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OPINION: New York Must Pass “Laken’s Law” & Restore Public Safety
Laken Riley was a bright and promising 22-year-old nursing student at the University of Georgia before she was brutally murdered while out for a jog in broad daylight. The man charged with her killing is an illegal immigrant who crossed the southern border in 2022, made his way to New York, was arrested in New […]
OPINION: Wave of Retirements Should Serve as a Warning for Congress
Recently, I had occasion to look back at some of the early speeches I gave after I first went to Congress in 1965 as a young freshman member from Indiana. Admittedly, six decades is a long time. But even so, what I found was jarring. Congress, I liked to tell audiences back then, worked in
OPINION: Increasing Border Security is No. 1 Priority to Americans
With a tidal wave of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border under President Joe Biden daily and Congress locked in a battle over border security, zealots pushing open borders are becoming increasingly out of touch with the American people. Under Biden’s reckless Open Borders agenda, 9 million illegal immigrants have entered the country through the
OPINION: Justice O’Connor championed civics education
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who died in December, was rightly celebrated as a trailblazing jurist who brought common sense and moderation to the Supreme Court. She also was a champion of civics education, especially after she retired from the bench. And civics education needs champions in this era of partisanship and conspiracy theories, which thrive
OPINION: New Yorkers are Not Happy, and It’s Not Surprising
I t’s no surprise New Yorkers expressed dissatisfaction with the state’s direction in a Siena College poll [released on Feb. 20]. We are [about] two full months into 2024, and Gov. Kathy Hochul and her legislative counterparts have done little to address the root causes of New York state’s major economic challenges and spiraling cost-of-living
OPINION: Yes, Congress needs to represent us, but it also needs to act
Back in January, you might have noticed a story from Oklahoma about James Lankford, that state’s senior U.S. senator. Lankford, a Republican, was spearheading his caucus’s negotiations with Democrats over the country’s border policies. This made GOP activists back home unhappy, and at a weekend meeting, members of the state party approved a resolution condemning
OPINION: Imposing Electric School-Bus Mandate Will Hurt School Districts
There are 731 school districts across New York state. Within these school districts are 2.3 million students that require 45,000 school buses to transport them to and from home safely every day. Taking these numbers into account, if the electric school-bus mandate were to be fully implemented by Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Democrat majority
OPINION: You May Be Tempted to Tune Politics Out, But Here’s Why You Shouldn’t
Back in January, the Pew Research Center released the results of an intriguing set of focus groups it conducted last year. Ordinarily, of course, survey-research organizations test the sentiments of registered or likely voters to check in on their mood. But these groups were voters who, in Pew’s words, “look at the nation’s politics as
OPINION: As Migrant Crisis Worsens, N.Y. Doubles-Down on a Disaster
The country is facing an unprecedented illegal-immigration problem, and the impacts are being felt here in New York state. Gov. Kathy Hochul’s approach to solving it has been inconsistent and ineffective from the start. Making matters worse, she is proposing to spend billions of dollars to house and support the migrants while also advocating they
OPINION: Foreign policy rises in public attention
Americans now seem to be more interested in foreign policy than usual. Four in 10 U.S. adults named it as an important issue to address in 2024, according to a recent poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs. That is twice as many as a year earlier. That sounds right to me. From
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