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As the flow of residents leaving the state has negatively impacted the taxes that can be extracted from these mostly well-off individuals, the government of New York is weighing options to rectify the situation. An idea gaining traction is the imposition of a “certificate of need” to determine whether each resident desiring to emigrate can demonstrate a sufficient urgency justifying the request to leave. Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) averred that “we need to reconsider the notion that a resident can decide whether to leave the state without justifiable cause. We understand that the desire to avoid the high taxes we...

Fox News is giving major ‘town hall’ publicity to Sen. Bernie Sanders who currently seeks the Socialist takedown of America, Mr. President There’s no longer any way to avoid it: “Something strange is going on at Fox News.” “Something strange is going on at Fox News. Something very strange,” President Donald Trump told a throng of thousands at his Pennsylvania rally last night. “The audience showed their agreement by booing Fox News.”

California Democrats are worried that they will not only not gain Congressional seats, but that they may actually lose one after the 2020 U.S. Census count is completed — which would be the first time in the state’s 169-year history. Given that Texas and Florida could pick up two seats while states such as New York and Illinois will likely lose seats, this suggests an ongoing trend of major Democratic stronghold states losing Congressional representation and delegates in the presidential races — largely because their residents are fleeing to other states. This same dynamic is true in California, where there...

If the contents of an email sent to staffers by then-FBI Director James Comey regarding the infamous “Steele dossier” is accurate, then U.S. Attorney John Durham, whom Attorney General William Barr has assigned to look into the origins of the Obama-era “Spygate” scandal, may soon be able to indict a former CIA director. That would be none other than former CIA Director John Brennan. The crime: Lying to Congress, something the deep state vociferous #NeverTrumper has done in the past. During an interview Monday with Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business Network, legal analyst Andrew Napolitano said that based on statements...

If the contents of an email sent to staffers by then-FBI Director James Comey regarding the infamous “Steele dossier” is accurate, then U.S. Attorney John Durham, whom Attorney General William Barr has assigned to look into the origins of the Obama-era “Spygate” scandal, may soon be able to indict a former CIA director. ...snip... “Is he [John Durham] just going to write a report of who he thinks behaved improperly and violated the law, or is he going to use subpoena power and search warrants and grand juries and actually indict people?” he continued. “If he’s gonna do the former,...

Inside the gun community there are always talks about which is the better caliber, such as .308 vs the .243 or 9mm against the .45 ACP. Then of course thereÂ’s the long range rock star competitive round 6.5 Creedmoor against the .223/5.56 combat load issue of the military. For those in hunting and competitive long range shooting circles all know that there isnÂ’t much to compare when viewed only through long range superiority. Now for hunting or home defense there are some considerations. Lets take a look at some basic factors for hunting, home defense/tactical and competitive shooting. Ballistics Coefficient...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Please note that headline says “Become President,” not “Become the Democrat Nominee in 2020.” – That’s a key distinction here, because Biden still does have a slightly better chance of being the party’s nominee, although even that edge is steadily declining and will continue to do so over the summer. And this shouldn’t be just a comparison between Buttigieg and Biden. I would submit that Kamala Harris has a better shot at becoming president than Elizabeth Warren, and that even Irish Bob O’Rourke has a better shot at doing so than Cory...

The Wall Street Journal ticks me off quite regularly. The balance of never-Trumpers to rational conservatives is deeply skewed towards the abyss. Much of the non-business content tends towards the trendy which I am decidedly not. But I have been reading the WSJ since grad school when I got a complementary subscription for a semester. It was an education in itself – all the stories about capital building, financing, taxes, accounting, bottom lines, products, marketing – oh my! All the mysteries of the business universe revealed. Of course I didn’t learn how business really worked until much later.Yet due to...

During a rally in Philadelphia, Democrat candidate Joe Biden stated that Obama gave Trump this wonderful economy. Video of Joe Biden discrediting Trump located on source.

For all their hollow declarations that they are “pro-science”, the left continually demonstrates that they only accept “science” that affirms their own radical science-defying ideology. This is never truer when applied to the increasingly fascistic and dominant “gender ideology.” If you are a college professor and would like to lose your job, your tenure, your credibility, and even your access to social media, go ahead and present your clinical findings that contradict social justice warrior talking points. Ray Blanchard, the groundbreaking psychologist who helped craft the diagnostic and treatment procedures for clinicians dealing with transgenderism, was blocked on Twitter this...

