After watching this year’s Albany session, climaxing with the dramatic passage of Same Sex Marriage, as masterfully executed by the Governor, can there be any doubt that Andrew Cuomo is “The Real Steamroller.” Uncategorized

Little commented on is the real truth.

Same sex marriage is the triumph of the conservatives.

I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating.

Radical redefinitions of the family have given way to suburbia.

This is the triumph of two cats in a yard and a mortgage.

As I said two years ago:

Gilad Shalit was taken prisoner on June 25, 2006. He has yet to have a single ICRC visit even though the Geneva Conventions require them. This is one of the many human rights violations that the Hamas regime has perpetrated and they deserve universal condemnation.

WTF is the flotilla of concerned lefties for Gilad Shalit?

It's behind a pay wall, but it is worth considering the gist of this WSJ article. "Ralph Nader, the scourge of American business and onetime presidential candidate, has found his next corporate demon: Cisco Systems Inc. Mr. Nader isn't calling for a router recall or claiming the company's networks are unsafe at any speed. Instead, he wants the tech company to pay a bigger dividend to boost its shares."

As a small investor, Mr. Nader is upset that corporate profits are accumulated in cash rather than paid in dividends for retirees like himself. With cronies on the board, he feels the purported democracy of corporations has been replaced by a self-serving oligarcy. He would be wrong if he were simply shortsighted, preferring money now to investment in the future. But that cash just sitting there might also be used for excess executive pay. So where are the institutional investors, handling other people's money, on this one?

Donald Trump was invited to address a major gathering of American Indian Nations a few weeks ago in upstate New York. He spoke for almost an hour about his plans for increasing every Native American's present standard of living. He told them that he had supported every Native American issue that came up in the news media. He also stated that he hated western movies since they are politically incorrect. As you can inmagine, he told them near everything he thought they wanted to hear.

In 1993, when New York City voters faced their first referendum on term-limits for local elected-officials, sixty per cent decided on the imposition. In 2010, voters upheld this decision for a third time in seventeen years. The margin was even wider: three to one. The only offices left exempt from term-limits are those of the five district attorneys -one for each NYC County.

Charles Hynes has been the District Attorney for Kings County (Brooklyn) since 1989. His tenure has had its share of controversial moments. Critics have often suggested that he is too closely aligned with the political machinery of the King’s County Democrats. They believe it is not healthy for a DA to be so close to party-bosses, elected-democrats, their minions and their operatives. There may be a point to this critique.

As I’ve said before, even in the NYS legislature, the idea that a bill only comes to the floor of a chamber of the legislature when a majority of the majority party’s membership would support it if it came to the floor, is nonsense.

Sometimes, a majority would support a bill if it came to the floor, and doesn’t want to let it on the floor for that very reason. Other times, the majority does not have the votes within its conference to pass a bill, but agrees to let it pass with the minority providing some of the votes.

GATE (6/15/11): Kalman Yeger says it would be outrageous to eliminate Weiner's district.