When Peggy Noonan is on her game, there are few more persuasive than she. And the former Reagan speech writer is decidedly on her game today with a Wall Street Journal column entitled “Once Upon a Time in America.” Ms. Noonan’s column is so compelling and so well written that it pains me to disagree […]
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Is “Soft” the New “Malaise”?
http://youtu.be/VhDuqMdiol4 President Obama has been doing interviews with local television stations for months now in the hopes of getting softer questions than he might speaking to network anchors. But that didn’t help him one bit yesterday in Orlando while speaking to the local NBC affiliate. Here, very much reminiscent of President Carter’s “malaise” remarks, President Obama inexplicably says that America has gone […]
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You’ve got to be kidding me… New York State’s Medicaid Redesign Team is recommending to Governor Cuomo that transgender surgeries be paid for by Empire State taxpayers, according to a story today by intrepid New York Post scribe Carl Campanile. Governor Cuomo has not yet said what he will do about the proposal. This comes from the […]
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Chalk one up for common sense. The Pine Tree State just upped the speed limit on a 110-mile stretch of road for a good reason: Eighty-five percent of drivers who travel on that deserted stretch of Maine highway already are driving that fast. In doing so, the State of Maine becomes the first state East of the Mississippi to have a […]
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In the first few days of this site’s existence, I penned a short piece entitled “Hark the Brave Politician” to celebrate the courage certain politicians like Chris Christie (R), Andrew Cuomo (D), and Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino (R) were — and are — demonstrating in putting their country before their electoral ambitions by addressing third-rail issues. They are willing to lose re-election to […]
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New York City is at it again. At least the City Council is. Mayor Bloomberg, who has infinitely better sense than the Council, hasn’t definitively said if we will back the Council’s new kick-back scheme that would force banks holding City money to “give back to the community.” In non-government parlance, that’s called a “shake […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Big Fat Fraternity Lie
If fraternities were to be invented today, they’d never make it. Imagine the Campus Club-Day sales pitch: Come join an all-male, strictly alcohol-free association where you can learn the Greek alphabet and wear funny robes in an environment legally bound to show respect to all prospective members and visitors. Dues and insurance premiums mandatory. “What […]
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Ran into an old friend at City Hall today. He was running a press conference immediately before one I was holding. Hadn’t seen him in the longest time. We’re on opposite sides of the aisle, but it was genuine hugs and pats on the back. We used to play sports together and we hadn’t seen […]
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Michael Moore is one of the great con artists of our time. The ostensible champion of the downtrodden has been raking it in for years, cleverly disguising the fact that his socialistic words have made him capitally rich. Maybe it’s the baseball hat and sloven look that lets him get away with it. Or […]
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