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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; Bloomberg</title>
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		<title>Liberal &#8220;McCarthyism&#8221; and Censorship of Conservatives  Condemned by&#8230; Michael Bloomberg</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2014 02:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Bloomberg is a liberal, but his liberalism is fairly old-fashioned compared to left-wing radicals like Bill de Blasio. It&#8217;s not altogether surprising that he wouldn&#8217;t be on board with left-wing censorship.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/bloomberg-slams-intolerant-behavior-liberals-colleges-fiery-harvard-speech-article-1.1810781">It&#8217;s somewhat surprising</a> t<a href="http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2014/05/29/michael-bloomberg-commencement-speech-harvard/">hat he used a prestigious platform like this to call</a> out the left for it. And that he did it this vehemently.</p>
<blockquote><p>Delivering the main speech at Harvard’s 363rd commencement in Cambridge, Mass., Bloomberg complained that campuses have become citadels of “modern . . . McCarthyism”</p>
<p>“In the 1950s, the right wing was attempting to repress left-wing ideas. Today, on many campuses, it is liberals trying to repress conservative ideas, even as conservative faculty members are at risk of becoming an endangered species,” he said.</p>
<p>“And that is probably nowhere more true than it is here in the Ivy League.”</p>
<p>Bloomberg pointed to controversies at other campuses that forced speakers to bow out, including the withdrawal of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from delivering the commencement address at Rutgers amid protests over her role in the Iraq War.</p>
<p>&#8220;Perhaps nowhere is that more true than here in the Ivy League. In the 2012 presidential race, 96 percent of all campaign contributions from Ivy League faculty and employees went to Barack Obama. That statistic, drawn from Federal Election Commission data, should give us pause &#8212; and I say that as someone who endorsed President Obama. When 96 percent of faculty donors prefer one candidate to another, you have to wonder whether students are being exposed to the diversity of views that a university should offer. Diversity of gender, ethnicity and orientation is important. But a university cannot be great if its faculty is politically homogenous.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Today, if tenure is going to continue to exist, it must also protect conservatives whose ideas run up against liberal norms. Otherwise, university research will lose credibility. A liberal arts education must not be an education in the art of liberalism.&#8221;</p>
<p>“There was more disagreement among the old Soviet Politburo than there is among Ivy League donors.”</p></blockquote>
<p>This sounds more like Newt Gingrich than Bloomberg. I had to do a double take when I first read it. This isn&#8217;t the kind of speech that mainstream Republicans would give&#8230; and Bloomberg was never even a real Republican. Not even a real RINO.</p>
<blockquote><p>“If you want the freedom to worship as you wish, and speak as you wish, and marry as you wish, then you must tolerate my freedom to do so,” Bloomberg said. “Attempting to restrict my freedoms in ways you would not restrict your own leads only to injustice. We can’t deny others’ rights and privileges that we demand for ourselves. And that’s true in our cities, and it’s no less true [at our educational institutes].”</p></blockquote>
<p>That seems like a nod toward the Eich case and gay intolerance.</p>
<blockquote><p>Bloomberg directed this advice toward recent reports of commencement speakers being asked to shy away from appearances at schools this season due to protests based on their political or personal beliefs.</p>
<p>He said in each of these cases—Brandeis University and Smith College included—a person’s voice was silenced and they were denied an honorary degree because they were deemed politically controversial. “This is an outrage and we must not let it continue,” Bloomberg said, adding that it’s critical that censorship and conformity—the enemies of freedom—don’t win out. “Isn’t the purpose of a university to stir discussion, not silence it? It’s morally and pedagogically wrong to deny other students from hearing a speech.”</p>
<p>&#8220;Today, on many college campuses, it is liberals trying to repress conservative ideas, even as conservative faculty members are at risk of becoming an endangered species,&#8221; he said.</p></blockquote>
<p>So what is Bloomberg up to?</p>
<p>1. He&#8217;s clearly angry over the way his police commissioner was treated at Brown and his own commencement address was protested by lefty students.</p>
<p>2. He was treated badly by De Blasio and his people. Giuliani gave more respect to Dinkins and certainly didn&#8217;t use the proceedings to carry on personal attacks against his predecessor. Bloomberg is angry at Social Justice and Class Warriors. He seems himself as a philanthropist who spent much of his time and money to try and work to improve New York City only to be thrown out like yesterday&#8217;s trash by the very people who benefited.</p>
<p>3. Bloomberg used this part of the speech to switch into promoting gun control, global warming and the Ground Zero Mosque. (The 3 G&#8217;s.) He probably thinks that he can win over some Republicans on the issues he really cares about by reaching out to them. It&#8217;s the sort of thing actual liberals used to do. We&#8217;ve just forgotten that over the Clinton/Obama years.</p>
<p>4. Bloomberg had post-mayoral national ambitions. But the idea of him as V.P. was laughed off by Democrats and he didn&#8217;t hit it off with Obama. Now he&#8217;s once again doing the Third Way thing. The attack on liberal censorship is an explicit attack on the Two Party political roadblocks in D.C.</p>
<p>Is he egotistical enough to be contemplating a Third Party run in 2016? Or a V.P. slot for the Dems or GOP? It&#8217;s possible. And not entirely inconceivable. With utterly terrible candidates on both sides, someone may decide that he has credibility on the economy. Sure it&#8217;s unlikely, but remember Joe Biden. Every V.P. in decades has been either an unlikely choice or a miserable embarrassment.</p>
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		<title>Colorado Loses $85 Million a Year Over Dem Gun Control Jihad</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2014 17:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope that Bloomberg money was worth it. ]]></description>
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<p>I <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/?p=166631">hope that Bloomberg money was worth i</a>t. Unlike Magpul, Bloomberg isn&#8217;t going to be opening up shop in Colorado.</p>
<blockquote><p>Democrats came under heavy criticism Friday for driving Magpul Industries out of Colorado by pushing an aggressive gun-control agenda, a move that could cost the state more than $80 million annually.</p>
<p>Officials at Magpul, which makes polymer firearms accessories, announced Thursday that the company will move its corporate headquarters to Texas and its manufacturing facility to Wyoming. Both are now based in Erie, Colo.</p>
<p>The relocation comes as a result of a measure signed by Gov. John Hickenlooper in March that limits ammunition-magazine capacity to 15 rounds. Magpul is among the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against the law.</p>
<p>Prior to the signing, Magpul officials told state officials that the company contributes more than $85 million annually to Colorado’s economy. The company employs 200 people and supports another 400 supply-chain jobs.</p></blockquote>
<p>Colorado has a 6.8% unemployment rate. Texas has a 6.2% unemployment rate. Wyoming has a 4.2% unemployment rate. I wonder why that is.</p>
<p>The civilian labor force in Colorado has kept on falling. So clearly this is the time to dump more people out of the workforce over a liberal values issue.</p>
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		<title>If You Like Your Food, You Can Keep Your Food</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2013 04:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama's food fascism. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Barack-Obama.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-210502" alt="Barack-Obama" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Barack-Obama-392x350.jpg" width="274" height="245" /></a>Food prices have been steadily rising under Obama. The price of a pound of potatoes has gone up by a third, the price of a gallon of milk has increased by a fifth and the price of a 5lb bag of flour has gone up by a dollar.</p>
<p><a href="http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/APU0000704111?data_tool=XGtable">Bacon was at $3.60</a> a lb under Bush. It’s now up to $5.60 a lb under Obama. The price of a whole frozen Thanksgiving turkey was at $1.32 a lb under Bush<a href="http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/APU0000706311?data_tool=XGtable">. It’s up to $1.81</a> under Obama giving Americans that much less to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.</p>
<p>The price of a tub of margarine went up from $1.50 to $2.10. But that won’t be a problem for long because thanks to Obama it may soon become hard to get margarine at any price.</p>
<p>Obama’s FDA is considering a ban on trans fat in foods. Like incandescent bulbs and cheap free market health insurance, margarine may become one of those things that you can no longer buy anymore.</p>
<p>It will also mean that many other foods will either be banned, become more expensive or taste worse.</p>
<p>The FDA had already mandated trans fat labeling on products. The new ban would not protect anyone; instead it would take away the right of Americans to choose what they eat. Under the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, the FDA was created to prevent “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors.”</p>
<p>Its claim that trans fat in foods make them adulterated is a deliberate misinterpretation of its powers.</p>
<p>The FDA’s food policing powers do not give it the right to ban unhealthy foods. If they did, the FDA could outlaw every kind of junk food. And it has begun doing that with its argument that trans fats are unsafe because they are unhealthy; building up plaque in arteries and increasing the risk of heart attacks.</p>
<p>Here’s a short list of foods that build up plaque in arteries and increase the risk of heart attacks.</p>
<p>Milk, butter, cheese, ice cream, hot dogs, salami, French fries and eggs. The FDA has given itself the authority to ban everything from a glass of milk to a carton of eggs. And that’s not an exaggeration.</p>
<p>Last year a new study came out whose author claimed that eating eggs was as bad for the heart as smoking cigarettes, compared the egg industry to the tobacco industry and was followed by suggestions that egg cartons should carry health warnings like tobacco cartons.</p>
<p>Every time you see another one of those contradictory health warning stories, imagine that they can lead to a ban on everything from wine to chocolate to eggs.</p>
<p>Bloomberg, who pushed through a trans fats ban in 2006, is celebrating that Obama has caught up to him. The question is which element of Bloomberg’s food fascism will Obama adopt next? Will it be his ban on salt or on large sodas?</p>
