Watching Mamdani Stumble to His Ultimate Failure

It is becoming evident that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani doesn’t know what he is doing. He is increasingly alienating even some of his most ardent supporters on the City Council.

And that takes a lot considering many of them are equally Socialist in their beliefs.

Peeved City Council members roundly ripped Mamdani after he used one of his slick social-media videos Wednesday to call out Speaker Julie Menin by name and wrongly portray her budget proposal, an alternative to his doomsday version, as slashing billions of dollars from city agencies.

This is not the first time Mamdani has had a run-in with the City Council or its Speaker. Previously, I spoke about his altercation with Speaker Menin and key members of the Council in my commentary, Stopping  Mamdani where he criticized the Department of Health over its “Global Oppression Working Group” and whether taxpayer funds were misused.

Instead, Mamdani is focused on his primary agenda which has become more clear as he moves the city toward a more anti-Semitic and Socialist mirror of other American cities like Dearborn or Minneapolis. 

This latest brouhaha erupted as Menin and City Council members released their official response earlier Wednesday to Mamdani’s $127 billion proposed 2027 budget.

Their alternate spending plan argued Mamdani’s projected $5.4 billion budget shortfall could be bridged with a mix of re-estimated revenues, savings and creative funding sources, and without resorting Hizzoner’s preferred method of taxing the rich.

A unnamed council source said Mamdani risked burning bridges with lawmakers over standard disagreements during budget negotiations.

“Speaker Menin did her job, and the mayor responded with a wild personal attack, and that’s going to affect his relationship with the entire council moving forward,” the source said.

Mamdani is reportedly preparing to hire a slew of additional staffers who could cost taxpayers $10 million, after previously claiming the city was facing a critical budget deficit. 

The New York Post reported Wednesday that Mamdani plans to hire at least 79 more workers to support his "pet projects."

As for the relationship between Mamdani and Governor Krazy Kat Hochul, they continue  to maintain a pragmatic, productive alliance focused on shared priorities like affordable housing and child care expansion. Despite ideological differences, particularly on taxing the wealthy, they have established a collaborative working relationship with intense, ongoing communication between their teams.

The partnership is seen as a crucial, closely monitored alignment between the moderate state executive and the progressive city administration. 

He is counting on her willingness to continue to support his aggressive Socialist agenda. But she is looking at her own political  survival as she is deep into her own re-election campaign; and she knows her support for Mamdani does not play well with voters outside of New York City.

He has already destroyed any chance for a constructive relationship with the City Council. Will he be able to salvage his relationship with Krazy Kat as her chances to be re-elected continue to waffle?

By the end of June, the questions will all be answered.

Boldly Going Where No One Has Gone Before

Yesterday, we witnessed an event we haven't seen since Apollo 17, launched on December 7, 1972, where humans last were sent to the Moon. It was a twelve-day mission, launched on a 363-foot Saturn V rocket, which had been the most powerful vehicle of the time.

In comparison, the Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion capsule stand 322 feet (98 meters) tall when fully stacked, roughly equivalent to a 30-story building. It is shorter than the 363-foot Apollo-era Saturn V, but is the most powerful rocket ever built by NASA.

The crew, which by itself is historic and consists of four astronauts manning the ten-day mission around the Moon: Commander Reid Wisenan, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen. This crew includes the first woman (Koch), the first Black astronaut (Glover), and the first non-US citizen (Hansen) to fly to the Moon.

The ten-day trip will not involve a moon landing at this time; however, it will feature the farthest humanity ever traveled beyond Terra Firma. These heroes will travel around the Moon, about 4,700 miles behind the Moon, easily breaking the previous 158-mile mark set by the crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft during its lunar journey in 1970.

Similar to Apollo 13, the mission will use a free-return trajectory, a type of orbital path in which a spacecraft travels from a primary body (like Earth) to a secondary body (like the Moon) and returns to the primary body using gravity alone, requiring no additional propulsion. This maneuver uses the Moon’s gravity to slingshot the spacecraft back toward Earth, typically forming a figure-8 shape.

