How do you like this one?  Yesterday’s New York Times had an article pointing out that Senate Demos ran on a platform of making gay marriage legal and accepted millions of dollars in money from gay marriage advocates, only to announce that it is in their political interest to wait a little while. From the [...]

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I’m traveling with the wife and kids for the holiday.  I won’t be back in the posting saddle until Monday. I know a couple of the other posters will be dark for the holiday.  I’m not sure if we will have any new content over the weekend — if we do it will be limited. [...]

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There was a President who ran on three messages: Fiscal Responsibility No Deficit Spending Keep Government Small Many of my Conservative friends are now saying “Sure it was Ronald Reagan”. I am sorry to disappoint but I am referring to Franklin Roosevelt in 1932. The point is that Presidents will say one thing to get [...]

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There they go again — I’ve commented many times on the anti-catholic bias in the Democratic Party.  Well, President-elect Barack Obama has announced that Melody Barnes is his choice to be his Director of Domestic Policy Council. According to Bill Donohue, President of the Catholic League: “The left-wing Nation hails Barnes as a ‘dyed-in-the-wool progressive,’ [...]

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I was having lunch the other day with a couple of my lawyer friends.  We see each other regularly, however we try to celebrate Thanksgiving with an annual get together. One of them mentioned that Federal Court Judge David Larimer is going to retire next year.  Not being a lawyer, I wasn’t that familar with [...]

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I am starting to believe that President Obama will not be the flaming liberal, conservatives fear. (just a liberal) During the campaign Obama said he would give tax cuts to 95% of Americans. This fooled people who voted for Obama into thinking that he was a liberal tax cutter (is that an oxymoron or what?).  [...]

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Democrats and chaos is a repeated theme here at monroerising.com.  We have been all over the story of the possible Democratic takeover of the state Senate.  We’ve pointed out that identity politics tends to pit one faction against an other. We thought our readers might find this story in the Daily News interesting.  Not because [...]

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Two articles this morning give me hope that Republicans may end up controlling the state Senate after all. First, the New York Post reports that the current GOP majority has created a $6 million “honey pot designed to encourage one of the “Gang of Three” Democrats to defect to the GOP side.”  From the New [...]

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I thought today’s D&C editorial offered an interesting tidbit.  Mayor Duffy said he wasn’t going to beg for more money from Albany because of the current state budget problems. According to the D&C: One area the mayor will lobby Albany for in the coming year is mandate relief. It’s a worthy topic. And he should [...]

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The New York Times is reporting that Congressman Charlie Rangel may have some new tax problems. From the NY Times: Representative Charles B. Rangel’s legal team is reviewing his tax records to determine whether the congressman received a homestead exemption on a house he owned in Washington while living in several rent-stabilized apartments in New [...]

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