Weekly Wrap-Up

This weekend Memorial Day observances will be taking place across New York. Here are some ideas if you want to celebrate America and honor those who have given their all defending this great nation of ours.

Upstate events can be found here and here. 

Check here for events in and around Albany, and here for Long Island observances. 

What do you admire most about the brave men and women who put their lives on the line to defend our nation?  That’s the question in our new Weekly Poll.

U.S. Senate candidate Wendy Long is joined by Montana State Senator and Former Commander at Seal Team 6 Ryan Zinke as she calls for Obama and Kirsten Gillibrand to get the politics out of war. 

In campaign news, it’s been a good week for Mitt Romney, who has some interesting insights in this interview with Peggy Noonan.

Not such a great week for Barack Obama, though. John Podhoretz takes a look at the “Smokescreen ofSelf-Delusion” surrounding the Obama campaign.

The left is touting thisarticle’s claims that the Obama Administration is somehow a paragon of fiscal responsibility.

Want the truth? You can find it here, here, here and here. Whew!

Amid all these claims of Obama’s fiscal restraint, we learn that his Administration is using our tax dollars as a PR slush fund to promote Obamacare. Right – no wasteful spending to see here!

As Obama goes on the attack against the evils of private equity, here is a brutal analysis of Obama’s record with “public equity” – the bailouts and cronyism that has defined his administration.

Have a great holiday weekend!