Adam Weissman

“It Don’t Gitmo Better!”

  Who says Coney Island is showing its age? I’ll bet Six Flags doesn’t have it’s very own Waterboard Thrill Ride: If you climb up a few cinderblock steps to the small window, you can look through the bars at a scene meant to invoke a Guantánamo Bay interrogation. A lifesize figure in a dark […]

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Buran: Break Up the MTA!

Libertarian assembly candidate Bill Buran issued the following press release today: NEW YORK, NY (08/04/2008)– Bill Buran, candidate for State Assembly District 72, is calling for a major shake-up of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and a fair shake for riders. “Here we go again with the MTA asking riders to pay more this year

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Young Republicans: Go War!

  The next time someone asks me why I’m involved the Libertarian Party instead of the GOP, “which is really kind of sort of libertarianish, especially in New York,” I can point to the jaw-dropping insanity in the latest Hitler Youth Young Republican Club newsletter. A big Stop War on Iran demonstration is scheduled for this Saturday at

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Gov. Paterson Has a Bridge in Brooklyn He Wants to Sell You

With the economy rapidly going down the toilet and the taxpayers just about squeezed dry, Governor Paterson is sounding the fiscal alarm. He’s even talking about the “sale of state assets.” That would normally be music to Libertarians’ ears, since we’re all for privatization. Private roads, private hospitals, private courts, you name it. Unfortunately, the “privatization”

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Cop Gone Wild

Check out the body slam one of New York’s Finest administered to an unsuspecting Critical Mass bicyclist last Friday: I suppose it’s possible that the bicyclist did something to warrant the shoulder check just before coming into camera view. But it doesn’t look good for the cop, who has been placed on “modified assignment pending further

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Congress Makes it Easer for Us to Tell That They’re Full of Shit!

Many of us would agree that the majority, if not all, of the bills passed by congress are unconstitutional. Although the constitution isn’t perfect, its lays the foundation for a government much smaller than the Leviathan currently residing within Washington. The enumerated powers act is a bill which, if passed, would require congress to give

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