Is anyone else watching with awe the masterful public relations campaign for gay marriage in New York unfold? It’s a real beaut, and communications students would be wise to study it. Gay marriage looked dead in New York less than a year and a half ago. The bill faced resounding defeat, 24-38, in December 2009, […]

France’s attempt to ban veils worn by Muslim women through me for a loop.  I couldn’t wrap my mind around it.  In doing so, France, the liberal Mecca – is it okay to say that? – flagrantly offended the Muslim faith.  Why would it do that? The action is counterintuitive to that nation’s reflexively egalitarian […]

New York City is planning to install massive solar panels atop the Fresh Kills landfill that could generate enough energy to power 50,000 homes.  It gets better:  All this would be done for free, at least according the city’s Director of Sustainability, David Bragdon. “The cost is not a cost to the city,” Bragdon explains to New […]

I posted an item a couple of weeks back about drug violence in Mexico and the responsibility of pot-smoking Americans to do something about it. I received a lot of good feedback, including from proponents of marijuana legalization in the U.S. The Washington-based Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) published an interesting paper today on legalization that it is worth reading.  It has […]

A few months ago, in the midst of the political campaign season, I tried to start my car with a Blackberry. Not with new Bluetooth technology that allowed such a maneuver, but with the device itself. It was in my right hand, and, without looking, I was trying to manipulate the thing into the car’s […]

http://youtu.be/l55jZclGDsI Here is that Texas interview.  

President Obama’s communications team, which has long been accused of shutting out the media,  announced recently that the President would begin doing small market television interviews. It was the President’s way of saying he was getting out to the people. I wasn’t privy to the planning of this strategy, but I can pretty well guess that the idea was […]

The genius at the New York State Health Department who came up with this should be tied to a Tetherball pole and pelted with Dodgeballs. New York State, it seems, is not content to regulate businesses out of the state, it is now targeting fun. Kickball, Dodgeball, Wiffle Ball, Capture the Flag, Red Rover, and […]

If the book, Deconstructing Obama, is half as devastating as this review suggests, it is going to sell quite a few copies in the next year.  The book, according to this review,  directly calls into question the President’s honesty, specifically challenging Mr. Obama’s repeat assertion that he wrote his own memoirs. Deconstructing Obama author  Jack Cashill suggests […]

Donald Trump has had a free ride long enough, Washington based Club for Growth has apparently decided. Here’s an item on CFG and Trump just released by Liz Benjamin.  Strong stuff. Here’s the CFG quote: “Donald Trump for President? You’ve got to be joking,” said Club for Growth President Chris Chocola. “Donald Trump has advocated for massive […]