Saturday, November 08, 2008. Back from the Dead? Two items via Andrew. In one, Ross Douthat mulls over. In the Wall Street Journal, the Sarah Palin episode - and, one might add, the retrenchment of conservative movement elites in its aftermath - is dispositive evidence .

Wednesday, November 04, 2009. Sunday, September 13, 2009. With that in mind, our choices for the primaries on September 15.

Fair and balanced news about Assemblyman Greg Ball. Primary night must have been a full moon because the New York State Republican Party has succeeded in nominating some truly hair-raising candidates to run our state. Ball, for his part, has denounced.

The import of this blogger blog was a bit of a nightmare as we did it pre Wordpress 2. 2 with the new Blogger import feature, so we had to import to wordpress. There may be occasional posts here but all the new stuff is going to the new wordpress blog - categories. yay! Now we just have to get that theme tweaked.

All Things Brooklyn From Your Friendly Neighborhood Optimist. Monday, January 11, 2010. But what upends my basic opposition to term limits in the case of our Assemblymembers and State Senators, is the fact that our electoral system in New York State demonstrably and egregiously favor incumbents, .

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Tuesday, September 11, 2012. The Deeply Corrupt Brooklyn Democratic Party Machine. I am embarrassed by this diary. I live in a place where the DEMOCRATIC party is massively corrupt and that corruption is poised to continue far into the future. How can I do that when I live in an area where the Democratic Party is so massively corrupt. Why is the national party allowing this corruption? Vito Lopez, our second County Committee Leader in.

our drinking liberally chapter meets every tuesday at THE LEVEE, 212 berry st. come on out and see us sometime. saving democracy one pint at a time. Saturday, June 20, 2009. Brad Lander is running for City Council in Brooklyn Endorsed by 32BJ, Nadler and Working Families Party. Brad Lander is running for City C.