Everybody is coming out with their year in review lists this week (Dave Barry’s is a gem, as usual), but one of my favorites is Bill Hammond’s rundown of Albany shenanigans in 2008. Sure you remember Love Client Number Nine, but there was also the parole board member who solicited 11 year olds, the assemblyman […]
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Happy Holidays! Santa Claus should be deemed a person of suspicious activity.
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Serf City received a nice email from the folks at the Fresh Air Fund, asking if we would help out with their year-end fundraising campaign. Since I’m a big believer in encouraging non-governmental solutions to social welfare issues, I am more than happy to do so. Since 1877, The Fresh Air Fund, a not-for-profit agency,
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Over at the Fierce Telecom website, someone posted an article today criticizing a new paper by Scott Cleland of NetCompetition.org. Scott’s paper (which I have not read) apparently asserts that Google uses 21 times more bandwidth than it pays for. The criticism gets rather ad hominem, using words like “stupid,” “moron” and “telecom shill” to
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The capo di tutti capi of the Libertarian Party of New York, Eric Sundwall, throws his hat into the ring to replace Hillary:
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It is with great sadness that I report the untimely death yesterday of Beth Hoffman, a true hero of the freedom movement. For over three decades, Beth was a FEE staffer and editor; she served as Managing Editor of the Freeman for many years and in her own humble way, truly was the backbone of
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This may be one of the best frivolous ideas to come out of New York Silly Council in a long time. The last of the Mohicans Republicans, Vincent Ignizio and James Oddo, are proposing that the Mets’ new stadium be renamed Citi/Taxpayer Field, in honor of “the taxpayers of the country who will foot the
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It looks like New York may be stuck with Senator Clinton after all. Some eagle-eyed constitutional scholars have pointed out the obstacle presented by Article I, Section 6 of the U.S. Constitution: No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of
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Despite the bitter, bitter cold, Saturday’s End the Fed protest at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York was very well attended and high-energy. I’d guess there were about 200 activists when I was there. (I only stayed for about an hour, because I had my 6-year-old and 4-year-old daughters with me, and they couldn’t
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