Both destroyed hundreds of downtown businesses for no good reason. Now that the MTA has abandoned its gazillion dollar transit hub boondoggle, some of the business owners who saw their livelihoods needlessly ruined for the sake of some bureaucrat’s petty scheme are rightfully pissed: Mirza Mamur closed his art gallery, endured 10 months of unemployment, […]
What Do the MTA and Al Qaeda Have in Common? Read More »
In honor of Arlo Guthrie’s enthusiastic endorsement of Ron Paul today, here are a few bars of Arlo’s anti-war masterpiece Alice’s Restaurant, with footage from the movie of the same name. (Don’t any of you whippersnappers tell me you never heard of it either! Kids today…)
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And deficit spending by a government comprised of career politicians who believe they can manage our money better than we can, creates disastrous results. Especially when they simply take our money out of one pocket just to put into the other. Minus inflation no less, not to mention compounding interest.
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Harvard Professor Charles Nesson has an interesting proposal — he wants Stephen Colbert to host a televised poker tournament among the presidential candidates. I this is a terrific idea — as long as it’s not strip poker. (Yeesh, sorry, that’s a mental picture I didn’t need to conjure.) You have to wait til the end
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The New York chapter of the National Organization for Women is calling Ted Kennedy’s endorsement of Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton “the ultimate betrayal” of women. I would have thought leaving an innocent woman to drown would be more of an ultimate betrayal, but maybe I’m not feminist enough.
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It appears that Ron Paul finished in second place in Louisiana among caucus voters who expressed a preference for a candidate — finishing right behind John McCain, just as he did in Nevada on Saturday. That’s the second straight race Ron has brought home the Silver Medal. Now let’s go for the Gold!
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The Times’ City Room blog points out a bizarre provision among the hundreds of items in Eliot Spitzer’s budget proposal — he wants to impose a $3.50-a-gram tax on marijuana and a $200-a-gram tax on other illegal drugs such as cocaine. New York City and State combined tax tobacco cigarettes at a rate of $3.00
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Two polls released today show Ron Paul deep in sixth place heading into the New York Republican primary on Super Duper Tuesday. Rasmussen has Paul at 6% in New York; Marist has him at 2%. The primary is still two weeks away, and a lot can happen between now and then, but it’s time for the
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The NYPD wants you to have to come to them for “permission” before you can own a machine to detect biological, chemical and radiological weapons: And it’s not just devices to detect weaponized anthrax that they want the power to control, but those that detect everything from industrial pollutants to asbestos in shoddy apartments. Want
Yeah, This Will Reduce “Unwarranted Anxiety” Read More »
So let me get this straight…. Ron Paul handily beats Giuliani and Thompson in Tuesday’s primary in Michigan. Before that, he beat Thomspon in New Hampshire, and before that he beat Giuliani in Iowa. He raised more money than any other Republican in the fourth quarter. And the New York Times decides they should exclude
All the Choices That Are Fit to Print? Read More »