Fast Tube by Casper Secretary of State Clinton used every bit of leverage at her dispopsal to force the Obama Adminstration to make a decision on Libya — including a well-timed announcement/shot across the bow yesterday that she won’t serve another term as President Obama’s top State Department official.  She then led the successful effort […]

The Daily today reports that Hillary Clinton has had it with indecision in the White House over foreign affairs, and that’s why she announced yesterday her intention to step down at the end of President Obama’s first term, whether he wins re-election or not. “Obviously, she’s not happy with dealing with a president who can’t decide if today is […]

Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950) Irish Playwright. “Shaw once came across a copy of one of his works in a secondhand bookshop. Opening the volume, he found the name of a friend inscribed in his own hand on the flyleaf:  ‘To______with esteem, George Bernard Shaw.’  He promptly bought the book and returned it to his friend, adding the inscription: “With renewed esteem, […]

Fast Tube by Casper New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the statewide teachers’ union, created a pleasant-sounding dummy group called the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE) a few months back to protest Governor Cuomo’s budget modifications.  NYSUT kicked off the project with $425,000,  a drop in the bucket for a public employee union. AQE began […]

I typically don’t inject client issues onto this page — my opinions and those of my clients sometimes differ markedly — but a situation brewing in Westchester County, NY merits mention. It is too perfectly illustrative of the union grip on the Democratic Party to go unreported. For those of you who don’t know, Westchester, […]

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R) has been promoting an excellent idea in Albany — digitalizing state budget documents to save money and trees.  As it is, state legislators are given thousands of pages of budget bills every year that are never read, even by the people who right them it seems. Liz Benjamin reports here that […]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer today that should she would not seek a second term in her position.  She also counted out a future run for Vice President or President. If you’re like me, having Hillary Clinton in the Obama Administration was a major plus. Mrs. Clinton well knows how to take that 3 […]

President Obama prefaced his NCAA basketball prognostications on ESPN today with a cursory appeal to Americans to go to a website, while making their NCAA picks,  if the want to help Japan. Then he jumped right into college basketball, explaining his tournament picks like Churchill in a war room. I try not to criticize the President gratuitously, […]

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Public financing of elections sounds good, but in practice it always turns into a scam, just like anything else involving “free” money. The Left-wing Working Families Party (WFP) — that’s the party founded by ACORN and  New York public employee unions — is now calling for taxpayer-funded campaigns, using the arrest of  senior state legislators […]