<p>Many of the largest junk food companies are as cheerful about the ban as Bloomberg.</p>
<p>The ban on trans foods will make everything from doughnuts to popcorn to cookies taste worse. That’s bad news for working moms who like their frozen pizzas, movie lovers who like their microwave popcorn and Vegans and Kosher Jews who use margarine instead of butter in their cooking.</p>
<p>But it is good news for big food companies which have the cash to sink into R&amp;D for new techniques; some of which may even be patentable. Smaller manufacturers will be squeezed out as their doughnuts suddenly start tasting oily and consumers switch to the big budget brands which become the only game in town.</p>
<p>In the age of Obama, rent seeking is one of the most effective ways to compete. Regulatory barriers favor big companies over small ones. The Grocery Manufacturers Association, which is spending a lot of money to fight genetically modified foods labeling, <a href="http://www.gmaonline.org/news-events/newsroom/gma-statement-regarding-fdas-notice-on-the-gras-status-of-partially-hydroge/">cheerfully welcomed the trans</a> fat ban. The GMA wouldn’t be doing that if it weren’t profitable</p>
<p>GMA members welcomed Michelle Obama’s call for “healthier food” with a standing ovation at their convention; understanding the competitive advantages that added regulatory barriers would bring. The big companies have already slashed trans fats in preparation for what they no doubt knew was coming. Now they get to watch their smaller competitors desperately scramble to hold on to their customers.</p>
<p>The products of the smaller local manufacturers may even be healthier overall, but health has nothing to do with this. Like everything that this government does; it’s about power. The power to move money out of less politically connected pockets into more politically connected pockets.</p>
<p>The FDA is making an aggressive power grab into an area that most people pay very little attention to. Bloomberg started with trans fats before moving on to more familiar targets like soda and salt. If the FDA succeeds in banning a food because it clogs up arteries, it will pave the way for unlimited bans. And those bans will also serve the interests of crony capitalist food firms with ties to the Democratic Party.</p>
<p>All this would be bad enough in a healthy economy, but when American families are already worrying about how to put food on the table; it’s downright criminal.</p>
<p>Marie Antoinette at least allowed the peasants to eat cake; if they could find it. Barack Obama isn’t just starving Americans of food money with his economic policies; he is now taking food out of their mouths.</p>
<p>The price of a frozen pizza went up by 33% under Obama. Now due to his trans fat ban, it will increase even more and taste worse.</p>
<p>That may be Obama’s legacy. That he made Americans poorer and worse off, forced them to spend more and get less for their money. That he deprived Americans of every basic necessity, made it more expensive for them to drive to work, to see a doctor and to eat a meal.</p>
<p>And when they did sit down at a table to eat; Obama even made the food in their mouths taste worse.</p>
<p>During the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover campaigned on a promise of a chicken in every pot. During his own economic depression, Obama celebrated Thanksgiving by signing a bill legalizing the slaughter of horses for human consumption. According to nutrition experts, horse meat is healthier than beef.</p>
<p>Forget your hot dogs, doughnuts and popcorn. Start eating your horse.</p>
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		<title>Bloomberg is Right and Wrong About Fingerprinting Public Housing Residents</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 13:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Five percent of our population lives in NYCHA housing, 20 percent of the crime is in NYCHA housing."]]></description>
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<p>Bloomberg is wrong 8 times out of 10, but that&#8217;s still a better track record than any of his incoming replacements. Currently running ahead is Bill de Blasio, a guy slightly to the left of Stalin.</p>
<p>Giuliani did a pretty decent job of cutting down on crime in housing projects. Many of them no longer look like self-contained post-apocalyptic fortresses. Well they do, but the people outside are no longer openly dealing drugs or fighting drunkenly in the playgrounds. Well not as much as they used to.</p>
<p>And<a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/08/16/bloombergs-public-housing-fingerprinting-idea-stuns-infuriates-residents/"> the numbers do speak for themselves</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Five percent of our population lives in NYCHA housing, 20 percent of the crime is in NYCHA housing – numbers like that. And we’ve just got to find some way to keep bringing crime down there. And we have a whole group of police officers assigned to NYCHA housing,” Bloomberg said.</p>
<p>“The people that live there, most of them, want more police protection. They want more people. If you have strangers walking in the halls of your apartment building, don’t you want somebody to stop and say, ‘Who are you, why are you here?’</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m not really sure how Bloomberg&#8217;s fingerprinting solution is going to solve much. The real problem is that legal housing project tenants invite in illegals.</p>
<p>The single mother with three kids has boyfriends over who deal drugs. The nice grandmother in 7B has a grandson who just got out of prison. It&#8217;s this kind of thing that&#8217;s a problem.</p>
<p>Giuliani evicted a lot of the problem people from public housing, but the reality is that the target population for public housing is crime-prone. So how do you fix that?</p>
<blockquote><p>Darius Charney of the Center for Constitutional Rights said the fingerprinting is an excessive response to a possible problem of trespassing.</p>
<p>“I would submit that a very easy way to fix, that would be to actually make sure that NYCHA housing actually have functioning door locks and security systems. My understanding, having talked to a lot of tenants, is that’s a very big problem. You have broken doors, which anybody can open and close,” Charney said.</p></blockquote>
<p>The doors are broken because residents break them. Unbreakable doors are hard to come by. We&#8217;re talking about buildings with epic scale vandalism where even streetlights get torn out of the ground. Mailboxes, metal cages of them, are torn open to get at the government checks inside.</p>
<p>Residents routinely prop open doors. Doors that forcibly close are forced open. You get the picture.</p>
<p>Biometric scanners are going to last 5 seconds against that kind of treatment. So fingerprinting residents is a dead end. It might just be better to continue moving away from the monster towering projects of the past and toward decentralized 1-3 story houses that are being built more often these days.</p>
<p>An apartment building can be nice if the residents are civil. They&#8217;re going to be hellholes though if they&#8217;re housing projects or affordable housing or any other euphemism.</p>
<p>Not everyone in a project is a crack fiend. Most aren&#8217;t. But there are enough who either are or have kids, grandkids or boyfriends who are ex-cons or pre-cons.</p>
<p>A housing project kills a neighborhood. Plant one and nothing will grow. There&#8217;s no real solution except to reduce their footprint and keep them away from neighborhoods that still have some hope left.</p>
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		<title>Racism Card Looking a Little Dog-Eared</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 04:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ann Coulter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have liberals polled the elderly black residents of high-crime neighborhoods on stop-and-frisk? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/stop-2-0108.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-200861" alt="stop-2-0108" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/stop-2-0108-425x350.jpg" width="255" height="210" /></a>Do liberals have any arguments for their idiotic ideas besides calling their opponents &#8220;racist&#8221;?</p>
<p>The two big public policies under attack by the left this week are &#8220;stop-and-frisk&#8221; policing and voter ID laws. Democrats denounce both policies as racist. I&#8217;m beginning to suspect they&#8217;re getting lazy in their arguments.</p>
<p>Stop-and-frisk was a crucial part of the package of law enforcement measures implemented by New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani that saved the city. Under David Dinkins, who preceded Giuliani, murders averaged about 2,000 a year. There were 714 murders in New York the year Giuliani left office. Continuing Giuliani&#8217;s policing techniques, Mayor Michael Bloomberg&#8217;s New York had only 419 murders last year.</p>
<p>Just during his first year in office, Giuliani&#8217;s policies cut the murder rate an astonishing 20 percent. That first year of his administration was responsible for 35 percent of the crime drop nationwide from 1993 to 1995. The New York Times hailed this remarkable achievement with an article headlined, &#8220;New York City Crime Falls but Just Why Is a Mystery.&#8221;</p>
<p>It was mostly black lives that were saved by Giuliani&#8217;s crime policies. By the end of his administration, the Rev. Calvin Butts, liberal pastor of Harlem&#8217;s Abyssinian Baptist Church, was comparing Giuliani to King Josiah of the Bible, who &#8220;brought order, peace, the law back to the land.&#8221; The black minister told The New York Times, &#8220;I really think that without Giuliani, we would have been overrun.&#8221;</p>
<p>About the same time as the Rev. Butts was comparing Giuliani to King Josiah, Richard Goldstein of The Village Voice claimed he felt less safe in New York under Giuliani. It was the ravings of a madman, like saying winter is warmer than summer. But now, Goldstein&#8217;s ideas are being delivered from the federal bench by Judge Shira Scheindlin, who recently held New York City&#8217;s stop-and-frisk policies unconstitutional.</p>
<p>Yes, Democrat Bob Filner can pat down his female employees, but cops can&#8217;t pat down suspected criminals.</p>
<p>Liberals wail about guns, but how do they imagine police get guns off the street without going to high-crime neighborhoods and stopping young men acting suspiciously? Giuliani&#8217;s policing policies, including stop-and-frisk, reduced gun homicides in New York by 75 percent within five years.</p>
<p>It is precisely the fear of being caught with a gun that induces young hoodlums not to carry them. The word gets out: <i>Don&#8217;t carry a gun! It&#8217;s not worth the risk.</i></p>
<p>Of course cops don&#8217;t find many guns anymore! That&#8217;s because they&#8217;re doing stop-and-frisk.</p>
<p>By liberals&#8217; logic, the government should stop doing meat inspections because it turns up so few cases of contamination these days, anyway. We can also drop the metal detectors at airports. How many people does the TSA actually catch trying to sneak guns onto airplanes?</p>
