While I (gack!!!) supported Kevin Parker against Simcha Felder when Felder  ran for State Senate in 2008 (in a working class minority district where his fiscal conservatism was not a good fit), it is hard for me to conceive that (barring the return of Seymour Lachman—who may be a bit too modern Orthodox) this district could do any better than either Felder or David Greenfield (and Greenfield is supporting Fel

So, polls show that about 45% of the country supports a candidate who opposes any sort of tax increase under any circumstances, and about 45% supports a candidate who might consider some level of revenue enhancement to pay for vital infrastructure and other future-minded spending.

This presents a conundrum.

Tom Friedman's solution is to divide the sane vote between multiple candidates and facilitate the return of the Flat Earth Society.

A lot of people wonder why I raise little complaints about ballot access challenges.

As regular readers of this department are aware, I have dedicated a perhaps inordinate amount of prose to the coverage of fringe candidates.

GZA meets ODB.

Today, I feel impelled to ask what they put in the water in the County of Queens.

The author notes: "Judge Jonah Goldstein, a 1940s Republican from New York, said famously, 'The Jews have three veltn (worlds): di velt (this world), yene velt (the next world) and Roosevelt.'”

Chutzpah Award: The Legislature's Black, Hispanic and Asian Caucus calls upon the Justice Department to reject the State Senate lines which its own Assembly members voted for 21-8 (with two excused absences).

The attached story, from 2002 (and several others I've found in my research), has made me revise my take on Queens hack Jeff Gottlieb's laughable, boss-blessed run for Congress.

For over a decade now, Gottlieb has thrown his hat into the ring for every race for an open seat in Queens, even when the seat was going to disappear, or wasn't really open.

Our long term history of mutual long-term spite kept me from noting that Gary Tilzer deserves kudos for being the first to b

On Pesach, we always bring out the good Silver.

THE URBAN DICTIONARY:

I visited a kosher supermarket on McDonald Ave last Sunday to stock up for our week of De-Nile.

COLIN CAMPBELL (2/8/12):  Earlier today, Liz Benjamin reported Councilman Erik Dilan is raising money for a federal office, suggesting