Instead of wasting billions of dollars building a hadron collider to find the elusive Higgins boson, physicists needed only to travel to the Village of Dobbs Ferry to find irrefutable evidence of supersymmetry. As predicted by political scientists, the controversy over the referendum to move the election from November to March has ended up […]
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A Tangled Web of Jurisdiction and Partisan Politics
Dobbs Ferry, New York 10522. February 27, 2007. When the Dobbs Ferry Party (“DFP”) learned on Friday afternoon that the referendum to move the election date had been nullified, they should not have been surprised. The ruling by Westchester County Commissioner LaFayette that an impetuous Village Clerk had grossly overstepped her jurisdiction by filing and […]
Majority? What Majority?
Since the hangover has subsided from the drone surrounding the 2006 Congressional elections, and the Democrats have officially “taken over,” we can now sleep peacefully knowing Things Are Going To Change. Reading, watching, and listening to mainstream media outlets such as CNN, MSNBC, and their stepchildren since November suggests a bright ray of hope beckons […]
Warnings for Obama
"If you will join me in this improbable quest, if you feel destiny calling, and see as I see, a future of endless possibility stretching before us; if you sense, as I sense, that the time is now to shake off our slumber, and slough off our fear, and make good on the debt we […]
Alcohol protests in front of the Bulgarian National Parliament
Thousands of senior citizens protested the EU tax levied on home made rakia in Sofia, Bulgaria. The protests have been ongoing since January when it became apparent that a tax of 1.10Euro per liter will be placed on all home produced alcohol. For most Bulgarians rakia making is a family tradition adhered to for hundreds […]
The Anatomy of a Political Party
George Washington viewed the emergence of political parties as an unintended, and unwelcome, consequence of the republic he founded. Thomas Jefferson reveled in the viciousness of party politics and started the Democratic Party to cement his political ambitions. John Adams, the sober champion of the rule of law, tried to muzzle free speech because he […]