The question is with the Arab Rising and the emergence of China is what kind of prosperity are they seeking, the form found in America or that of Europe. Well with the Arabs they are seeking freedom and with that freedom concurrent prosperity. As for the Chinese they may dream of freedom but on the surface at least are satisfied with prosperity.
Category: News and Opinion
The Gateway (Paulverized Edition)
|The good news is that Ron Paul said he might consider supporting the 13th Amendment, provided the owners were duly compensated Paul says he would have opposed Civil Rights Act thehill.com
But, Paul does oppose slavery for white people (if one defines slavery as food and shelter).
John RINO (Kagan section modified)
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Multiple sources say a resignation by indicted State Senator Carl Kruger may be imminent.
However, a source close to Kruger told me: “Carl is not going out until he is forced to by operation of law. Those options are losing a primary or general or a conviction. No truth to the rumor.”
That sounds more like the Kruger I know, but we shall see.
Return of the Golden Watch (and Cox Still Sucks)
|As readers already know, in 2008, when Hiram Monserrate was arrested, it took Marty Golden THREE DAYS to introduce a resolution asking him not to file his oath of office.
DONALD TRUMP: THE PLAYER-HATING JOKER.
|Guys like Donald Trump are the kind of people who made 1789 a great year for regular folks like me. Here is a guy born with a gold spoon stuck in his mouth and with a silver spoon protruding from his ass. And yet, he swears he is “all that and a bag of chips”; but he is not. He was born on second base and swears “he hit a double”.
Property Rights and the Fishkill Supply Depot
|In a small community 60 miles north of New York City history and patriotism have squared off against the age old American belief in the supremacy of property rights. Let me explain, the Fishkill Supply Depot was a military camp that supplied all the American forces operating in the Hudson River Valley during the duration of the American Revolution. Without the Depot there would have been no victory at Saratoga and no turning point in the war.
Pockets of Eurocentric Thought
|There is talk of the Europeanization of America bringing the nation into a more modern era. Some parts of the country are already Eurocentric. This is very apparent in New York where many people only travel between there and Europe and nowhere else.
Stop The Presses – Michael Goodwin Is Right For Once (Sort of)
|Michael Goodwin in Sunday’s NY Post thinks he has caught Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in a hypocritical inconsistency.
Harvey Wallbanger (Major Correction Added)
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In this piece I’d like to tell the stories of two different Jewish men who served in the public life of the State of New York and what happened on the day they met.
One of the men is D’Amato/Pataki political hatchet man Jeff Wiesenfeld.
I’ve received more than a few comments on my Facebook threads and in my email complaining I’ve been too sympathetic to Wiesenfeld in his CUNY contretemps with playwright Tony Kushner.
Towns Without Pity
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On Wednesday night will come an event that I once saw as having the potential to be the opening gun in a new Brooklyn political war.
It may yet come to that, but I am having my doubts.
When Darryl Towns became the State’s Housing Commissioner, he resigned not only from his Assembly seat, but from the Male Democratic District Leader’s slot in his Assembly District.