The knowledge we have learned since the earliest days of the space age is astounding, and much of it will be applied in this flight. As humans, across many nations, we have achieved many successes in space and suffered several tragedies. But humanity's quest for knowledge is is a goal which cannot be diminished.

These four people will learn more about our Solar System during this trip, than all people who ever lived who gazed at the stars and wondered what was beyond. They will look out into the deep reaches of space, well beyond the safety of Earth and Moon to see what no one saw before from that distance.

Fiction showed us in 1966 what humanity would witness in the twenty-third century. Over the next ten days, four people will actually take the first look what is clearly out there from a distance never before traveled.

Godspeed Artemis for a great journey to the beyond and for a safe return to tell us what you saw.

Accepting Pedophilia as a Mental Illness is Actually Criminal

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Yesterday, I published a commentary concerning the mental illness which surrounds the attempted normalcy associated with transgenderism. But, that same normalcy is being applied by some to the crime of  pedophilia. 

It was recently reported that a married former New Jersey middle school teacher had sex with her  student and then continued to carry out six years of “grooming, manipulation and abuse” starting when the boy was just twelve, a prosecutor argued during a bail hearing Wednesday.

Her purported victim, now an adult, alleged the pair had a sexual relationship while he was her pupil. But she is not the first. 

Mary Kay Letourneau, an American teacher who pleaded guilty in 1997 to second-degree rape of a child. Her case gained massive national attention because she was in her 30s, the mother of four, and engaged in a sexual relationship with a twelve-year-old student, bearing his children,  and finally marrying him.

A public school teacher in Florida is also in trouble with the law. The forty-one year-old man is accused in Seminole County of having a sexual relationship with a thirteen-year-old student and the child’s mother. He taught his student Morse code in order to secretly message her without her mother’s knowledge.

A forty-six year-old man wiho used to coach and teach at two Minneapolis charter schools was already serving twelve years in prison for sexually assaulting four boys, was additionally sentenced to life in prison on twelve additional charges of criminal sexual conduct.

Numerous Catholic dioceses in the US, and throughout the world, have filed for bankruptcy due to sexual abuse lawsuits, leading to comprehensive, high-value settlement funds for survivors. The abuse of both boys and girls was widespread, and often went unreported for years, as bishops transferred the accused priests rather than report their crimes to police.

Legal restrictions on minors entering contracts protect them from their own lack of experience, judgment, and maturity. Because minors are legally deemed to lack the capacity to fully understand contractual rights and obligations, they can generally disaffirm (void) most contracts, making them unenforceable against them. These protections prevent exploitation, though they allow contracts for essentials, like food and shelter.

For these same reasons, statutory rape laws are on the books, so that adults are unable to take advantage of innocent minors. And pedophilia has been treated as a crime. 

In addition, "look-back laws" are state-enacted, temporary, or permanent legislative changes that reopen the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse (CSA) lawsuits, allowing survivors to sue even if their claims were previously time-barred. Since 2019, over thirty states have enacted such laws, often prompting thousands of claims against institutions.

Pedophilia is legally considered a crime because it involves sexual attraction to children, which inherently violates the bodily autonomy, safety, and rights of minors.

Laws have been designed to protect children from sexual abuse, exploitation, and the long-term psychological and physical harm caused by such acts. 

It is time to recognize pedophilia  as a crime, and not to give those who practice it a sense of "victim-hood" for suffering from a mental illness. That is equally a crime.

End the Transgender Insanity

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There are two cases which need to be addressed concerning this liberal insanity which is giving normalcy to transgender biological men. Or trying to.

Tremaine Carroll (also referred to as Tmaine Carol), a 52-year-old transgender biological male, who was transferred to the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla under California’s SB 132 (Transgender Respect, Agency and Dignity Act), used that law to gain access to a women’s prison.

Carroll was charged with raping multiple female inmates while housed in the women's facility, with reports indicating two or three women were sexually assaulted.

