26th District

Some Senecas want former President Robert Odawi Porter to run for Congress

Sources tell The Chronicle that influential members of the Seneca Nation of Indians are encouraging former President Robert Odawi Porter, a Harvard educated attorney, to challenge Rep. Brian Higgins in the Democratic Party primary. Higgins’ support inside the district has been

House Democrats

House Democrats plan new ‘Traffic Tax’

Democrats have an idea to make bumper-to-bumper traffic worse: tax drivers more when they’re sitting in traffic.  Incoming House Transportation Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) is planning to propose a new tax that would penalize drivers by taxing them at a higher rate

2020 Presidential Election

Biden wants to raise capital gains tax “back to 39%”

Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden said he’d like to raise the capital gains tax rate to 39.6 percent, a near doubling of the current 20 percent.  Biden made the remarks on Wednesday, August 21 during an interview with Iowa Public

City

Thoughts on Facial Recognition

BY NORBERT RUG I am for the implementation of the Facial and Object Recognition System (FORS) in the Lockport schools. There I said it. I know this might be an unpopular stance but it is the way I feel. I

Presidential Election 2016

Aide testifies that Clinton used personal email for State business

Insists that monitoring Clinton’s illicit use of private email ‘wasn’t really part of my job,’ but adds, ‘I wish she had used a State Department account’ Judicial Watch today released the transcript of a court-ordered deposition of Jacob “Jake” Sullivan, Hillary Clinton’s

US Senate

Megyn Kelly is being encouraged to challenge Schumer in 2022

Television news journalist and a former headline anchor at Fox News and NBC’s Today Show, Megyn Kelly, is rumored to be considering a run for United States Senate in 2022 — against the Senate’s Democrat Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer. The

2020 Presidential Election

Yes, Byron Brown should run for President

Mayor Byron Brown, the accomplished four-term Mayor of New York’s second largest City, is being urged by his most inner circle of advisors to enter the Democratic Party’s presidential nominating process later this year. Governor Andrew Cuomo, the Mayor’s longtime

US Senate

Schumer may align with Tribes to delay USMCA ratification

The first North American trade agreement was the Treaty of Amity and Commerce, negotiated by John Jay and Alexander Hamilton — and known widely as the “Jay Treaty. Article III affirmed the right of Indians to conduct nation to nation

Corruption

Fitton to testify on Clinton Foundation oversight

(Washington, DC) –Judicial Watch announced that President Tom Fitton will provide testimony on December 13 before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s Subcommittee on Government Operations during a hearing titled “Oversight of Nonprofit Organizations: A Case Study on the Clinton Foundation.”

2020 Presidential Election

Judge Lamberth excoriates DOJ in Clinton email case

Judge Lamberth Orders Schedule  for Discovery Within Ten Days (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that, in a ruling excoriating both the U.S. Departments of State and Justice, U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth has ordered both agencies to join Judicial Watch

US Senate

Jackie Johnson prodded to seek Alaska Senate seat

Jacqueline ‘Jackie’ Johnson-Pata is being lobbied by top Democrats to seek the United States Senate seat from Alaska in 2020.  That seat is currently held by freshman Republican Dan Sullivan, and is seen as one of the Democrats’ only potential pick