Now it can be told.
Last year, I used my Election Day vacation in an effort to help make Malcolm Smith the State Senate Majority Leader;
Having seen how that worked out, this year I used my day off to take care of my sick son Dybbuk and his new [...]
Uh oh! For some unknown reason, Bank of New York Mellon, which had electronically deposited $185 million in pension funds into retired NYC teachers' and staffers' accounts a few days ago, decided to withdraw the money yesterday, causing—besides overdrafts— worries, chaos, and outrage. A 70-year-old [...]
Today, the USS New York, which was partly made from World Trade Center steel, will be officially commissioned as a naval warship today and besides the military flyover, there's also going to be a cannon firing repeatedly: "During the Commissioning of the USS" [...]
On Thursday, a 20-pound engine tail cone fell from a Boeing 777 plane headed from JFK Airport to Tokyo and onto the front yard of Michelle Russell in Roosevelt, Long Island. The Delta crew only realized the four-foot piece of metal was missing after it [...]
The nation watched in horror at the toll of dead and injured from the evil carnage at Fort Hood. Yet President Obama seemed insensitive about it. In his comments on the incident it was like he was reading a traffic report on the beltway. Even worse it was not even [...]
Tom Tancredo is one of the most detestable xenophobes ever to have darkened the halls of congress. Lou Dobbs has got nothing on this guy. It’s also quite ironic, given the fact that Tancredo’s last name ends in a vowel.
The other day, Daily Kos’ Markos Moulitsas was debating Tancredo [...]
