Your Tax Dollars at Work
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The Rising Tide
June 10 – Ban the Scan NYC at Union Square
Please join New Yorkers and some excellent speakers as they make the case against the TSA’s extremism and support the movement in Texas and Utah to criminalize the TSA’s pat-downs and invasive security measures. The enhanced security measures violate our Fourth Amendment, basic right to privacy and dignity. They also have an ineffectiveness rate of
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April 30 – LPNY 2011 ANNUAL CONVENTION
Registration@ 9AM Contin’tl Breakfast with lunch Package* Business Meeting 10 – 12 noon @ no charge VIP Speakers table $80 by 10 Apr, after $100. Food/Speakers Package* – $60 by 10 Apr, $80 after Speakers only [no food] – $30. by 10 Apr after $50. WHERE: Lily Flanagan’s Pub,345 Deer
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Milk and Cookies
As she has said before, The Free Agent may number few among her peers, but is catholic in her associations. An ex-colleague and native of America’s Dairyland, posted this joke on Facebook: This joke is too good not to share… A unionized public employee, a teabagger, and a CEO are sitting at a table. In
Let’s Not Go All Denmark Here
Like most decent people, The Free Agent was brought up never to deface property. One cannot, however, live in New York without appreciating a certain frisson of anarchistic thrill at the sight of a particularly subversive graffito. It is a tradition that goes back at least to ancient Rome, when frenzied fan girls were known
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Keeping It Together
Mr President? Ron Paul won his second consecutive CPAC presidential straw poll this past weekend and already various news outlets and personal acquaintances of mine are harping about the fact that it does not matter. Apparently the only reason the CPAC presidential straw poll might matter is if it is a good indicator of who
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Monthly Meeting Feb 14: David Casavis on Eliminating the Borough Presidencies
In 1989 the supreme court declared the government of the City of New York unconstitutional. It was a controversy over the Board of Estimate which then ruled the City. The ruling, in “Board of Estimate City of New York v Morris” was based on the grounds that the more populous boroughs, such as Brooklyn, had
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The Danielle Steel Decade *
The Free Agent has observed that the frequency of the nostalgia wave is about twenty years. In particular, Generation-Whatevers look upon twenty years before whatever year it is as a time when people wore funny clothes and didn’t have real problems like we do nowadays. (When The Free Agent was a toddler, the rage was
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March 14th – Rick Montes of the Tenth Amendment Center on “The Tenth Amendment and Liberty”
Rick Montes of the Tenth Amendment Center on “The Tenth Amendment and Liberty” “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Big Govenment and the Arts: Belarus Style
Andrew Broussard submitted this guest post. As a result of the shootings in Arizona we hear numerous calls to tone down the political rhetoric. But who is to determine when speech has crossed the line? Perhaps we should take a lesson from Alexander Lukashenko. ***** Winston Churchill said that democracy is the worst form of government
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