Tag: New York

Opinion: At-Risk Teens Will Pay for Wage Hike

June 6, 2025 Daniel Idfresne

Real Clear Wire Former governor and current mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo wants to raise New York City’s minimum wage to $20 by 2027. His political theatrics may benefit his poll numbers, but they’ll only make it harder for at-risk youth to find work. Given the undeniable link between youth delinquency and unemployment rates, New York should be … Read more

Klar: One Indigenous Man’s Derogatory Slur Is Another’s Badge of Honor

May 18, 2025 John Klar

As with many Native American team names, the “Massapequa Chiefs” used by a Long Island school district has sparked a tiny woke minority who then engulfed the majority in controversy. New York passed a law prohibiting the use of team names that perpetuate “stereotypes,” cutting off state funding as a penalty for non-compliance. The Massapequa … Read more

Stop All Shipments of Oil and Gas to New York

March 5, 2025 Steve MacDonald

It is essential to make this clear up front. Blue States are not suing “Big Oil” or introducing regressive levy on “fossil fuels” to save the planet. They want the money. Big spenders are gonna spend, and no one spends more than Democrats, but even they understand that there is a point at which – … Read more

Dems Float Leaving for Canada and Taking New York State With Them

December 2, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Democrats are afraid of ideas with which they disagree. It is better to censor them to protect the people than assume “the people” can use their judgment. Trump Derangement Syndrome has similar side effects. It is better to run away from the potential for prosperity than allow it to improve people’s lives – they might … Read more

New York Court Delays Bungled Trump Convictions

November 15, 2024November 15, 2024 John Klar

The unusual saga of a former president of the United States being criminally convicted in New York has taken several twists and turns, and now the defendant Donald Trump has transformed from civilian ex-POTUS to President-elect. That was a challenge for New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan, who oversaw Trump’s conviction on 34 felony … Read more

Trump Verdict Shows How Pathetic And Useless The NHGOP Is

May 31, 2024 Ed Mosca

We are witnessing the 2024 election being stolen … the latest and most obvious: the Kafkaesque sham trial of Donald Trump in the kangaroo-courts of New York … and what is the reaction of the NHGOP? To call for Red States to conduct law fare back against the Democrats? To call for New Hampshire Retirement … Read more

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Some Quick Thoughts On The New York Special Election

February 15, 2024 Ed Mosca

Here are some quick thoughts on Tuesday’s (2/13) special election in New York: Maybe Republican voters were happy with George Santos and NOT happy that the GOP thinks that it can and should decide who may or may not represent them.

New York Law Attacks Religious Freedom

January 14, 2024 John Klar

A New York statute targeting Chick-fil-A for its Christian faith turns American history—and Constitutional law—upside down. The “Rest Stop Restaurant Act” seeks to compel food service providers to stay open seven days a week in publicly-owned rest areas and other facilities, or be denied contracts to provide services.

The New Manhattan Island “Toll”

December 8, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The goal is to get people to give up their mobility, which coincides both practually and culturally with the idea of freedom—the right to travel without papers anywhere in the nation. But if you want to enter Manhattan, it will cost you a lot more, thanks to a new mobility control plan.

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Judge Says New York State’s Dept. of Health Can Have Its Quarantine Powers Back

November 26, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Frau Hocul and New York State’s Public Health Industrial Complex are celebrating a recent court win. A policy of forced quarantine that had been struck down as unconstitutional has been resurrected like some undead beast to feed on Lady Liberty.

How About a New Tax to Pay for All These New Illegals Alienating Urban City Dwellers

September 18, 2023 Steve MacDonald

New York City is full of Demcorats. Millions of them. The city is also swelling from the influx of illegal border crossers doing business as ‘migrants,’ their word, not mine. The cost of that preferred policy has come home to roost with the progressive chickens, and the stress fractures are evident everywhere.

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NY Unlikely to Save VT Climate Plan – (Empire Staters just as clueless about how to meet GHG goals)

August 23, 2023July 31, 2023 Rob Roper

Vermont’s Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) requires our state to meet some very stringent greenhouse gas reduction targets in 2025, 2030, and 2050. To be precise, 26% below 2005 levels by 2025, 40% below 1990 levels by 2030, and 80% below by 2050.

Trump, Apparently, Believes Lockdowns “Worked,” And Presumably Would Lockdown Again

June 3, 2023 Ed Mosca

A little dated … but extremely relevant. Trump claims that Andrew Cuomo was a better COVID-Governor than DeSantis. There are no facts/data to support this claim. Indeed, the facts/data disprove this claim … Florida had a larger and much, older population than New York and when scale is accounted for did better than New York. … Read more

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New York State Dems Ban Natural Gas in New Construction (Heat, Stoves, All of It!)

May 6, 2023 Steve MacDonald

In one of the finest examples of backward thinking Progressivism, the fuel responsible more than anything in the past two decades for lowering American emissions (if you still think that’s a thing we should do) was just banned by NY Democrats.

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Judge Said No, But Heil Hochul Still Wants Her Public Health Detention Camps

March 20, 2023 Steve MacDonald

If British colonials tried to infect native populations by giving them blankets with smallpox, it was never formally attempted in the Americas, and there’s no evidence if tried that it worked. New York State, on the other hand, sent COVID infected into nursing homes.

The Foolishness Grows Daily

August 6, 2022 Ray Cardello

I wrote earlier about the reaction of Mayors Bowser and Adams of D.C. and New York about the buses of illegal aliens they are receiving compliments of the geographic border states. I say geographic only to distinguish the states we used to associate with our Border with Mexico from the Border States of the Northeast.

NY Judge Tells NYC That Letting Illegal Immigrants Vote “Legally” Violates the Constitution

July 18, 2022 Steve MacDonald

The promise of prolonged Democrat rule is a city in a ditch, on fire, with rampant crime and poop-covered streets. The product of decades of bad policy, broken promises, and corruption. But Democrats like ruling over ruin, and they’d do anything to keep it that way.

NY Judge Rules States’ COVID Quarantine Rules are Unconstitutional

July 15, 2022 Steve MacDonald

In February of 2022, after much consideration, gnashing of teeth, and soul-searching (that’s sarcasm), the State of New York imposed a draconian quarantine rule upon the people of the Empire State, ‘cuz COVID! Try not to act surprised. It is unconstitutional.

Breaking News – “Supreme Court Strikes Down New York Concealed Carry Restrictions”

June 23, 2022 Steve MacDonald

Proper cause to carry concealed is a common requirement of state or local jurisdictions if you need to apply for permission to exercise that right, but the US Supreme Court just declared it unconstitutional.

What is This Lunacy About

April 7, 2022April 7, 2022 Ray Cardello

Mayor Adams of New York City has been inhaling too many subway fumes. What other excuse could there be for the billboard campaign he unveiled this week. The campaign is not for signs in New York but in Florida. Really, not a parody.