Albany Watch has a good roundup of editorial reaction to the three stooges’ farcical “emergency” budget meeting yesterday: The Albany Times-Union said it was a “showcase of New York dysfunction” and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos showed “New Yorkers exactly why he no longer deserves to be Senate majority leader.” But the New York Post’s […]
Just a few weeks ago, when the bailout was being rammed through Congress, I pointed out that Hank Paulson has proven himself clueless. He was wrong when he denied that were facing an economic crisis, and he was wrong again when he predicted a complete meltdown of our financial system if Congress didn’t give him
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Barack Obama’s disturbing proposal for “universal voluntary public service” (as Michael Kinsley pointed out, it can either be universal or voluntary, but not both) just got a lot more traction with the selection of Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff. J.D. Tuccille observes that Emanuel is a long-time proponent of compulsory national service. Emanuel is co-author of the
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In today’s OCRegister online Jan Norman’s article refers to the National Association Of Independant Business’s (NFIB ) Top 10 list for Government to do to help small business. 1. Pass the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) Act, which would lower the cost of health insurance by providing tax credits, market pooling, ratings reforms and
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Yesterday Mayor Bloomberg announced the immediate cancellation of the city’s annual $400 property tax rebate checks. I always thought the rebate checks were a sham — they should have simply reduced property tax rate — but the canceling the program amounts to a de facto property tax hike. Mike is also proposing a 15% increase
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With 100% of the precincts reporting (via NY1): Assembly – District 72 Adriano Espaillat (Dem) 21521 93.51% William Buran (GOP) 1493 6.49% House – District 14 Carolyn Maloney (Dem) 156902 79.47% Robert Heim (GOP) 37311 18.90% Isaiah Matos (Lib) 3232 1.64% Congratulations, gentlemen, on fighting the good fight.
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Obama, Shmobama. Here are some presidential vote totals likely to be of interest to Libertarians (with 76% reporting): Bob Barr 403,665 Chuck Baldwin 143,353 Ron Paul 14,234 NOTA 4,263 Charles Jay 2,066 Tom Stevens 592 George Phillies 363
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In New York State, it is illegal to promote a candidate within 100 feet of a voting booth. Yet here is our junior senator electioneering for the Democrats inside the polling station, about 5 feet from the nearest booth:
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Given that the odds of a New Yorker casting the deciding vote for president are 1.9 billion to 1, I tend not to take voting too seriously. Even if Bob Barr somehow triples the results of the last Libertarian presidential candidate, that would only give him about 1% of the electorate, so I’m even that
Chances are if you are reading this your state is pretty much decided. Yahoo lists only 4 battleground states with a total of 24 electoral votes. After a long swing toward the Republicans, the pendulum has started swinging back towards the Democrats and it now appears it will get burried on the left in this
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