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I commented in mid-2006 about motorcycles in the HOV lane in the context of the state of Virginia ignoring federal highway transportation law. Now here we have New York City defies federal law even after the NYS DMV agreed with the motorcyclist and removed the violation from her record.

Nice example of the rule of law from the Bloomberg administration.

The New York Times has a cogent opinion piece by an airline pilot on Airport Security Follies. Think about it.

Whatever you think of Cindy Sheehan’s clumsy, personal brand of activism, read Glen Greenwald’s discussion of her arrest at the State of the Union speech.

Are you worried about civil rights yet?

Here are some numbers for New York City:

• According to the NYC Department of Planning and the U.S. Census, there are 8,168,338 people in the Big Apple.
• The 2000 U.S. Census demographics show that about 89% of those people were over age 18, which means that there should be roughly 7 million potential voters.
• The Board of Elections reported in March there were only 3,903,852 registered voters across the five boroughs.
• On Wednesday, 1.2 million people voted.

The next time you hear someone grousing about or praising the city government you can feel comfortable that the odds are better than 3-1 that they didn’t have anything to do with it.

Listen to the AM radio interview with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin.