Day four and it continues... http://www.nypost.com/seven/06112009/postopinion/editorials/albany_held_hostage_173701.htm
nothing is resolved as of now. http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/06/11/2009-06-11_judge_rules_against_democrats_in_albany_gop_holds_session_without_them.html

It is seldom that the Times Union Editorial Board writes anything that we agree with, but we must say that the fact that they state that until the member items are done away with reform won't come to Albany...they are certainly right to call for the elimination of member items. http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=809074&category=OPINION


Switching to the international scene: "To be sure, decades of incessant revolutionary activity has taken its toll on the Iranian people, the vast majority of whom were born after 1979. Apart from having to live under a regime where political opposition is brutally oppressed, adulterers are regularly stoned to death, and the limbs of petty criminals amputated in public, the vast majority of ordinary Iranians do not desire to live in a country that is regarded as an international pariah and is constantly subjected to the privations of economic sanctions." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124458910646499883.html

The Obama administration likes to spend, spend, spend...nothing new, but now he wants to pay as you go...is he just telling people what he thinks they want to hear? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124467627264104053.html

What we can do to stop "Obamacare"...recommendations from Karl Rove http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124467554761003983.html#mod=loomia?loomia_si=t0:a16:g2:r2:c0.318971:b25219254

Finally, if you were unable to make the Stand 4 Marriage Rally in Albany on Tuesday, and you are in the Long Island area, there will be one in Hauppauge on this Saturday, June 13 from 2-4 pm at the Perry Duryea NYS Office Building, 250 Veterans Memorial Highway. Rev. Jason McGuire of the NYers for Constitutional Freedoms and Maggie Gallagher of National Organization for Marriage will be among the speakers. For more information contact: Pastor Bruce Bennett (631) 806-0606.