Chris Bragg of City Hall newspaper just broke a report commissioned by the Bloomberg Administration on the so-called “Living Wage Bill” being advanced in the New York City Council by the Working Families Party (WFP) and other leftist groups. The bill would force companies with business before the City to pay workers $10 per hour if they […]

My wife is obsessed with checking real estate prices.  If you live within 100 miles of us, chances are that Corrinne knows what you paid for your house, what it’s worth now,  even what your real estate taxes might be. Perhaps that’s the lot of anyone buying near the peak of the market, which we […]

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), in typical Chuck Schumer fashion, is taking his cut of the bin Laden story by proposing a “No Ride List” for Amtrak trains.  Evidence collected in the terrorist’s lair evidently suggests that al Qaeda has considered attacking U.S. trains! How could we have overlooked that? Schumer’s list would emulate the “No […]

          Mother is the home we come from. She is nature, soil, ocean. – Erich Fromm

Can you imagine?

On this day every year my dear friend Nick Viest and I trudge down to OTB on Third Avenue and place bets on the Kentucky Derby.  He then returns Monday morning to collect his winnings.  I go straight to work. We were set to do the same this year, until we remembered that there is […]

It’s unsettling to read about friends in the religious and conservative communities mobilizing against the gay marriage bill in New York. It’s not that I’m surprised at their conviction on the issue – they hold genuine and deeply held beliefs on it – it’s that I find myself in the uncomfortable position of opposing people […]

The Obama Administration is beginning to get  pounded for its handling of the communications surrounding the elimination of Osama bin Laden.  It’s not so much happening here as it is overseas.  The Telegraph has an excoriating piece today saying that the White House is in jeopardy of ruining a perfectly good operation: ‘President Obama is coming dangerously close to snatching defeat from […]

President Obama is now considering a plan to tax American drivers based on how many miles they drive, The Hill reports this morning. The idea is to include an electronic tracking device on every American vehicle, which would record the number of miles driven.  Drivers would pay the federal tax each time they fill up […]

Two columns running top-to-bottom on a page in the New York Post today are begging to be linked. One is headlined: “Debt too big, 96% tell poll.” The other story caption reads: “Graying of US voters.” It’s not necessary to read the stories. The headlines say it all.  Virtually every American knows we’re spending too […]