<p>Have liberals polled the elderly black residents of high-crime neighborhoods on stop-and-frisk? As soon as the word gets out that it&#8217;s now safe to carry weapons, spray paint, drugs and stolen goods again, criminals will rule the streets and the elderly will, once more, be confined to their homes. As Martin Luther King said, crime is &#8220;the nightmare of the slum family.&#8221;</p>
<p>But liberals don&#8217;t care about the innocent black victims of crime. They don&#8217;t care about citizens being prisoners in their own homes &#8212; as long as it&#8217;s not in their neighborhoods. The important thing is to self-righteously preen about racism.</p>
<p>When a policy that has saved thousands of black lives is attacked as &#8220;racist,&#8221; the word has no meaning. At this rate, liberals will be claiming that peanut butter sandwiches are racist &#8212; except that wouldn&#8217;t be as crazy.</p>
<p>Voter ID laws don&#8217;t actually save black lives the way stop-and-frisk policies do, but it&#8217;s not clear how such laws hurt them. I suppose the argument is that by allowing Democrats to steal elections, they can pass all those laws that improve black lives immeasurably, like promoting trial lawyers, gay marriage, abortion and amnesty for illegals. You know, the Democratic policies that really enhance black lives.</p>
<p>The claim that modern voter ID laws are a racist Republican plot to prevent minorities from voting is complicated by the fact that, in 2011, such a law was enacted by the overwhelmingly Democratic Rhode Island legislature and, in fact, was pushed through by black Democrats.</p>
<p>Despite the pleas of national Democrats who realized their cover was being blown, the state senate&#8217;s only black member, Democrat Harold Metts, sponsored a voted ID bill. He said he&#8217;d heard complaints about voter fraud for years, telling the story of one poll worker who encountered a voter who couldn&#8217;t spell his own last name.</p>
<p>A black legislator in the House, Anastasia Williams, complained that when she showed up to vote in 2006, she was told she had already voted. Another time, she saw a Hispanic man vote, go to the parking lot and change his clothes, then go back in and vote again.</p>
<p>If white liberals are so concerned about black votes counting, why don&#8217;t they ever vote for black representatives in their own congressional districts? Black Republicans are always elected from majority white districts: Gary Franks, J.C. Watts, Tim Scott and Allen West.</p>
<p>But black Democrats apparently can get elected to Congress only from specially designated minority districts. How come white liberals won&#8217;t vote for a black representative? Can&#8217;t a black person represent Nita Lowey&#8217;s district?</p>
<p>Democrats do nothing for black Americans except mine them for votes, which they do by telling tall tales about racist Republicans.</p>
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		<title>Ecofascism Marches On: “Let’s Put Our Air Conditioners on Ice Before It’s Too Late”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Aug 2013 14:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can’t help but wonder whether cities like New York will ever prohibit stores from cooling their facilities below, say, 70°F. ]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/216688.php">Kill your air conditioner before i</a>t&#8217;s too late. It&#8217;s <a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4967">the only thing that will appease the Volcano Monster</a> at the center of the earth. Do it quickly before your air conditioning destroys us all.</p>
<p>The following is brought to you by NYU, Time Magazine and Fascism.</p>
<blockquote><p>Earlier this week, as the temperature in New York City hit the upper 90s and the heat index topped 100, my utility provider issued a heat alert and advised customers to use air-conditioning “wisely.” It was a nice, polite gesture but also an utterly ineffectual one. After all, despite our other green tendencies, most Americans still believe that the wise way to use air conditioners is to crank them up</p></blockquote>
<p>Whereas wise Europeans respond to the heat by reading Das Kapital and dying of heatstroke.</p>
<blockquote><p>Today Americans use twice as much energy for air-conditioning as we did 20 years ago, and more than the rest of the world’s nations combined. As a climate-change adaptation strategy, this is as dumb as it gets.</p></blockquote>
<p>Actually it&#8217;s a fairly sensible climate adaptation strategy. Try 100 degree weather or an air-conditioned room.</p>
<blockquote><p>Used conservatively — say, to reduce indoor temperatures to the mid-70s in rooms that, because of shortsighted design, cannot be cooled by cross-ventilation from fans and windows — air conditioners may well generate enough benefits to balance the indisputable, irreversible damage they generate. But in most situations, the case for air-conditioning is made of hot air.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s unfunny because it&#8217;s true. But this is how Ecofascists move the goalposts. They turn a basic necessity into something hideous and vile that should only be used in cases of urgent emergencies&#8230; like painkillers.</p>
<p>Eating? Yes, the elderly and small children need to do it occasionally so they don&#8217;t starve to death. But if we don&#8217;t do less of it, the planet will be consumed by the volcano monster that hates farms and air conditioners.</p>
<blockquote><p>Recently, New York City prohibited stores from pumping arctic air out onto the searing sidewalks in an attempt to lure customers while burning through fossil fuels in suicidal fashion.</p></blockquote>
<p>Because Bloomberg hasn&#8217;t outlawed enough things yet.</p>
<blockquote><p>I can’t help but wonder whether cities like New York will ever prohibit stores from cooling their facilities below, say, 70°F. No doubt a law like that would raise even more objections than Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s attempt to ban big sodas, but it might well be necessary if we can’t turn down the dial on our own.</p></blockquote>
<p>Fascism. It&#8217;s always necessary because we can just never seem to do the right thing on our own.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/bloomberg-nypd.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-195593" alt="bloomberg-nypd" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/bloomberg-nypd.png" width="250" height="176" /></a>The Shoulder-to-Shoulder Campaign, an interfaith coalition allied with the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), is praising the passage of two bills by the New York City Council aimed at stopping the alleged abuses of the NYPD. Mayor Bloomberg says he will veto the bills, even though they passed with enough support to override it.</span></b></p>
<p>The passed bills, the End Discriminatory Profiling Bill and NYPD Oversight Bill, outraged Mayor Bloomberg and NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. The latter bill requires the overseeing of the NYPD by an independent Inspector-General. The former opens the door for the NYPD to be sued in state court for policies that disproportionately affect certain ages, genders, sexual orientations or housing statuses.</p>
<p>Mayor Bloomberg considers the bills to be a matter of “life and death” vows to “not give up for one minute.”</p>
<p>“The bill would allow virtually everyone in New York City to sue the Police Department and individual police officers over the entire range of law enforcement functions they perform,” Kelly <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/nyregion/new-york-city-council-votes-to-increase-oversight-of-police-dept.html">explained</a>.</p>
<p>He said the result will be skyrocketing liability costs, the unnecessary use of resources and an overall decrease in effectiveness.</p>
<p>When asked about the so-called problem of NYPD racial profiling, Bloomberg dismissively said, “Nobody racially profiles.” He made perhaps the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/29/nyregion/bloomberg-says-math-backs-police-stops-of-minorities.html">most politically-incorrect statement</a> of his career in defense of the NYPD:</p>
<p>“…They just keep saying, ‘Oh it’s a disproportionate percentage of a particular ethnic group.’ That may be, but it’s not a disproportionate percentage of those who witnesses and victims describe as committing the murder. In that case, incidentally, I think we disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little.”</p>
<p>Bloomberg <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/06/30/bloomberg-wont-apologize-for-remarks-on-stop-and-frisk/">refuses</a> to apologize. “The numbers clearly show that the stops are generally proportionate with suspect’s descriptions,” he said.</p>
<p>The bills were aggressively supported by the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), joined by the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU has often <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/aclu%E2%80%99s-islamist-friends">allied itself with the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood network</a> that CAIR and ISNA belong to.</p>
<p>CAIR’s chapter in New York is among its more radical ones. Former CAIR-NY director <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/cair-official-sued-defamation">Cyrus McGoldrick</a> has sent out tweets with anti-law enforcement rhetoric and support for Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood and the destruction of Israel.</p>
<p>CAIR-NY board president <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/cair-official-candidate-ny-city-council">Zead Ramadan</a> refused to condemn Hamas in December 2011 and has portrayed American-Muslims as a brutally-repressed minority on Iranian state TV. Another board member, Lamis Deek, has praised Hamas, supports the elimination of Israel and <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/3489/cair-official-sees-nypd-cia-israeli-conspiracy">claims</a> that the NYPD has a secret alliance with Israel to target Muslims. Deek also <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/cair-officials-celebrate-muslim-brotherhood-victory">supported</a> the Muslim Brotherhood takeover of Egypt as a blow to American “imperialism.”</p>
<p>The Shoulder-to-Shoulder Campaign, an interfaith political coalition that includes ISNA as a member, celebrated the bills’ passage. ISNA is so proud of its work in putting together the coalition that it <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ryan-mauro/isna-discusses-interfaith-success-with-erdogan/">highlighted it as a crowning achievement</a> when it met with Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan in May.</p>
<p>The Campaign’s <a href="http://shouldertoshouldercampaign.org/members/">members</a> include American Baptist Churches USA, the Episcopal Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the United Church of Christ and many others.</p>
<p>ISNA and its interfaith allies’ fight with the NYPD reached out a whole other level when the news broke that officers had been shown <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/"><i>The Third Jihad</i></a>, which Police Commissioner Ray Kelly appeared in. The film discusses the Islamist threat to American and mentions that ISNA and CAIR are linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>Shoulder-to-Shoulder responded by writing a <a href="http://www.theird.org/page.aspx?pid=2355">writing a letter</a> to Mayor Bloomberg blasting the NYPD and the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/">Clarion Project</a>, the producer of the film, for promoting a negative image of Muslims—even though the film is narrated by a devout Muslim.</p>
