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After all the talk about how Eliot Spitzer was going to revitalize Upstate New York, his first press release takes a cautious tone. While explaining his plans to make upstate an economic success, he starts by saying: “The turnaround we seek won’t be easy and won’t occur immediately, but we will keep at it until the job is done.” Where have I heard that line before? He must be practicing for when President Bush puts him in charge of Iraq.  Read More →

As I read the articles and listen to the interviews it has become clear that not only the future of Iraq but also the future security of our interests at home and abroad are in danger. Despite the President’s best effort to take the fight to the terrorists and do what he knows is best for the security of our nation the people of our country are no longer capable of understanding. Gone are the days when the American people comprehended what was at stake. When they were capable of seeing the risk... Read More→

After the President’s speech last night, I was flipping around to hear the various comments. When I got to CNN, they had their reporter standing right near a group of protesters who you heard chanting in the background. There is no way CNN did not purposely setup near the protesters. You know CNN wanted to immediately squash any sense of hope that viewers may have had listening to the President.  Read More →

The City Council has released its report on nightlife in the City titled, “Safer Nights, Safer City”. The report’s aim is to come up with recommendations on how to improve the safety of club goers after a number of fatal incidents. The Council’s ideas include everything from ID scanners and surveillance cameras (the ACLU must love that one) to shutting down clubs that have multiple offenses. The problem I have with the report is once again our representatives fail to hold parents with any... Read More→

We’re currently at a point where no matter what President Bush says about the war in Iraq, Democrats are going to disagree. For Democrats the strategy has worked well as today’s American society with its need for immediate gratification have completely forgotten any history they might know and shifted support to the Democrats. While Democrats have been telling the American public that there is no “global war on terror” the Horn of Africa has been under siege by Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda is not... Read More→

For everyone still frantic over the idea that a nation’s leader would go to war for strategic reasons, lets take a look at Poland who aided us in the liberation of Iraq. Yesterday Poland and a large portion of Europe had their flow of oil stopped after Russia decided to shut it off. Russia claims the pipeline it flows through was being siphoned by Belarus, so they shut it down at the expense of Europe who relies on it to survive. The country worst affected was Poland who gets 96% of its oil from... Read More→

Did anyone see Bloomberg’s news conference on the gas smell. He said they don’t know the source or what it is but it’s not dangerous. How do you know it’s not dangerous if you don’t know the source or what it is?  Read More →

It was just announced that President Bush will address the nation on Wednesday at 9:00 PM to inform us about his new Iraq strategy. Democrats are probably already writing up their drafts on how their going to attack the President and his war on Iraq before they even hear what he has to say. Democrats have been exploiting the difficulties in Iraq for political gain with the hopes of forcing a complete withdrawal. They want Americans to know that they were the ones who brought their men and women... Read More→

With Eliot Spitzer’s election it appears the public school system and it’s legion of teachers, is going to get the billions more that it wants. The reality is that despite the money they will receive I can easily predict that it will do nothing to improve the system and that they will be coming back several years from now to ask for billions more for the same reasons. I recall during the Giuliani era the continuous fight he had over public school funding. The best line at the time came from... Read More→

The job numbers for the month of December are out and once again the “greatest story never told”, to steal a line from Larry Kudlow, continues to live on. The report from the Labor Department showed the U.S. added another 165,000 jobs in December compared to a forecast of only 100,000. Wages, the hot issue for Democrats, jumped 4.2% over last year, which was double the rate of inflation during the same period. Another interesting note about the survey is economist claim that the problem with... Read More→