Terrorist trials in New York – Revisited

Just over a week ago, United States Attorney General Eric Holder announced that he would be bringing five of the suspects in the 9/11 attacks to New York to stand trial in federal civilian court. These suspects are Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Waleed bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi and Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali. At the [...]

Racism aside, can we just be civil?

What is it about some of us that we can not be civil to one another? This question is prompted by an article I just read from The Associated Press, concerning the upcoming trial in New York of Heather Ellis. Ms. Ellis is an African-American and nearly three years ago, she was involved in an [...]

Republicans win independent voters

As the news coverage of the GOP wins in Virginia and New Jersey continues, it is clear November 3rd was a big day for the Republican Party. Even though they lost the congressional seat in New York, they managed to pull off big wins in both of the previously mentioned states. The win in New [...]

Election results – November 3, 2009

Does anyone remember how it was last year around this same time? Barack Obama had just won the White House, due in no small part to a large influx of new voters, people who usually did not participate in the election process. For weeks now, we have heard how today, November 3, 2009 would be [...]

New York congressional race heats up

I have been out of the news loop for most of the weekend, due to having other obligations and it appears that I have missed a lot. Mike has already written about the struggle between the conservative and moderate factions of the Republican Party and how this struggle is playing out in the race for [...]

Republicans vs. Conservatives in NY Congressional Race

The race for the NY congressional seat left vacant when President Obama named moderate Republican John McHugh secretary of the Army has become the epicenter in the fight over the soul of the GOP. The county GOP chairmen chose moderate Dede Scozzafava as their nominee and tea party conservatives, with the growing support of national [...]

Should we prosecute Bush officials?

Despite his best efforts to turn the conversation of the country forward and not backward to the Bush administration, President Obama is having to face the issue of harsh interrogations. He has made if pretty clear that he doesn’t want to spend much time on this, preferring to look to advancing his agenda for the [...]

Kirsten Gillibrand’s sin of supporting the 2nd Amendment

While it is technically none of our business, out here in Oklahoma, who New York Governor David Patterson chose to take the Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton, it does raise a bit of a question. Just how liberal do you have to be before you have the approval of some Democrats? It’s pretty obvious [...]

US Airways Flight 1549–A little good news in the midst of trouble

Considering the news headlines from the past several weeks, with the fighting in the Middle East and more of our taxpayer dollars being squandered away, it’s about time we had a little good news. That’s what we received as the details of yesterday’s plane crash began to emerge.
It was a scenario from a nightmare, with [...]