<p>In its May/June magazine, ISNA <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/isna-decries-nypds-counterterrorism-operations">fired at the NYPD</a> and made the Department sound like New York City Muslims are being intimidated into silence and are even afraid to pray in public. In an almost comical blow to its own credibility, ISNA’s article said “Muslim terrorism is not a threat after 9/11.”</p>
<p>Mayor Bloomberg <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/ryan-mauro/mayor-bloomberg%E2%80%99s-jihad-tv-partnership/">doesn&#8217;t have the strongest anti-Islamist credentials</a>, but his standing on the side of the NYPD against the CAIR-supported bill is something he should be praised for. He previously defended the NYPD when it faced an avalanche of criticism for its reasonable counter-terrorism efforts, such as <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/ryan-mauro/nypd-under-fire-for-investigating-muslim-students-association/">investigating Muslim Students Association chapters with evidence of extremism.</a></p>
<p>Bloomberg’s veto will be overridden if none of the <a href="http://council.nyc.gov/html/home/home.shtml">New York City Council</a> members change their mind. It is up to residents to convince them not to believe the hysteria of CAIR and its interfaith allies.</p>
<p><em>This article was sponsored by the <a href="http://www.theird.org/">Institute on Religion and Democracy.</a></em></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 14:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>There are reports that Mayor Bloomberg received letters that tested positive for Ricin. I&#8217;m sure his butler and his butler&#8217;s butler and his butler&#8217;s butler&#8217;s assistant are all very worried about their health.</p>
<p>Not Bloomberg though who is immune to Ricin, the Ebola virus, cholera, nerve gas, u-238, foxglove, typhoid fever and a plague of rabid bats.</p>
<p>Sending Bloomberg barrels of Ricin is absolutely useless. But farmers out on Staten Island say that putting a pinch of salt in front of their doorsteps will keep him away for a week. The salt has to be replaced every time it rains and they say that sea salt works best. Bloomberg hasn&#8217;t shown his face there in a while so the salt is probably doing its job.</p>
<p>Reports that Bloomberg can be kept away by wearing cloves of garlic are untrue. Bloomberg can stand exposure to garlic and sunlight. However anything with a lot of calories will send him fleeing into the night. If you walk down the street wearing a string of ketchup packets around your neck, no Bloomberg can harm you. If you light up a cigarette while doing it and swig from an open bottle of liquor, you can hear his thin keening cries of pain drifting up or down all the way from 77th Street.</p>
<p>If you find yourself being chased by Bloomberg late at night, instead of trying to run, bend down and erase a bicycle lane. Bloomberg will compulsively redraw it, leaving you free to enjoy your evening.</p>
<p>You can also distract Bloomberg by picking up a soda can and exclaiming, &#8220;I bet this is good for me.&#8221;</p>
<p>If you find yourself backed into a corner, grab a restaurant menu without any calorie information next to the servings and recite over and over again, &#8220;It&#8217;s only a tiny little steak. How many calories could it have.&#8221; If you truly believe it, then Bloomberg will vanish in a puff of smoke and be reborn as an ashtray.</p>
<p>Other charms and unguents efficacious for deterring Bloomberg include, NRA decals, a dash of water from the Gowanus canal, cars that aren&#8217;t energy efficient, two ostrich feathers tied together, a photo of Rudy Giuliani, a rare Madagascar blue chicken born at midnight and the United States Constitution.</p>
<p>If your demesne is haunted by Bloomberg, try and lure him into a private jet with a trail of urban reform studies, fly him to Shanghai and hope he adapts to his native habitat in the Communist Party.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our contest winner and runner-ups are announced.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/inside.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-189991" alt="inside" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/inside.jpg" width="280" height="419" /></a>Frontpage editors are pleased to announce the winner of our <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/1000-essay-and-video-contest-inside-every-liberal-is-a-totalitarian-screaming-to-get-out/">essay contest</a> launched on April 5, 2013: &#8220;Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out.&#8221;</p>
<p>The winner of the $1,000 first-place prize is <strong>N. A. Halkides</strong>. Mr. Halkides is a mathematician, systems analyst and freelance writer living in the greater Chicago metropolitan area. His essay, entitled <em>Inside the Progressive Mind</em>, is below.</p>
<p>Frontpage would also like to applaud two runners-up in the competition: <strong>Oleg Atbashian</strong> and <strong>Daniel Greenfield</strong>. Each of them will receive $500 for winning second-place and their essays will run consecutively in our following two issues.</p>
<p>Congratulations N.A. Halkides, Oleg Atbashian and Daniel Greenfield!</p>
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<p><b>Inside the Progressive Mind<br />
</b>By N. A. Halkides</p>
<p>The Progressive believes in precisely two things:  his own magnificence and the constructive power of brute force.  In combination, they lead him naturally from the role of pestiferous busybody to brutal dictator.  Where the productive man dreams of the things he might create if only left alone by his fellows, the Progressive dreams of the <i>world</i> he could create if only the lives and property of his fellows were at his disposal.  The roots of his pathology lie in that oldest and most destructive of all human vices, the desire for the power to rule over other men.</p>
<p>As naked power-lust is a rather ugly motive, the Progressive rationalizes his desire to rule as a concern for human welfare, seeing himself as a great humanitarian, far superior morally to the lesser beings who pursue merely “materialist” ends such as their own prosperity and who frequently object to his program for achieving Utopia.  This assumed moral superiority spills over into fields of practical accomplishment, and the Progressive imagines himself capable of allocating resources and even directing entire industries far more efficiently than a free market, often despite not even having any business or scientific experience.  But despite what the Progressive believes about himself, the desire to compel others to obey his orders is what drives him forward.  To satisfy this desire, there is ultimately no limit to what actions he will take, for he respects none of the restrictions on government officials intended to guarantee individual freedom that have been developed and set forth in written or unwritten constitutions.</p>
<p>It is easy to make the mistake of judging Progressivism by its earlier and less-severe manifestations and to conclude that its petty and paternalistic restrictions, for example New York Mayor Michael “The Nanny” Bloomberg’s recent crusade against large-size soda drinks, are simply bothersome annoyances.  In fact the transformation from irritating but superficially benevolent nanny to ruthless dictator not only occurs rather quickly, it is a logical consequence of the Progressive’s zeal to usher in Utopia and of the means he must use to achieve the smallest of his goals &#8211; brute force.  We should recognize the following principle:  <i>Once the Progressive is permitted to intrude however slightly into matters that are properly beyond the sphere of government, then all aspects of the individual’s life may be subjected to control.  Once any degree of coercion is permitted, then no level of force is out of bounds.</i></p>
<p>Let us see how this principle applies to the Bloomberg soda ban.  First, if the government has an interest in regulating the individual’s behavior in the name of assuring his health, no private decision the individual makes which could affect his health is beyond its power to control.  (If this sounds familiar, it’s because it’s the “broccoli” argument that was raised in the court challenge of Obamacare by twenty-six states).  Second, since the government is to be permitted to use force to override the individual’s will, then it may use as much force as necessary to compel his obedience.  The punishment of merchants who refused to obey the Bloomberg ban was to be a $200 fine, which on the surface would probably not be thought of as extreme.  Note, however that this fine would probably have been sufficient to cause most restaurants to toe the line, and if it had proved inadequate there is no reason to believe Bloomberg would not have increased it to the point that no one would risk violating his edict.</p>
<p>If Bloomberg’s soda ban had been upheld (it was set aside by a judge during a rare moment when sanity prevailed in New York), the city could then have logically gone on to fine obese individuals or incarcerate them in “fat farms” where they would be forced to reduce, since nothing in principle would prevent this, and only the degree of public resistance might stand in the way of the ambitious politician determined to bring about these “superior health outcomes” &#8211; to use the modern technocrat’s jargon.  What specifically the Progressive attempts to control depends on his personal inclinations and just how far he senses he can push the general public.  Any weakness or lack of determination by the average citizen in resisting the nascent tyrant encourages him to push even further, whereas a determined resistance will often convince him to micro-manage some other aspect of our lives until a more propitious moment arrives to advance his original plan.  But in no case is the Progressive held back by any trace of self-restraint.</p>
<p>Now, packing unwilling citizens off to fat farms is only an example of how the Progressive <i>might</i> begin to move from “soft” to “hard” tyranny.  Do we have any examples in contemporary American politics in which Progressives have actually attempted something this obnoxious to personal liberty?  Consider the following characteristics of a “hard” tyranny such as Nazi Germany, the old Soviet Union, or Communist China today:</p>
<p><strong>[1] Press Censorship</strong> &#8211; all media state controlled and opinions of which the government does not approve become punishable offenses.</p>
<p><strong>[2] Complete Gun Control</strong> – only agents of the state are permitted to possess arms.</p>
<p><strong>[3] One-Party Rule</strong> – this means an enforced hegemony, where if opposition parties are permitted to exist at all they are placed at such an extreme disadvantage they cannot truly challenge the ruling party.</p>
<p><strong>[4]</strong> <strong>Control of the Nation’s Economy.</strong></p>
<p>Let’s take these four one at a time and see what, if anything, Progressives have attempted along those specific lines.</p>
<p><strong>[1] Press Censorship</strong> – in 2012, House Minority Leader <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/analysis-pelosi-endorsed-amendment-could-ban-free-press-freedom-of-religion">Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats proposed</a> gutting the First Amendment by removing its protections from citizens who band together to form corporations. This means that while an individual citizen might still literally get on his soap box and attack the government, publishers of newspapers, magazines, books, and web sites could be shut down by the ruling party.</p>
