Adam Weissman

The New York State Assembly passed a medical marijuana bill for the first time ever today, according to the Marijuana Policy Project. The bill would allow patients with life-threatening conditions to use marijuana according to their doctors’ recommendations. The state health department could also add other serious conditions. Patients would be allowed to cultivate a safe supply […]

Once again, a big tip o’ the hat to The Libertarian Enterprise: I love Scott Bieser!

  From 1010 WINS: Protesters are expected to rally in Brooklyn Friday against using illegal Chinese and Latino workers in dangerous construction jobs.  Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz is expected to attend the rally. Labor officials say the immigrant workers are being used in life threatening jobs in building a 33-story hotel in downtown Brooklyn. Of

  It seems Robert Bork somehow forgot that he’s not as physically agile as he used to be, so now he’s suing the Yale Club for allowing the judge to hurt himself. According to the New York Post: The 80-year-old legal scholar is suing the Yale Club after he fell off a raised platform as he prepared

I was reading Tom Knapp’s excellent evisceration of Hugh Hewitt’s absurd assertion that Mitt Romney or Rudy Giuliani are the closest closest the GOP has to “another Reagan.” And it got me to thinking about the Gipper’s legacy with respect to Iran. Quoth Knapp: Ronald Reagan’s administration worked deals with Iran (“arms for hostages”). Yes,

The New York Post raises an excellent point with respect to Mayor Mike’s controversial congestion pricing traffic plan. Before we start charging ordinary motorists $8 for the privilege of driving into midtown, we could probably go a long way toward relieving traffic congestion by simply revoking some of the 47,000 special parking permits that allow

  It seems like it should be a no-brainer, but for some reason some “libertarians” need continual reminding that a Rudy Giuliani presidency would be bad, to put it mildly, for freedom. David Boaz, executive vice president of the Cato Institute, does his part to slap some sense into our erstwhile allies with an excellent

The truth hurts – and Ron Paul tells the truth.  In the last GOP Presidential debate Ron Paul simply stated what every CIA agent and anyone who has read beyond the tip of their nose already knew – that US interventionist foreign policy – not our wealth and freedom – is a major cause of anti-American sentiment

  According to the Great Firewall of China, the Serf City blog is among the many websites that are blocked in China. I don’t know what we said that could have possibly offended them. The Manhattan Libertarian Party website is also blocked. They even blocked my publishing company East River Press. You can test any URL

Could Adam Clayton Power IV be a Libertarian in Democrat’s clothing? I suspect it’s safe to answer no. Still, it’s refreshing to see a New York politician who would rather not introduce any new laws: For the last three years, an East Harlem assemblyman, Adam Clayton Powell IV, has stood out for his streak of inactivity.