All Entries Tagged With: "Politics."
Your Affordable Care Act
-LIBERAL VOICE- By Leonard Hoffman American exceptionalism is a catch phrase that everyone loves to use. We are unique in many ways and when it comes to healthcare we have been exceptionally obtuse. With the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the twisted arms in Congress and the twisted language in the [...]
McCarthyCare, Right Back Where We Started
-LEGISLATIVE VOICE- By Francis X. Becker The Supreme Court decision the week before last has shocked the nation on both the left and the right — the right because the conservative Justice Roberts sided with the liberals on the court with a ruling that was both convoluted in its reasoning as it was illogical, [...]
Stark Choices for America
EDITORIAL On Thursday the Supreme Court upheld much of the “Affordable Care Act,” otherwise known as “Obamacare” on the basis that while the government can’t compel you to buy a given product or service such as insurance (that not being an appropriate interpretation of the Commerce Clause of the Constitution) it can however tax [...]
Becker for Congress
Yogi Berra used to say that “it feels like déjà vu all over again,” and so with the reprise of the GOP primary between Frank Scaturro and Fran Becker we have a repeat of 2010 when the two squared-off for the Republican nomination to challenge incumbent Representative Carolyn McCarthy in the 4th Congressional District. Mr. [...]
Local Republican Primaries — Let’s Cut “High-Card” For It !
By THE LEGENDARY DANNY O’DOUL In the town of Webster, Texas – Newland and Lepeyre Were running for the council of their fair city, Each candidate did garner 111 votes And a recount did confirm the tally of the totes Thus, according to the big book of Texas voting law Newland and Lepeyre now [...]
This is Your Chance
By Francis X. Becker For years people have complained to me about our current representative in Washington D.C., Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy. One person said to me recently, “Watch this, she will fly in to campaign for a week before Election Day and afterwards we won’t see her again for two years.” When I ran [...]
Village Elections Slated For Tuesday
By Amanda Mayo Village elections will be held this Tuesday for the villages of Atlantic Beach, Lawrence, Hewlett Bay Park, Hewlett Harbor, Hewlett Neck and Woodsburgh. Although most of these elections are uncontested, the candidates are still running on certain platforms that make them stand out as leaders of their independent communities. Cedarhurst is [...]
Local Leaders Recall Memories Of Their Fathers
Dr. Gary Schall, Superintendent of the Lawrence Union Free School District When Lawrence School District Superintendent Gary Schall was eight years old, in March of 1963, the fifth boy in his family was born. That same year, in July, Schall’s father’s business burned down, and in August his father went blind. “So, in September, we [...]
Marijuana: Gateway to Hell?
By Leonard Hoffman Gay marriage has been a high visibility news item these days. The news about President Obama “evolving” was the subject of controversy. Is it political? Is it timely? Does it make a difference? Coincidently, Mitt Romney had his past exposed from high school days in an extensive Washington Post article. The story [...]
Vote
One of the truly great things about the U.S. of A are the almost unlimited opportunities to exercise democracy that we enjoy. We are privileged to be able to vote on just about every level of authority in our lives be it school or library boards, town and county offices and of course state and [...]
The GOP Has Latino Options
By Michael Reagan No wonder Republicans can’t even get 40 percent of Latino votes in a presidential election. When Mitt Romney made his first big push to appeal to Latinos earlier this week in Texas, he hammered the “Obama economy” for being “particularly hard on Hispanic businesses and Hispanic Americans.” He pointed out the [...]
Now Is the Time to Act
By David Freedman I marched in the Celebrate Israel Parade last Sunday. It is the 6th time I have marched in the Parade. As a parent of children whose school chooses to march, it is for me a miraculous experience. It is miraculous not that I am Jewish, rather it is miraculous that in [...]
