Is there anyone tougher or more New-York authentic than former Mayor Ed Koch? Here Koch lambastes fellow Democrat Assemblyman David Weprin in a recorded telephone call for engineering a scare campaign targeting Queens and Brooklyn senior citizens. Weprin, a creer politician, is running in a special election for congress next month. Koch crossed party lines to support Republican businessman Bob Turner in the race. (Disclosure: I’m […]
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The $50,000-a-Week Vacation
President Obama has every right to a vacation, and he hasn’t been shy about taking them. So Nile Gardiner in The London Telegraph today poses the better question than “should he or shouldn’t he?” Gardiner asks, “Is this an act of presidential Hara Kiri?” And, indeed, it looks like it is. President Obama, who once showed […]
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I never thought I’d one day be rooting for Georgetown in a basketball game, but count me as a fan today. A Chinese professional team attacked the college players in what was supposed to be a “friendship” exhibition game in Beijing. They’re lucky Patrick Hewing is retired. I am surprised and delighted that the Chinese would be so undisciplined. A Soviet […]
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I remember scribbling in the early days of this site that its exercise would include chronicling “inanities of the day.” With this story, I’m sorry to say, we have stayed on mission. NASA scientists, it was reported today, along with Penn State University scientists, have spent time and money developing the following scenario as an […]
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Is anyone bothered by the word “folks” as much as I am? I feel a sting every time I hear it spoken, whether by my namesake Bill O’Reilly on Fox News or by President Obama who uses it ten or eleven times in every sentence: “I know folks are frustrated out there, but listen folks, […]
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http://youtu.be/W6YRu2RQOa4 I’ll give anyone who does not laugh, or at least smile, watching this video a dollar. Any English-speaking person that is. I made it to the 3:00-minute mark.
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The White House is continuing to deny that Vice President Joe Biden used the word “terrorist” to describe American Tea Party members. The story was broken by Politico, as professional a political news outfit as one can find anywhere, which had it from three separate sources who had been in the room with Biden that, […]
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The perpetually campaigning President Obama.
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http://youtu.be/pChzOaIeyxY Ron Paul’s new ad just has to make you smile. I laughed out loud at its…audacity. Taking a page out of the Obama Book, Paul and his team half-facetiously declare him “The One.” Paul may never become President of the United States, but he is representing his libertarian principals nobly. Paul may get — and deserve — […]
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A friend just sent over this video shot in Honolulu, HI on August 14, 1945, forever known in this country as VJ Day, or Victory Over Japan Day. It was discovered recently by the daughter of the soldier who filmed it. It is vibrant color footage, which is rare for the era, and it includes street sounds, another […]
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