The contours of a second-term agenda for President Trump are coming into view, 18 months before the 2020 election. Immigration and the economy will be at its heart, just as they were during his 2016 run. But issues of trade and deregulation will be there, too — as will a nominal proposal to replace ObamaCare with some as-yet-unspecified legislation. It’s a very early stage at which to begin laying out a second-term platform. But supporters of the president argue the haste is justified. The Democratic nomination process, featuring a huge field of contenders, is already consuming a lot of media...

We have learned a lot about the mechanics of the Deep State Coup over the last six months. Some of the biggest problems for the conspirators include the revelation that Prof. Mifsud, himself of shaky provenance, used an (apparent) under-cover US agent from one of the alphabet agencies in an attempt to honeypot trap George Papadopolous. It failed. The Mueller report had a lot of useful information for supporters of the President and those who have argued that the Trump-Russia collusion narrative is a hoax, built by conspirators to harm the President. This has been a pretty main-stream view on...

Today’s Campaign Update, Part II (Because The Campaign Never Ends) A couple of Fox News interviews Sunday and Monday morning serve to emphasize how important it is for President Donald Trump to declassify documents thus far withheld by the Mueller Investigation and the FBI under its “sources and methods” catch-all used to hide up embarrassing evidence from the public. The evidence discussed in these clips is transcripts of tapes made of FBI/CIA efforts to entrap Trump campaign operative George Papadopoulous in 2016. The first clip is of Trey Gowdy being interviewed Sunday morning by Maria Bartiromo. Here are some of...

There is something Kafkaesque about the current round of investigating possible FBI, CIA, National Security Agency, Justice Department, and National Security Council wrongdoing during the 2016 election, Trump transition, and early presidency. Special Counsel Robert Mueller had been permitted to range well beyond his mandate of “Russian collusion.” He outsourced much of the selection of his “dream team” and “all-star” staff of attorneys to his deputy, Andrew Weissman. In turn, Weissman—who commiserated with Hillary Clinton at her ill-fated “victory” party on the evening of her defeat—stocked the team with Trump-haters, liberals and progressives, Clinton donors, a few who had previously...

Message from Fox News to the Caravan of Crazies running for DNC approval in the 2020 presidential election race: Come and Bring Your Standing Ovation Surrogates With You To Our Town Halls Because Fox News Is On YOUR Side. Fox is forgetting that We the People know that they brought in former DNC chairman Donna Brazile as a featured political pundit at the beginning of the 2020 presidential race. Brazile, who admitted she leaked questions for the last 2016 presidential debate to Hillary Clinton is now a Fox News political pundit. And it is for sure that the Town Hall...

To listen to media pundits, President Trump has created the trade-war crises with China. They say he is economically illiterate. Or he’s a dolt. Or he’s a xenophobe. Or a jingoist. And his impetuous actions are “roiling” markets and making businesses nervous and could tank the economy. It’s all Trump’s fault. This is not just wrong, it is 180 degrees wrong and demonstrably so. In fact, Trump is the only American leader actually trying to right a substantial wrong. The truth is that the China problem has been ignored or avoided by multiple presidents and Congresses from both parties, and...

Pete Buttigieg is seeking the democrat nomination for President of the United States. The more he speaks the more dangerous he appears. He has a number of policy positions that can be positively frightening. He seeks to dismantle America one piece at a time. Buttigieg would erase Thomas Jefferson from history: Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said Friday that things named after President Thomas Jefferson should be renamed because that’s the “right thing to do.”Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., who became the rising star of the 2020 Democratic primary, echoed the far-left calls to rename buildings or events that carry the...

Under continuing investigation by Attorney General William Barr for his “strange” decisions and actions regarding the Trump candidacy and presidency, former FBI Director James Comey cited “my earlier communist ideology for providing a steady ethical weather vane to guide me toward doing the right thing.” Comey dismissed contentions that federal law enforcement officials should not interfere in political matters as “bourgeois delusion. The higher duty is to the collective well-being of mankind. Sometimes following the law fulfills this duty. At other times going beyond the bounds of the law may be required in order to achieve this duty. The clear...

I’m so sorry. Really, just very sorry. Here entitled Yankees like the NYT’s Ginia Bellafante thought the American South existed to give Millennial Brooklynites a place to reproduce Park Slope, but more affordably, and now we’ve gone and ruined it for them with our deplorable social and religious views. Bellafante writes about how pro-life legislators are screwing things up for these expats: “The New South’’ was a term conceived in the aftermath of the Civil War to suggest a set of aspirations of some southern elites who hoped to rebuild a backward and devastated place into a world better aligned...

 “The best way to hate a n****** is to hate him before he is born.” Pro-abortion Leander Perez, Louisiana State Judge, 1970.