Now that it’s clear that Sarah Palin, on the whole, has been more of a liability than an asset to John McCain, the following question becomes almost irresistible: What if McCain had picked someone else?
“I think the dynamics would be different in Pennsylvania,” that state’s former governor, Tom Ridge, acknowledged a few Read More
NBC’s First Read claims that Joe Lieberman’s chances of landing on the G.O.P. ticket effectively ended yesterday, when the leaders of various social conservative groups reacted with fury to John McCain’s suggestion that a pro-choice stand wouldn’t disqualify any potential running-mate. According to First Read:
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Here’s video from Rudy Giuliani’s brief appearance at the Kings County Republican Committee’s annual fund-raiser last night, where he paid tribute to his former community assistance commissioner, Rosemarie O’Keefe.
“I wouldn’t be anywhere else tonight,” Giuliani told the audience, which gave him a warm, though not particularly impassioned, welcome. “We met in 1989 and Read More
Here’s supermarket magnate and mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis hanging out with former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge at last night’s Lincoln Dinner, organized by the King’s County Republican Committee and held at Grand Prospect Hall.
Note the absence of Catsimatidis’ distinctive eyeglasses.
The Gristedes owner underwent cataract surgery a month ago to enable Read More
Rudy Giulani’s campaign is hitting back at the former mayor’s onetime friend John McCain for his comments earlier today linking Giuliani to freshly indicted former aide Bernard Kerik.
"It’s kind of shocking, since there is nothing new out there, that John McCain now changes his tune on Rudy Giuliani just because he is Read More
Michael Chertoff possesses the impressive résumé and aggressive bearing of a big-time official, but as Secretary of Homeland Security, he behaves more like a small-time hack. His feeble judgment in matters of policy, personnel and politics—first demonstrated in the wake of Hurricane Katrina last year—has proved that he was never qualified to protect the United Read More
Michael Chertoff possesses the impressive résumé and aggressive bearing of a big-time official, but as Secretary of Homeland Security, he behaves more like a small-time hack. His feeble judgment in matters of policy, personnel and politics—first demonstrated in the wake of Hurricane Katrina last year—has proved that he was never qualified to protect the United Read More
Crossing Sixth Avenue on a recent afternoon, I wove through a thicket of tourists gawking at the towering streetscape. As I nearly hooked my arm through a scarf dangling from a woman wearing a Michigan State University wool bonnet, the midtown crowds rekindled memories of what I’d imagined New York to be around this time Read More
It’s hard to imagine a resource more critical to New York than water. Indeed, it wasn’t until the city had a safe, reliable source of drinking water that it could begin the expansion that led to New York becoming what it is today-one of the world’s great cities.
So it is disheartening to realize that Read More
Midtown property owners and their congresswoman are claiming that a planned Metropolitan Transportation Authority installation could turn into an explosive terrorist target with the potential to damage landmarks such as the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
At the center of the controversy is a planned 16-story building on East 50th Street between Park Avenue Read More
