Manhattan Contrarian

Recently (May 2026) I did an update on the “homelessness” situation in San Francisco.

Non-lawyer commenters at this site often express befuddlement at the doctrine in the federal courts known as “standing.”

During his campaign for office last fall, our new Mayor Zohran Mamdani promised to make groceries “affordable” for New Yorkers; but he provided few specifics.

A couple of weeks ago, law professor Jonathan Turley devoted one of his columns to this seeming anomaly — that the Left somehow gains from its own failures.

The real world — It’s full of complexities, ambiguities, unknowns, trade-offs, risks, and evils that we would prefer not to acknowledge.

The sad news today is that country music legend Dolly Parton has died.

A major theme of President Trump’s critics is that he is corrupt.

As you may have seen, August 13, 2026 would have been the 100th birthday of Fidel Castro.

Readers of my previous (August 13) post on the Endangerment Finding (EF) litigation pending in the D.C.

The Endangerment Finding (EF) is the completely absurd piece of regulatory overreach by which the Obama EPA in December 2009 purported to determine that the trace atmospheric gas carbon dioxide was a “danger to human health and welfare.”

If you have paid attention at all to New York’s idiotic new Mayor Zohran Mamdani, you probably know that one of his big promises is to open a chain of City-owned grocery stores.

I recognize that there could be many contenders for the title of the “Most Corrupt Program Ever Enacted.”

Here is a fundamental proposition to which I subscribe: The only thing worth being in life is an adult.

The news this past week has been filled by Rand Paul’s Senate hearings exposing the extent of the scientific fraud perpetrated by ex-NIAID Director Anthony Fauci in the matter of Covid-19.

Back in July 2024, I had a post titled “Big Tech On The Path To Net Zero.”

“Nixonmaxxing” — apparently this is a trendy new term in conservative circles.

In my own professional life, I was not a scientist, and therefore I never much paid attention to the kinds of rewards and honors that practicing scientists pass out to each other.

On February 13 this year, the federal EPA rescinded one of its regulatory actions known as the “Endangerment Finding.”

At least since New York passed its Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) back in 2019, it has been clear that trouble has been coming for New York’s electrical grid.

For a couple of years now, I have been collaborating with a small group of friends here in New York to see if we can introduce some rationality into the State’s completely insane energy plans.