This is just lovely. The new imam at the Ground Zero mosque and cultural center believes people who are gay were probably abused as children and that people who leave Islam and preach a new religion should be jailed. Abdallah … Continue reading
When President Barack Obama spotlighted a successful school in his State of the Union speech, he picked Bruce Randolph School in Denver. “Take a school like Bruce Randolph in Denver,” the president said. “Three years ago, it was rated one … Continue reading
What’s with the South and their guns? A middle-class enclave on the South Shore of the city’s southernmost borough is the gun capital of New York, with 509 residents — or about one in every 57 males — legally packing … Continue reading
Having made a decision to dine on fast food, additional information about the composition of its delights doesn’t seem to affect decisions about what to enjoy. That’s the takeaway message from a new but limited study drawn from Taco Time … Continue reading
First of all, let’s stop calling them “anchor babies.” Honestly, the term is ridiculously offensive. It’s obnoxious and shows no depth of thought. You can make the point without a pejorative. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, … Continue reading
Designers unveiled three ways to tame the cavernous Brooklyn–Queens Expressway trench on Monday night — but city officials are already expressing concern over how to pay for any scheme bold enough to “fix the ditch.” The three concepts are part … Continue reading
He’s the only one that knows what to do. Watch, listen, and learn. That, my friends, is a debt-reduction plan, not this “freezing of growth” crap we keep talking about. This is the solution. Anything less is crap.
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via tmz.com Zambia, Romania, Armenia, and Nicaragua are getting a whole round of Jets AFC Championship gear. It’ll go really nicely with their Patriots Superbowl Championship gear. Posted via Posterous
In a filing obtained exclusively by RadarOnline.com, Valerie Joyce Wilson Turks is seeking a restraining order against the star, real name Sean Combs, accusing him of a whole plethora of wrong doings. According to Turks, the 41-year-old, along with his … Continue reading
Some of you may remember that in 2005 I lost quite a lot of weight. 87 pounds, to be exact. It was a very good year for me. Somewhere around the middle of 2006, however, I stopped being careful and … Continue reading
The bottom line? The evidence shows that a racial double standard prevails in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. It dismissed the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party because of hostility to the idea … Continue reading
This might make you want to eat your MetroCard: If you ever suspected you were overpaying to ride some ratty-looking MTA bus, State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli says your gut was right. A new DiNapoli audit says despite agency spending of … Continue reading
The disadvantaged would-be entrepreneurs are hurt the most by the added expenses and red tape put in place by both Republicans and Democrats. Regulators in several states have tried to drive African-Americans out of the hair-braiding business because they didn’t … Continue reading
I didn’t bother with last night’s dog and pony show. In the weeks leading up to it, the biggest stories were which idiots were going to cross party lines and sit with other idiots in some crap show of fake … Continue reading
The “war on drugs” is the conservatives’ version of the progressives’ “war on poverty.” Neither war can be won. Both wars exacerbate the problem it tries to solve. Both wars create massive, monstrous and corrupt government agencies. Both wars have … Continue reading
This is how househunting feels to me.
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Getting… Sleepy…