<p><strong>[2] Complete Gun Control</strong> – while some of the more radical Progressives within the Democrat Party openly call for complete confiscation (New York Governor Andrew Cuomo considered the possibility in the run-up to the State’s infamous SAFE Act), most recognize the political danger that such a stand would put them in, and therefore advocate what they soothingly refer to as “common-sense” regulations meant to get us to the point of confiscation in slow and easy steps.  For example, Barack Obama pretends to believe in the 2<sup>nd</sup> Amendment, although we may well doubt that his views have changed from his days as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Chicago where he told John Lott that he didn’t believe Americans should be able to own guns.  Mayor Bloomberg himself has recently turned his attention from oversize soft drinks to gun control, confirming the tendency of the Progressive to go from nanny to tyrant.</p>
<p><strong>[3] One-Party Rule</strong> – Progressive Democrats have not moved to officially ban other political parties, but the fact that in many cities and states Republicans can no longer win control of either the legislative or executive branches of government under any foreseeable circumstances is extremely troubling.  A full analysis would be too lengthy to present here, but it appears that in at least some of these places, Democrats have secured a permanent governing majority in every election by means of special favors and income redistribution.  Republicans cannot match Democrats there except by playing the same game and in effect becoming Democrats themselves.  Under such conditions, there is no need to officially ban the GOP.</p>
<p><strong>[4] Control of the Nation’s Economy</strong> – the purpose of Obamacare was plainly to take control of one-sixth of the nation’s economy rather than improve health care or health insurance.  The other major bill the Democrats passed when they had the chance early in Obama’s first term was Dodd-Frank, which increased the Federal Government’s control of the financial sector to a degree unprecedented in our nation’s history.  Given the opportunity, there can be little doubt that Progressive Democrats would bring additional areas of the economy under the control of the government.</p>
<p>Let me reiterate that once government is permitted to use force at all in a given matter, <i>any</i> degree of force is allowed.  Bloomberg’s $200 “big gulp” fine, as noted earlier, may not seem draconian, but turning an innocent citizen into a felon for merely possessing a standard-size gun magazine certainly does.   We can only guess at what penalties Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Progressives would have imposed on those bold enough to criticize them had they been successful at sweeping away the First Amendment, but as the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act (an earlier attempt to limit free speech) provided for both fines and imprisonment, it is safe to say those penalties would have been quite heavy enough, and that inside every Progressive beats the heart of a true fascist.  And what is perhaps most frightening of all is that in the age of Obama, they’re not even trying very hard to hide it any more.</p>
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		<title>Why Doesn&#8217;t New York City Government Focus on Real Issues?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 04:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business is hurting. New Yorkers are hurting. Why is the city pushing more anti-job regulations?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ronn-torossian/mayor-bloomberg-focus-on-new-yorks-real-issues-2/s-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-183192"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-183192" title="s" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/s-441x350.jpg" alt="" width="265" height="210" /></a>Business owners in New York City have plenty of real issues to worry about &#8211; global competition to America’s soft economy, high rents, and astronomical 50% taxes for entrepreneurs who live in the great Borough of Manhattan, and so much more.  There are real issues which business owners in NYC – and anywhere – need to be concerned with as I know first hand as founder of a <a href="http://www.5wpr.com/about5wpr/index.cfm">PR firm</a>.</p>
<p>For many, Mayor Bloomberg’s attempt to rid NYC of sugary drinks larger than 16-ounce portions was ridiculous. Now, comes something more ridiculous – which is actually dangerous for business &#8211; the NYC City Council has a “proposed paid-sick-days law.”</p>
<p>Under the proposed bill, the NYC Department of Health (DOH) would require small businesses to give their employees at least five sick days a year.  Business would be required, upon demand, to turn over their employment records to DOH investigators.  Imagine the shock of a consulting firm or foreign bank if the “Department of Health” knocked at their door? Sounds like a communist country or a bad drama movie.<em> </em>Indeed, if this bill passes that will be the fate of many New York business owners.</p>
<p>As if business owners don’t have enough to worry about, under this proposed law they’ll need to give multilingual written notice to all employees and post similar posters in a visible place in the office. If the Department of Health finds that an employer fired a worker for calling in sick too many times, they have the right to be compensated for at least $5,000 as well as receive benefits —&#8221;including reinstatement and promotion.&#8221; Has all of <a href="http://www.newyorksightseeing.com/">New York</a> State gone union and forgotten to notify us? Forced reinstatement and promotion?</p>
<p>Imagine staffers in President Obama’s office feign sickness the day of the State of the Union and other very busy days.  Will they be given promotions for not showing up? Employees will also be able to accumulate unused paid sick days into future years.</p>
<p>Naturally, the proposed rules don’t require employees to provide much besides their word.  An employer may not demand a physician&#8217;s note until the third day out – and of course, the employer cannot withhold pay if the worker fails to produce even such minimal documentation. Of course, then some other government office will come knocking.</p>
<p>Employees shouldn’t be taken advantage of – but nor should employers.  In America, people have the right to quit their jobs if not treated well. I have lived and worked in New York City my whole life. My mother raised my sister and I and never took a sick day because she needed to provide for us.  She didn’t take a vacation in 10 years – because the bills don’t stop coming and she wanted to advance at work.</p>
<p>From the age of 12, I worked in a local pizzeria for an Italian immigrant who worked 80 hours a week to put his kids through school – he didn’t take sick days.  There’s nothing wrong with being sick – but there’s also nothing which requires the law to mandate employers to offer sick days.  People always have the right to quit their jobs if they aren’t happy.  Why is this something government needs to be involved with?</p>
<p>For a state which already ranks at the very bottom of the “<a href="http://www.sbecouncil.org/news/display.cfm?ID=4689">Small Business Survival Index</a>” this is more activity that is bad for business. The Tax Foundation, a non-partisan Washington, D.C. tax research group ranked New York State as the worst place in the nation for establishing a business based on taxes. This move will damage business owners who already pay high taxes, and have to deal with strict regulations.</p>
<p>As owner of a white-collar <a href="http://www.5wpr.com/about5wpr/index.cfm">PR agency</a> which employs over 100 people in the heart of Manhattan, all our employees receive 2 weeks vacation, and a mixture of 5 sick/personal days.  They also receive many other holidays, federal and otherwise, like the day after Christmas, etc.  We treat them well and thankfully people stay a long time.  This bill won’t affect us – and at my business like any other, people unfortunately sometimes do quit.  But we treat them well, and it’s none of the governments business, as indeed people do have choices.</p>
<p>Building a small business in the once great city of New York has never been harder than today.  Absurd government regulations seek to tell entrepreneurs what to do.  The role of a business owner is to create wealth and jobs.  Entrepreneurs drive the economy and the global marketplace – they create jobs and so much more.</p>
<p>It is already hard enough to build a business – the government shouldn’t make it harder. It would be nice, if just once, business was helped and not hurt by government. Businesses in America aren’t the bad guys – don’t keep punishing and hurting business.  It harms the economy – and the people.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 04:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judge halts nanny-banny Bloomberg’s soda ban.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A State Supreme Court Judge slowed down the out of control NY Nanny-Banny Mayor when he <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323826704578354543929974394.html">quashed the Mayor’s plan to ban the sale of large sugary drinks</a> in the city’s restaurants and other venues.</p>
<p>In his reaction to the decision, Bloomberg actually said:</p>
<p>“It would be irresponsible not to try to do everything we can to save lives.”</p>
<p>“People are dying every day, this is not a joke.”</p>
<p>“I’m trying to do what’s right…I’m trying to defend my children, and you, and do what’s right.”</p>
<p>I have nothing more to add except for my drawing…</p>
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		<title>Bloomberg Claims He Only Banned Soda to Protect his 30-Year-Old Daughters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg's two daughters, Georgina and Emma, are 30 and 34, respectively. Emma has been married since she was 26. If they can't stop drinking soda on their own, perhaps their father should butt out, instead of holding an entire city's restaurant industry hostage.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_180948" style="width: 460px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/bloomberg-claims-he-only-banned-soda-to-protect-his-30-year-old-daughters/571366a21edf6686fb995434f8fa5/" rel="attachment wp-att-180948"><img class="size-medium wp-image-180948" title="571366A21EDF6686FB995434F8FA5" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/571366A21EDF6686FB995434F8FA5-450x300.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Someone save these children before they have another Coke</p></div>
<p>This really takes helicopter parenting and nanny state <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2013/03/11/nanny-bloomberg-defends-big-gulp-ban-after-judge-overturns-law-im-trying-to-defend-my-children/">syndrome to a whole new level</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The ban on sugary drinks over 16 ounces was supposed to go into effect on Tuesday, but New York Supreme Court Judge Milton Tingling said in today’s decision the law is ”fraught with arbitrary and capricious consequences.”</p>
