N.Y.F.D.: Race-Approved By Federal Oversight

   Very quietly, the federal judge in the NYC firefighter case, Nicholas Garaufis, has approved a curious tactic by the   plaintiffs to advance its racial diversity agenda.  As reported in the N.Y.Times (12/22/11), the Vulcan Society will obtain a list of blacks who never completed their applications for the exam.  It seems that Vulcan members […]

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Bullet-Ins

Here are some new before-and-after thoughts. I read the obituary of an American named William Niskanen today.  I had never heard of him, but I read it because he was intriguingly identified as a “libertarian economist”.  I learned that he served in the Council of Economic Advisers under Reagan, and that he was controversial because he […]

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His Bad Deal

   Whether you approved of the outcome or not, the conviction and sentencing of Michael Kimelman has a significance that goes beyond the facts of the case.  At least for me it does. Kimelman, if you haven’t been keeping up on these things, was convicted of conspiracy and two counts of securities fraud recently.  His […]

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Film: Drive

   Drive is a good thriller of its type, and it develops with enough ingenuity that you stay absorbed, even though there is not a chance anything original will come out of it.  But that’s why you go to this kind of film; so as not to be surprised.  Written and directed by Nicolas Refn, and photographed with […]

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Holding My Grandson

   The rest of life must be set aside, to be resumed later.  The holding of the Grandson is a Station, a ledge on the Mountain.  As an experience, it is isolated in time, a moment to survey the stretch of the journey thus far, and how the way ahead is redirected, inevitably.    At nine days, the boy is busy […]

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