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Can Senate Scum Monserrate Keep His Job?

It is a shame that one has to even ask whether or not a convicted criminal who was found guilty of cutting his girlfriend’s face will keep his cushy New York Senate gig but so is the world that Albany exists in.

After being found guilty of assaulting his girlfriend (while receiving a very light penalty), Monserrate must now has his Senate fate decided by the a special Senate committee who will decide whether being a convicted criminal actually warrants a person being kicked out of the most powerful legislative body in the state.

Still, according to the New …continue reading

With Giuliani Out, No GOP Candidates Stand Out

As we mentioned earlier this week, the announcement by former New York City Mayor and Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani that he would not run was a devastating blow to the Republicans who are now expected to lose both the gubernatorial and Senate elections because they do not have any viable candidates.

Rudy Giuliani’s departure from the race before it even began shows a side of the GOP that is often unnoticed, the fact that the Party has just a handful of prominent candidates (none of which actually win major elections) and not much else.

In New York, the most prominent Republican in the …continue reading

NYC Wastes Tens of Millions on Pot Arrests, 12% of All Arrests Are Marijuana Charges

For all the talk about crime statistics in New York City, the irony of all ironies is that the taxpayer is charged tens of millions of dollars every year so that cops can arrest people for harmlessly smoking a pot.

According to a recent study, around 12% of all arrests in New York City are on marijuana charges, something that was rarely done until Rudy Giuliani and, even more so, Michael Bloomberg installed policies to make their crime statistics look good by going after pot smokers.

Of course the crime stats improved under Giuliani and Bloomberg, the two mayors saw marijuana arrests surge …continue reading

What is in the Senate Healthcare Bill?

With the Senate passing their own version of healthcare “reform” by a vote of 60-39, let’s take a look at what exactly is in the bill and what is going to happen when the bill is merged with the House bill for the President to sign.

-The official Congressional Budget Office estimate of the cost of the bill is $871 billion. The official cost of the bill that the House of Representatives passed is around $1 trillion. The bill’s costs would be offset by the new taxes and fees as well as the money that the Medicare program would save.

-The bill requires …continue reading

True Cost of Bailouts: $14 Trillion

Although the cost of the Wall Street bailout is usually said to be around $700 billion, the real cost of economic recovery is at least 20 times larger according to a recent breakdown of ALL of the government recovery programs by Mother Jones Magazine.

The $700 billion bailout that people usually allude to is only the cost of the TARP program that was passed about a year ago and even then, the bill that contained the $700 billion for TARP cost $850 billion because of all of the earmarks inside the bill.

Here’s a look at other …continue reading

NYC Magazine

Can Senate Scum Monserrate Keep His Job?

With Giuliani Out, No GOP Candidates Stand Out

NYC Wastes Tens of Millions on Pot Arrests, 12% of All Arrests Are Marijuana Charges

What is in the Senate Healthcare Bill?

True Cost of Bailouts: $14 Trillion

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