Liberty & Prosperity Blog

While Zohran Mamdani is grabbing most of the headlines, AOC has enjoyed herself after endorsing Mamdani and campaigning with him. Still, I've enjoyed watching NY Assemblyman Matt Slater take AOC to the proverbial woodshed. WGME 13 is reporting "New York State Assemblyman Matt Slater, R-District 94, fired back at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. on Tuesday, after she claimed to have originally come from New York City’s Bronx borough. " After AOC got into a Twitter fight with President Trump, AOC replied "Also, I’m a Bronx girl. You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast. Respectfully." That's when Slater entered the fight. In his tweet , Slater questioned AOC, asking her "@AOC, if you're a BX girl then why are you in my Yorktown yearbook? Give it up already." There you have it. AOC caught lying. I don't think it's the first time she's gotten caught. After Assemblyman Slater's dust-up with AOC, Slater was inv...

Anyone that thinks Zohran Mamdani's New York City is a progressive utopia hasn't read Mamdani's campaign website . Let's see what's part of Mamdani's agenda. The highest-profile item on Mamdani's agenda is his idea for "city-owned grocery stores." According to his own website, Mamdani said that "Food prices are out of control. Nearly 9 in 10 New Yorkers say the cost of groceries is rising faster than their income. Only the very wealthiest aren’t feeling squeezed at the register." The dirty little secret is that big government liberalism is more expensive than limited government conservatism. Florida's population is a little less than double the size of New York State's. Despite that statistic, New York State's state budget is almost twice the size of Florida's state budget. Another high-profile agenda item on Mamdani's website is "no cost childcare." According to Mamdani, "After rent, the biggest cost f...

To hear Democrats tell it, unmasking ICE agents is the patriotic thing to do. In reality, Democrats are just hoping to justify their doxxing of ICE agents. This LA Times op-ed/b> highlights the Democrats' flawed thinking. The LA Times op[-ed opensby saying "The images are jarring. Across the country, federal law enforcement officers in plain clothes and wearing ski masks and balaclavas are seizing and detaining protesters, students and even elected officials. These scenes evoke images of government thugs in violent regimes disappearing opponents." What's intentionally omitted is that death threats against ICE agents have increased by 413% since President Trump took office. In President Trump's mass deportation program, ICE agents are rounding up the 'worst first', aka national security threats and the most violent criminal gangs. Telling us that we need to unmask ICE agents is the same as giving the world's most dangerous gangs the information to t...

This week, Kathy Hochul took the opportunity to criticize Elise Stefanik for voting to cut Medicaid benefits for illegal aliens. Stefanik didn't take the criticism lightly, instead returning fire on Gov. Hochul . Initially, Gov. Hochul, the Democrat governor of New York State who took over when Andrew Cuomo resigned in disgrace, initially "accused Stefanik of voting 'to put five hospitals in her district on the chopping block, endangering her own constituents’ lives, health, and jobs—all to serve Donald Trump. I won't stand for it. I’m fighting like hell to save New Yorkers' health care,' said Hochul." Rather than sit there and take it, Stefanik replied "You didn’t get exposed enough during our last round when you testified and were totally exposed for your dangerous and failed sanctuary state policies?? Let’s do Medicaid now. NY’s Medicaid program is rampant with tens of billions of waste, fraud, and abuse under Kathy’s watch. Kathy Hochul, the Wors...

I suspect that Zohran Mamdani is about to have a well-funded, charismatic, articulate challenger for the New York City mayor's job. I suspect that because Bill Ackman  has made a generous offer . In his tweet, Ackman said "If you were ever thinking about running for office or running for a higher office than you currently hold, this is likely the best opportunity that you are going to have." Best of all, he said "Who is your best centrist candidate who could go toe-to-toe with Mamdani on the campaign trail and on the debate stage? Let’s crowdsource the names and then do a poll. If someone is ready to raise their hand, I will take care of the fundraising." A young, articulate candidate would be foolish not to step into that type of opportunity. That candidate would step into a well-built campaign that's already well-financed. Last night, Hannity announced that former Gov. Cuomo has decided to stay in the race, presumably to siphon votes away from Mamdani. I s...

David Marcus has written this analysis article to highlight the GOP{'s recent election success vs. the Democrats' post-2008 nosedive. 2008, of course, was the year then-Sen. Barack Obama won the White House. Since then, it's been downhill for the Democrats and not in a small way. Marcus opened his analysis piece by writing "On Tuesday, New York City’s Democrat voters chose as their nominee for mayor, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, who ran on a socialist platform that at times made Sen. Bernie Sanders look like an editor at National Review. Among the insane socialist programs Mamdani has floated are city owned grocery stores just like in Cuba, replacing police with social workers, and a freeze on rents, this goes along with his toxic stance that Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state." In the real world, each of these policies would be seen as proof that Democrats have a death wish. In New York and other blue states, it's proof that you're sufficientl...