Twenty-two minutes after President George W. Bush introduced Judge Samuel Alito as his nominee to the Supreme Court on Halloween morning, New York Senator Charles Schumer declared war.
In a statement e-mailed to reporters, Mr. Schumer declared it “sad that the President felt he had to pick a nominee likely to divide America,” and warned Read More
Twenty-two minutes after President George W. Bush introduced Judge Samuel Alito as his nominee to the Supreme Court on Halloween morning, New York Senator Charles Schumer declared war.
In a statement e-mailed to reporters, Mr. Schumer declared it “sad that the President felt he had to pick a nominee likely to divide America,” and Read More
Twenty-two minutes after President George W. Bush introduced Judge Samuel Alito as his nominee to the Supreme Court on Halloween morning, New York Senator Charles Schumer declared war.
In a statement e-mailed to reporters, Mr. Schumer declared it “sad that the President felt he had to pick a nominee likely to divide America,” and warned Read More
The legend of the liberal media is finally dead. When the mightiest voices of the mainstream gang up on Tom Daschle with Rush Limbaugh, who can believe in that old myth any more?
The historic rumble started after the Senate Democratic leader compared the shrill radio host to foreign fanatics, and complained that he and Read More
We are living in a time when scoundrels seek to bully the loyal opposition and demonize all dissent for their own advancement. That’s why certain Republican politicians and pundits have assaulted Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and other Democrats in terms usually reserved for foreign and domestic enemies.
What has been even more troubling than Read More
A major high-tech corporation is promoting a billion-dollar
merger between one of its top U.S. suppliers and a foreign firm, against the
wishes of Pentagon officials who believe the deal will jeopardize sensitive
satellite technology. The new President, in office only a few months, had vowed
during his campaign to tighten industrial security in the Read More
The leader of the Democratic Party in the U.S. Senate
doesn’t have much use for President Bush’s Social Security commission. (Jeez,
you’re saying, isn’t this a Wise Guys column from 1991? Is this the same kind
of technical snafu that results in last week’s lottery numbers getting published
again as yesterday’s? Or in last week’s Read More
Though it was shocking news, there was less gabble about it than you might have thought. Nonetheless, starting about a month ago, reports began circulating that Manhattan rents have begun to drop. There are so many downward-pointing stories these days, this one may not count for much in the welter of items about layoffs, softening Read More
