The back of the public service unions has been broken.  New York just made it official. While most of the country watched the goings on in Wisconsin and Ohio, the public service unions were throwing everything they had at New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, and the New York State Legislature, which, historically, buckles […]

This is bound to raise eyebrows. The New York Times is reporting that the Central Intelligence Agency has boots on the ground in Libya.  Will the President be making another speech soon? Writes The Times: “While President Obama has insisted that no American ground troops join in the Libyan campaign, small groups of C.I.A. operatives have been working in Libya […]

Fast Tube by Casper A friend and client, the President of the National Bible Association,  is working with the Pentagon to find ways to reduce the suicide rate among returning soldiers. The numbers are staggering. The military’s suicide rate has never been higher, and Admiral Mullens, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently acknowledged that with more […]

It’s amazing that fast-food restaurants have survived since New York City mandated calorie estimates on their menus. I haven’t bought a morsel of food at Starbuck’s, for example, since the law took effect.  Same thing at my local Burger King where I bring my daughter to play on a jungle gym once in a while: […]

I’ve never watched Bill Maher. Well, that’s not exactly true. I must have seen him at least once, because something made me develop an immediate and visceral dislike for the guy. If I see him on a television screen, I avert my eyes and change the channel. If I saw him walking down the street, […]

US Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) got busted coaching his fellow Democrats on a conference call today to use the word “extreme” when talking about Republican budget cuts.  He was unaware that members of the news media were on the line. “I always use extreme,” Schumer said, according to a Washington Times reporter on the call, “that is what the caucus […]

] Wish I had seen more of this interview. Michael Moore continues to insist that the wealth accumulated by Americans belongs not to them and their families, but to the country.  Even on a tongue-in-cheek show like The Colbert Report, Moore bristles when called out as a hypocrite.  The reportedly money-obsessed Moore is worth an estimated $25-50 […]

In two weeks the country will commemorate the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. It began on April 12, 1861 when confederate Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard — they don’t make names like that anymore — ordered southern artillery officers to open fire on federally-occupied Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, S.C. The war […]

“Slavery was the primary, central, cause of secession.  The Civil War was necessary to bring about the abolition of slavery. Abolishing slavery was morally imperative and necessary, and it’s regrettable that it took the Civil War to do it. But it did.”, Mississippi Governor and presidential aspirant Haley Barbour (March 25).

Self-promoting New York City Comptroller John Liu and former Mayor Ed Koch are in a public snit over objections made by the former over the latter’s name being affixed to the Queensboro Bridge, the New York Observer’s Azi Paybarah today reports. Liu, a Queens native, questioned the suitably of naming the East River span after […]