On the orders of Gov. Paterson, New York State has a new policy: Any time a soldier from New York, or even serving with a New York-based unit, is killed in Iraq or Afghanistan, flags on state government buildings will be lowered to half-staff. This practice began last week to honor soldiers from […]

U.S. Representative Peter King of Long Island is pushing a new meme: Native Americans in Upstate New York are in cahoots with radical Islamic terrorists and are using untaxed smuggled cigarettes to fund their plots. As reported in the Buffalo News, the evidence for this conclusion from King’s House H#^$&*#land Security Committee “study” […]

Veterans’ Day and Canandaigua Treaty Day are always the same.

Some years ago, Hart Seely (who writes for the PS) put together a collection of Donald Rumsfeld quotes re-imagined as free verse. Maybe it’s not just for fun that one can do this; maybe one can really get an insight on what so many people seemed to find inoffensive, or even attractive about […]

There are many, many subjects which cannot be discussed — not even at the highest levels of official secrecy. They’re just too dangerous, too potentially destructive to the fabric of governments, societies, civilizations. Pull even a little bit on these threads and the entire garment over our nakedness will unravel. There are […]