Politics

Well, the moral degradation of this once-great country shows no signs of slowing down. One day, people suddenly start insisting on “warrants” before letting federal agents into their homes, and the next an entire state may allow dancing without a license. Appalling.

As you know, dancing surged in New York City a few years ago when that Sodom and/or Gomorrah repealed a 1926 law making it illegal to operate any “public dance hall” or “cabaret” without a license. Not that those libertines waited until the repeal actually took effect. See “Stop That Dancing! Unlicensed Cabarets Are Still Illegal in New York” (Nov. 6, 2017). Well, predictably, now everybody in the state wants the same sort of freedom. This is what leniency breeds. See, e.g., ABC News, “Lawyers allege DHS is denying legal counsel to Minnesota detainees” (Jan. 18, 2026) (quoting attorney who claimed an ICE agent told him “if we let you see your clients, we would have to let all the attorneys see their clients, and imagine the chaos.”).

Still, New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul, who is up for reelection this year, openly pandered to the pro-dance lobby in her recent “State of the State” address. Among the pie-in-the-sky proposals Hochul outlined was the repeal of a similar state-wide restriction, saying she supported “dancing by default.”