt that Governor Cuomo is running for President?  However, Gov. Cuomo should remember this.  

President Reagan,  we celebrate what you gave us while we still mourn your death 13 years ago today.  

Matthew Continetti writes about another great conservative icon (who has also left us), the irreplaceable William F. Buckley, Jr. 

Ralph Z. Hallow opines on the NYS Conservative Party’s annual dinner in the Washington Times. 

Governor Cuomo thinks he is already president of the United States as he bullies private health insurance companies by telling them if they withdraw from the Obamacare Health Exchanges they will not be allowed to participate in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Plan.  He will also require them to provide the 10 essential “health benefits” required by Obamacare…all of this bluster prior to knowing what the final revised bill will contain.  Some believe that Gov. Cuomo’s plan would bring more uncertainty to NY Insurers.  Meanwhile, Obamacare continues to fail.  

More bad news for New York:  State population getting older as young people leave upstate area.  This is a major reason why young people are fleeing New York:  New York ranks 32 among states as best location to find jobs, study shows.  

The Mayor, believes that taking mass transit would be “cheap symbolism.”  However, he has no problem with Oscar Lopez Rivera’s cheap symbolism in saying  “ I’m just marching as a “humble Puerto Rican grandfather,”     The latest Puerto Rican parade twist is just damage control.

Poor Bill, his legal troubles have been very costly, how will he pay for them?  Will taxpayers ultimately end up paying them? 

Linda Chavez ends her NY Post column with this “Turning the story of Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election into a partisan issue helps further Russian aims, and the real loser is American democracy.”  Read the rest of her how Hillary’s sore-loserism helps Vladimir Putin column here.  

The NY Sun thinks former Mayor Bloomberg is on thin ice and that he should read the US Constitution when it comes to the Paris Accord.  

This New Hampshire County Switched From Obama to Trump. How the Opioid Crisis May Have Influenced That.  

How true!  

Will the main street media cover the fact that President Trump is helping veterans?  Or the plans to change American air travel? 

Malliotakis calls for de Blasio to drop out of Puerto Rican Day Parade.  “I think it’s completely outrageous that we have a mayor and a Council speaker who think it’s appropriate to not only attend, but to march alongside the leader of the organization that claimed responsibility for these attacks on our city,” said Malliotakis, a member of the state Assembly.   Did you know that Staten Island Borough President, James Oddo endorsed Nicole’s run for Mayor?  And today, former candidate for NYC Mayor, Joe Lhota, also endorsed the Assemblywoman.

Michael Goodwin is blunt in his assessment of today’s democrats.   Goodwin reminds me of one of former President Ronald Reagan’s famous quotes, “I didn’t leave the Democratic party, the Democratic Party left me.,” and that was long before (1962) the democrats in leadership positions  today find it necessary to honor a convicted terrorist

Manhattan Institute’s The Beat has more background information on the terrorist. 

Here is another democratic leader who is so far to the left that he is determined to curb American’s right to free speech.   Ironically, the person who committed the murders is a Bernie supporter and has nothing to do with the Trump speech Wheeler wants to cancel.  

Robert Knight opines on from suppression to coercion.  

FACT CHECK: Does the Trump Budget Gut Medicaid?

Obama’s regulations in 2016 to drain economy by $2 trillion.  You can read the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s report here. 

Heather MacDonald opines on The Left’s Unilateral Suicide Pact.  

Take that North Korea:  Successful U.S. missile interceptor test cast as warning to North Korea, Iran.   

Wednesday’s with Walter E. Williams. 

We hope you all had a safe and uplifting Memorial Day and had the chance to partake in Memorial Day festivities.  Thank you to all our veterans, those who gave their all, those who are still giving and future veterans who will take up the cause of freedom…we pray for you and your families

Chris Pope writes in National Review online about the single-payer mirage an excellent article that everyone who support single-payer health care should read, including elected officials. California is shocked as to the cost of this progressive dream, taxpayer nightmare.

We used to be deplorable, now we are crazy!  Hillary, let it go, you failed, you lost because of things you did, just let it go and try to be a good grandmother, not a bitter curmudgeon. 

Late Friday night, Governor Cuomo came to his senses and decided he would not march in the Puerto Rican Day Parade.  Certainly, took him long enough to decide and to be honest, he most likely thought it was a safe bet since so many others had already withdrawn.  The extremism of Speaker Mark-Viverito is obvious with her support of a convicted terrorist.   It even spills over to the woman Mark-Viverito has endorsed to replace her in the City Council since she is term-limited out this coming January.

The Governor was right to reject marching in the Puerto Rican Day Parade, however, the NaturalizeNYprogram he started, has total disdain of the taxpayers forced to pay for it.  If one cannot afford the $725 application fee to become a citizen, one can register for a lottery drawing to be awarded the fee. 

The $10M set aside becomes even more distressing when New York’s fiscal picture has become murkier in light of the fact that tax receipts were $601 less than projected.

George J. Marlin outlines part of Governor Cuomo’s spending in his latest column here.

The NYS Court of Appeals has a life-saving opportunity today as it hears the appeal of Meyer v. Schneiderman.  The plaintiffs’ ill-founded claims have been rejected by a trial court judge and by a unanimous panel of Appellate Division judges; it is hoped that the Court of Appeals will reject them as well. The New York Alliance Against Assisted Suicide has more information on what the lawsuit and proposed legislation is about. 

Senator Chuck Schumer just loves to spread the politics of fear, while Larry Kudlow spreads the hope in President Trump’s proposed budget. 

Unanimous Supreme Court ruling slaps down a controversial 9th Circuit Court decision. 

Guy Benson tells us how two left-wing publications commemorated Memorial Day. 

Oh Melissa, did you think no one would remember this:  Melissa Mark-Viverito’s parade hypocrisy. The NY Post editorial board wants to know if Gov. Cuomo will march to honor a terrorist?  All New Yorkers want to know if the man who craves to be president will march to honor the co-founder and bomb maker of FALN. 

And so, it begins again: State acquires 6000 acres of protected land in Oswego County.  In 1973, the state began acquiring land in the Adirondacks under Governor Rockefeller.  Take a look at the changes over the years.  The Adirondack Council wants even more control.  

The Observer reminds us that Mayor de Blasio either has an incompetent staff or he is hoping that we forget he vowed he would provide a list of donors who didn’t get city favors.  The Mayor has a solution to the parking mess he created, and your tax dollars will be used to hire 100 more traffic enforcers.  (City employees, great pension, and benefits, indebted to him for a job, could that have been his plan all along.)  Here is what the editorial board of the NY Post thinks of his shenanigans.

Grover Norquist: CBO Is ‘Guessing’ on AHCA Analysis.  The Daily Signal writes about the key takeaways of the CBO Score.  And Guy Benson does a fact check debunking the most outrageous claims made by the main stream media.. By the way:  It’s Failing: Obamacare Premiums on Federal Exchange Have Soared By 105 Percent Since 2013.  It’s fact, not fake: Americans crushed by ObamaCare premiums.  

On the Trump budget proposal:  Dems blast budget cuts, conservatives give thumbs-up.  Investor’s Business Daily has this to say about President Trump’s budget proposal.  

From the Daily Signal:  Trump is Not Pro-Russia, Despite what the media says. 

Where is the main stream media on the fact that President Obama allowed this and this?  Obviously, it does not fit their narrative; the privacy and safety of Americans is secondary to their agenda of protecting the legacy of Barack Obama.  

Congressman, is this why you went to Congress?  We thought you just wanted to fight for your constituents.