The Little Rebellion

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  • Occupy Wall Street and the Unions

    Occupy Wall Street and the Unions

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    Neil Button
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    If the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests have not annoyed you yet, you aren’t talking to the right people. The protests have attracted flannel-clad hipsters decrying the Tea Party as “fascists,” sociology majors decrying contemporary science as “informed by matrices of Western oppression,” iPhone owners attacking corporate greed while mourning Steve Jobs, and, of course,…

  • Carden’s Capitol Corner: The Death of the New York Republican Party

    Carden’s Capitol Corner: The Death of the New York Republican Party

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    Andrew Carden
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    It’s perhaps hard to believe now, but, not long ago, it wasn’t the most unpopular thing to say the words “I am a New York Republican.” Just rewind to one year ago. In February, 2010, Gov. David Paterson, a Democrat, was floundering with one of the worst approval ratings of any sitting governor in the…