It is simultaneously astonishing and horrifying that a person with a resume that will fit comfortably on one side of a cocktail napkin is now in charge of a city of 300,000 employees, a budget of $120 billion and responsibility for the safety and welfare of more than eight million souls.
Capitalism and socialism have both been around long enough to have created a record. And that record is unmistakable.
Cities like Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Philadelphia have been under the total control of Democrats for decades. All are in the process of committing protracted suicide.
The comparison of the New York City of Rudy Giuliani against the New York City of Bill de Blasio offers a useful preview of a Trump United States vs. a Biden United States.
A government that cannot (or will not) control small crime clearly signals an inability (or unwillingness) to handle more serious problems.
Responsible and intellectually honest political leaders – white and black – must renounce the implicit endorsement of racism and violence by Black Lives Matter and its adherents.
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg would make it illegal for convenience stores, restaurants, theaters and other food-selling venues to sell sugared soft drinks in containers larger than 16 ounces. This is necessary, says Nanny Bloomberg, to curb the growing obesity problem in the Big Apple.