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New York City is careening closer to all-out financial bankruptcy for the first time since Mayor Abraham Beame ran the city more than 40 years ago, experts say. As tax-fleeced businesses and individuals flee en masse, and city public spending surges into the stratosphere, financial analysts say...

Warning that congestion pricing is not a sure bet, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on Friday floated another idea to help fund mass transit also certain to infuriate motorists — raising the state sales tax on gasoline. “It’s an option,” Heastie said at a Crain’s New York breakfast in Midtown. He...

House Democrats voted Friday to defend localities that allow illegal immigrants to vote in their elections, turning back a GOP attempt to discourage the practice. The vote marks a stunning reversal from just six months ago, when the chamber — then under GOP control — voted to decry illegal...

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday made D.C. statehood a priority for the Democratic caucus for the first time. Schumer touted statehood among his top three ways to bolster voting rights, a day before the House is expected to pass a sweeping resolution on the topic...

More Liberal BS. States with stricter gun laws and lower rates of gun ownership in general saw a lower rate of mass shootings between 1998 and 2015 than did other jurisdictions where gun laws were more relaxed, according to a new study. A study published in The BMJ found a significantly higher...

Thomas Sowell, a living legend in the field of economics, says he fears the U.S. may eventually succumb to the siren song of socialism. The author of “Basic Economics,” “The Vision of the Anointed,” “The Quest for Cosmic Justice” and numerous other books said the U.S. may very well go down a...

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will not seek the Democratic nomination for U.S. president in 2020 but will instead launch an effort aimed at combating climate change, he said on Tuesday. A billionaire who could have sunk millions of his own dollars into a campaign, Bloomberg had...

Gov. Cuomo is playing hardball as he tries to ram through his $178.8 billion budget proposal — by threatening to block planned pay raises for legislators if they don’t knuckle under, sources told The Post. Negotiations over revenue projections for the 2019-’20 fiscal year broke down Saturday...

In his 1980 classic, “The Cost of Good Intentions,” author Charles Morris chronicled how New York liberals spent the city into disaster. Free housing, college tuition, health care and welfare skyrocketed until a fiscal crisis ended the binge. As the city nearly went bankrupt, crime soared and...

Chief Justice John Roberts is showing a new willingness to side with the U.S. Supreme Court’s liberal wing after the divisive confirmation fight over Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Roberts joined the liberals Wednesday in two rulings that left the conservatives in dissent. Most notably, he cast the...

It should of happened two years ago along with National Reciprocity. When the Repukes controlled both houses because it's DOA in the House of Representatives.

A pair of Upstate New York lawmakers say they have come up with a better way to boost the region’s interests without splitting off into a separate state. A bill introduced Wednesday in Albany would shift the balance of power between Upstate and Downstate interests by allowing each of New York’s...

The CEO of PayPal has revealed the multi-billion dollar service partners with the leftist organization Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to decide who should be blacklisted from their company. Using "company corporate values" as their defense, PayPal has taken intentional steps to deny access...

LEBOR opens up the possibility of thousands of lawsuits against any entity that could be doing harm to Lake Erie. This includes agricultural operations. “This is a proposed amendment to the Toledo City Charter that would essentially seek to give the Lake standing in court. It would allow...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has rolled back his proposed ban on stretch limousines after limo owners said it would have put the industry out of business in New York. In his state budget proposal last month, Cuomo had proposed a measure that would prevent the state from registering limousines that had...

A number of New York state lawmakers are calling for the legalization of prostitution. Senators Jessica Ramos, Julia Salazar and Brad Hoylman, as well as Assemblyman Richard Gottfried are working with Decrim NY to introduce a bill to rewrite the state’s penal code to decriminalize sex trades in...

More recently, increasingly monopolistic social media companies that have an inordinate amount of control over who gets heard and who doesn’t have started actively targeting conservatives and we just shrug or spout platitudes. “If you don’t like the way they do it, take on those monopolies with...

President Trump was right again.

UN Agenda 21.

A federal judge in Texas has declared that the all-male military draft is unconstitutional, ruling that "the time has passed" for a debate on whether women belong in the military. The decision deals the biggest legal blow to the Selective Service System since the Supreme Court upheld the draft...

Another poll. Take for what it's worth. The number of states where liberals outnumber conservatives has dropped more than 30 percent, with just six now in that category: Massachusetts, Hawaii, Vermont, Washington, New York, and New Hampshire. According to the latest Gallup survey, in every...

By day, Fred Akshar is a state senator. By night, he's a newly licensed private investigator seeking clients at $75 an hour. And the Republican lawmaker who represents the Southern Tier is also a part-time police officer in a small village he represents. Akshar, R-Endwell, Broome County...

Children are our future -- and a group of Oregon lawmakers wants the future to be now. They’re pushing a bill that would amend Oregon’s constitution to lower the voting age in the state from 18 to 16. They hope to put it before voters in 2020. Younger Oregonians should have “a chance to...

A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced former Cornell student Maximilien R. Reynolds ’19 to two years in prison, concluding a case that began almost a year ago when a tip from a Walmart employee led to FBI agents busting through Reynolds’ Collegetown door. The sentence followed Reynolds’ guilty...

President Donald Trump has signed the Rapid DNA Act into law which means the police can routinely take DNA samples from people who are arrested but not yet convicted of a crime. The law, which was signed in 2017 and comes into effect this year, will require several states to connect Rapid DNA...

