Sep 10, 2010
To burn, or not to burn? That is the question crackpot Terry Jones the pastor of a fringe Florida church all but unknown until a week ago was mulling late yesterday after receiving an unprecedented personal phone call from Defense Secretary...
Sep 9, 2010
Al Sharpton's National Action Net work is in such fiscal disarray that an internal audit just five months ago concluded that its very continued existence is in 'substantial doubt,' as The Post reported this week. But Sharpton isn't worried about
Sep 9, 2010
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has finally bro ken his silence about the $100 million mosque he wants to build in the shadow of Ground Zero. But his op-ed article in The New York Times didn't clear up much. Rauf says that Cordoba House as it appare...
Sep 7, 2010
Got a public pension you'd like to fat ten up at taxpayer expense? Too bad you missed state Comp troller Tom DiNapoli's handy guide to pension-padding which he had proudly posted on his Web site until he was embarrassed into taking it down
Sep 7, 2010
The Post today enthusiastically en dorses educator and public-education reformer Basil Smikle for the Democratic nomination in the state Senate's 30th District (Harlem, Upper West Side and Washington Heights). Smikle's campaign is a respons...
Sep 7, 2010
Got a public pension you'd like to fat ten up at taxpayer expense? Too bad you missed state Comp troller Tom DiNapoli's handy guide to pension-padding which he had proudly posted on his Web site until he was embarrassed into taking it down l...
Sep 7, 2010
The Post today enthusiastically en dorses educator and public-educa tion reformer Basil Smikle for the Democratic nomination in the state Senate's 30th District (Harlem, Upper West Side and Washington Heights). Smikle's campaign is a respon...
Sep 6, 2010
Today New Yorkers, like all Ameri cans, are observing Labor Day and many have the day off. Great. No doubt, they earned it. But the holiday once meant to extol an honorable movement, affirm worker solidarity and celebrate gains won throu...
Sep 5, 2010
So much for the rule of law. State and federal judges have once more blocked New York from taxing cigarettes sold by Indian tribes, extending the endless hiatus that has cost the state billions. Last Tuesday, a circuit court judge issued a temporary...
Sep 5, 2010
When given the chance this election season, Republican voters are tossing out hidebound incumbents and ushering in new blood, sending a signal to the GOP establishment that the flip-flopping and rampant spending of the latter Bush years won’t be tole...
Sep 5, 2010
So much for the rule of law. State and federal judges have once more blocked New York from taxing cigarettes sold by Indian tribes, extending the endless hiatus that has cost the state billions. Last Tuesday, a circuit court judge issued a temporary...
Sep 4, 2010
Every once in a while, a politician makes the unforgivable error of say ing exactly what he's thinking. Cue Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, a critic of Glenn Beck's recent rally on the Washington Mall. Should Beck have been permitted to lead...
Sep 4, 2010
A word of advice next time you go for a ramble in Central Park: Don't forget to look up. As The Post reported Sunday, the park's private caretakers frequently ignore their own computerized watch list of ailing trees in desperate need of maintenan...
Sep 4, 2010
What's worse: The crime, or the cov erup? Well, in the case of the scandal ous dumbing down of education-performance standards in New York, and state Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer's efforts to sweep the appalling mess under a rug, we'd say they're both p...
Sep 3, 2010
What's in the water in Queens? Rep. Joseph Crowley chairman of the borough's Democratic Party finds himself the target of an ethics probe. The Office of Congressional Ethics an outside, independent body of former members of Congress
Sep 2, 2010
A bunch of City Council lefties recently had a brainstorm: Let's form a club, they decided and stick the taxpayers with the bill. And so they did. Meet the council's brand-spanking-new 12-member Progressive Caucus which Speaker Christine...
Sep 2, 2010
Yet another round of Mideast talks kicks off in Washington today, as Is raeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Israel might cede part of Jerusalem to get a deal and Palestinian gunmen butchered four Jews, and wounded two more, in the West Bank.
Sep 2, 2010
Mayor Bloomberg advises The New York Times: 'The government should not be in the business of telling people what to do.' To which we say: Ha ha ha haha ha ha! Thanks, Mike. That was a good one. Previous mayoral pronouncements on the proper rol...
Sep 2, 2010
A bunch of City Council lefties recently had a brainstorm: Let's form a club, they decided and stick the taxpayers with the bill. And so they did. Meet the council's brand-spanking-new 12-member Progressive Caucus which Speaker Christine...
Sep 2, 2010
Mayor Bloomberg advises The New York Times: 'The government should not be in the business of telling people what to do.' To which we say: Ha ha ha haha ha ha! Thanks, Mike. That was a good one. Previous mayoral pronouncements on the proper rol...
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