Also the greatest Mayor of Buffalo, New York, the greatest Governor of New York State, the The Last Good Democrat and the greatest defender of the Constitution.
Lawrence Reed, president of the Foundation for Economic Education on his favorite president.
On one night shift this past week Rochester General Hospital’s CAT Scan Department did 20 CT exams on people with acute trauma or illness. They received their exams when they needed them to get an immedite diagnosis. Under proposed health care reforms, no such luck. Can you say vegetable?
(PS-Just [...]
The Buffalo left is trying to silence WBEN’s Tom Bauerle by urging his advertisers to drop his show.
Libertarians are rather sensitive to free speech issues since libertarians invented the concept of a right to free speech.
This is classic left tactics. The left is an intellectually bankrupt and ignorant crew [...]
Biggest WNY Tea Party Yet
Join your fellow Patriots in over 1300 cities!
July 4th—Noon to 1pm
Niagara Square Downtown Buffalo
Speakers:
Len Roberto
Rus Thompson
Jim Ostrowski
You will hear specific ideas on how to turn America and New York State around.
Groups involved incude:
Buffalonyteaparty.wordpress.com
PrimaryChallenge.org
TeaNewYork.com
PoliticalClassDismissed.com
For more information, write [...]
I was away for many days in May and June and when I turned on the radio today the lead story was that the aud is finally coming down and we should send our stories and photos in to the station. Now, I know I am old and perhaps I [...]
Biggest WNY Tea Party Yet
Join your fellow Patriots in over 1300 cities!
July 4th—Noon to 1pm
Niagara Square Downtown Buffalo
Speakers:
Len Roberto
Rus Thompson
Jim Ostrowski
You will hear specific ideas on how to turn America and New York State around.
Sponsored by:
Buffalonyteaparty.wordpress.com
PrimaryChallenge.org
TeaNewYork.com
PoliticalClassDismissed.com
For more information, write to [...]
Everyone is promising reform of New York State government but few are doing anything real about it.
There are many proposals for faux reform. These are actually harmful to reform since they crowd out proposals that could actually get NY out of its downward spiral to oblivion.
New York’s problem is that [...]
Free NY’s roll-out of its ten point plan for real reform was a grand slam: all four TV news stations and the four main local radio stations covered the event: TW, 2, 4, 7, WBEN, WNED, WBFO and WECK. I called into WECK on the way down while Dave DiPietro [...]
News from Free New York, Inc.
Contact:
Jim Ostrowski
Free New York, Inc.
(716) 435-8918
jameso@apollo3.com
http://freenewyork.org
This release online at: http://blog.freeny.org/?p=3881
Free New York will hold a press conference on Thursday, June 18th, at noon in Niagara Square in downtown Buffalo, to release a ten point plan for real reform [...]
DRAFT FOR COMMENTS
Everyone is promising reform of New York State government but few are doing anything real about it.
There are many proposals for faux reform. These are actually harmful to reform since they crowd out proposals that could actually get NY out of its downward spiral to oblivion.
New York’s problem [...]
On May 9th Rus Thompson and Carl Paladino will be holding a Tax Protest/Revolt in Niagara Square at 2 PM. It will focus on the insanity of Albany policies, politics, and the ever increasing taxes, fees, dysfunction and downstate influence on all our representatives. We will also be announcing a [...]
I wrote this about 20 years ago for a project called Citizens Against Prohibition (CAP). CAP never got launched for a variety of reasons including fierce opposition from turf-fighting liberals who fought us harder than they ever fought the drug war. (They assured us their own group against the drug [...]
The Populist Roundtable, an informal breakfast club which conspires to defeat the political machine, will meet this Saturday at 8-10am in Amherst NY.
This is for serious activists only, people who want to go the extra mile.
Seating is limited. Please send me an email at jameso@apollo3.com if you wish to attend.
[...]We are a bit shorthanded on the Free NY blog since most of our team is over at PoliticalClassDismissed.com.
If you have writing talent and are in general agreement with the Free New York plan, send us an email.
jameso@apollo3.com
[...]By Ilana Mercer
Posted: April 17, 2009
1:00 am Eastern
© 2009
Today I offer an interview with James Ostrowski, libertarian extraordinaire, lawyer, writer and tea party organizer. Mr. Ostrowski is the founder of Free Buffalo (2005) and author of the tea party manifesto, “How We Can [...]
How We Can Win the Second American Revolution Without Firing a Shot
A Tea Party Manifesto
By James Ostrowski
April 15, 2009
Ladies and Gentlemen.
