“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it”-Ronald Reagan
This Memorial Day, Americans across the country will gather with family and friends for cookouts, parties and parades. All fun and rewarding experiences with those you love most in your life. However, it remains important that we take time to remember what the weekend is really about—celebrating the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice defending our country.
As President Ronald Reagan once quoted freedom is not free. Our veterans are one of the many symbols that make our country great. As we are enjoying our long weekend, keep in mind that every American flag you see flying, flies because of the sacrifice made by the members of our United States Armed Forces both past and present.
Whoopi Goldberg ripped into Republicans after several senators expressed their thoughts and prayers in response to the elementary school shooting in Texas on Tuesday. “Why are we always at square one with this? And I swear to God if I hear another Republican senator talk about their heart being broken, I’m gonna punch somebody. I can’t take any thoughts and prayers,” said Goldberg on Wednesday’s episode of The View. Has it ever occurred to Ms. Goldberg, that guns are inanimate objects and that it is an individual who controls what it does? And I wonder if it has ever occurred to Ms. Goldberg that for the last 49 years women (and men) have been extremely vocal about a woman’s right to abortion? (Including Ms. Goldberg herself, albeit who noted it is a difficult decision to make, at 14 and pre Roe v Wade it really was difficult. And there are many, many women who have had post Roe v Wade abortions that, to this day, regret having one.) Abortion has become the rallying cry for progressives and some want abortion legal up until birth. For 49 years our youth has been exposed to women’s demand to take the life of their unborn child…and no one makes the connection that by demanding the right to abortion, one is also saying life has no value. Society has to examine what it is saying about the value of life. It isn’t only mass shootings of innocent children in a classroom, or people buying groceries, it is the cold- blooded murder of Daniel Enriquez on the Q Train, Christina Yuna Lee’s brutal murder in her apartment, Kyhara Tay, an 11-year-old Bronx girl killed by a stray bullet while the 15- year-old killer aimed at a 13-year- old boy. It isn’t only mass shootings, Ms. Goldberg, look at the stats in NYC, Chicago, Los Angeles and almost any other area… and it isn’t only guns; knives are being used more often than ever. And Ms. Goldberg, your language that “I’m gonna punch somebody” only adds to the culture of violence you abhor. Every single one of us should be making every effort to value every life…those born and those still unborn; maybe then we will see a decline in horrendous, senseless, cold-blooded murders.
Christopher F. Rufo writes in City-Journal: Laying Siege to the Institutions/Why conservatives must go on the offensive against the elite-supported, toxic ideologies undermining American life.
President Biden seems to praise high gas prices as ‘incredible transition’ Americans must go through. We said on day one when he cancelled the Keystone Pipeline this was his plan…he has no concept of the burden he is placing on American citizens, nor does he really care. Absolutely shameful, that President Biden continues to cater to the far-left progressives in the Democrat Party, while oblivious to the pain that struggling families are facing.
Diana Furchtgott-Roth has this to say in City-Journal: Fight Inflation with Energy/If President Biden wants to tackle higher prices, he should forget about more tax hikes and instead reverse his policies on domestic oil and natural gas production.
Heather MacDonald writes in City-Journal: Using Tragedy for Racial Propaganda/After the horror in Buffalo, President Biden and others peddle an entirely false charge: that whites are the biggest source of hate crime and interracial violence in the U.S.
States like New York are trying to create government watchdogs to prevent another radicalized youth from killing those they profess to hate, however, as this article notes, it is not only a state issue, it is international. The US is letting its people be radicalized through social media. In fact, New York has a Domestic Terrorism Task Force, however, it hasn’t met since it was created two years ago. But because of the outrageous mass killing in Buffalo, Gov. Hochul is planning on bulking it up now. We need a Governor to take the initiative, not govern with knee-jerk reactions.
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Bill@NovemberTeam.com
May 23, 2022
Brooklyn, NY – “The senseless murder of Daniel Enriquez on a Q Train this weekend — in broad daylight — strikes fear in the hearts of even the most hardened New Yorkers.
“It’s the latest infuriating example of how far New York City has fallen since the de Blasio Administration and Democrat-led state legislature began dismantling the effective, conservative crime fighting strategies of Governor George Pataki and Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg.
“This is what happens when Broken Windows policing is abandoned; when police presence is reduced; when no-cash-bail is enacted, and when undercover officers are outlawed. This is what happens when criminals are given priority over crime victims.
“Mayor Eric Adams has pledged to put more police officers on subway platforms and moving trains, but we wonder, frankly, whether he has enough officers at this point to pull that off. He must lead the effort to return the NYPD to effective personnel levels.
“We also need to elect a Republican governor this year who can stand up to a State Legislature that’s been infected by the dangerous academic movement called wokeism. It doesn’t work. All wokeism does is give us more crime victims to memorialize. We mourn Mr. Enriquez and his family, and pray that his murder does not go unanswered. The current situation has to change.”
