To be more specific, I guess I should ask myself why I bother reading the D&C Editorial Page. The D&C’s editorial stance is so predictable, and, predictably wrong, that I could write it for them. Sunday was no exception. The lead editorial was entitled “Obama and clarity”. Unfortunately, like so many D&C Editorials, this editorial was totally unclear [...]

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I know what you are thinking. Is this really news? Is it right to laugh at the most beloved ex-President-elect ever when he does something human? Many years ago I would have thought the answer was “no”.  You should not make fun of the president in such circumstances, he is human and will do the [...]

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The nopartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is reporting that President Obama’s stimulus package will do more long term damage to the economy than doing nothing: President Obama’s economic recovery package will actually hurt the economy more in the long run than if he were to do nothing, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday. CBO, [...]

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Yesterday’s New York Times had a piece on the sense of betrayal many voters in the 20th CD feel about Kirstin Gillibrand’s “broadening of her positions” on hot button issues like gay marriage and illegal immigration (I’m sure gun control will be next). From the Times: But in the 20th Congressional District, which first sent Ms. [...]

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As New York StateContinues to plunge deeper and deeper into debt, $13 billion to be exact, have no fear, New York State has budgeted $4 million this fiscal year to mark the anniversary of the explorer’s discovery of New York and the river named for him.   Governor Patterson has also allocated another $3 million for [...]

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