The Rising Tide

Cops Grudgingly Give Transgender Group “Permission” to Exercise 1st Amendement Rights

Just in time for Gay Pride Week, the NYPD has backed down and reached a settlement with the Audrey Lorde Project, a transgender group, onNYTurf is reporting. The cops had denied the group a parade permit for a second year in a row, so the trannies dragged the cops into court. (I just got a

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The War on Sippy Cups

The lovely and talented Becky Akers, a frequent contributor to Serf City and all-around hardcore anarchocapitalist New Yawker, discusses the TSA’s latest outrages and abuses on Antiwar Radio. Becky is a prolific chronicler of the TSA for LewRockwell.com and is writing a book on the subject. The latest outrage that has Becky’s dander up is

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Arrest of the Bumblebee

 If you decide to wear black and yellow, better not show up at any events that could be designated as “Latin.” This past weekend’s Puerto Rican Day Parade proved that cops will look for just about any excuse to make arrests. A high school senior was singled out for wearing black and yellow sneakers, which

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Medical Marijuana Milestone

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

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Markowitz to Attend Anti-Immigrant Rally

  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

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Bork the Dork

  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

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Arms for Hostages, Then and Now

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,

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