I love a good Internet scam for pure entertainment value, and this one is fiendishly clever. Some grifter is trying to raise $50,000 so he and his girlfriend can afford to keep their baby. If they fall short of their fundraising goal, it’s off to the abortion clinic. Why didn’t my wife and I think […]

 If you decide to wear black and yellow, better not show up at any events that could be designated as “Latin.” This past weekend’s Puerto Rican Day Parade proved that cops will look for just about any excuse to make arrests. A high school senior was singled out for wearing black and yellow sneakers, which

The New York State Assembly passed a medical marijuana bill for the first time ever today, according to the Marijuana Policy Project. The bill would allow patients with life-threatening conditions to use marijuana according to their doctors’ recommendations. The state health department could also add other serious conditions. Patients would be allowed to cultivate a safe supply

Once again, a big tip o’ the hat to The Libertarian Enterprise: I love Scott Bieser!

  From 1010 WINS: Protesters are expected to rally in Brooklyn Friday against using illegal Chinese and Latino workers in dangerous construction jobs.  Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz is expected to attend the rally. Labor officials say the immigrant workers are being used in life threatening jobs in building a 33-story hotel in downtown Brooklyn. Of

  It seems Robert Bork somehow forgot that he’s not as physically agile as he used to be, so now he’s suing the Yale Club for allowing the judge to hurt himself. According to the New York Post: The 80-year-old legal scholar is suing the Yale Club after he fell off a raised platform as he prepared

I was reading Tom Knapp’s excellent evisceration of Hugh Hewitt’s absurd assertion that Mitt Romney or Rudy Giuliani are the closest closest the GOP has to “another Reagan.” And it got me to thinking about the Gipper’s legacy with respect to Iran. Quoth Knapp: Ronald Reagan’s administration worked deals with Iran (“arms for hostages”). Yes,

“If Bush Can Blurt Curse, So Can Network TV.” What a line, from the New York Times today. Countering the wishes of the Bush administration and the FCC, the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York struck down yesterday a government policy that allows the fining of networks and stations for obscene language, whether spontaneous or scripted.

According to today’s New York Post, Rudy Giuliani accuses Hillary Clinton and other Democratic presidential candidates as living in a “different world” when it comes to the realities of the threat of Islamic terrorism. Is this the same world where steel buildings fall at free fall speed, due to burning jet fuel?   (Diagram: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=125&topic_id=48327&mesg_id=49191)

The New York Post raises an excellent point with respect to Mayor Mike’s controversial congestion pricing traffic plan. Before we start charging ordinary motorists $8 for the privilege of driving into midtown, we could probably go a long way toward relieving traffic congestion by simply revoking some of the 47,000 special parking permits that allow