It’s it hard to believe that it was eight years ago today that the world stopped turning… Every moment of that day is burned indelibly into my memory, every site, every sound, every smell, it’s all so fresh… It still seems like it was just yesterday. Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Congressman Eric Massa: I Will Vote Against the Interests of My District
August 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Sen. Tom Coburn is right, American’s have lost faith in their government and I can’t think of a better example of why than the attitude displayed by Congressman Eric Massa of New York. Rep. Massa met with an intimate group of Netroots activists during their annual Netroots Nation gathering in Pittsburgh this past weekend reiterated [...]
Crime Doesn’t Pay: Business Owner Fires on Robbers, Killing 2, Police Say
August 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Things went horribly wrong for the four men who tried to hold up a Harlem restaurant-supply shop on Thursday afternoon… The four men burst into Kaplan Bros. Blue Flame Corp. around 3:00 p.m. and things went downhill quickly for them: “I’d do it again if I had to.” Those were the first defiant words out [...]
NY-20 House Race Too Close to Call
April 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I’m not going to spend a lot of time rehashing the race the… I didn’t follow it that closely so I’ll defer to Ed Morrissey on what went wrong and what it all means. The quick and dirty version is this… As of 2:00 p.m. this afternoon just 25 votes, out of more than 154,000 [...]
A Tax For Paying Your Taxes???
February 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Back to the twilight zone… New York Gov. David Patterson has proposed a few interesting new taxes, including those on non-diet soda, digitally delivered entertainment services and haircuts, but the one that is sure to raise a few eyebrows is the $10.00 fee for filing your state income taxes on a paper return. ALBANY — [...]
Do As I Say, Not As I Do…
February 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Ever think you’re stuck in the twilight zone? I’d love to say this story was unbelievable but it’s not, it’s business as usual: Gov. Paterson has secretly granted raises of as much as 46 percent to more than a dozen staffers at a time when he has asked 130,000 state workers to give up 3 [...]
New York Governor Wants to Tax What???
February 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
It’s a slow news day and I reaching a bit with this but I can’t resist planting tongue firmly in cheek and poking a little fun at one of the silliest tax proposals I seen in quite a while. New York Gov. David Patterson recently proposed a so called iPod tax that would apply to [...]
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