I have to admit, I never really understood Halloween. Oh, as a kid it was fun to dress up in costumes, and the candy... I understand all that. I just don't get the idea of having a day to celebrate scary things. Christmas,...
Note: Albany.com is not responsible for posts and comments written by non-staff members.
The Ultimate Veto
Ours is a government of checks and balances. The framers so designed it to be awkward, contentious and cumbersome. They did so to make it difficult for any one man or group to seize so much control that another bloody revolution...
F in Tyranny
Say what you will about American exceptionalism, one thing we don't do well is tyranny. There have been some fantastic tyrants throughout history, the pharaohs, the Caesars, some of the British monarchs, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung; but where...
Segway To Disaster
Politicians and pundits often suffer from the same vision problem; they find it difficult to see beyond the most recent polls. The ability to see past what people think, to what they will think when it begins to matter, is...