It was reported that one of the female victims became pregnant as a result of the assaults. Carroll was subsequently transferred out of the women's facility to a men’s prison (Salinas Valley State Prison).

An illegal alien from Colombia who pled guilty to rape last week has reached a shocking plea agreement with the office of Democrat Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

According to the terms of the agreement, Nicol Suarez, a 31-year-old biological male who identifies as transgender, would be sentenced to six months, a sentence he has already served while awaiting trial, in exchange for pleading guilty to second-degree rape. In New York, second-degree rape typically results in two to seven years behind bars.

On February 11, 2025, Suarez was walking his dog in East Harlem when he followed a 14-year-old boy into a restroom inside a bodega and raped him. The boy immediately reported the attack to bystanders in the area.

Following his arrest, ICE immediately lodged an immigration detainer against Suarez, who entered the US ILLEGALLY, in 2023 under the Biden Adminstration.

In both cases, the law was compromised by mentally deranged men who claimed they were women. Rather than treating them for their psychological and mental illness, liberal Democrat DAs and judges fed into their delusions, while actual victims suffered.

These issues are further proof that women are becoming third-class citizens because some men pretend be women. Or at least claim they are, for sick and perverted reasons. 

Just like they have been doing so in women and girl’s sports, because they are failures in men's sports.  

It is time to stop this sociological insanity.

The Reasons Why This Week Matters

​Yesterday was Palm Sunday, the start of the most solemn week in most of Christendom and Judaism. For Christians, it is the start of Holy Week, where we celebrate Jesus’ triumphant entrance into Jerusalem, after fasting for forty days in the desert, His Last Supper on Holy Thursday, His crucifixion on Good Friday and His Resurrection on Easter Sunday.

For our Jewish brethren, on Wednesday night, the remembrance of the first Passover will be celebrated.

Passover (Pesach) is a major eight-day Jewish spring festival commemorating the biblical Exodus, where Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt over 3,000 years ago, It is celebrated by removing leavened products (chametz) from the home, eating matzah (unleavened bread), and hosting a ritual-packed, symbolic dinner called a Seder.  

Passover is foundational to Christianity because it foreshadows Jesus Christ's sacrifice, with the Exodus story providing the direct context for the Last Supper and the sacrificial role of Jesus as the "Lamb of God". It symbolizes the transition from physical deliverance from Egypt to spiritual salvation from sin, aligning with Easter. 

Christians believe Jesus is the true Passover lamb (1 Corinthians 5:7), unblemished and sacrificed to save people from the death penalty of sin, just as the lamb's blood saved the Israelites from the plague on Egypt.

The Last Supper was a Passover Seder. Jesus used the traditional elements, unleavened bread and wine, to institute the new covenant, representing his body and blood.

The Passover feast is part of the spring feasts (including Unleavened Bread and First Fruits) that align with the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus.

Why Christians should study and understand the Jewish Holiday of Passover:

• Spiritual Heritage: It helps Christians understand their Jewish roots and the context of Jesus' ministry.
• Deepened Communion: Understanding the Passover story brings deeper meaning to the act of Holy Communion
• Reflection and Remembrance: It is an annual reminder of God's salvation and a call to live a life free from the "leaven” of sin.

Both traditions rely on lunar-based calendars, which means the dates vary annually on the standard Gregorian calendar.

Easter is determined by the first Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox, while Passover is set for the 15th of the Jewish month of Nisan, which always coincides with a full moon.

Therefore, Christians and Jews should honor each tradition as we commemorate the signifance why both traditions and their importance matter to each religious group. And enjoy your Blessed Holy Week.

It Is Time to Stand Up For Real Women

​It is simply mind-boggling that women’s groups worldwide will stand with a mentally-challenged man who pretends to be a woman, cheering on his “brave” stance, while remaining deafeningly silent on the atrocities committed on women in Iran.

Such blatant hypocrisy!

