http://youtu.be/bXPg-CFnV28 I hadn’t been to lower Manhattan in a couple of months, until last Thursday night when I drove by the ever-growing Freedom Tower and was amazed by its progress. In a very short period of time — after a long stretch of seeming inactivity — the Tower has taken shape. It is massive already, and it […]
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Return of the Ellen Jamesians?
In John Irving’s The World According to Garp, a group of fanatical feminists called “The Ellen Jamesians” have their tongues surgically excised to protest the sexual assault and tongue removal of a young girl names Ellen James. (Toward the end of the book, James herself asks T.S. Garp, the book’s eccentric protagonist, to help make the Ellen Jamesians stop.) It […]
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The National Education Association endorsed President Obama for re-election on Monday — a full 17 months before the 2012 elections — signaling just how weak it perceives the President’s re-election chances to be. The 3.2 million-member NEA made its endorsement and its annual meeting in Chicago. It is no surprise that the NEA would endorse the Democrat in the […]
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I don’t think Andrew Cuomo is going be Barack Obama’s next running mate. He is too smart to board a sinking ship. But speculation about Joe Biden being replaced in the vice-presidential slot makes a whole lot of sense. I wrote about the possibility in March. It’s not that Biden has done anything wrong. […]
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The seat belt law drives me crazy. It bothers me more than any other law. It is the simple audacity of its message: Government can make me do whatever it wants. It can reach into my car and force me to do something that at the end of the day is optional. Where in the […]
Read the rest of this entry »A 4th of July Story
How do you explain what happened to the World Trade Center towers to a four-and-three-quarter-year old child? The best advice might be not to try, but I found myself doing just the opposite last night while driving by the gap along the West Side Highway where the towers stood. I tend to give it to […]
Read the rest of this entry »Lady Liberty at Dusk
Spent an evening on Liberty Island last night as part of Statue Cruise’s new summer night tours (my company does work for them.) I haven’t been on Liberty Island in more than 40 years, and the experience was even more memorable this time than the first time I saw the statue up close. The number of […]
Read the rest of this entry »Thaddeus Who?
Add one more to the burgeoning Republican presidential field. Five-term Michigan congressman Thaddeus McCotter — or T-Mac as comedian Dennis Miller calls him — is throwing his hat in the ring for the nation’s highest office. The former “New Flying Squirrels” band member and pro-labor union congressman is not expected to churn the field much. But hey, you never […]
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Who knows how the Dominique Strauss Kahn sexual assault case will turn out. But the story looks very different today than it did a day ago. Strauss Kahn, according to reports, was just released on his own recognizance because his accuser’s story has become so suspect. This case — and again, we don’t know how it ultimately will turn out — […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Swiss Cheese Tax Cap
Governor Andrew Cuomo held a beautifully staged press conference on a tree-lined street in Pleasantville, NY today to formally sign New York State’s new 2% tax cap into law. Normal Rockwell would have painted the scene had he been alive to see it. The only problem with the event – and I don’t mean to […]
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