California: New York

When I last took a close look at New York state's finances a couple of months back, it was to make the point that it was similar to California in that it was a big, urban state with volatile revenue...

So in California, things are so dysfunctional that self-styled "good government" groups like the Bay Area Council want a constitutional convention, where job no. 1 would be killing the Legislature's two-thirds requirement for raising taxes and adopting a budget. California...

Want to buy a losing newspaper?  the New York times will be for sale--cheap--more than the one dollar cover price, but less than half a billion dollars--for everything--including the right to lose all your money.

Want to lose money, buy a newspaper.  Want propaganda, buy a newspaper. Maybe the New Republic will buy the Times--in this way they can have a daily exposure of their principles--officially.

 Obama has appointed a man who BELIEVES in Shairah Law--to be chief attorney for Hillary Clinton at the Department State, which means he believes in beheadings, stoning for adultery (wonder if Bill Clinton approved of this.  "A New York lawyer, Steven Stein, says Koh in 2007 told the Yale Club of Greenwich that "in an appropriate case, he didn't see any reason why Shariah law would not be applied to govern a case in the United States."

Harold Hoh also believes that Zimbawae law is as important as the laws of South Dakota or California.  "Koh believes laws of places like Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka should carry equal weight with the laws of Virginia and South Dakota, and that it's "appropriate for the Supreme Court to construe our Constitution in the light of foreign and international law" in its decisions.