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May 21, 2022
Brooklyn, NY - “The New York State Conservative Party is pleased that lines have been finalized for 2022 state and federal races. What we wanted — and the courts agreed — was a fair and competitive set of districts that offer voters a real choice in November. With crime rising, inflation skyrocketing, and taxes remaining the highest in the nation, voters must be given viable alternatives at the voting booth. That’s the foundation of democracy, and we celebrate it today.
“This is a victory for healthy political competition, and a historic defeat for corrupt, Tammany Hall governance.”
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What were they thinking? A government board to declare what is the truth sounds very much like something you would find in a communist, socialist or fascist society. Add to the mix, Nina Jankowicz, a lefty given the authority to officially declare what is fact or fiction and you have nothing but a recipe for disaster.
I guess the White House figured out after receiving universal criticism for three weeks that this latest scheme to control the news and the people reporting it wasn’t as popular as they first thought.
The Department of Homeland Security’s newly created and short lived Disinformation Board went on “pause” as the Biden Administration looks for ways to gracefully move on from the disaster that was the board and its Executive Director, Nina Jankowicz. Ms. Jankowicz herself resigned indicating she wanted to pursue new opportunities.
Chalk up another odd failure for the Biden White House.
Death Penalty Needs to be an Option
It was a mistake years ago for the New York Legislature and courts to remove the Death Penalty
as a sentencing option. District Attorneys who represent the public should be able to ask for a
Capital Sentence for certain crimes including terrorism, mass murder and/or the killing of an on duty first responder for example.
The current maximum sentence of life without parole is insufficient for several reasons. The left wing NYS Legislature and NY Parole Board are constantly looking for ways to reduce the sentences for older convicted murderers. The Parole Board, under control of the Democratic Party, Governor Cuomo and now Governor Hochul, has released numerous convicted cop killers.
Manhattan District Attorney Bragg even issued instructions to his Assistant District Attorneys to never ask for life without parole. If the 18- year-old Buffalo mass murderer was tried in Manhattan, and found guilty, he would likely be eligible for parole by the time he was forty.
Capital Punishment for the most heinous of crimes is the only certain guarantee of keeping these atrocious groups from ever being a future threat. And frankly in a criminal justice system that seems to have forgotten the concept of justice – it is an appropriate sentence.
The Conservative Party has consistently advocated for the return of Capital Punishment. Our candidate for Governor, Lee Zeldin, has also called for the return of Capital Punishment as a sentencing option. Read Zeldin’s full thoughts on reinstating Capital Punishment here.
Noncitizen Voting Left out of NYC Budget
There has been, and certainly will be many times, that we will not agree with NYC Mayor Eric Adams. On the issue of leaving the $25 million to implement non-citizen voting out of the city budget, we are in total agreement. This is one the Mayor got right.
Of course, the City Council could still inject the money into the budget. And for that matter the request for a summary Judgement declaring the city law unconstitutional scheduled for June 6th, of which I am a plaintiff, will very likely be successful. Regardless, Mayor Adams in failing to fund this program took responsible action to protect taxpayer dollars.
We will always be the first to speak out against policies that hurt taxpaying New Yorker’s, but we will also applaud when our elected officials, regardless of party, get it right. This time Mayor Adams got it right.
However, occasionally Biden gets sage advice and listens: Biden Invokes Defense Production Act to Address Baby-Formula Shortage. Conversely, if the FDA had done its due diligence, a shortage could have bee avoided. A Formula for Shortages/The FDA has made critical mistakes in regulating the manufacturing of infant formula that it should ameliorate as quickly as possible.
How can Talia Lavin be considered a journalist, if even only writing for Rolling Stone magazine? Liberal writer claims Buffalo shooter was ‘mainstream Republican,’ says party obsessed with ‘white fertility’. I am quite sure she does not know the Buffalo shooter (who for the record is a sick psychopath who deserves, at the very least, life in prison with no possibility of parole ever) nor did Ms. Lavin have the time to research what she wrote in the article. Her words are purposefully inflammatory for a reason – and can also create untold damage to minds that believe what she writes. BTW, New York University has hired Talia Lavin as an adjunct journalism professor less than a year after the former New Yorker fact checker resigned after falsely accusing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent of having a Nazi tattoo. Next thing we will learn about her is that Biden nominated her for the “Disinformation Governance Board” to work along side of the other radical, Nina Jankowicz.
