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. ...

That pretty much sums up his entire trip. At least from a national perspective. A quick perusal of online stories about Obama’s split-second trip to our miserable, dying city finds that the non-Buffalo media (and blogs) really dug the fact that Obama got buffalo wings in Buffalo. USA Today: Obama...

Barack Obama is taking a trip to the future when he comes to Buffalo.  And he won’t even need a TARDIS or similarly nerdy device.  As a laboratory for governmental interference, Buffalo could show the president how progressive ideals don’t bring progress.  Matt pointed out why this area is a...

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...

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 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...

I believe it is not the role of political party leaders to make endorsements of candidates before a primary. When President Bush endorsed Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey in 2004, I thought it was a bad idea. When local Democrats endorsed Jon Powers before the primary that was also a bad idea — especially...