New York Sun: Emboldened by Mayor Bloomberg‘s testimony in Albany this week that the city’s taxpayers pay the state $11 billion a year more than they get back, a City Council member is offering legislation that would begin the process of having New York City secede from New York State. Peter Vallone Jr., a Democrat […]
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What sets John McCain apart from the rapidly thinning Republican Presidential field? He is the only remaining Republican candidate who has not pledged to refuse to raise taxes. According to Americans For Tax Reform, Huckabee, Romney and of course, our hero Ron Paul, have all all signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge.  McCain has not. With
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The following is a response by Libertarian Party National Chairman William Redpath Washington, D.C. – Following President Bush’s annual State of the Union Address, the Libertarian Party issued their response from National Chairman William Redpath: Tonight’s State of the Union address went much as expected. Instead of calling for a more limited role of the
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Both destroyed hundreds of downtown businesses for no good reason. Now that the MTA has abandoned its gazillion dollar transit hub boondoggle, some of the business owners who saw their livelihoods needlessly ruined for the sake of some bureaucrat’s petty scheme are rightfully pissed: Mirza Mamur closed his art gallery, endured 10 months of unemployment,
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In honor of Arlo Guthrie’s enthusiastic endorsement of Ron Paul today, here are a few bars of Arlo’s anti-war masterpiece Alice’s Restaurant, with footage from the movie of the same name. (Don’t any of you whippersnappers tell me you never heard of it either! Kids today…)
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And deficit spending by a government comprised of career politicians who believe they can manage our money better than we can, creates disastrous results. Especially when they simply take our money out of one pocket just to put into the other. Minus inflation no less, not to mention compounding interest.
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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 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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It appears that Ron Paul finished in second place in Louisiana among caucus voters who expressed a preference for a candidate — finishing right behind John McCain, just as he did in Nevada on Saturday. That’s the second straight race Ron has brought home the Silver Medal. Now let’s go for the Gold!
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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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