The people who would be running the nation after the 2010 national elections and represented by some who will be demonstrating at the courthouse in Carmel on April 15th, are all up in arms about HR4530 which, if passed, would ban discriminatory practices against GLBT students. They put it like this: Forget reading, writing and...
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James O'Keefe and the myth of the ACORN pimp Last September, when the ACORN scandal that his website helped launch was breaking in the press, Andrew Breitbart wrote a column for The Washington Times detailing the rollout of the undercover, right-wing gotcha. He recalled a 2009 meeting with “filmmaker and provocateur James O'Keefe” that took...
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Good Friday Morning, Quick Poll Results: In this unscientific poll with a margin of error exceeding 130%, we asked who your preference would be for County Executive. The names that appeared were either those who have been talked about or came in via your nominations and each voter saw them in a random order. Here are...
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School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home Boing Boing According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams that can be covertly activated by the schools' administrators, who have...
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Belleayre project alive and well Gitter KINGSTON – Belleayre Resort developer Dean Gitter told Ulster County Chamber of Commerce members Thursday that his hotel, resort project is progressing forward. “The Belleayre Resort project is alive and kicking and moving nicely along towards its reality,” Gitter told the audience in Kington. According to Gitter, when completed, the resort...
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The Putnam Arts Council was granted its long awaited certificate of occupancy and will be moving back to their original headquarters in Mahopac.
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I think we need to rework the classic assertion to read, “Republicanism is the opiate of the masses.” Odd that with all the charges of “Socialist tendencies” being lobbed at Obama it is his detractors who seem to have embraced collective, populist thinking. I mean, what else can one conclude from the rhetorical gymnastics going on...
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Study: 3 counties top health charts | LoHud.com The expensive health club memberships and smoking bans have paid off — Westchester, Putnam and Rockland counties rank among the healthiest in the state, according to a new study. Putnam clinched the top spot for the healthiest county in New York as measured by length of life and...
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Republicans simply “do” emotion much better than Democrats. (Why do you think Glenn Beck is always crying?) This was again evident at this past Saturday’s “Congress on Your Corner” forum with Rep. John Hall at the Lewisboro Library. A man and a woman in attendance were ready with “questions” in full Tea Party mode....
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This is the reality in America today; one that was not brought to us by Democrats or “liberals” or terrorists or immigrants or drug lords or pedophiles or whatever your make-believe-fear-of-the-moment-is. It’s a situation we’ve brought upon ourselves because we have forgotten that in progressive societies, people take care of each other and that...
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This is the reality in America today; one that was not brought to us by Democrats or "liberals" or terrorists or immigrants or drug lords or pedophiles or whatever your make-believe-fear-of-the-moment-is. It's a situation we've brought upon ourselves because we have forgotten that in progressive societies, people take care of each other and that...
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In today's unscientific quick poll we ask who your choice would be for County Executive. The names below are either likely candidates or those submitted to News That Matters as requested last week. The names on the list appear randomly each time someone comes to the page and so are not in any particular order. Feel...
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Tea Party politics and the new Christocrats Religion: Tea Party politics and the new Christocrats. The first Tea Party Convention is over and one thing is certain: the Tea Party movement is conservative and Christian. Jesus filled the halls. Most conference sessions began with prayers. The speaking roster was filled with a bevy of star-studded...
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Tea Party Movement Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right SANDPOINT, Idaho — Pam Stout has not always lived in fear of her government. She remembers her years working in federal housing programs, watching government lift struggling families with job training and education. She beams at the memory of helping a Vietnamese woman get into junior...
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Lawsuit continues over arts center in Mahopac | LoHud.com MAHOPAC — The Putnam Arts Council is days away from moving into its rebuilt home on Kennicut Hill Road in Mahopac, three years after a fire heavily damaged its building there. But as it readies itself for watercolor, pottery and printmaking classes, the organization is still battling...
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The problem in the end may be that those who like the skies dark at night may viewed as "those intellectuals" or, "those people hate children!" as we hear the sports mafias intone until we're ready to puke. But to vilify someone for wanting the skies dark, which may be the reason they moved...
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KPL Community Connections The e-newsletter of the Kent Public Library February 2009 (845)225-8585 In This Issue Databytes: Facebook Musicians Showcase! School Vacation Fun Magic Beyond Imagination New DVDs & CDs Hudson Valley Reads Coming Soon: OverDrive Digital Downloads Art at the Library Tuesday Evening Book Club Storytime Survey NY’s Libraries: Essential New & Noteworthy Books Databytes: Facebook The Kent Public Library’s monthly series of computer and technology...
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Empire of the Sunset by Randall Amster Sometimes, I really miss America — or at least the idea of it. You know: that can-do spirit, streets paved with gold, champion of the tired and poor, purple mountains majesty, that sort of thing. Say what you will, and call it naïve, but the storybook values at the...
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