Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
This week, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg came face-to-face with a thoroughly frightening notion. What if the numbers do not work? What if the reality...
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
Last night the third installment of the Socialist Super Bowl Party was held in Crown Heights, Brooklyn and it, once again, lived up to its billing....
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The magic of the NYC subway system is dying. An important piece of it perished last week as in independent contractor mounted a ladder to make...
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Friday, January 29th, 2010
From the start, Barack Obama’s presidency has seemed like one big public relations campaign. His State of the Union address did little to...
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Albert Boutwell’s election as Birmingham, Alabama’s mayor in 1963 might have signaled the end of the modern civil rights movement. As a...
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Qualifying as an American hero has always been a slippery proposition. Slave owners such as Thomas Jefferson and George Washington are recognized for...
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A little yellow creature appeared at the Pelham Bay Park Public Library on Friday. This creature claimed that he was from the sun, but at least one...
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For years I never thought twice about the contents of the holiday dinner table. Turkeys, hams, and roasts were necessary parts of any holiday meal....
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Call it the nightmare before Christmas or Santa’s lump of healthcare coal. Either title captures the disastrous qualities of the healthcare...
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I went to the New Jersey Nets game last night. No, this is not some Roman Catholic ritual of confession--just an admission that I am both slightly...
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