New York, New York! It’s really a time of judicial reckoning. Former Speaker Shelly Silver, who I have interviewed many times, is off to the penitentiary for twelve years (maybe the rest of his life.) Former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos also faces some serious jail time. Now, York City […]

  In politics, there are some unknowables. Frontrunner status can be a curse. Just look at Hillary Clinton. She was the anointed one until Barack Obama came along. Then she received a huge challenge from Bernie Sanders, who I have interviewed so many times I’ve lost count. The wife of […]

  I get a lot of questions about pollsters. People hate the idea that pollsters can call elections. The pollsters not only tell you who is going to win, they tell you how much they will win by. But it turns out that every once in a while they get […]

The New York state budget is passed. It was the same freak show that it has always been. The so-called representative democracy is a farce. As usual, the same “three men in a room” controlled the show. You may vote for your representative but in the end, it’s likely that […]

  Andrew Cuomo has accomplished some remarkable things during his time in office. As for me, number one on his leadership list is the SAFE Act that he remarkably managed to push through the Republican-dominated Senate after the terrible, terrible Sandy Hook school massacre in which young children were slaughtered […]

There are times in life when one feels less than adequate. In fact, there are times when you feel downright foolish. As we get older, we think we’ve seen it all but we haven’t. Many of us have experienced a time when we have felt violated — a friend’s apartment […]

  Stupid, stupid, stupid.  It’s really hard to believe how dumb our state legislators can be. They’ve just seen their two supreme leaders towed to the hoosegow. The people are clamoring for ethics reform.  U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara correctly says that by putting up with ethical misbehavior, we are “enablers.” […]

The world, of course, is a very dangerous place.  The threat of nuclear holocaust has been with us since World War II. Children in the 1950’s learned to recognize the yellow and black “fallout shelter” signs and were taught to “duck and cover” when the sirens sounded.  During the Cuban […]