I have news for you. Barack Obama is not the problem with America. He is merely the symptom. When big government failed, the people, not knowing what went wrong, went [...]
Free New York Freedom Brigade
4:45pm Broadway Market, Buffalo.
We’ll be marching by the building my great-grandfather John Ostrowski built at Sienkiewicz and Fillmore.
Wear red and white and bring some candy to hand out to the kiddies.
My cell is 435-8918.
[...]It’s great.
Despite what the lying left says, it’s mostly ordinary citizens acting spontaneously. The old hacks aren’t even invited or welcome to most events.
It’s not anti-Obama but anti-Big Government and that includes Bush and the Republican Congress when they had the majority. Naturally, as soon as they lost power, they [...]
Free NY and the WNY Tea Party will march in the Dyngus Day Parade on Monday at 5pm on the Buffalo East Side.
Join us and wear red and white.
Of course, the Poles have been in the thick of the fight for Western Liberty for 500 years.
[...]
Please join us at the Western New York Tea Party on April 18th at Club W, 199 Delaware Ave., in downtown Buffalo. 1-5pm.
Please pass this link around.
http://www.politicalclassdismissed.com/teaparty
This event is co-sponsored by Free New York, Inc., BuffaloLiberty.com and PoliticalClassDismissed.com. The coordinator for the event is Jill Sinclair.
The tentative schedule is [...]
Excerpt from my speech at the April 18th Tea Party in Buffalo.
What is a republic? There’s much confusion about this. We must get this right. John Adams once complained that he “never understood” what the guarantee of republican government meant “and I believe no man ever did or will.” [...]
Rus Thompson and Ellie Corcoran are sponsoring a tea party rally this Saturday in Downtown Buffalo to protest big government in New York State.
Free New York and PoliticalClassDismissed.com support this effort and urge you to attend.
Here’s their note:
Hi Everyone
The Tea Party/Tax Revolt will be Sat, March 28, at 2:00 at [...]
At the WNY Tea Party on April 18th in Buffalo, we will roll out a plan that will give the political class butterflies in their stomachs.
Critical to that plan is this symbol, the symbol of the old republic.
Restore the Republic!
[...]Here’s a series of posts I did today on that subject:
My goal is to give each person who comes a set of specific ideas, tasks or proposals to take with them and put into action in the following weeks.
This is just a start. [...]
The imminent collapse of the nation has woken people up.
Several tax revolt or tea party rallies have been planned in Western New York and hundreds more are planned around the country.
Rus Thompson has announced a rally for March 28th at 2pm on the Buffalo Waterfront, focusing on NY State [...]
The Buffalo branch of the great nationwide tea party will be tomorrow, Friday, at noon at Lafayette Square in downtown Buffalo.
The event is co-sponsored by Jill Malzer-Sinclair, President of a local insurance agency. and Free New York. Jill is the coordinator for the event and can be reached [...]
The first meeting of the Populist Roundtable will be in Buffalo this Saturday, 8:30-10:30am, at Plaka’s Rest., 2940 Delaware Ave., Kenmore, NY.
There is a need for an informal group to discuss how to organize the working class against the political class.
I think we made a mistake by relying too [...]
This blog is on standby while the gang and some newbies get a hardcore libertarian blog going at PoliticalClassDismissed.com.
We will be back later this year.
PCD has the advantage of being a for-profit business so we can do politics and lobbying which we cannot do here.
Buffalopundit tries on his blog today to convince his readers that Obama is Trying to Prevent a Depression. His only defense though is by the way of perpetuating the Big Lies of the current administration, (some of the same old big lies of the [...]
Is Erie County Executive Chris Collins (R) a Keynesian New Dealer? Suppose so, he wants a big federal bailout a.k.a stimulus package…for local governments! At the heart of it is a scheme to tax people everywhere in the U.S.and plunder the yet unborn to prop up bloated Erie County governments, [...]
Laura Pedersen is a friend of the family. My mother loves the book. Lots of laughs and an overview of recent Buffalo history and culture.
Review
“…[Pedersen's] wicked, sarcastic, dry, self-deprecating sense of humor won me over and I absolutely loved it start to finish.” –Printed Page, October 8, 2008
Product [...]
That’s the title of a fascinating thread at Political Class Dismissed.
Check it out. It’s why the internet is so great.
