The Post reports that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is interested in buying the Texas Rangers. The theory goes that News Corp — which owned the Dodgers for one rather unforgettable seven year run from 1998 to 2004 — would like to offset the broadcasting fees it pays the Rangers to air their games on television (they Read More
With each week, a new parade of Presidential contenders arrives in New York for a mix of intimate, living-room meet-and-greets and colossal, concert-style fund-raisers. Some nights they head for Park Avenue, other nights for Fifth Avenue. But no matter how much the sites or scenes might vary—pinstriped Wall Street suits on one evening, media types Read More
On Feb. 1, Houston’s Republican political elite will gather at the Houstonian, the city’s stateliest hotel, for a fund-raiser for former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the Yankee-loving, gay-friendly, Italian-American Presidential aspirant.
It’s an odd setting for him. The hotel’s lobby is decorated in the style of a Texan hunting lodge, with wooden beams, Read More
To the Editor:
I agree with Steve Kornacki 100 percent [“Note to Obama Skeptics: This Is Not a Fad,” Wise Guys, Jan. 22].
What concerns me about Barack Obama is that he won an election as Illinois Senator in what was basically an uncontested campaign. Does he have the toughness and chops to endure the Read More
The last thing Rudy Giuliani needed was to make a laundry list of the vulnerabilities that threaten to derail his pursuit of the Republican Presidential nomination.
After all, everyone paying close attention to Presidential politics knows about his liberal stance on social issues, his two divorces, his marriage to a former mistress and his nettlesome Read More
Rudy Giuliani and John McCain have a lot in common.
They both have a direct personal style. They both advocate a muscular foreign policy. And now, they’re both in competition for George W. Bush’s vast network of political donors.
As the midterm elections have left the field without a clear champion of the party’s Read More
Tom Bernstein and Peter Kunhardt, co-founders of the embryonic International Freedom Center at Ground Zero, could once take solace in the idea that Mayor Michael Bloomberg was on their side.
He had intimated as much. And it was his right-hand man at Ground Zero, Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff, who stood up for the Freedom Center Read More
Shortly before the Florida Marlins began spring training, Sivia Loria filed for divorce from her husband of 25 years, team owner Jeffrey Loria. So it seemed inevitable that she would eventually move out of the couple’s duplex apartment in one of the Upper East Side’s best co-ops.
Although leaving behind a 7,000-square-foot spread is Read More
Shortly before the Florida Marlins began spring training, Sivia Loria filed for divorce from her husband of 25 years, team owner Jeffrey Loria. So it seemed inevitable that she would eventually move out of the couple’s duplex apartment in one of the Upper East Side’s best co-ops.
Although leaving behind a 7,000-square-foot spread is difficult, Read More
Forget Bush-Cheney ’04. For Republicans with their eyes on the future, the main event at the Republican National Convention is Fratricide ’08.
With a mixture of concern and delight, Republicans are looking ahead to the struggle for succession in a party whose identity crisis has escalated even as its grip on the government has tightened. Read More