<p>Tingling added that the elected City Council, not the mayor-appointed Board of Health, has the authority to make such a law.</p>
<p>But Bloomberg framed the issue as a moral obligation.</p>
<p>“I’m trying to do what’s right,” he said. “I’m trying to defend my children, and you, and do what’s right.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Bloomberg&#8217;s two daughters, Georgina and Emma, are 30 and 34, respectively. Emma has been married since she was 26. If they can&#8217;t stop drinking soda on their own, perhaps their father should butt out, instead of holding an entire city&#8217;s restaurant industry hostage.</p>
<p>The nanny state runs on wildly misplaced paternalism and it has gotten so bad that the mayor of what used to be the greatest city in the world is actually getting up at a press conference and claiming that he&#8217;s trying to save his children from drinking soda. It&#8217;s even more embarrassing considering that his children are old enough to have children of their own.</p>
<p>But this misplaced paternalism doesn&#8217;t end with his own family, instead Bloomberg insists on treating an entire city of adults like children and all he has managed to do is get on everyone&#8217;s nerves one last time.</p>
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		<title>Mayor Bloomberg Claims America Can Owe &#8220;Infinite Amount of Money&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“We are spending money we don’t have,” Mr. Bloomberg explained. “It’s not like your household. In your household, people are saying, ‘Oh, you can’t spend money you don’t have.’  Our debt is so big and so many people own it that it’s preposterous to think that they would stop selling us more." ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_179660" style="width: 416px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/mayor-bloomberg-claims-america-can-owe-infinite-amount-of-money/bloomberg-rich/" rel="attachment wp-att-179660"><img class="size-medium wp-image-179660" title="bloomberg-rich" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/bloomberg-rich-406x350.jpeg" alt="" width="406" height="350" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Bloomberg also thinks Spider Man is real</p></div>
<p>If you were wondering why the economy and our political institutions are so badly broken, remember this brand of insanity <a href="http://politicker.com/2013/03/mayor-bloomberg-dont-panic-about-the-sequester/">is the fiscal wisdom among many elites</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>“We are spending money we don’t have,” Mr. Bloomberg explained. “It’s not like your household. In your household, people are saying, ‘Oh, you can’t spend money you don’t have.’ That is true for your household because nobody is going to lend you an infinite amount of money. When it comes to the United States federal government, people do seem willing to lend us an infinite amount of money. … Our debt is so big and so many people own it that it’s preposterous to think that they would stop selling us more. It’s the old story: If you owe the bank $50,000, you got a problem. If you owe the bank $50 million, they got a problem. And that’s a problem for the lenders. They can’t stop lending us more money.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Well you see they can. Because money isn&#8217;t actually infinite. They only keep lending it to you as an investment. If you can&#8217;t repay the money or they run out of people willing to gamble on Too Big To Fail Socialism, then infinite becomes a very finite amount.</p>
<p>There are real problems with this brand of Wall Street cynicism that seems to have infested the liberal camp. Credit isn&#8217;t some magic perpetual motion machine. Wiping out the credit of the United States does not result in infinite money, but in a lack of money and a huge pile of debt.</p>
<p>Credit is finite. If Bloomberg genuinely doesn&#8217;t understand this, then that level of ignorance is downright scary.</p>
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		<title>Thank You Mayor Bloomberg for Beating the Bus Union</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 04:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This union wants to take advantage of New Yorkers and we won’t stand it.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ronn-torossian/thank-you-mayor-bloomberg-for-beating-the-bus-union/bloom-4/" rel="attachment wp-att-178037"><img class=" wp-image-178037 alignleft" title="bloom" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/bloom-450x345.jpg" alt="" width="315" height="241" /></a>One may think the cheers heard from New York City are from school kids happy that all school buses are now running again but indeed all New Yorkers should be celebrating the victory of NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg against Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181.  9,000 New York City school unionized drivers have been on strike, inconveniencing 113,000 school kids and their families, and now <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/union_strike_bus_ted_T5PctXt7LSIOnWA2hqFZMI">the strike is over</a> with the city’s largest school bus drivers union agreeing to return to work.</p>
<p>New York City isn’t an easy place to challenge unions – especially in the dead of winter and when kids are involved.  But Bloomberg did it and thankfully he won. The strike was sparked by Bloomberg’s decision to allow open and competitive bidding on NYC school bus contracts for the first time in 33 years to reduce costs and adapt to changed needs. As a New York City tax-payer I say thank you Mr. Bloomberg.  These absurdly high costs are covered by hard-working tax-payers.</p>
<p>As <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/nyregion/new-york-school-bus-drivers-go-on-strike.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=1&amp;">even the liberal New York Times reported,</a> NYC school buses kids cost almost $7,000 a year for each bus passenger.  Comparatively, Los Angeles spends $3,200, Chicago $5,000, and Miami $1,000. The union’s strike offended many New Yorkers, reeking of entitlement.  In what sane world is pricing not competitive – and why would anyone think they have the right to be guaranteed work?</p>
<p>Taxes in New York City are already absurdly out of control.  As Mayor Bloomberg explained when refusing to meet the drivers &#8220;The terms of the bid are clearly only price, and we&#8217;ve got to get the best price for the city. We have an obligation to save the taxpayers&#8217; money.&#8221; <em>How could any sane person possibly object to that statement? </em>In the greatest capitalist city in America how can anyone believe free-market economics to be wrong?</p>
<p>NYC school bus drivers are paid for eight hours of work each day, while few drive more than five or six hours, and many of the senior drivers with the highest wages work the fewest number of hours. Bloomberg rightfully refused to force winning bidders to hire union workers, and sent the very clear message that the best man will be employed for the job, not a system of entitlement.</p>
<p>As Bloomberg said “…the end of this strike reflects the fact that when we say we put children first, we mean it.” He is absolutely right as business is about being competitive.  New York State is already ranked by The Tax Foundation as the worst state in the nation to start a business.  New Yorkers who earn six-figures can expect to pay more than 50% in taxes between federal, state and local taxes. Business is about being competitive every single day, and those of us who pay taxes have no guaranteed income – why should bus drivers?</p>
<p>In a recent issue of the New York Post, the President of the Local 1181 union is quoted as telling his members, “This war is not over.” It is the one point on which I will agree with the union. As a lifelong New York resident, and entrepreneur of a <a href="http://www.5wpr.com/">PR firm</a> I agree this war is not over.  We will not sit down and allow someone to be paid a full day’s wage if they don’t work a full day.</p>
<p>Decent, hard working Americans will insist and demand that prices are competitive and fair, and ensure that everyone is made aware that job protection is a non-capitalist concept. This union wants to take advantage of New Yorkers and we won’t stand it.</p>
<p>Thank you Mayor Michael Bloomberg.</p>
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		<title>War on Everything but Islamic Terror</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who has the time to fight jihad when there's a battle against salt to wage?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/war-on-everything-but-islamic-terror/its-time-to-end-the-war-on-salt_1/" rel="attachment wp-att-177621"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-177621" title="its-time-to-end-the-war-on-salt_1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/its-time-to-end-the-war-on-salt_1.jpg" alt="" width="276" height="215" /></a>Over a decade after thousands of New Yorkers were murdered by Muslim terrorists, the city&#8217;s mayor is declaring victory in the War on Salt. Next up he plans to wage a spring offensive on Styrofoam cups. After that, who knows?</p>
<p>We live in surreal times. In the Middle Ages, cats and rats were put on trial. In this modern age, we are fighting wars on food ingredients, the bags we carry them in and the containers out of which we eat and drink them.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s no telling what surreal enemy our wise and brilliant leaders will declare war on next. Shoes? Pepper? Umbrellas? Mathematics? The color blue?</p>
<p>There&#8217;s just no way to know anymore.</p>
<p>The United States has lost the War in Afghanistan, a minor matter that no news outlet can find the time to report on because they&#8217;re too busy covering a breaking story about a Republican senator taking a sip of a water. Maybe a War on Water can be next. Was there a Styrofoam cup involved? It&#8217;s time for one of those hard-hitting investigations that reminds us what a loss it will be when the last newspaper is strangled with the entrails of the last news network.</p>
<p>But who can find the time to fight a war against Islamic terrorists, when there are more pressing wars to be fought? Like a war on being fat.</p>
<p>Michelle Obama declared that obesity was a national security threat. And the Pentagon, which now exists only to ratify the latest leftist social experiment from the White House, whether it&#8217;s green energy, gay marriage or bombing the fattest state in the country (Michigan), issued a report agreeing that snack foods posed the greatest threat to the military since global warming and the lack of tranny toilets on submarines.</p>
<p>The military has been unable to identify the Fort Hood Massacre as a terrorist attack and fires any instructor who talks about Islam as anything other than a wonderful Religion of Peace practiced by our closest allies in Saudi Arabia and on board a plane headed for the Pentagon, but the political generals are always ready to jump on any truly serious national security threat. If only Iran began developing the world&#8217;s biggest chocolate bar, then the bombing raids would begin as soon as the chocolate enrichment process reached the caramel-nougat line.</p>
<p>Faced with a seemingly unwinnable conflict against the Soviet Union, American leaders began to retreat into smaller social wars that were actually far more unwinnable. Those wars have also gone the way of the dodo. The War on Poverty is one with the ages and the War on Drugs is usually only mentioned in a pejorative context.</p>
