more by Alan Bedenko

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No, Virginia. Preet isn't Indicting Cuomo on Jan 2
published on Dec. 3, 2015 6am
Beware of bad information.
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Silver Convicted: Now What?
published on Dec. 2, 2015 6am
Sheldon Silver’s conviction is important both substantive and symbolically. Now what?
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Valenti's: An End
published on Dec. 1, 2015 6am

Longtime readers may recall in that in late 2011 / early 2012, I had a habit of mocking Janice Okun’s Buffalo News restaurant reviews.
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Make America Great Again
published on Nov. 22, 2015 6am
Is any of this out of genuine security concerns, or is this all about politics?
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The Refugee Process: Bosnia Edition
published on Nov. 20, 2015 6am

I’ll have more to say later about this past week’s descent into anti-refugee, anti-immigrant hysteria - from what the Erie County Legislature did on Thursday to Donald Trump’s descent into registration of Muslims already in the country, echoing the Nazi precursor to the Shoah.
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American Daesh
published on Nov. 17, 2015 6am

Who said what? Can you tell which statements are from the Daesh claim of responsibility for last week’s Paris attacks, and which statements are from “Christian” pastor Steven Anderson? 
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Lessons in Empathy, Humanity, and Geography
published on Nov. 16, 2015 5am
Watch Monday as Lorigo’s colleagues in the majority caucus inevitably echo his clarion call; people with no say over the matter demanding that another guy with no say over the matter do something.
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The Safest Space is the First Amendment
published on Nov. 11, 2015 7am
I don’t know why another student with a camera reporting for the NY Times or ESPN renders your “space” “unsafe”, but what those people did to those reporters has absolutely nothing to do with “political correctness”.
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Patrick Kane Wins Again
published on Nov. 6, 2015 6am

Just a few convenient days after his election as Supreme Court Justice, outgoing District Attorney Frank Sedita issued an unusual statement explaining that his office was not going to prosecute Patrick Kane for alle
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#WNYVotes 2015
published on Nov. 4, 2015 6am

Mark Poloncarz cruised to an overwhelming victory last night, defeating Assemblyman Ray Walter 65% — 34%. As a karmic aside, Poloncarz accomplished what Chris Collins couldn’t — re-election to that post.

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