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Silvio the Plumber Long before Joe the Plumber was on the political scene, there was Silvio the Plumber, and were he alive he would be voting for Obama. (And if half of the ACORN voter registration fraud stories are true, he very well may [...]

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2009

OCTOBER 2009
Oct 18th, 2009  Political Pandora. Choose your news, choose your music. What’s not to like? But is customized content just making Americans insular and polarized, parochial and provincial?
Oct 12th, 2009  New Superintendent Proves Himself a Pragmatic Realist. For the second time in as many months, the new Superintendent of [...]

A Tale of Two Worlds: Rightwing Extremists, Leftwing Extremists, the FBI and DHS.

Weren’t the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) talking?
An  FBI press release this morning proclaimed  “NEW MOST WANTED TERRORIST: First Domestic Fugitive Added to List” and stated that the domestic terrorist being sought is “an animal rights extremist wanted for allegedly bombing two San Francisco-area office buildings in 2003.”

But a DHS report issued in [...]

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

A favorite tactic of terrorists is to perform a decoy attack before a major attack. Not only is the attention of authorities and the public diverted, but the first attack is monitored closely by the terrorists.

They watch to see how the authorities react. The first attack has the additional consequence of causing the authorities [...]

Government Should Stay OUT of Church Business

On Wednesday, Catholics from parishes from around the state will descend upon the state Capitol and Legislative Office Building to protest a bill before the Judiciary Committee.  In my view, the bill, number 1098, is a modern version of persecution of the Catholic Church.

The bill is specific only to Roman Catholic corporations.  Not all [...]

Presidential Math

On Tuesday, before a joint session of Congress, President Obama made a “George H. W. Bush: Read My Lips, No New Taxes”-type statement when he said “if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime.  I repeat: not one single dime.”
Sounded pretty ambitious to me. [...]

Who’s Watching Out for Our Kids?

Not much could shock me – or so I thought.  I certainly was shocked as a student at the FBI Citizens Academy when in one of the optional exercises some of us watched over the shoulder of FBI agents in a computer center working on an Internet sting.  I saw with my own eyes, a [...]

A (An?) Historic Event

I’ve been invited to five Presidential Inaugurations, but have never been to one – too much glitz for my tastes.

Generally, I have tried to ignore this quadrennial ritual, but this year that was impossible. One would have to be comatose to have avoided the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the [...]

NOT a pretty picture. The local print media chose not to focus.

The new year saw the retirement of Michael Pacewicz, Greenwich Police Department’s only remaining Captain. GPD Chief David Ridberg commented that Captain Pacewicz served in almost every division in the department, and did so well.

As a member of the GPD Community and Police Partnership (CAPP) I got to know Captain Pacewicz who headed the [...]

Ordinary Time

Tomorrow begins “ordinary time.”

For those of us who “bleed blue” football season painfully ended today as the Giants were eliminated from the playoffs. We don’t care about the NFC and AFC championships next week, or even the Super Bowl. Tomorrow marks the beginning of the countdown until Giants summer camp in Albany. Sure, there [...]