<p>But the same government that couldn&#8217;t get a small percentage of the population to stop doing cocaine and heroin imagines that it will somehow be able to compel 11-year-old boys to stop eating candy and drawing guns. A heroin addict is nothing compared to a normal growing boy seeking a sweet sugar rush before playing a game of cops and robbers. The authorities would have better luck getting Obama&#8217;s campaign staff to Say No to Drugs.</p>
<p>The government that couldn&#8217;t stop drug use or defeat Islamic terrorism has set its sights on something easier. Taking candy from a baby.</p>
<p>During his State of the Union Address, Obama announced that the mission in Afghanistan had been completed because Al Qaeda was defeated. Then he explained that while the war was over, American soldiers would have to go on staying in Afghanistan to continue fighting the already defeated Al Qaeda in a war that was no longer a war, but an extended vacation with shooting.</p>
<p>Since Al Qaeda did not have a significant presence in Afghanistan at any time during his maladministration, defeating it was fairly easy, and true to form it only cost thousands of lives. But somehow it still isn&#8217;t defeated. Still if fighting things that don&#8217;t exist gets applause, put your hands together for the War on Global Warming, which has recently been scaled down to Climate Change, which means that any time the weather changes, it&#8217;s probably due to people using the wrong kinds of light bulbs, driving the wrong kinds of cars and not paying enough attention to Al Gore.</p>
<p>The War on Terror may have been a tough nut to crack, but let&#8217;s focus on the War on Thermometers. They&#8217;re small and have little pockets of red fluid that are easy to crack open. Everyone used to say that everyone talks about the temperature, but doesn&#8217;t do anything about it. Finally we&#8217;re going to do something about the weather. And the little kids who eat too much candy.</p>
<p>During the election, Obama promised to begin &#8220;nation building&#8221; at home. Since that usually involves destroying a country&#8217;s military, wrecking its industrial base and then feeding them off the back of trucks while communicating with them only through interpreters, it looks like he&#8217;s making good on his promise. Chicago already looks more like Kabul or Baghdad than America.</p>
<p>Nation building at home means bringing the war home. Nation building is something that we usually inflict on our worst enemies in the hopes of teaching them a better way to live. It means wrecking the United States and then rebuilding it in the way that our conquerors see fit. All those little wars aren&#8217;t really being fought against salt, sugar, plastic bags and a thousand other tiny inanimate enemies. They are being fought against you.</p>
<p>Guns don&#8217;t kill people. And salt and sugar don&#8217;t eat themselves. Plastic bags don&#8217;t fill themselves with groceries and your old-fashioned gas guzzler won&#8217;t drive itself home from the store with plastic bags full of salt and sugar in the trunk.</p>
<p>The left has blown the war against Islamic terrorism. For the most part it has chosen not to fight it. Its real enemy isn&#8217;t some bearded guy sitting in a cave with a Kalashnikov being propped up by his fourth wife&#8217;s Hijab; it&#8217;s Mr. and Mrs. America in all their racist, overeating and polluting criminality. Lefties are not terribly interested in conquering other countries, until they have finished the conquest of the country that they&#8217;re in.</p>
<p>What we can expect is a war on everything but the war we&#8217;re in. To the sort of people who declare war on salt and make up fake global crises to force everyone to pay more to fly, Islamic terrorism is just what happens when the sainted 3rd World gets tired of our overeating and overdriving, and begins fighting back. The understanding that the terrorists are not just out to protest the destruction of the rainforest or fracking, but intend to establish a totalitarian theocracy based on over a thousand years of bloody history never even enters the minds of the sort of people who declare wars on salt and Styrofoam cups.</p>
<p>In New York City, an awkward skeletal tower stands near where the World Trade Center towers once touched the sky. And on some lamp posts you can still see the faded imprint of missing person flyers. But there is good news. Mayor Bloomberg reports that the war on salt has been won.</p>
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		<title>Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 04:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Sowell]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Menendez prostitution scandal to immigration reform. ]]></description>
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<p>I can&#8217;t get excited by the question of whether Senator Robert Menendez had sex with a prostitute in Central America. It is her word against his — and when it comes to a prostitute&#8217;s word against a politician&#8217;s word, that is too close to call.</p>
<p>If an American citizen went off to join Hitler&#8217;s army during World War II, would there have been any question that this alone would make it legal to kill him? Why then is there an uproar about killing an American citizen who has joined terrorist organizations that are at war against the United States today?</p>
<p>Of all the things said during the gun control controversy, one of the most disquieting has been the emphasis on &#8220;mental health.&#8221; If that ends up letting the guesses of shrinks put more murderers back on the street, the public can be in even greater danger after such a &#8220;reform.&#8221;</p>
<p>However emotionally similar envy and resentment may seem, their consequences are often very different. Envy may spur some people to efforts to lift themselves up, while resentment is more likely to spur efforts to tear others down.</p>
<p>New York&#8217;s Mayor Bloomberg wants to restrict the use of pain-killers in hospitals. Is there any subject on which this man does not consider himself an expert? There are, after all, doctors treating individual patients who currently decide how much pain-killer to use.</p>
<p>One of the talking points in favor of confirming Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense is that he was a wounded combat veteran. How does that qualify anyone to run the whole military establishment? Benedict Arnold was a wounded combat veteran!</p>
<p>In the modern welfare state, a vote becomes a license to take what others create — and these others include generations yet unborn.</p>
<p>Some people seem to think that glib and shallow political correctness becomes Deep Stuff when it comes from a TV commentator with a foreign accent.</p>
<p>Can anyone explain why, when someone dies, most of what he has saved up over a lifetime should be turned over to politicians, rather than to his heirs?</p>
<p>The front page of the February issue of Townhall magazine says: &#8220;It&#8217;s Messaging — not principles — that&#8217;s hurting the GOP with Minority Voters.&#8221; Neglecting to make their message clear hurts Republicans with all voters, but especially minority voters.</p>
<p>Why do so many judges&#8217; views of criminals seem to be the opposite of policemen&#8217;s view? It could be that judges see criminals when they are on their best behavior, while the police see them at their worst.</p>
<p>But I believe it is because judges have usually spent more time in educational institutions than policemen, and have picked up more politically correct nonsense as a result.</p>
<p>With all the discussion about gun control, I have not heard anybody on any side of this issue mention how many lives are saved by guns every year — which are far more than are lost in even the mass shootings that get so much media attention. But most of the media never mention the lives saved by guns.</p>
<p>Does anyone think that Iran and North Korea would be as threatening as they are if Ronald Reagan were President? I don&#8217;t think it was a coincidence that the Iranians freed their American hostages just hours before Reagan took the oath of office.</p>
<p>People who are forever ready to charge others with &#8220;greed&#8221; never apply that word to the government. But, if you think the government is never greedy, check out what the government does under the escheat laws and eminent domain.</p>
<p>The latest anti-trust farce is the Justice Department&#8217;s lawsuit to prevent the makers of Budweiser from buying up Corona beer. Even if this sale goes through, more than half of all the beer in the country will still be made by more than 2,700 other brewers, large and small.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know how many Hispanic votes the Republicans think they are going to pick up by going soft on illegal immigration. But it may not be enough to offset the votes they lose from their existing supporters, not counting the future voters added for the Democrats as a result of legalizing existing illegals and attracting more illegals in the future.</p>
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		<title>Bloomberg Claims He Has No Right to Block Anti-Israel Event, Does Have Right to Ban Styrofoam Cups</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mayor Bloomberg is a big supporter of freedom. Like the freedom to build a Megamosque near Ground Zero or the freedom to use a city college as a platform for promoting the destruction of Israel. He is however a fierce opponent of irresponsible forms of freedom like overly large soda cups or Styrofoam cups]]></description>
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<p>Mayor Bloomberg is a big supporter of freedom. Like the freedom to build a Megamosque near Ground Zero or the freedom to use a city college as a platform for promoting the destruction of Israel. He is however a fierce opponent of irresponsible forms of freedom like overly large soda cups or Styrofoam cups or being able to drive to work without running into a planter, a bus lane, a bike lane or four hundred paid picketers screaming that they want more money.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/164983#.URPYyqKLbQp">Bloomberg blasted opponents </a>of Brooklyn College&#8217;s Boycott Israel event, saying, &#8220;If you want to go to a university where the government decides what kind of subjects are fit for discussion, I suggest you apply to a school in North Korea.&#8221;</p>
<p>That line might have a little more credibility if Bloomberg&#8217;s administration of the city didn&#8217;t have a suspicious resemblance to North Korea. And Brooklyn College is funded by the city and does decide what subjects can be discussed there. Placing a few degrees of separation and empowering its administrators to make those decisions does not change that.</p>
<p>Brooklyn College has been getting steadily uglier and in terms of its hatred toward Jews and Israel and is beginning to resemble some of the worst California colleges.</p>
<p>Furthermore if Brooklyn College had a forum calling for a boycott of Muslim countries and Muslim businesses, it is very doubtful that Bloomberg would have defended it and compared critics to Kim Jong Il.</p>
