By Staff 10/13/06 1:30pm

Bloomberg's Reaction

Fred Siegel, writing on the Manhattan Institute blog, says Mike Bloomberg’s reaction to the Cory Lidle plane crash in midtown is “demonstrating the insouciance he made famous during the prolonged Queens blackout…”

During his weekly radio address, Bloomberg responded to the calls for tighter flight restrictions around NYC airspace:

The trouble is Read More

By Staff 10/12/06 2:44pm

What (Not) to Make of 600,000 Deaths in Iraq

A study by public-health researchers at Johns Hopkins says that estimates of deaths in Iraq since we did that nation the great service of bringing them democracy are way low, that the likelihood is 600,000 have died. Though they say the number could be as low as 400,000 and as high as 800,000.

The study Read More

By Staff 10/12/06 9:32am

The Suicide Question Re Corey Lidle

I’m surprised that everyone covering Corey Lidle’s death has avoided the psychological question: Was depression or suicidal feeling a factor in the crash?

Let’s go to the videotape: in his last appearance in the public eye, just four days before his death, Saturday October 7, Corey Lidle came into the Yankees’ most important game of Read More

By Staff 10/11/06 5:17pm

Corey Lidle Dies In Plane Crash


Corey Lidle and his plane.

The New York Times is now carrying official police identification of one of two bodies found at the scene of today’s airplane crash as Yankees pitcher Corey Lidle.

CNN had reported:

New York Yankees Manager Joe Torre told CNN that the plane that was a Cirrus SR-20 Read More

By Staff 10/11/06 5:03pm

The Crash: Update

From ESPN:

New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle was the pilot of a small airplane that crashed into a 50-story condominium in Manhattan, and Lidle is one of two confirmed dead.

UPDATE: A witness tells the Times, Lidle: “was on an incline, accelerating as he passed. Then he hooked around the corner, he Read More