“[Romney’s] campaign is very good at tactics. It has taken each challenger, found his weakness and pounded it home. But Romney’s candidacy remains short on aspiration. His public appeal, at this point, is a combination of emphasizing his business experience, criticizing Obama’s record and reassuring conservatives. This is a campaign — but not a cause.” […]
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Loss of a Class Act
Gary Carter RIP. Way too young. (Great final hit video.)
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Great piece in Real Clear Markets today by Manhattan Institute scholar Diana Furchtgott-Roth on the growing state pension crisis across America. This was an issue prominently raised in 2010 by a friend and former client Harry Wilson when he was running for New York State Comptroller. In short, the amount cities and states owe their retirees […]
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I really liked Whitney Houston. And, as someone who knows the animal, I rooted as much as anyone for her to overcome her addictions. But flying the flag at half mast for her in New Jersey? Governor Chris Christie has done a lot of things right as chief executive. This isn’t one of them.
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Whew! Man-of-the-people Michael Moore just sued his way into another $2.7 million for his work on 2004 conspiracy flick “Fahrenheit 911.” I feared he was getting down to his last $50 mil or so. (Moore has now made $22.7 million from the film on the 9/11 attacks.) What’s the next money maker for the self-proclaimed anti-greedster? […]
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is a wimp. He should resign. For the fourth straight year, the Nevada Democrat is refusing to issue or pass a budget plan for the country, Congress’s principle job. The result is a rudderless nation. Mr. Reid refuses to propose a budget because he will be criticized politically for suggesting any […]
Read the rest of this entry »Children in a Toxic Stew
I watched my daughter fall headfirst from a staircase when she was a baby, just a little more than a year old. Time, somehow, impossibly, stood still. She hung in the air for an extra beat — only God knows how — giving me enough time to rush and catch her before she hit the […]
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Have to head out to an interesting part of the world for a few days. Hopefully some good posts to bring back. Take care in the meantime. –Bill
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Fifty bucks on Dolan.
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Only in New York. The state just ranked 49th nationally in business friendliness is at it again — this time harassing a Papa John’s Pizza restaurant in Colonie, NY. Veteran Albany Times Union reporter Rick Karlin broke the story yesterday, and it’s got to be an embarrassment for the State Department of Labor. One hopes it is […]
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