Tag Archives: Mayor Bloomberg

Water surges into lower Manhattan as superstorm Sandy blasts through

By Isolde Raftery, NBC News Updated at 12:34 a.m. Tuesday ET: Storm water flooded parts of lower Manhattan on Monday night, pouring into the Brooklyn-Battery and Queens Midtown tunnels, bursting into a subway station and even cascading into the construction site at Ground Zero. Follow @NBCNewsUS   The floodwater appeared to be receding around just [...]

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Dilettantes Run Rampant Over Shooting

When the 2010 Time Square Car Bombing failed, Mayor Bloomberg famously fingered the Tea Party, when the perpetrator turned out to be an Islamic Separatist, Bloomberg showed accusing in hast was the quickest route to a gaffe. As Bryon York at the Washington Examiner points out, When Maj. Nidal Hasan started firing and shouting ”Allahu Akbar!” at [...]

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Obama Wakes Up

By: Ralph Peters White House Turn On Terror Something big is happening. Big enough to alarm the White House. So big that the administration did an abrupt about-face regarding terrorism. Terrorism’s serious now — driving major policy reversals. The administration just won’t tell us why. A week ago, failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad wasn’t [...]

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Cash for Flunkers Fails

City Will Stop Paying the Poor for Good Behavior An unusual and much-heralded program that gave poor families cash to encourage good behavior and self-sufficiency has so far had only modest effects on their lives and economic situation, according to an analysis the Bloomberg administration released on Tuesday. The three-year-old pilot project, the first of [...]

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Told Ja!

Here is an excerpt from a recent blog article of mine and then an excerpt from NRO. Many conservatives are on the same page in opposing any terrorist trials on civilian courts and increasingly, so are many Democrats as they get an earful from the citizens whose lives will be endangered and disrupted by this [...]

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Obama faces dwindling options in his effort to close Guantanamo Bay

This story is a classic good news, bad news situation. The good news is that incompetent Presidents who make awful decisions can’t continue to govern against the wishes of the people indefinitely. The bad news is that incompetent Presidents continue to be incompetent and insist that we will try KSM in a civilian court…somewhere. They [...]

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