The Rising Tide

  I usually try to keep local stories on this blog confined to New York City or New York State. But this new program in Boston is so mind-boggingly fascist and ingeniously evil, I had to share. Plus, it’s only a matter of time before a similar program makes its way to New York, so […]

It seems not all the community activists in Brooklyn are as opposed to eminent domain as those in the Atlantic Yards area. Or maybe it just depends on the “public purpose” for which the property is stolen. At any rate, some “affordable housing”* proponents are seeking to steal a prime piece of Brooklyn real estate

Democracy is the worst form of government if people choose evil, Churchill once said. While it would be an incredibly far stretch to label Obama as such, for anyone familiar with the Spanish translation of “yes, we can”, “si se puede”, and it’s overt use by the Castro regime in Cuba, this subtle call for socialism hits a little too close to home.

Anyone (like me) who was hoping that Ron Paul would run as a Libertarian or independent candidate for President once the Republican primaries ran their course can forget it. Dr. Paul slammed the door firmly shut on such notions in an email to supporters this evening:  February 8, 2008 Whoa! What a year this has

When I traveled in Mexico and the Caribbean many years ago, I always thought it interesting that the locals preferred U.S. dollars over their own local, hyper-inflationary currency. What goes around comes around, apparently, and now some New York businesses are posting signs proclaiming “euros accepted.” That’s the inevitable consequence of our insane monetary policy, which

It seems that the fervour surrounding today’s primaries may, and I repeat ‘may’, be all about a moment of personal expiation. This I believe is an existential moment in American history – a time for mass psychoanalytic catharsis, and an opportunity for racial redemption and exorcism of collective guilt. In that polling booth one may

Last August I submitted a Change of Enrollment form to the Board of Elections, indicating that I was switching my enrollment to <shudder> Republican just so I could vote for Ron Paul in today’s primary. I had been enrolled as “Other,” which was the closest the NYC BOE was capable of coming to complying with

http://www.nytimes.com/… In the first counterterrorism strategy of its kind in the nation, roving teams of New York City police officers armed with automatic rifles and accompanied by bomb-sniffing dogs will patrol the city’s subway system daily, beginning next month, officials said on Friday. Under a tactical plan called Operation Torch, the officers will board trains

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