#Biden’s big tech ties and other commentary

#Biden’s big tech ties and other commentary

“#Biden’s big tech ties and other commentary” From the right: Biden’s Big Tech Ties President-elect Joe Biden is building an administration with ties to all five Big Tech firms that “clamped down this week on President Trump and Parler, a social-media site popular with conservatives,” reports the Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross. At least 14 of…

Read More
#Don’t squat in Moynihan Station

#Don’t squat in Moynihan Station

“#Don’t squat in Moynihan Station” From the out-of-touch world of progressives: Advocates are upset that the new Moynihan train hall is off-putting to the homeless, The City reports. After the taxpayers spent $1.6 billion on the renovation, it would be wrong if the homeless claimed the territory as an annex to their omnipresence at Penn Station. This…

Read More
#Andrew Cuomo’s sad State of the State speech

#Andrew Cuomo’s sad State of the State speech

“#Andrew Cuomo’s sad State of the State speech” Entering the back half of his third term amid a pandemic he’s badly mishandled, Gov. Andrew Cuomo offered a truly sad State of the State Address on Monday, full of empty noise and short on serious new ideas. He kicked off the 45-minute speech with a rehash…

Read More
#Stop comparing riots and other commentary

#Stop comparing riots and other commentary

“#Stop comparing riots and other commentary” From the right: Stop Comparing Riots The fact that “a lot of people seem very keen on litigating whether the attack on the Capitol was worse than last summer’s rioting” sends a “depressing” message about this country’s “political polarization,” laments National Review’s Robert VerBruggen. “Both events were horrific, with…

Read More
#Calling a riot a riot and other commentary

#Calling a riot a riot and other commentary

“#Calling a riot a riot and other commentary” Media watch: Calling a Riot a Riot “Finally, the media understand how dangerous mobs can be,” snarks the Washington Examiner’s Eddie Scarry. “CNN’s Jake Tapper, Dana Bash and others” watched “aghast Wednesday,” as “thousands of President Trump’s supporters” breached the Capitol. But that “pro-Trump chaos” came after…

Read More
#Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature get desperate for cash

#Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature get desperate for cash

“#Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature get desperate for cash” Money hunger is raging in Albany, trumping all other policy concerns. The greed is so bad that the state risks turning legalized pot and online-betting into money losers. Amid falling tax revenues and a growing projected budget deficit, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has embraced legal weed and…

Read More
#Big Tech’s assault on Parler proves it’s gone full cartel

#Big Tech’s assault on Parler proves it’s gone full cartel

“#Big Tech’s assault on Parler proves it’s gone full cartel” Big Tech is a cartel, and must be regulated. Parler, the alternative social-media site that aims to be “the world’s premier free speech platform,” surged to No. 1 on Apple’s app store Friday as Twitter was banning President Trump indefinitely. On Saturday, Apple and Google banned…

Read More
#Iran is pushing for more appeasement from Joe Biden

#Iran is pushing for more appeasement from Joe Biden

“#Iran is pushing for more appeasement from Joe Biden” Iran is preparing for the Biden presidency by acting out, in hopes the new administration will rush to appease it. Tehran marked the first anniversary of the US airstrike that killed terror-master Gen. Qassem Soleimani — the head of a US-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization who was…

Read More
#Slamming landlords leaves NYC’s housing on brink of disaster

#Slamming landlords leaves NYC’s housing on brink of disaster

“#Slamming landlords leaves NYC’s housing on brink of disaster” New York’s politicians have rushed to safeguard tenants during the pandemic and lockdowns, with multiple protections against eviction and guarantees that you don’t have to pay rent — without facing the fact that cutting off landlords’ income is courting other kinds of disaster. State lawmakers just…

Read More