Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Christine Quinn Threatens Media Who Run Ad She Doesn't Like

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is having a rough week so far. For one thing, new Quinnipiac poll shows the mayoral front-runner's numbers hitting a five-month low. She's also facing a new attack ad paid for by a coalition of labor and animal-rights groups. The ad got some media attention earl ... More >>

Here's Why The "We Must Protect The Family" Argument Is Wrong!

Well, it's one of many reasons. It's that the family isn't protected to begin with. It's estimated that somewhere around 40 or 50% of marriages end in divorce! That situation has left million of kids with two separated parents, sometimes bitterly shifting the kid between them according to judgmen ... More >>

Mr. Ahmadinejad Is Coming to NYC; You Know What That Means!

Protests. Tons of them.It has become a common trend now in New York City news that when the sixth President of the Islamic Republic of Iran comes to town for a United Nations gathering, it can only be expected that hundreds of people will meet him half-way with angry remarks and on-the-ground disapp ... More >>

This Is Not a Film: The Filmmaker Who Isn't

There's a reason for the title of Jafar Panahi's urgent new movie

Holy Crap, it's the Ames Straw Poll!

Frontrunner Michele Bachmann has her eyes on the prize.​Today, in Ames, Iowa, the race for the Republican presidential candidacy begins its gestation. Candidates, pundits and voters flock to the campus of Iowa State University to, according to the Los Angeles Times, "mingle, eat barbecue and h ... More >>

Ahmadinejad Was Slapped in the Face, According to WikiLeaks

​WikiLeaks is starting to read like George W. Bush-penned fan fiction, with reports today of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad getting slapped across the face by Revolutionary Guard Chief of Staff Mohammed Ali Jafari, who is apparently still alive, somehow. It seems they disagreed about Ir ... More >>

Rightbloggers on WikiLeaks: Kill Julian Assange, But Not Till We Use His Stuff Against Obama

This weekend we got another fat load of WikiLeaks, based on purloined diplomatic cables to and from the U.S. State Department. As happened when Julian Assange's muckraking endeavor leaked U.S. military data from Iraq earlier this year, conservatives are outraged, and some call, as before, for the ex ... More >>

Bedbugs (Back) at the U.N., Where "Diplomatic Immunity" Jokes Are No Longer Funny

​Continuing in their reign of New York City terror, bedbugs have infested the UN. In fact, it seems that bedbugs have been hanging around the UN since at least 2009, causing all sorts of unwanted issues with international diplomacy and feeling itchy.

Paul the Octopus Has Died

Paul in happier days​Sad, sad news in cephalopods this morning: Paul the psychic octopus who predicted the results of World Cup soccer games with eerie accuracy, has died in his aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany.

People Are Snubbing Iranian Dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the United Nations Right Now!

​How's Iranian-by-way-of-Jersey-Shore dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad doing today at the UN general assembly? Not..so..well.

To Truly Go Green, Eat Bugs; Should GM Fish Be Labeled?

​Phil Ross, a San Francisco-based chef and artist, hosted an insect-based meal at Brooklyn Kitchen this past weekend, as a means to promote a tasty, sustainable diet of animals you can raise yourself at home. [NY Times] Less than a month after Eataly was unleashed on New Yorkers, a roundup of ... More >>

Fidel Castro Thinks Jeffrey Goldberg is a Dick, Misunderstood by Blogger (Update!)

​The Altantic's resident warmonger and Washington DC's go-to tattletale gossip for old-school DC media -- Jeffrey Goldberg -- has lost a fan in Cuban dictator and ex-president Fidel Castro. UPDATE: Goldberg responds!

Kim Jong-il and Respective Homies Having "Baller Status" Targeted by U.S. Sanctions

​Kim Jong-il does not, by any New York City standard at least, put the "Ill" in "il." In other words, he as an unhip a dictator as they come. Even Iran's pretty evil Mahmoud Ahmadinejad looks like he could get "into the clurrb" in comparison. North Korean dictatorships? Kinda lacking in the "c ... More >>

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Announces New Unmanned Bomber Weapon

via the Daily News​President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Iran's latest threat to the world -- the "Karrar" ("striker" in Farsi) jet, which can carry up to four cruise missiles and travel 620 miles.

