http://youtu.be/hobGkobU68k Now here’s something you don’t see every day. Conservative rock band Madison Rising plays here before left-wing “Occupy Congress” demonstrators, who heartily cheer the band at the end of the tune. One bearded demonstrator even dances into the camera shot. The tune is called “Before the Hyphens Came” and it’s about Americans dropping their differences […]
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Carnival PR
Anyone who thinks PR doesn’t matter needs to read this Post story.
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Good night for Obama.
Read the rest of this entry »The Times’s Gail Collins
The New York Times’s Gail Collins was once after someone I worked for. It was terrifying and hilarious. Ms. Collins was at Newsday then and every day she would call and ask to speak with my boss, who will mercifully remain unnamed. He knew she was after him, and tried to do the long duck. But he […]
Read the rest of this entry »Welcome to New York; Now Get Out!
Google opened a huge headquarters in lower Manhattan last year to great fanfare. Its reward? A 17% property tax hike in its first year of operation. Has anyone mentioned lately that New York is ranked as having the worst business climate in America? Google it. It’s out there.
Read the rest of this entry »The Not-for-Profit Conversation
There are more than three million not-for-profit corporations in America, and a heck of a lot of them receive government funding. Free money — as it has been for years — is awfully hard to resist, and non-profit programs have twisted themselves into pretzels to fit the guidelines of federal, state, and local funding streams. More than […]
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ABC has the exclusive goods on Newt Gingrich’s marital infidelities as told by his second wife Marianne Gingrich. They will air in full tonight. If Mr. Gingrich is anything like President Bill Clinton, expect the character assassination of Marianne to soon begin. The former Mrs. Gingrich tells ABC News that Mr. Gingrich wanted her to […]
Read the rest of this entry »The NYCLU vs. X-Ray Kelly
Chalk one up for the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU). The group is reportedly working to stop the City of New York from employing high-tech body scanners on city streets in an effort to identify anyone carrying a firearm. The City, whose intentions are good, is seeking to implement this technology because its physical […]
Read the rest of this entry »Internet-Only Conservatives
It’s impressive to see how quickly the Internet community coalesced in opposition to SOPA and PIPA, overreaching house and senate bills, respectively, that would give Washington bureaucrats the power to censor the Internet. The hipster-chic-geek techies blacked out sites by the thousands today in protest of the legislation, effectively saying “damned if we’re going to […]
Read the rest of this entry »On Coffee
A few years ago, after reading an article about coffee consumption in America, I did some rudimentary math to figure out how much of the stuff I had ingested in the course of my life. I came up with around 30,000 cups using a most conservative estimate. (Using the same three-a-day math — my wife […]
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