Almost everyone that goes out to visit one of our major cities on the west coast has a similar reaction. Those that must live among the escalating decay are often numb to it, but most of those that are just in town for a visit are absolutely shocked by all of the trash, human defecation, crime...

Amazon, which doubled its profits and made more than $11 billion in 2018, won't pay any federal income taxes for the second year in a row, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy reported on Wednesday. The company will not be required to pay the standard 21 percent income tax rate on its...

After fretting about whether she'd be able to afford rent, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) has moved into a luxury apartment building in the District of Columbia's Navy Yard neighborhood, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the Democratic Socialists of...

While railing against border walls at his El Paso, Texas, rally on Monday evening, Rep. Beto O’Rourke stood safely on a stage that walled off supporters behind barriers, fences, and barricades. PHOTOS: Anti-Wall Beto Uses Fences, Barricades at El Paso Rally

A remarkable poll taken by Gallup shows just how seriously our borders are under threat of being overwhelmed. Gallup asked the whole population of Latin America. There are 33 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Roughly 450 million adults live in the region. Gallup asked them, "Would...

Five juveniles are charged with criminal homicide in the shooting a 24-year-old Nashville musician, according to police. The musician, Kyle Yorlets, was shot outside his home on Thursday afternoon, police said Friday in a statement. The five minors -- three girls and two boys -- range in age...

Some Chicago families could start collecting a $1,000 check every month with no strings attached. That's the new proposal from a task force created by Mayor Emanuel. The idea is to break the cycle of poverty. The pilot program would give 1,000 struggling Chicagoans $1,000 a month. Mayoral task...

CLERMONT COUNTY, Ohio — Thousands of people paid their final respects to fallen Deputy Bill Brewer, a Clermont County deputy who was shot and killed during a SWAT standoff Saturday night. The 42-year-old veteran was one of two deputies shot at a Pierce Township apartment complex during a...

A divided Supreme Court stopped Louisiana from enforcing new regulations on abortion clinics in a test of the conservative court’s views on abortion rights. The justices said by a 5-4 vote late Thursday that they will not allow the state to put into effect a law that requires abortion providers...

He hasn't got a chance in King Andy's Kangaroo Court system.

Home intruders got an unexpected surprise after breaking into an Asheboro home. The suspects were met with a gun drawn once they exited the home. Stephen Routh watches over his parent’s home on McKnight street and after getting a call about some unusual people on the property he made his way to...

Just what is the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics up to with its latest shenanigans? Whatever’s going on, it’s just the latest evidence of JCOPE’s uselessness as Albany’s ethics watchdog. Last year, state GOP Chairman Ed Cox sued JCOPE to force a vote on whether to investigate Joseph...

A bill that would create a set of statewide regulations for toy guns was re-introduced on Thursday in the state Senate. The bill is meant to take statewide a set of New York City requirements for toy guns and imitation weapons, such as having them made of a transparent or translucent material...

Can You imagine the number of illegals that are registered to vote / or voted in New Yorkistan if they did an honest audit of voter rolls? It would probably be mind boggling.

Ingersoll Rand on Tuesday announced its "intent" to end manufacturing operations at its Cheektowaga plant by July, a decision the company said would eliminate 300 jobs. A union official estimated 150 to 160 hourly workers would be included in the cuts. But Ingersoll Rand left open the...

Almost indiscernible in the endless tumult about President Donald Trump is the objective return of American might, right on our doorstep. A casual sampler of the Canadian, and even the American, media, might think that the United States was so far along in its decline that the entire process of...

For what it's worth. Governor Andrew Cuomo has a 51-43 percent favorability rating among registered voters, up from a negative 45-49 percent favorability rating in November among likely 2018 voters. The Assembly has a 48-32 percent favorability rating – its best ever – up from negative 40-43...

The White House is reaching out to political allies and conservative activist groups to prepare for an ailing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s possible death or departure from the Supreme Court — an event that would trigger the second bitter confirmation battle of President Donald Trump’s tenure...

Mayor Bill de Blasio made a bold proposal Wednesday — he wants New York City to be the first in the nation to mandate personal time for workers. The proposal is ground breaking for New Yorkers as no other city in the country requires private employers to pay workers for time off for vacation...

Americans' assessment of their political ideology was unchanged in 2018 compared with the year prior when 35% on average described themselves as conservative, 35% as moderate and 26% as liberal. Although conservatives continue to outnumber liberals, the gap in conservatives' favor has narrowed...

Authorities in Illinois say a woman with a concealed carry license fatally shot a man who tried to rob her early on Tuesday morning. Police say the 25-year-old woman was standing at a corner in Chicago's Fernwood neighborhood around 6:00 a.m. waiting for a bus when an armed a 19-year-old male...

About time. Dean Skelos, son head to federal prison Tuesday

In its common definition, the job of president of the United States is to deliver peace and prosperity. Donald Trump is doing well on both fronts, so let’s impeach the bastard! As insane as it sounds, that and only that is what many Democrats have in mind. Impeachment, or death by a thousand...

New York’s 911 communication services are in a state of emergency themselves as Albany siphons off hundreds of millions of dollars in much-needed funds to state coffers, an FCC commissioner says. Under a federal statute, states are allowed to collect taxes on cellphones but must use all the...

Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said in an interview with the New York Times that the Constitution considers her to be President Donald Trump's equal. Pelosi is set to regain the speaker's gavel after spending eight years as House minority leader. Pelosi was the first female...