Adam Weissman

Presidential Poker

Harvard Professor Charles Nesson has an interesting proposal — he wants Stephen Colbert to host a televised poker tournament among the presidential candidates. I this is a terrific idea — as long as it’s not strip poker. (Yeesh, sorry, that’s a mental picture I didn’t need to conjure.) You have to wait til the end

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The Ultimate Betrayal?

The New York chapter of the National Organization for Women is calling Ted Kennedy’s endorsement of Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton “the ultimate betrayal” of women. I would have thought leaving an innocent woman to drown would be more of an ultimate betrayal, but maybe I’m not feminist enough.

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Spitzer’s Cocaine Tax

The Times’ City Room blog points out a bizarre provision among the hundreds of items in Eliot Spitzer’s budget proposal — he wants to impose a $3.50-a-gram tax on marijuana and a $200-a-gram tax on other illegal drugs such as cocaine. New York City and State combined tax tobacco cigarettes at a rate of $3.00

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Ron Paul Way Behind in New York

Two polls released today show Ron Paul deep in sixth place heading into the New York Republican primary on Super Duper Tuesday. Rasmussen has Paul at 6% in New York; Marist has him at 2%. The primary is still two weeks away, and a lot can happen between now and then, but it’s time for the

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State Revokes Services for Homeschoolers

My daughter Alana and I are featured in an article in today’s Daily News about the New York State Education Department’s stupid decision to deny special ed services to homeschoolers. While we homeschool my daughter, she receives physical therapy, occuational therapy and play therapy weekly to help with ADHD and gross motor skills development. Until now, the

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