HPeter Hasson on February 18, 2019 Liberal actor Jussie Smollett is accused of staging a racist and anti-gay attack on himself, which Smollett blamed on supporters of President Donald Trump. Smollett’s alleged fake “hate crime” appears to be the latest instance of liberals manufacturing hate crimes for attention in the Trump era. The Daily Caller News…
Some New Yorkers are quite upset by the recent raise of the minimum wage in the state to $15, which has resulted in restaurants all over the city raising their prices, according to the New York Post. The minimum wage in the city has been raised from $13 and 13.50 in some places to $15…
N Joshua Gill on January 31, 2019 New York’s winter storm unleashed such a torrent of snow that one town took its snow plows off the roads over safety concerns. Department of Public Works Superintendent Patrick Keenan said Thursday that the city of Watertown pulled nine snowplows off the roads at 4:30 p.m., according to 7News. The barrage…
The legislature in New York passed a package of bills on Tuesday that make the state’s already strict gun control laws even stricter. Among the bills is a measure that bars teachers from carrying firearms in schools. The legislation easily passed the Assembly, which has long been under Democratic control, as well as the Senate,…
World famous Christian Evangelist Franklin Graham, president of The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, took to Twitter on Wednesday to urge New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan to take a “moral stand.” Graham made reference to the new abortion law in the state that Cuomo signed, saying, “The Catholic Church is discussing as to whether New York…
The art of trolling is a finely honed craft in the libertarian/conservative movement. From Donald Trump’s famous tweets… If Elizabeth Warren, often referred to by me as Pocahontas, did this commercial from Bighorn or Wounded Knee instead of her kitchen, with her husband dressed in full Indian garb, it would have been a smash! pic.twitter.com/D5KWr8EPan…
Jason Hopkins on January 4, 2019 New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a self-identified Democratic socialist, claimed the U.S. can implement her environmental agenda if the government taxes the very wealthy by as much as 70 percent. In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Ocasio-Cortez explained how her Green New Deal proposal — which consists of fully decarbonizing…
Chris White on December 18, 2018 Anti-fossil fuel activists have sucked tens of billions of dollars out of the U.S. economy and seriously crippled manufacturing jobs, according to a report Tuesday from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Activists have prevented at least $90 billion in domestic economic activity and eliminated roughly 730,000 job opportunities, the…
Neetu Chandak on December 18, 2018 A federal judge ruled Friday that New York’s 44-year-old nunchuck ban violated the Second Amendment and therefore was unconstitutional. James Maloney, a State University of New York Maritime College professor, spearheaded the efforts after he was charged for nunchuck possession in his home in 2000, The Associated Press…
Chuck Ross on December 12, 2018 Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney for Donald Trump, was sentenced to three years in prison by a judge in New York on Wednesday. The sentence, handed down by U.S. District Court Judge William Pauley, is lower than prosecutors’ recommendation that the longtime Trump fixer receive slightly less than…