Category Archives: New York

GOP mega-donors look toward 2012

POLITICO By MAGGIE HABERMAN & KENNETH P. VOGEL  As the 2010 campaign draws to its raucous close, the Republican Party’s biggest donors are slowly beginning to choose sides, with some still looking for a strong alternative to a populist conservative movement that makes them uneasy. The big New York, Texas, California and Florida donors who [...]

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Political Cartoons: Michael Ramirez

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No Mosque at Ground Zero

This YouTube video makes some interesting and important points about the push to construct a mega-mosque a few blocks from where Jihadists murdered almost 3,000 innocent Americans.       Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Tell a friend

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Bloomberg: So Hard to Say The M Word

I’m sorry Mayor, the correct answer was Muslim Bomber watch video at dailycaller.com Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Tell a friend

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New York’s finest deserve praise for stopping Times Square car bomb

By: Michael Daly Last fall’s subway bombing plot was stopped by some sharp and hard-working federal agents and counter-terrorism cops. Saturday night, our saviors were a mounted cop and two rookies. Most nights, tourists and theatergoers might have asked the foot cops for directions or posed for pictures with the cop on the horse. That [...]

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No one marching for the banks

Two days before President Barack Obama called on Wall Street titans to ask their lobbyists to stand down in the fight over financial regulation reforms, JP Morgan mobilized its entire New York workforce to join the battle. On Tuesday, it dispatched an e-mail on the reform package the Senate is considering to 30,000 employees, noting [...]

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Financial District workers can’t bear to watch President Obama take Wall Street to task

BY:  Matthew Lysiak, Kate Nocera and Christina Boyle Wall Street worker Steven Cohen didn’t waste his time listening to Obama‘s speech to the financial industry Thursday. He knew exactly what message the President was going to deliver, and thinks it’s all wrong. “Why would I watch his speech?” the 54-year-old real estate professional said. “The man is [...]

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Labor plans march on Wall Street

AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka says more than 10,000 union supporters will “march on Wall Street” on April 29 in support of a financial-transactions tax and higher taxes on private-equity and hedge funds. The march coincides with Senate action on financial regulatory reform, an Obama administration priority for the spring. Workers will flood subways and [...]

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Second Poll: Lazio Crushing Levy

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy trails former Rep. Rick Lazio in the Republican primary for governor of New York in the second poll of the race released this week. Levy is behind Lazio by 36 points – 28 percent to 64 percent – according to a Marist poll unveiled Friday. Earlier this week, a Siena [...]

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ACORN’s New Shell

The Democrats’ money-and-muscle operation is rebranding, not disbanding. By: Kevin Williamson ACORN is not dissolving. But some of its local affiliates, in an effort to suggest they’re cutting ties with the organization, are giving themselves new names. The reason is money: ACORN cites a string of “vicious right-wing attacks” — and here I doff the [...]

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