The internet works perfectly fine without regulation.  Naturally, Chuck Schumer wants to ruin it.  To him, nothing works without him.  In turn, he’s out to hassle bloggers along with ad time buyers.  He can’t be endorsing his recent pet bill just to get on television, although sure he could. Chuck...

When government gets in the way of business, all businesses can do is deal with the government.  That’s why only suckers aren’t getting on the dole as your money rapidly becomes our money.  Take Buffalo company Honeywell, which has been granted a fortune to manufacture de facto golf cart batteries. ...

They’re rather subdued for alleged militants.  A large contingent of small-government aficionados assembled to greet the Tea Party Express in Buffalo on Monday as a means of opposing government’s expanding tendencies both nationally and locally.  They were also supposed to display how sexist/racist/homophobic...

You may have made your annual trip to the Broadway Market last week to stockpile Easter delicacies.  If the pattern follows, you will then understandably forget that the obsolete bazaar exists until Palm Sunday 2011.  But it will likely be there next year despite going 51 weeks with little patronage. Curiously,...

Okay, we all know he won’t, but our senior Senator was highly critical of recess appointments when President George W. Bush made such an appointment to put William Pryor on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in 2004,  Schumer’s had the  following reaction: “The president is on shaky...

It would be nice if the area’s only daily paper devoted space to examining whether or not a the passage of a health bill a clear majority of Americans don’t want despite receiving a seal of approval from a murderously tyrannical dictator is going to damage the country.  But the staffers at The...

The one thing that’s better than making money is being handed some.  That’s why anyone who doubts the Earned Income Tax Credit is the most wondrous gift our benevolent government has ever bestowed upon us should read The Buffalo News. In particular, their January 31 take on the subject, helpfully...

We need government-funded trains to facilitate travel across the country.  On top of that, their construction will spur financial recovery.  That’s because it’s 1936.  Regrettably, when it comes to fixing and administering the economy, we’re still coping with a Depression mentality; further,...

Not to pile on, but I’m with Matt. Critics should offer a deal to Chuck Schumer: we’ll stop harping on the nasty things he says as soon as he stops saying nasty things.  Fresh off news regarding his catty betrayal of Hillary Clinton, he’s now aiming his crude phrasings at voters who...

Thanks to Game Change, political gossip is currently more fun than the celebrity kind.  The book about 2008’s presidential campaign has created a remarkable stir before it’s even for sale, as everyone on the outside who’s interested in politics eagerly anticipates reading about what...

It’s nice to agree with your congressperson every so often.  Concurring with one’s representative makes one feel, well, represented.  That’s true even if accord happens for some as rarely as seemingly every area of the country except Buffalo gets walloped with Christmas-week snow.  Anything...

The best summary of the social disease factory called the Woodstock Festival was offered by The Who.  The unenthusiastic participants’ perfectly crude, decidedly and awesomely not safe for work reaction both during and after the squalid affair effectively summarizes the faux idyllic colossal mud bath. ...

You can learn everything about an individual’s nature by observing how he acts toward customer service personnel. More specifically, anyone who aims unprovoked nastiness at a waiter or cab driver has inadvertently revealed himself to be at his core a crotch of a person. That brings us to Gentleman...

Everyone loves hockey.  It’s the greatest thing ever, duh, much less sport.  Enough Upstate New York residents share this indisputable sentiment that there should be no problem uncovering ample private capital for the first ever outdoor American Hockey League contest.  Unfortunately, the state...

Nothing confirmed yet (last I heard), so this is probably a trial balloon. That said, I really hope it is true. Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani has decided against running for governor, but is strongly considering running for U.S. Senate instead, sources told the Daily News. The Republican heavyweight was...

The Commander-in-chief’s Nobel Peace Prize aside, there’s a war to win.  Regrettably, some of our representatives aren’t eager to back the crucial effort in Afghanistan at a critical time.  General Stanley McChrystal’s call for 40,000 more troops is being met with opposition...