The Department of Justice secretly obtained two months worth of telephone records of The Associated Press, the AP announced today, calling it a “‘massive and unprecedented intrusion’ into how news organizations gather the news.” Read More
Spoiler Alert: The Anti-Defamation League is portrayed in two scenes in the opening episodes of Netflix’s House of Cards.
Kevin Spacey’s majority whip character sabotages the president’s choice for secretary of state after he unearths an editorial criticizing the illegal occupation of Palestine in the college newspaper that was edited by the nominee. In the fictional depiction, the ADL calls the nominee an anti-Semite. Read More
After wondering what exactly was on Obama’s birth certificate, Trump sympathizer John Catsimatidis emailed me his reaction to this morning’s events:
I am Glad he released it and that Read More
Congressman Anthony Weiner finally likes what he’s seeing from the White House.
Weiner just issued a pre-emptive press release praising President Obama for going on the offensive against the Republican fiscal plan.
“Now it’s our turn,” Weiner said in the statement. “For months, we have heard the one-note attacks by the GOP on the middle Read More
Mayor Bloomberg isn’t done yet speaking yet, but already reactions are pouring in.
This is from living wage advocates who are pushing for an increase in the minimum wages required on projects that receive city subsidies.
Dan Morris, of the Living Wage Coalition, is out with a statement arguing that if the mayor really wanted Read More
Mayor Michael Bloomberg received a warm introduction from the Rev. Al Sharpton at the National Action Network’s annual Martin Luther King Day event, with the civil rights leader praising the mayor’s approach on guns, education, and juvenile justice.
But Sharpton’s congregation wasn’t nearly so pleased. Some of the few hundred people who crammed into his Read More
Sarah Palin, addressing critics and pundits who have said her use of violent rhetoric may have contributed to the shooting in Arizona that left a congresswoman injured and six others dead, used a loaded term often associated with anti-semitism.
“Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own,” Palin said in a video on her Facebook page. “Especially Read More
In the wake of the shooting in Arizona over the weekend, which gravely injured Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and killed six others, Mayor Bloomberg gathered with officials from across the region at City Hall to lay out a series of steps which would they say could have prevented the tragedy.
“The more we learn the Read More