Where is the fervor of support lent to the abuses of these women by rape, beatings, torture and other physical and mental anguish so many women must endure? Why, because God told the men that these women are inferior? What God in what religion would create something, or someone, only to be violated?

It is basic human decency to defend those who are not in a position to defend themselves. Especially if they are physically overpowered by their abusers. Yet, the silence is uncanny.

Perhaps, in order to give way to fairness or ignorance, few understood just how extreme the Islamic Republic regime’s ideology was until it took power and continued to hold it for forty-seven years.

In his own legal text, “Tahrir al-Wasilah,” Islamic Republic founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini wrote, “It is not permissible to have sexual intercourse with a woman before she has completed nine years of age… however, there is no objection to other enjoyments such as touching, kissing, and rubbing the thighs, even with a suckling infant.”

Life became even worse under Khomeini’s successor, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who spent 37 years hell-bent on the pursuit of power by way of barbaric terror.

According to former prisoners and human-rights groups, young women are routinely raped before execution, based on an Islamic Republic belief that virgins would otherwise go to heaven.

This is some of what the Islamic Republic is. And you cannot reform pure evil.

These are NOT holy or religious people, unless they worship something more satanic.

So, to the women, and men, who stand by and continue to turn a blind eye to this horror, and protest the US for heeding the pleas by the Iranian women and men, to deliver them from this evil, you are equally guilty of the sin against humanity.

Especially as you claim tolerance to mental derangement by men to be women.

The Reason to Continue the Principle of Separation of Church and State

​Here is a concept which has been argued since the beginning of our glorious Republic and was framed eloquently in our Sacred Document, the Constitution of the United States, all within the First Amendment; “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof".

Further to this point, Article VI of the Constitution also forbids religious tests for public office.

The separation of church and state is a legal and philosophical doctrine in the US that prevents the government from establishing a religion, favoring one, or interfering with religious practice. Rooted in the First Amendment's Establishment Clause and championed by Thomas Jefferson's "wall of separation" metaphor, it ensures religious freedom and secular governance.

For most of our history, these concepts were honored by most religious member groups. We respected Orthodox Jews, Amish, Black Muslims, Mormons and others who did not force others to conform to their beliefs by taking their worship to the public space.

But since 1962, we have witnessed the erosion to the Judeo-Christian principles which have been the foundation of our country. First, we saw the removal of prayer in public spaces, including our schools (although students have been known to pray before a big test).

Then, we saw nativities and other religious replicas be removed from public spaces since some people were "offended" by the sight of these artifacts.

In recent years, we have seen lawsuits against religious groups and others, due to perceived offenses to secular liberties or agnostic beliefs, across various industries, including bakeries, publications and even certain TV shows.

But ironically, as in Western Europe and elsewhere, there is SILENCE when we see State and Local governments ignoring and/or permitting worship to be be used on public streets and granting permits allowing said worship, even as that form of worship may block public spaces.

Why is this group permitted to stop traffic in order to worship? And why must we be told to be tolerant?

But if we complain, we are called racists and/or Islamophobic.

Isn't that a violation of the government's (whether Federal, State or Local) responsibility NOT to favor the rights of one religion over any other? It seems New York City, and other cities, are certainly violating that premise by allowing Muslims to pray in the streets and on sidewalks. 

They should be required to take time to pray in their mosques, as others are required to pray in their churches, temples, synagogues  and other places of worship. Or, in their homes or other privately designated place.

As much as we believe in religious freedom, the permission by local governments to overlook a particular religion to practice its "call to prayer", is becoming a public hazard. We continue to watch the "wall of separation" erode which Jefferson so eloquently defined when the Constitution was enacted.

Aa we have witnessed in London, Berlin and other cities, western values have been usurped in a misguided effort to be "more tolerant" to an increasingly powerful and vocal minority. This cannot continue if we want to keep the society we love.

It is time to finally say "enough" or we will lose our right to worship as we please, while we watch governments continue to favor the establishment of a particular religion