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Alexander Haitchik provides an interesting travelogue through Tinfoilhatistan,  the world of right-wing conspiracies.
I think the broader dynamic here is similar to Maxine Greene’s analysis of how some people use spirituality to justify social withdrawal.

Earlier this year, the Supreme Court weighed in on the permissibility of a World War I memorial, in the form of an enormous cross, in a national park out West.   The cross could stay, said the Court.You may recall that within days unknown persons, evidently unhappy with the Court's decision, cut the cross from its moorings and removed it.

Convicted felons, whom Democrats -- recognizing a natural constituency if ever they saw one -- earnestly seek to enfranchise, no longer will be counted in the upstate population for the purpose of legislative redistricting.Now, in the spirit of the same democratic impulse behind that change, we're going to change the law so college students vote in their home towns, rather than in college towns, right?

If you finish high school and keep a job without having children before marriage, you will almost certainly not be poor.   Period. In 2004, the poverty rate among blacks who followed that formula was less than 6 percent, as opposed to the overall rate of 24.7 percent.

How did those steeped in the women’s lib movement produce girls who think being a sex object is powerful?

We've written before about this operating mantra of our Rochester chapter of the Democratic-Media Complex.When local institutions controlled by Democrats have the authority and right to make a decision, that right is never questioned.   For example, members of the all-Democratic Brighton Town Board fill a vacancy on the Board, or for a Town Jusice, with a Democrat (and why would they do otherwise, or should they?)   Pure "dog bites man" stuff.   No story there.

I would like to extend a thank you to Ed Koch for running this campaign (NY Uprising

A Field ReportCalled 2 Vine late last week for a Saturday reservation.   Nothing available between 6pm and 8:00.   Took the 8:00.   Parking lot crammed to the gills at 7:30.   Desperate would-be parkers circle the lot, waiting for any space to open.Two-hour wait at Mr. Dominic’s the week before, on Friday.

Last week, in a praiseworthy, bipartisan vote, the County Legislature's Ways and Means Committee rejected a plan to mount the City's red-light cameras on county-owned utility poles.