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Biden’s hopes fading fast, who’s setting the US on fire and other commentary
“It increasingly appears that Biden’s quiet comeback is running out of steam,” grumbles Douglas E. Schoen at The Hill.
Terrorism as a career choice, Biden’s ‘tax cut’ baloney and other commentary
The Palestinian Authority’s “pay-for-slay program,” which offers terrorists and their families compensation based on how much harm they do, “sends a clear message,” observes Gadi Taub at Tablet: “Killing Jews...
Taxpayers are subsidizing rich electric-vehicle owners — to the tune of billions
A new report has exposed electric vehicles as wasteful money pits, living up to the adage: If it seems too good to be true, it is
Buffalo baseball owner pitches Hochul for stadium makeover after $600 million Bills deal
Buffalo's professional baseball team is pitching Gov. Kathy Hochul for financing to refurbish its 35-year-old stadium -- a year after she was roundly criticized for putting up $600 million in state...
Inflation is rising again, and Bidenomics is still to blame
Biden doesn’t know what he’s talking about — and when he does, it’s a lie.
Hunter Biden-tied Delaware companies that received $34M in taxpayer money under scrutiny ahead of plea hearing
Hunter Biden has interacted with multiple companies that sought cushy financial incentives in the First State when it was rolling out mass subsidies. Some of those firms have since gone...
A blatantly rancid bit of Hochul 'economic development'
In a bit of "economic development" that reeks of something rotten, Gov. Kathy Hochul's arranged for New York taxpayers to cover $2.2 million of the $3 million cost of expanding...
Giving firms like Amazon tax breaks are a losing bribe
Local governments have competed to bring Amazon fulfillment centers to their jurisdictions under the promise these facilities will create an ecosystem of new, good-paying jobs.
Biden's green tax breaks for the rich driving nation deeper into red
The list price for IRA’s green tax breaks was $271 billion over the next decade. Horrible enough, but the reality is far worse.
Russian vassal = bad for Beijing, green handouts for the rich and other commentary
“Russia’s transformation into China’s vassal” is “harmful to Beijing’s interests,” argues Alexander J. Motyl at The Hill. First, “Putin’s increasingly precarious political condition does nothing to help Xi.”
You can't cancel me, ‘digital blackface’ flap vs. nukes and other commentary
She just canceled her own speech at Furman University on her book “Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics”, Mary Eberstadt explains at The Wall Street Journal, after...
Time to douse NY's horse- racing 'burn pit'
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposed budget would sink nearly a half billion dollars in public money into the state’s long-declining horse-racing industry to finance renovations at Belmont Park race track on...
Biden pitches failed economic vision in Syracuse
Biden and Hochul are exploiting recently passed legislation to parade as economic saviors.
What you're paying to lure chip plant to Kathy Hochul's anti-business New York
What do you call the biggest corporate welfare package in state history? If you’re Gov. Kathy Hochul, “transformative in scale and possibility.”
Pelosis sold $5M in Nvidia stock ahead of vote on chipmaker subsidies
Speaker Pelosi sold off millions of dollars worth of Nvidia shares -- but not everyone was assuaged by the move. "Saying 'I didn't profit off my conflict of interest' isn’t...
Dems' drive for solar, wind is about punishing the public, not saving the planet
Democrats’ insistence that we go all-in on solar and wind — price, capacity and logic be damned — isn’t saving the planet. It’s the elites punishing the general public.
Letters to the Editor — July 14, 2022
New York Post readers sound off about The Post’s call to end NYC Ferry after reports that it costs $224 million more than reported.
Gov. Hochul argues Buffalo Bills deal isn't majority-taxpayer funded
“It is not majority taxpayer-funded – I want to be clear on that. The state share is 43 percent. So that's not the majority, but that's historically low for any...
Not on our tab: Most NYers oppose Hochul's $850M giveaway for new Bills stadium
The poll found that voters in all areas of the state oppose the stadium deal -- with the exception of the Buffalo region.
Gov. Hochul's giveaway for the rich leaves a nearly $1B Buffalo bill for taxpayers
Gov. Kathy Hochul is sticking New York taxpayers with a record $850 million in subsidies for the Buffalo Bills' new $1.4 billion football stadium.