By Hunter Walker 12/28/12 7:28pm

Revisionist History

HBO Documentary Special Screening Of "41"

George H.W. Bush’s Break With the NRA Ignored in Gun Group’s Gift Shop

In 1995, President George H.W. Bush gave up his lifetime membership in the National Rifle Association via an angry open letter in which he expressed his outrage over a fundraising pitch made by current NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre that described federal agents as “jack-booted government thugs” wearing “Nazi bucket helmets and black storm trooper uniforms.” Though President Bush said he was “deeply” offended and asked the organization to “remove my name from your membership list,” seventeen years later, the NRA is still promoting his past association with the group in its online gift shop. Read More

By Drew Grant 12/21/12 12:16pm

Gun Control

President of the NRA at today's conference (Washington Post)

NRA Takes a Stand on Violent Video Games, Movies and Anything Else That Isn’t Gun-Related [Video]

Today, the president of the National Rifle Association of America, Wayne LaPierre, made his organization’s highly-anticipated statement regarding the shooting at Newtown, Connecticut. Anyone who was hoping for anything less than usual b.s. about how the school system needs more guns should probably stop reading right here. Also, the NRA wants us to note, that it is our culture’s glorification of Splatterdays (what?), Mortal Kombat and Natural Born Killers–specifically–that causes mass shootings, not military-style assault weapons that we can buy online. Read More

By Shalom Auslander 8/14/12 6:44pm

Thorns With Occasional Roses

Illo: Peter Arkle.

Guns, God and Other Pricks: Is Pubic Shaving the Solution to the Firearms Epidemic?

The other day, driving to the local home center for some mulch and fertilizer, I absolutely solved the problem of gun proliferation in America once and for all. This was the morning after the tragic shooting in Aurora, Colo., and so I guess the subject was on my mind. When the traffic light turned green, I stepped on the gas and was nearly broadsided by a speeding Cockasaurus, running the red light going the other way. Read More

By Jason Horowitz 2/18/09 1:19am

Kirsten Gillibrand’s Facts-on-the-Ground Tour

ALBANY—Kirsten Gillibrand thinks New Yorkers are starting to get used to the idea that she’ll be a senator for a long time.

“I think it’s happening already, I really do,” Ms. Gillibrand said in an interview on Feb. 14 as she ate a celery stick dipped in blue cheese at the end of a long Read More

By Staff 5/24/06 5:31pm

Events for May 25, 2006

Tomorrow morning Marty Markowitz receives the “Friend of City Cyclists” award from Transportation Alternatives at Brooklyn Borough Hall.

The Assembly holds a public hearing on NYCHA rent increases at 250 Broadway.

Tom Suozzi announces his position on tolls on the Long Island Expressway and an initiative to combat LIE traffic.

In the evening, Big Apple Read More

By Staff 2/06/06 10:00am

Spin Cycle: Sheekey Up, Weld Down


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I’ve been flaky, to say the least, about The Politicker’s occasional forays into the awards business, but two bits of spin last week Read More