It was bound to happen, and so it did. Red-light cameras, those disquieting eyes in the sky imported to New York City from the Soviet Union two decades ago, have leapt the divide onto American highways. The unlikely importer? Ridgeland, South Carolina (pop. 2,579). The town 20 miles north of the Georgia border has hidden […]

Every family I grew up with had something weird about it. One kid’s family might be Buddhists; another might not watch TV. One of my neighbors ate fish for Thanksgiving, and one family only ate food served on homemade pottery, which they made on a wheel in their basement. My family was no exception. Our […]

As cynical as I am, I can think of no reason why I have to have my lights on tomorrow night from 8:30 – 9:30 p.m., so I suppose I’ll do this, even though I’m deeply suspect of political motives behind, well, just about anything .  For those of you who don’t know — I didn’t until […]

Does this photo strike you as unusual, too? Looks like the Canadians are going to get it next.  What will be burned in effigy, hockey jerseys? Molsons?

I received the note below from Marcus Cederqvist in response to a recent post on rent regulations.  Marc is an old friend and the former Executive Director of the New York City Board of Elections.  He is now Executive Director of the Manhattan Republican Party.  I can’t resist posting his remarks (below.) I received an email a few days ago […]

I remember cringing at Al D’Amato’s television spots in his 1998 race against challenger Chuck Schumer. “Too liberal; too long” they blared, over and over and over again. The ads rang maddeningly off-key to my ear, and, it seems, to the ears of a majority of voting New Yorkers who ousted D’Amato from the US […]

Fast Tube by Casper The Obama Administration has done a good job muzzling gaffe-prone Vice President Joe Biden lately. But there is an entire menu of Bidenisms and Biden statements available online for political exploitation. And God only knows what he might say tonight or tomorrow. The video above features then Senator Biden promising an impeachment vote if a President were […]

Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers suffer from a mentally debilitating malady.  It is a disease that makes you think you don’t have it.  Hardly anyone talks about it anymore. It’s called rentregulitus and it turns otherwise rational people into blithering idiots for life. There seems to be no defense against rentregulitus.  It is contracted […]

In times of crisis, especially when troops are in the field, I tend to think American pundits should temper their remarks to give the Commander in Chief as much of a break as possible.  I have tried hard to do that on this site. But the mixed messages consistently coming out of the White House are becoming […]

U.S. Crude Oil Futures closed above $100 per barrel for the first time since September 2008 today, according to Reuters, handing yet another headache to the Obama re-election team.  The earthquake in Japan had temporarily lowered the price of oil futures because energy-hungry manufacturing in the world’s third largest economy is expected to be slowed by the earthquake […]