Buffalo in the dark ages on birth alternatives
[...]Because of egos, politics and ideological disputes, it’s virtually impossible to organize the forces of change in WNY into one broad-based group such as Free New York. There are also legal issues as Free NY is restricted in its lobbying activities and can not engage in any partisan electioneering.
So perhaps [...]
I created a new blog out of my old personal blog. the old site was blog.jimostrowski.com.
The new link is PoliticalClassDismissed.com.
Check it out.
[...]Free NY, in conjunction with the Stop the Pork Lawsuit, has drafted proposed state and federal constitutional amendments to ban all forms of corporate welfare. These are just rough drafts at this point. Comments welcome.
Proposed federal amendment
1. Neither the federal government nor any of its agencies shall, directly or [...]
It’s time to start the move toward two New Yorks.
Upstate is a colony of Downstate. All of Upstate (except tax-subsidized Albany) is economically depressed because we are stuck in this peoples’ republic created by the New York City liberals. NYC’s status as a global capital allows it to thrive even [...]
“This is how government causes economic Depressions; in the late 1920s and 1930s government did the same thing attempting to deal with a recession and created The Great Depression, and this time, attempting to prevent the excesses of the 1990s Tech Mess from being worked off through recession, it has [...]
Yesterday, 14 citizens left from Buffalo to travel to Albany in support of the lawsuit to ban corporate welfare. Channels 2 and 4 covered the beginning of the Tax Revolt Convoy.
We were met by several other supporters for a rally on Capitol steps at noon. Local TV, Capital Outsider and [...]
Please join us tomorrow (Wed. the 3rd) for the Rally Against the Gas Tax and Corporate Welfare at noon on the Capitol steps in Albany.
Oral argument of the Mother of All Taxpayer Lawsuits follows at 1:30pm at 16 Eagle St. (Justice Lynch).
A Tax Revolt Convoy leaves from Buffalo at 6am [...]
Greetings all:
Those who favor smaller government in NY have been frustrated at the lack of progress in recent years even after many of us have devoted much time and effort promoting change. Many have called for more direct, confrontational and immediate action to shrink state government.
I heard those calls and [...]
For 35 years, people laughed and jeered but now their regime is falling apart and deep within the recesses of their minds, they think, I wonder if those guys were right all along.
Come on people, say it out loud!
You guys were right–sign me up.
From Political Class Dismissed
[...]CALENDAR
Nov. 25, 7-9pm–Fundraiser–Brennan’s, Main and Transit, Clarence, NY $25 (wine, beer, pizza, salad).
Dec. 3
6am–tax revolt convoy leaves from the Park & Ride at Thruway Exit 49 in Depew at Transit Rd.
noon–rally on the Capitol steps
1:30pm–oral argument, State Supreme Court, Justice Thomas Lynch, 16 Eagle St (across from Capitol)
[...]For immediate release:
Contact:
James Ostrowski, Atty.
(716) 435-8918
jameso@apollo3.com
[blog.jimostrowski.com]
Three Men in a Courtroom
December 3rd Albany
Buffalo, New York, November 24, 2008. Many people talk about doing something to cut taxes in New York. Fifty brave New Yorkers actually did something about it. They hired a lawyer and sued [...]
This morning I heard about a new website called wnyprogressnow.com
Apparently, it is sponsored by the Buffalo Niagara Association of Realtors and their agenda includes opposition to property tax increases.
Free NY has been fighting that fight for three years now and we welcome any allies we can get.
What you have [...]
From Political Class Dismissed
I have said many times that the true villain in the decline of Buffalo (also taking down America more slowly but at an accelerating rate) is economic liberalism.
Let me give a short and useful definition.
Once you get beyond those functions that all but libertarians and anarchocapitalists [...]
At 6am on December 3rd, a tax revolt convoy will leave from Buffalo and travel to Albany for a rally on the Capitol steps to urge an end to corporate welfare and outright repeal of the state gas tax of 32.4 cents per gallon.
At 1:30pm in Albany court across the [...]
For immediate release:
Contact:
James Ostrowski, Atty.
(716) 435-8918
jameso@apollo3.com
[blog.jimostrowski.com]
The Three Men in a Courtroom
December 3rd Albany
Buffalo, New York, November 18, 2008. Many people talk about doing something to cut taxes in New York. Fifty brave New Yorkers actually did something about it. They hired a lawyer and [...]
Everyone talks about Three Men in a Room.
Finally, somebody did something about them.
On December 3rd in Albany, fifty citizens will ask a judge to order the “The Three Men in a Room” to stop spending our money illegally.
