Who’s the most influential man in America right now? If you answered Anthony Kennedy, go to the head of the class. The Court handed down its most important decisions of the term in the past two weeks, each by a 5-4 margin but really by 1-0. In all four cases, Justice Kennedy was the determining […]
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The Supreme Court has recognized an individual right to keep and bear arms! The Second Amendment means what it says. The DC gun ban is struck down! Expect many NYS and NYC gun laws to be struck down soon as well. The money quote, so far, is from John Paul Stevens’ dissent. The majority, he wrote,
The lovely and talented Becky Akers has a hard-hitting op-ed in today’s New York Post about the latest outrages from the Tranportation Security Administration. Not only are the security checkpoint goons dressing up like cops in an effort to impress… somebody, but they’re also playing peeping tom with airport passengers: It recently installed body scanners at
State Senate majority leader Joe Bruno won’t seek re-election. It seems like only yesterday we were complaining that nothing ever changes in Albany. Now in less than two years, we’ve seen Comptroller Hevesi and Governor Spitzer resign in disgrace and Bruno retire under a cloud of suspicion. Interesting times.
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The Republican nominee to replace Vito Fossella, Frank Powers, died in his sleep yesterday. So a father-son race just wasn’t meant to be, even if the Libertarian Party had nominated Frank’s son Fran to run against him. The race went from potentially two Powers, to one, to none at all. Our sincere condolences go to Fran Powers
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Bill Buran, the Libertarian* candidate for New York State Assembly in the 72nd District (Washington Heights, Inwood, and Marble Hill in upper Manhattan), has launched his campaign website. It’s a professional, robust site with lots of information about Bill and his positions on the issues: This year change is all about having a choice. Not
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Back in January, I wrote about how the State Education Department was cutting off special services for homeschoolers. Today, the state senate passed a bill to restore those services. The assembly passed the companion bill on Monday, so now it goes to Gov. Paterson for his signature. As a libertarian, I have mixed feelings about
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Tenants in rent-regulated apartments are bracing for tonight’s meeting of the Rent Guidelines Board, when next year’s rent increases will be revealed. That rents will go up is inevitable — it’s just a question of by how much. However, they’re not going up everywhere. In fact, rents in non-regulated buildings are clearly going down lately.
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This week’s issue of The New Yorker has a wrap-up on everyone’s favorite almost-candidate of the Libertarian Party, Fran Powers of Staten Island. As everyone knows by now, Fran got a ton of media attention for seeking to run against his father, Republican Frank Powers, for the 13th Congressional District seat on Staten Island. Alas,
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The following is an open letter from Ron Ramo, Membership Director of the Manhattan Libertarian Party, to the Ron Paul Revolution: Fellow Revolutionaries, Although we still hope in our hearts of hearts for our friend and inspiration Ron Paul to become the next President of the United States, it seems this will be an unlikely
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