The radio is talking about blizzard-like conditions in some areas, with 60-70 MPH wind gusts. All the area schools are closed. Tractor trailers are blown over. You must be thinking that with such outrageous conditions that the Skyway is surely closed.
You would be wrong.

Good article from the New York Times on the broader concept of free trade.
I doubt there’s a human being on earth who hasn’t benefited from the opportunity to trade freely with his neighbors. Imagine what your life would be like if you had to grow your own food, make your own clothes and rely on [...]

Do you believe politicians when they say they’re making changes “for the children”? Think again.
Our children face a future of rising taxes, squeezed — and perhaps falling — public services, and aging — perhaps deteriorating — public infrastructure (roads, sewers, transit systems). Today’s young workers and children are about to be engulfed by a [...]

I need to find out what the cost is of an 8 hour ticket to do this:

I’ll even supply my own vehicle. I don’t think they have any rally edition Subarus in their rental shop.

Here’s a photo I took early this morning. I really wanted to go and take it from outside, but the the lone 8 on the thermometer discouraged me. Still not a bad photo.

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Oh please, please, please, Time Warner, follow in the footsteps of Comcast and start offering a Tivo. It’s nothing against your fabulous HD DVR (other than it’s lousy Atari 2600-esque interface, poorly designed remote, and the complete lack of features that make the Tivo great – like the ability to easily record only first [...]

For those of you who don’t venture down into ski country, this is what it looked like in my driveway just minutes ago:

The WRX transforms into a snow plow as necessary.

To my complete shock and utter disbelief, the driving habits of thousands of Western New Yorkers did not suddenly improve after my exposé of their faults. Perhaps they felt I was unfairly singling them out, that they had good reasons for driving in the left lane. Ok. Let’s be fair and review [...]

A few months ago, nobody would have expected the New York Times to evict him from their candidate tracker. He was the mayor of what city again?

BuffaloPundit recently dredged up the standard Ron Paul smear campaign, about some hate speech filled newsletters that had Ron Paul’s name on them years ago. Ron Paul addressed this directly, but there’s an early push to try and drive Paul out of the race, so some have drudged this up again. (Too soon, [...]