Category: News and Opinion

In the United States we have a way of making injured people whole again.  It is called the personal injury lawsuit and a value is placed on your injury and awarded to you if you win your case or settle.  Meanwhile in Japan an apology is how people are made whole again.  Two methods to the same end.  You decide which one you favor.

Today's non-news news: people who know nothing about education support Black for Chancellor

Before I go further with my political writings, I need to clear up a few things. After more than five years on these here blogs (mainly Politicker, Daily Gotham and Room Eight New York Politics); after numerous local radio and television appearances; after some of my political columns have been published in a few newspapers, and after some others have appeared in various other media outlets (particularly of the fifth estate variety); I need to openly reflect and/or retrospect.

It is imperative now in this dismal and shattered global economy that Turkey be admitted to the European Union.  Turkey is the linchpin to the entire region that surrounds it.  Its entry into the EU will bring prosperity to the Caucuses, Eastern Europe, Greece and the Middle East.

The Wall Street Journal has a column on the vote counting in the election for California Attorney General.

Columnist John Fund writes:

The race to determine who will be the attorney general of California is still too close to call. Democrat Kamala Harris, San Francisco's district attorney, leads Republican Steve Cooley, the DA for Los Angeles County, by 31,000 votes out of nearly nine million cast. And there are more than 750,000 ballots left to count.

Even before Election Day, when it became clear that this was going to be a good year for Republicans, pundits & pols began debating what caused the turnaround from 2008.

The fact that the unions don't seem to like Black may actually be a point in her favor, but I defy you to find another one.