The Rising Tide

Sholom the anarchist rabbi, who was a guest speaker at July’s Manhattan Libertarian Party meeting, and who was kind enough to bring along several excellent co-speakers from the heroic Iraq Veterans Against the War, gives a shout-out to our Serf City print edition. Also reading the dead-tree Serf City is one Sassafras Lowrey at Fuchsia […]

I’ve been so distracted away from politics this summer that I hadn’t even noticed that the NY legislature and Governor Spitzer quietly legalized ticket scalping last month. Gotham Gazette takes a look at the new law today in its “Issue of the Week“: On June 1, Governor Eliot Spitzer [signed] legislation that removes from the books

I am a member of the New York Entrepreneur Meetup Group and I almost fell off my chair when I saw a group email suggesting that entrepreneurs should support single payer health care ( aka socialized medicine).  Big government is certainly wonderful for those entrepreneurs who happen to be chosen as the recipients of government contracts.  Who

I have been looking at this new EPA ozone level proposal where they even state that it is justified because courts have ruled cost is not to be considered . It looks to me that they are outlawing nature. What first raised the question was when I followed the link from news.google to the Salt

MTV‘s excellent review ‘Sicko’: Heavily Doctored shows Michael follows Lenin’s timeless advice to socialists : We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth. We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, scorn, and the like, towards those who disagree with us. MTV links

New York City’s long wait is over. The latest paper edition of Serf City has arrived from the printer. And if I do say so myself, it’s a great issue. Some of the highlights include Joseph Dobrian on the recent gay pride parade, Matthew Lysiak on the Atlantic Yards eminent domain scheme, Bob Armstrong on

Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing folly just keeps getting worse. Today the New York Times is reporting that not only will drivers be charged $8 to enter Manhattan below 86th Street, those of us who are already here will be charged $8 to leave! Not only that, it’s going to cost you money to get in

We all know how reliable a news source News Corporation is. I mean, hell, the word “news” is in its name! However, it’s a bit alarming that our buddy Rupert Murdoch is wining and dining Chinese elitists, as he attempts to buy out Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal. Joseph Kahn at the New York Times comments

This isn’t just another gratuitous Ron Paul post — it’s a gratuitous Ron Paul post with a New York angle. After Ron’s recent appearance on The Colbert Report, he experienced “the Colbert bump” with a little help from his fiercely dedicated NYC Meetup activists. Great job, guys and gals! (Sorry I’m linking the video instead of embedding it

Just blog about Ron Paul and/or his supporters, as Karol at Alarming News discovered today. You’ll never be lonely again.