From the Associated Press:
Biden mistakenly blesses Irish leader’s mother
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden asked for God’s blessing for the late mother of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen during a White House celebration of St. Patrick’s Day — except the elderly lady is very much alive. 
“God rest her soul,” Biden said Wednesday night as he [...]

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It appears the corrupt and scandal ridden Working Families Party is offering what I’m calling an incentive to members of Congress to get them to vote AGAINST Obama’s terrible Health Care Reform bill…
The Working Families Party won’t endorse representatives who vote AGAINST the bill.
As expected, the labor-backed Working Families Party voted over the weekend in favor [...]

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Hopefully this will be the final post on the good congressman from Corning.
Shortly after Eric Massa was elected, I said this:
Say hello to Congressman elect Eric Massa.  My friends in the southern tier tell me this guy is off his rocker.  I’m not sure what type of Congressman he will be, but I’m sure he will [...]

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With so much corrosive overreaching coming at us these days from our Progressive overseers in DC, it’s difficult to sort it all out or to reasonably keep up. Of course, that barrage of  encroachments may, in fact, be the Progressive’s strategy, i.e. so overwhelm Americans with a flurry of executive orders, strangulating regulations and legislative [...]

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As I said before, Maggie Brooks would have been the best candidate to take back the 29th Congressional District.  Now that she has announced that she will not seek the GOP nomination to run for the seat, we’ll proudly put our support behind Tom Reed.
Democrats being considered, or rather being led to the slaughter, include [...]

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Messenger Post Newspapers covered the story on the (trumped up) charges against GOP offical Andrew Moore being thrown out by Judge Richard Keenan.  It’s too bad it took this long for this malicious attack on Mr. Moore and his family by the District Attorney’s Office to end.  This will go down in local history as [...]

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The February Edition of the NYSAC Economy Watch continues to show signs of a stabilizing New York economy, despite unemployment increases caused by the end of traditional holiday season jobs. Several measures give strong indication that the advent of spring may also bring the first signs of renewed economic growth.
The Index of Coincident Economic Indicators [...]

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Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch presented a 5-year fiscal plan for the State of New York. That plan calls for a series of actions that will enable the state to close a projected $9 billion budget deficit for the 2010-11 State Fiscal Year and lays the groundwork for an unprecedented four-year fiscal plan.
 “What we need from [...]

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Liz Benjamin at NY Daily News writes:
Cuomo’s approval rating has dropped from 67 percent in the last Marist poll to 54 percent. The AG’s numbers suffered a particularly big hit among non-white voters – a 22 percentage-point drop. He also lost ground in the city, dropping 17 percent.
Wow, that can’t be good.  Cuomo has all [...]

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