<p>But freedom is subjective. It&#8217;s used to defend some ideas, but not others. Drop a Koran in a toilet in a New York City academic institution and you&#8217;ll be arrested and charged with a hate crime. Call for the destruction of the Jewish State, with the accompanying murder of millions, and that&#8217;s academic free speech. What&#8217;s worse, dropping a Koran in a toilet or genocide?</p>
<p>Where does one draw the line? Apparently always in favor of Muslims.</p>
<p>Meanwhile the freedom-loving mayor <a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2013/02/7609131/bloomberg-potential-benefits-styrofoam-ban">continues on his crusade to make </a>life freer for all <a href="http://www.jammiewf.com/2013/dictator-bloombergs-next-crusade-banning-styrofoam-cups/">by banning Styrofoam cups</a>.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote><p>First he dictated the size of our cups — now he wants to ban what they’re made of.</p>
<p>The Bloomberg administration is considering banning Styrofoam cups and containers — popular at thousands of delis and food carts across the city— as it prepares to roll out a major recycling announcement in the coming weeks, a Sanitation Department official said yesterday.</p></blockquote>
<p>That idea comes from Bloomberg&#8217;s Recycling Czar (isn&#8217;t it great that we now have one of those) as Bloomberg continues his campaign to ban absolutely everything in the city except Megamosques and boycott Israel events.</p>
<p>What will people drink hot tea out of if they want it to keep more than five minutes?  I don&#8217;t know, but it had better not be made in Israel.</p>
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		<title>How Much Does it Cost for the NAACP to Cry &#8220;Racism&#8221;?</title>
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<p>Let&#8217;s say that you&#8217;re a major business interest lobbying against a progressive policy. You&#8217;ve already tried to make the &#8220;Freedom&#8221; argument, stapling &#8220;Soft Drink Freedom&#8221; to the delivery trucks of all your distributors. But that approach failed.</p>
<p>So you go to <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2013/01/23/naacp-says-mayor-bloombergs-big-gulp-ban-is-racist/">Plan B. Racism</a>. The only problem is that people will laugh at you. But not if <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SUGARY_DRINKS_LAWSUIT?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2013-01-23-06-18-52">you bring the NAACP to the table</a>. Laughing at a racism claim by the NAACP is racist.</p>
<blockquote><p>New York City&#8217;s limit on the size of sugary drinks is an &#8220;extraordinary infringement&#8221; on consumer choice, a lawyer for the American Beverage Association and other critics said in court on Wednesday.</p>
<p>The NAACP&#8217;s New York state branch and the Hispanic Federation have joined beverage makers and sellers in trying to stop the rule from taking effect March 12.</p>
<p>The issue is complex for the minority advocates, especially given that obesity rates are higher than average among blacks and Hispanics, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The groups say in court papers they&#8217;re concerned about the discrepancy, but the soda rule will unduly harm minority businesses and &#8220;freedom of choice in low-income communities.&#8221;</p>
<p>The NAACP and the Hispanic Federation, a network of 100 northeastern groups, say minority-owned delis and corner stores will end up at a disadvantage compared to grocery chains.</p>
<p>&#8220;This sweeping regulation will no doubt burden and disproportionally impact minority-owned businesses at a time when these businesses can least afford it,&#8221; they said in court papers. They say the city should focus instead on increasing physical education in schools.</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure how many black-owned corner stores and delis there are in New York City. The majority of them are owned by Muslims or Asians with some percentage of Indian and Puerto Rican owners. There are 155,000 black owned businesses in New York City, but the lion&#8217;s share of the 24/7 corner store/deli business goes to immigrants.</p>
<p>There are more black and hispanic owned restaurants and they may take a bit of a hit on this, but it&#8217;s not too clear that the law would have that much of an impact on stores, rather than on distributors and manufactures, except insofar as enforcement goes.</p>
<p>The ABA&#8217;s involvement is not about restaurants and stores, it&#8217;s about selling to them. Getting minority groups involved was likely about the bottom line. A few contributions to the right places. But Bloomberg has pockets that are even deeper than those of the American Beverage Association.</p>
<p>Still with the disproportionate argument, the soda gang has a new card to play against the anti-soda mayor. In a racially divisive society, every argument comes down to racism, sooner or later.</p>
<p>So Bloomberg will trot out minority anti-obesity activists and the ABA will trot out minority business owners and a debate over everyone&#8217;s freedoms will come down to who knows what&#8217;s best for minorities.</p>
<p>Welcome to America 2013. It&#8217;s like Somalia and Thailand, but with more lawyers and special interests.</p>
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		<title>New York City &amp; America: Still Capitalist?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, it has never been more apparent that government can't help business.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/ronn-torossian/new-york-city-america-still-capitalist/sandy_relief_ap30830375929_620x350/" rel="attachment wp-att-166621"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-166621" title="sandy_relief_AP30830375929_620x350" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/sandy_relief_AP30830375929_620x350-450x293.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="176" /></a>There is still so much damage in New York City after Hurricane Sandy, and while with time media attention goes away, the effects of Hurricane Sandy live on. As a 38-year-old, born-and-bred New Yorker I have never seen New York in these conditions &#8212; countless businesses, non-profit organizations and people are far from back to normal as a result of Sandy.</p>
<p>In the aftermath of this calamity it has never been more apparent that government can’t help business. To great fanfare over Thanksgiving weekend, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a new grant program to aid small business. As he said: “Businesses that have been displaced for at least three weeks can apply for a grant of up to $10,000 to help with repairs, supplies and other storm-related expenses.”</p>
<p>With all due respect, after being out of their business for three weeks in New York City what is $10,000? In a city where the average rent is above $3000, how far does $10,000 go? How many small business owners have payrolls for three weeks less than that? Perhaps someone who owns 1 pizzeria can replace an oven with that – but does he have any employees left after being out for three weeks? It’s offensive to hold a press conference and laud this as an accomplishment. And after losing a month of income it has to be returned within 2 years. Of course, maybe indeed these business owners should expect nothing – as they are all “rich” in Obama’s America.</p>
<p>And as New Yorkers, we do business in the worst state in America to own a business. It is damn hard to own a business in the once-Empire State.  At <a href="http://us.linkedin.com/company/5w-public-relations">5WPR</a>, my <a href="http://www.5wpr.com/">PR firm</a>, we foot the bill for jury duty for our 100 employees; match Medicare tax rates (with little faith the system will exist when we will need it), and in NYC as we grow pay more commercial real estate tax. A new reward of post Hurricane-Sandy NYC is the nightmare called Obamacare which will increase costs for small businesses where we have to pay more for health insurance for employees.</p>
<p>Of course, that’s only for companies up to 50 employees.  A company with 46 employees – why would they want their business to grow above 50 people? And someone with 52, won’t they fire 3 people before year&#8217;s end?</p>
<p>As an entrepreneur, I am proud to give to charity so I can choose where my hard-earned money goes rather than into the black hole of government. As a board member of Russian American Jewish Experience (RAJE), we are dealing with the fact that our shorefront Brooklyn synagogue was destroyed by the Hurricane. Our board is trying to raise the $1 million, plus we need to rebuild – but it’s all private money and we don’t have government or FEMA money as one would think a non-profit would enjoy. It is a daunting task.</p>
<p>Every entrepreneur I know works harder than ever before &#8211; and New York’s governor wants to raise taxes another 4 percent and Obama is consumed with the popular tale of “taxing the rich.” People who work hard create jobs and sacrifice and no one is helping them. Government strains – and doesn’t help &#8211; the hardworking entrepreneur. It over-taxes energetic people who sacrifice every day to create opportunities for others as well as themselves.</p>
<p>Living in NYC, I pay nearly 50% taxes – class warfare at its finest. And when I die my kids will be taxed another 50 percent on my money.  Can the great country of America truly be considered a capitalist country in 2012?</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s FEMA Centers Close &#8220;Due to Snow&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The media painted Hurricane Katrina as a disaster by making up horror stories, while minimizing the damage of Hurricane Sandy by refusing to report what was going on, especially the utterly botched response by Bloomberg and Obama.]]></description>
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<p>Apparently Obama&#8217;s completely failed response to Hurricane Sandy, accompanied sweaty hugs from Bruce Springsteen&#8217;s biggest Republican fanboy, in more ways than one, won over some voters. Which just goes to show you the impact of media coverage.</p>
<p>The media painted Hurricane Katrina as a disaster by making up horror stories, while minimizing the damage of Hurricane Sandy by refusing to report what was going on, especially the utterly botched response by Bloomberg and Obama.</p>
<p>So here&#8217;s Item 401 in &#8220;<a href="http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=156420">Obama Don&#8217;t Care About White People: FEMA Edition</a>.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>They fly into disaster areas, but flee from raindrops.</p>
<p>FEMA disaster recovery centers in Hurricane Sandy-ravaged sections of the city that were supposed to provide shelter, food and assistance to hurricane victims went MIA Wednesday morning, posting signs saying that they were closed due to the approaching Nor’easter.</p>
<p>The shuttering of the assistance centers, as well as city food distribution centers come even as many of those still reeling from the monster storm were not told that they had to leave the battered areas.</p>
<p>In Staten Island, a printed paper sign taped to the front door of on the center at 6581 Hylan Blvd. at 10:30 a.m. read “FEMA Center Closed Due to Weather.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The demographics of Staten Island trends white, especially in coastal areas, so I&#8217;m guessing the people there don&#8217;t &#8220;Look like America&#8221; enough to get assistance. Especially since McCain won Staten Island.</p>
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