Ancient riddle that no mortal has solved: How does one get New York’s legislative body to enforce ethics and transparency upon itself?
The race for the White House has only just started and regardless of your ideological position: Can you say Clinton Fatigue?
I know that a lot of my Republican friends think the President somehow embarrasses them overseas. But it is the 47 Senators (and now – inexplicably – one Governor Jindal) who by sending a meddlesome and incoherent letter to Iran have committed an actual thing to for us to be embarrassed about.
As a person who grew up in a country with single-payer health care, I’ve never understood why personal bankruptcy was linked to whether you got sick or not. The challenge to the Affordable Care Act the Supreme Court heard this past week is designed to destroy a law that, while not perfect seems to be working.
I read someone calling the server that hosted the Clinton email account, a “dark server.” I think the exclusive use of a personal email account while doing public business was a big mistake, but “dark server”? The Clintons have many enemies, are used to such deep distrust, and should know better than to feed that monster.
What emerged from Netanyahu’s apocalyptic speech to Congress is that he is a masterfully good speaker, and an even better political maneuver-er.
Senator Inhofe tossed a snowball in the Senate chamber this week as incontrovertible academic evidence that there is no global warming. I won’t waste any valuable breath saying anything further.
The dueling roles of the NY State legislator does make one pause, especially considering the legislative part generally pays the least.
I can’t shake the nagging feeling that John Boehner and company invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to Congress without any of the customary protocol solely to make a clumsy political point about White House Iran policy.
Some Judges on LI have been misusing their legal tools.
