By Jim Ostrowski The progressive left is blathering about a living wage. There are numerous fallacies at play here. Suffice it to say that, by and large, your wages are determined by the customers who buy the goods and services you help produce. If you work at a fast-food placeRead More
Jim Ostrowski; I’ve been driving through the City of Niagara Falls on business recently and am just wondering if anyone else has noticed that it’s a dying city? Maybe if you live there, you become used to it, but I don’t live there so I noticed some things thatRead More
By Jim Ostrowski; How did we get from Wardel Davis dying after a drug war-related altercation with the Buffalo Police to protesters shouting “black lives matter”? No one has come forward with evidence that Mr. Davis died because the police decided to kill him because they think that black livesRead More
By Jim Ostrowski; I have advocated a free market approach to transportation since 1989. In an article, published in Business First, I proposed allowing drivers of smaller vehicles to compete with buses and provide a better product including door-to-door service. After the digital age came along, companies like Uber beganRead More
Buffalo – Niagara, one of the last Uber holdouts in the progressive nation; By Jim Ostrowski; You might think that the Western New York political class is embarrassed about being one of the few places on earth to make Uber-driving a crime. You would be wrong. These folks have noRead More
By Jim Ostrowski On April 19, 2016, I wrote my first column for Artvoice and the Niagara Falls Reporter which was published two days later. It was about Donald Trump’s speech in Buffalo. At that time, Trump’s polling number against Hillary was 39.5%. In that column, I made my predictionRead More
By Jim Ostrowski Note: This is an excerpt from The Impeachment of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for High Crimes in Syria and Libya, by Michael Ostrowski and James Ostrowski (2016). What happened in Libya and Syria is simply a manifestation of a very dangerous mindset known as progressivism. ProgressivismRead More
By Jim Ostrowski This is an excerpt from the new book, The Impeachment of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for High Crimes in Syria and Libya, by Michael Ostrowski and James Ostrowski (2016). The American interventions into Libya and Syria happened in a troubled part of the world with numerous and seeminglyRead More
By Jim Ostrowski Once again, race riots plague America, this time in Charlotte, a relatively prosperous and quiet city in North Carolina. Not a good sign. What can I say that hasn’t already been said? Volumes. My main work as a writer at this point is to discover, analyze andRead More
By Jim Ostrowski In thinking about the issue of the relative health of Trump and Hillary, my thoughts naturally were drawn to the topic of sports. Long before I became a political junkie, I was a jock, playing every sport imaginable. A health problem cut that short when I wasRead More
By Jim Ostrowski; I refer to Mike Barnicle’s now-famous gotcha question of the clueless alleged libertarian candidate Gary Johnson on Morning Joe the other day: “what are you going to do about Aleppo [Syria]” To cut to the chase, I could just as well ask Mr. Barnicle what he’s goingRead More
BY JIM OSTROWSKI For years, I have advised GOP candidates, to seek the votes of African Americans by campaigning in blighted urban minority neighborhoods. While no one took me up on the suggestion, coincidentally, a few days after I chided Donald Trump in various published articles for turning down invitationRead More
BY JIM OSTROWSKI The latest attack on Donald Trump from Pravda (the mainstream media) is that we can’t trust him with the nuclear codes. Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw nukes. Hillary helped start illegal wars in Libya and Syria, resulting in murder and mayhem in those countriesRead More
By Jim Ostrowski My election predictions are not primarily based on the polls. When I picked John Kerry to win the Democratic nomination in 2004, he was I think fourth in the polls and had mortgaged his house. When I picked Trump as a possible nominee in early JulyRead More
By Jim Ostrowski “War is the health of the state,” said Randolph Bourne. “War is hell,” said General Sherman. The war criminal Sherman was an expert in the subjects of hell and war. When I was twelve, I attended my brother Mike’s graduation from St. Joe’s. The year was 1970Read More
Jim Ostrowski We live in perilous times. We do not know what is going to happen on any given day. I am pretty good at predicting the future. After all, before Ferguson, I predicted the rise of civil unrest in America due to racial tensions. See, Progressivism, pages 17-18. Alas,Read More
By Jim Ostrowski Buffalo SUDDENLY is all a twitter about judicial corruption. I have been yelling, screaming, kicking, and litigating about judicial corruption of various kinds since 1977! Where have all of you concerned citizens been? I will answer that myself. AWOL. You reap what you sew. I am notRead More
By Jim Ostrowsk There’s an old saying in libertarian circles: the GOP is the stupid party. The release of the House Committee report on Benghazi this week is the latest evidence in favor of this thesis. Since terrorists attacked a diplomatic compound and a CIA annex on September 11, 2012, RepublicansRead More
By Jim Ostrowski I could write a book about the Orlando shooting, its antecedents and its exploitation by the Progressive State of America. Alas, that won’t be necessary. If you understand two key concepts, you can unravel the whole puzzle very quickly. If you don’t understand them, you will be quicklyRead More
by Jim Ostrowski The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said last week that the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms means that there is no right to bear arms in public, a comforting thought for mass shooters in gun-free zones. The vote was 7-4. I wondered if I could guessRead More
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