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"The Great Escape" was released in 1963. I'm sure that you all remember the great motorcycle scene starring the late Steve McQueen. Well, I hear that there is a new version of the movie coming out featuring Governor Kathy Hochul of New York. She won't be riding a bike over the fence but is clearly driving a lot of people out of the state. The Big Apple is getting lean and leaner. Check this out: New York’s population plunged more than any other state in the country over the past year, according to sobering new statistics – as fed-up lawmakers...

John Podhoretz watched tonight’s debate live and tweeted, “Jimmie McMillen about to go viral. Trust me.” And so he is, my friends, so he is.To give you a sense of how seriously New Yorkers take politics these days, here’s a quote from one of the other candidates on the dais this evening: Former madam Kristin Davis, the Anti-Prohibition Party candidate, called career politicians the “biggest whores” and declared she might be the only one on the stage “with the right experience to deal with them.” In discussing the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, she noted that “the key difference between the MTA...