Join us to watch justice in action and for a little pep rally [...]
Does this economic ignoramus (Harvard man) have the slightest idea what he is talking about?
By Sarah Scrafford
While we at WebPreneur typically try to steer clear of politics, it is clear that issues such as net neutrality and controlling the size and scope of government are of increasing importance to web entrepreneurs. Thus a growing number of web entrepreneurs are [...]
RIP Marshall Fritz, the founder of the Alliance for the Separation of School & State, an organization whose efforts I have supported.
Prior to his work in K-12 education, Marshall was the founder of the Advocates for Self-Government, an educational organization that teaches Americans who ardently [...]
Disappointed about the outcome of yesterdays election? Look no further for the cause.
I present this here because this kind of discourse is prohibited from the political class.
The Socialism of Public Schooling
by Jacob G. Hornberger, November 5, 2008
While the nation is on the subject of socialism, we really ought [...]
A bunch of Free NY bloggers will be over at Political Class Dismissed live-blogging the election tonight and I will be in the Channel 4 studio. Check it out.
Since Free NY is nonpartisan, we created a separate site where we could really say it!
Save the date.
There will be a people’s rally against corporate welfare on December 3rd on the Capitol steps in Albany, New York, at noon.
Oral argument of the Mother of All Taxpayer Lawsuits will be at 1:30pm at the Albany County Courthouse across the street on Eagle St., next to [...]
What that author fails to understand is that the mixed economy is unstable and always tends toward more socialism. That’s why government gets bigger even under Republican presidents.
Liberalism or socialism seem to work for a few decades because it is eating the capital built up by capitalism. Then, crises [...]
Okay, the following words are being bantered across the country - socialism and communism - and it is apparent that many people cannot distinguish their meanings. I’m putting this out there in hopes that it works through the blogosphere to help people make better informed decisions and have some idea [...]
Donn Esmonde: DiPietro glad he’s out of politics
by Donn Esmonde
Dave DiPietro feels he is better off without politics. I can hardly blame him.
DiPietro, dark-haired and plain-spoken, made the mistake of taking on Albany institution Dale Volker in the recent Republican primary for State Senate.
The former East Aurora mayor knew [...]
Police Say Volunteer Lied About Attack
By JOE MANDAK
,
AP
posted: 41 MINUTES AGO
PITTSBURGH (Oct. 24) - A McCain campaign volunteer made up a story of being robbed, pinned to the ground and having the letter “B” scratched on her face in a politically inspired attack, police said Friday.
[...]
Higgins and Humiston present marked contrasts in House race
Humiston faces uphill battle to unseat incumbent
By Robert J. McCarthy
Voters couldn’t ask for a more distinct matchup this year in their congressional choice between Republican Daniel J. Humiston and Democratic incumbent Brian Higgins.
Humiston stems from the business world, emulates businessmen like [...]
Obama wants to get some of America’s forces out of Iraq a little sooner, and in fact has been boasting that Bush now favors essentially the same timetable for withdrawal – in effect saying he and Bush are on the same page. Four years ago, Obama [...]
News from Free New York:
Erie County Executive Chris Collins promised to run government like a business.
We issued a study that said that was impossible, that, at best, “running government like a business” was a misleading metaphor. We even suggested that a government that ran like a business would try to [...]
Every four years, I go nuts analyzing the election. In 2000, without a blog, my view was that Bush would win. He did, despite the DWI Thursday surprise.
Four years ago, I made my call three weeks before the election. Got 48 states right. Missed Ohio and I think New [...]
As I was walking home from work last night after driving a renowned liberal icon to the presidential debate sight yesterday, I came across an acorn tree. Nearby were hundreds of acorns. I stopped and decided to pick one up and took it home and put it on my desk [...]
In a moment of candor McCain stops calling us “my fellow Americans”.
The rest of it is just the usual McBama political prattle. Since both McCain and Obama have not proposed any meaningful specific spending cuts, how could either expect to balance the budget? Has either proposed eliminating any government [...]
Feel free to comment.
Well, as I’ve said before, neither candidate has a clue on economics.
McCain wants to stabalize home values–So did Hoover!
The problem is they are overpriced! They need to fall. Neither gets it.
Obama wants to cut taxes but he has proposed hundreds of billions in new spending. He’s full [...]
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The Future of Freedom Foundation:
Make no mistake about it: This bailout plan is nothing more than a way to get Wall Street friends and cronies off the hook for bad investment decisions they made. That’s it, pure and simple. And it’s all dressed up in “crisis” garb to [...]
I think most of us agree the bailout plan is a bad, bad, bad idea, that is far worse than doing nothing. The problem with doing nothing is that it doesn’t address the politicians desire to “do something”, nor does it address the desire of many voters who have been [...]
The “S” word is being bandied about regularly these days, mostly in the direction of Obama and his soak the rich income tax plans. Sarah Palin was asked in an interview with CNN’s Drew Peterson, “Is Barack Obama a socialist?” She wasn’t willing to go there, but [...]
I’ll be on Antiwar.com radio at noon tomorrow promoting High Noon Thursday.
Chris Rock, Samuel Jackson, Morgan Freeman, Halle Berry, Laurence Fishburne, Charles Barkley, Eddie Murphy, Stevie Wonder, Will Smith, Oprah Winfrey and Colin Powell?
They would never EVER base their endorsement of a candidate on the color of his skin. And don’t you even insinuate that they would … otherwise BHO might [...]
After WWII, President Harry S. Truman consulted a group of politicians for advice on how to get public support for his gargantuan foreign aid proposals and the permanent stationing of U.S. troops throughout the globe (what we now know as the Truman Doctrine). A Republican supporter, Senator [...]
Seriously, our national government is enough of a headache. To all the aspiring global government wannabees, our domestic rulers have harmed us quite enough. Please stay out of this and leave us alone. We need more decentralization at home, not centralization abroad. Socialists never miss a trick, do they?
Tom Toles is an economic ignoramus or a government tool. Like much of the establishment media and the political class, he blames the financial crisis on not enough government intervention. The 3rd grade explanation for the crisis goes like this. “Greedy businessmen made unfair loans to the helpless little [...]
We were told less than six weeks ago by the Congressional Budget Office that the taxpayers may have to spend up to $25 billion dollars bailing out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Secretary Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke assured us that beyond that, all was well. [...]
News from Free New York:
I once met with a prominent Buffalo banker about Free New York and he said, “We don’t need a think tank.”
I expected no support from this man so I just laughed to myself.
Fifty straight years of decline and you don’t think there’s something wrong with the [...]
What do I think? I’m sending it out to all 13,000 people in my address book.
What the hell, it’s worth a try!
–Martha
Over at Political Class Dismissed, I did a detailed analysis of the debate and found that McCain won four questions, Obama, one, with four ties.
More over there.
Again, I’m looking for news authors over there.
This whole crisis has really been Robert Higgs time to shine with one great article after another. Here’s his latest on all the fear-mongering that the government is doing in order to gain more control.
Although certain financial institutions are undeniably in deep trouble—difficulties of their own making, we might add—the [...]
Can someone write a letter to the editor on this? I’m swamped.
Depression didn’t leap out of nothingness
Anthony M. Graziano, of Buffalo, sees eerie parallels between today’s economy and that of the 1930s.
In the 1930s, a roiling dark cloud called “The Depression” hung always in our background, staining our thoughts [...]
We are now officially chin deep in the Era of the Loser. If you are a loser, your government officials want you. Losers can be helped and make the politicians look good in the process. Can’t pay your mortgage? that’s ok. Company running in the red? Don’t worry about it. [...]
The plutocrats are trying to push their legalized heist through by Friday but they are losing momentum as people learn how stupid and evil this bailout is.
I think we need a bold stroke. Under normal circumstances, contacting your congressman is an utter waste of time. I think this time it’s [...]
Bastiat showed us the way to recognize legalized plunder:
“See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen [...]
Barack wins Presidency & Immediately Implements McCain’s Platform
Barack will (just as McCain would):
Ignore Constitutional restraints on the Executive
Expand NATO up to Russia’s disputed borders and extend a war guarantee to Georgia
Do EVERYTHING IN HIS POWER to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons
Station missiles in Poland
Occupy Iraq [...]
Can the Rescue Plan Fix the US Economy?
Daily Article by Frank Shostak | Posted on 9/22/2008
Given last week’s dramatic events — the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the end of Merrill Lynch’s independence, and an $85 billion US-government bailout of insurer AIG — most financial institutions are likely [...]
Wow …. it never amazes me how quickly the mainstream media jumps up to defend whatever action the government is taking. Not only do they not question the government on its numerous unconstitutional, illegal and immoral actions, but they defend them wholehartedly. Check out this article from CNNmoney.com:
So once the [...]
