Tomorrow our silly council is expected to pass Council Member Gale Brewer’s bill prohibiting stores from leaving their doors open while their air conditioners are running. You know that pleasant feeling when you’re walking along a city sidewalk on a hot summer day, and you catch a quick blast of frigid air from the appliance […]
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Radley Balko has some additional footage of New York’s Finest behaving badly at last month’s Critical Mass ride. Hat tip: Freedom’s Phoenix
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It’s enough to restore your faith in American politics – and that takes some doing. According to a Zogby pollreleased July 23,2008, approximately 22% of American adults believe a state has the right to peaceably secede from the Union. 18% said they would support a move to secede by their state. I believe any state
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Brilliant: Â Hat tip: LewRockwell.com via AnarchyInYourHead.
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 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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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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Tomorrow morning, I and 45 of my fellow co-plaintiffs will sue New York State, Governor Paterson and a rogues’ gallery of co-defendants to stop the state from ladling out taxpayer money to wealthy corporations. Our attorney, the great James Ostrowski, Esq., will ask a state judge in Albany to order an immediate end to more
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 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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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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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