The mass killing in Buffalo on Saturday was despicable as were the killing of one in a California church and 2 killed at a Houston flea market, and those were the ones that made the headlines. We pray for all the victims, their families and the first responders who have the horror seared into their memories. Violence is out of control, and unfortunately getting worse every day. Evil walks amongst us every day; and elected officials call for more gun control (New York has some of the most stringent in the nation) while little else is done to end the violence. I don’t have the answers, but I do know this, far too many people have lost their moral compass and far too many people ignore the obvious signs. The Second Amendment isn’t the problem, an inanimate object is incapable of operating on its own. Calling for censorship of social media is problematic; who becomes the censors? Those who have a political agenda they do not believe in, thereby censoring and limiting our First Amendment rights? Current progressive laws have compounded the problems, while the Woke make it almost impossible to hold reasonable discussions so both sides will see a little of the other view, and the war on religion have all contributed to the violence far more that any inanimate object. Is it that hard to understand why an 18- year-old thinks it is permissible to kill others when people march in the streets demanding the right to take the life of their unborn child and doctors demand the right to end the lives of ill people? We need to respect life from conception to a natural death and we need to find our moral compass again by following the Golden Rule: Treat others the way you want to be treated. It is up to all of us to end this vile senseless violence, the current government (and some clergy) have only contributed to making it worse.
School Budget Spotlight 2022-23. Budget votes and school board votes are tomorrow. Check out who is running for school board and know where they stand on the critical issues, then get out and vote even you have never voted in a school board election before. Any one over 18 can vote in their local school.
Governor Hochul, AG James Abortion Infrastructure Scheme
Without even requesting legislative approval, which could very well be yet another unconstitutional move from Gov. Hochul and Attorney General James, a plan to use $35 million in NY taxpayer dollars to cover abortions for out-of-state residents could be on the horizon.
Gov. Hochul’s plan is disgraceful on so many counts. First and foremost, why is an expected influx of women seeking abortion services in New York, other than the fact that New York allows abortions right up to the moments before birth. It is shameful that New York would encourage non-New Yorkers to take advantage of New York’s law and foot residents with the bill.
April of 2022 makes the second year in a row that inflation has posted an 8% increase.
It also marks just over the second-year mark of the Biden administration, one that, quite literally, Americans cannot afford. Families can expect to pay a minimum of an additional $3000 annually for basic necessities than they did a year ago, a significant increase from consumer prices under the Trump administration.
Some comedians are calling Biden 008 for zero accomplishments and 8% inflation. Of course, it is anything but funny when you pull up to the gas pump, open your home fuel bill or visit your shopping center.
Biden continues to insult our intelligence as he looks for someone to blame. It has become apparent to most Americans that he has no one to blame but himself and the Democrats in Congress.
Alison Esposito for New York Lt. Governor
Following in the footsteps of her father, NYPD Chief Michael Esposito, Alison has proudly served in the New York City Police Department since 1997, rising to the rank of Deputy Inspector. Alison joined the NYPD because she believes that New Yorkers, especially those who need help, are in danger, and cannot defend themselves, have the right to be safe, free and protected.
After joining the NYPD, Alison started off on patrol in Manhattan’s Midtown South precinct. From there, she joined the Anti-Crime team, a plain clothes unit targeting violent street crime, and after taking down some of the worst criminals, she joined the NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit. Alison then served in the Bronx and on the NYPD’s Gang Unit and on many other assignments, which brought her to the 70th precinct in Brooklyn where she commanded as Deputy Inspector.
For too long, Alison has witnessed the state and city she loves deteriorate in a spiraling decline. Fatally flawed liberal policies like cashless bail, the defund the police movement, the Less is More Act, DAs like Alvin Bragg who won’t enforce the law, and so much more have surrendered our streets to criminals. Alison has fought crime her whole adult life and is more than ready to tackle the rampant crime and violence facing our state. Now more than ever, New York needs capable, determined, and courageous leadership that will protect everyday New Yorkers, drive down their cost of living, and restore our state to glory.
As Lee Zeldin continues to travel the state, scandals continue to cloud Albany and the Hochul administration. To see Lee’s new TV ad please click here.
Complicit or Out to Lunch? Watch our gubernatorial candidate, Lee Zeldin, latest commercial here. Help Lee Zeldin Save Our State, click here to find out ways you can Save Our State.
Parents are ‘sleeping giants’ who will fix American education. If you live in NYS, outside of NYC, May 17 is School Board Elections Day. This is when you can vote on the budget and more importantly, vote for the members of the school board. It is your chance to make a difference and start to take back the curriculum your child is learning. Grandparents: get out and vote in the school board elections! Research who is running and if they have been on the school board for years, make certain they are doing what is right for your grandchild, if not, boot them out. Gender Transition Closets May Be Coming to a School Near You.
Steven Malanga, writes in City-Journal, about the possibility of A Summer of Blackouts/Thanks to hasty closures of fossil-fuel and nuclear plants, coupled with shortfalls in renewable-energy production, Americans will face increasing power outages.