Iran Has Banned Mullets But Should and Will Not Stop There

​So, the Iranian government is making mullets illegal. And, we're not for banning things, but this seems actually wise! Iran is also banning a number of other "decadent, Western" hairstyles -- we'll be able to see the full catalog after the oxymoronic Modesty and Veil Festival later this month ... More >>

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Disrupting East Side Traffic, UN Today

​Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in town, and will "face off" against Hillary Clinton today at the UN regarding the 40-year-old Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Helmsley Hotel Cancels Ahmadinejad Event, Says He's "Not Welcome"

Critics have been trying to get Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad thrown out of The Barclay hotel where he is allegedly staying during a U.N. conference this week. They haven't succeeded, but are pleased to learn that Ahmadinejad has had a banquet at the New York Helmsley cancelled by the hotel's ... More >>

Critics Want Ahmadinejad Booted Out of Hotel

​Back on July 13 advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran called on local hoteliers to refuse service to Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when he comes here to visit the U.N. General Assembly on September 15, his first trip to the U.S. since the murderously bogus Iranian election that retu ... More >>

NY Fed Names State AFL-CIO President as Chairman

​"The New York Fed just appointed Denis M. Hughes as its chair. Lee Bollinger has been named as vice-chair," grumbles National Review's Jonah Goldberg. "A union organizer and a very liberal lawyer, just the team we need." Hughes, president of the New York State AFL-CIO, has served on the New Y ... More >>

Iran Election: Everybody Wins!

Iran had one of those "neither free nor fair" elections in which Former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- or "Wolf vs. Wolf in Sheep's Clothing," or "loony leader" vs. "supposed reformer," depending on how you look at it -- bamboozled millions of Iranians into ... More >>

Columbia Teachers College Upholds Firing of Constantine

A Columbia Teachers College faculty panel has upheld the firing of Professor Madonna Constantine on plagiarism charges. (You remember Constantine -- she's the professor who became the center of controversy when a noose was found tied to her office door back in 2007.) The New York Post's editorial pa ... More >>

Iran, N. Korea Prepare to Attack U.S.

Iran claims to have launched its first homemade satellite on Monday. "With God's help and the desire for justice and peace," Iranian President Ahmadinejad announced via sophisticated Iranian television technology, "the official presence of the Islamic Republic was registered in space." Meanwhile Nor ... More >>

From baseball to hardball: George Mitchell lands in Mideast to probe the deadliest beanball war -- Jews vs. Arabs

The Wall Street Journal, reporting from Davos, asks (gulp), "Is Capitalism, as We Know It, Dead?" Pumped up from his experience as chief investigator of steroids abuse in baseball, George Mitchell is now in for some really heavy lifting: the testosterone-laden, rage-filled Arab-Jew death dance i ... More >>

Out There In The Dark: Rightbloggers Go Hollywood!

As we get closer to the actual transition, rightbloggers are shifting gears. They're losing interest in the remaining pre-inaugural Obama business. We probably won't see anything like the Hillary Clinton Constitutional crisis again. Leon Panetta's CIA appointment drew some criticism on the grounds ... More >>

GOP pulls out all stops, shows love for Hillary

Sarah Palin Says "Stop Iran!"; Comes Out Against 2nd Holocaust

Clinton to Palin: Nice Try

The Harrowing Adventures of President Obama

Looking back on his first term

Obama's Goal: Peace in the Upper East Side

The FISA Bill: Why Did Four of NY's House Democrats Fold?

Goodnight, Iran

The Official Village Voice Election-Season Guide to the Right-Wing Blogosphere

A confederacy of dunces

Rudy's Ties to a Terror Sheikh

Giuliani's business contracts tie him to the man who let 9/11's mastermind escape the FBI

Diplomats and Guns

Chinatown mystery: Why did officials from the bloodiest country on earth stock up at a local gun shop?

Lee Bollinger's Triumph

Will President Ahmadinejad invite President Bollinger to speak in Tehran?

Intertrend Crib Notes: Radiohead's New Album, Van Halen, Feist

Live: Nellie McKay at the Music Hall of Williamsburg

School's a Blast in Middle East

A Magna Carta Sales Event!

In Iran, a Fight Just to Fight for GLBT Rights

Robert Mugabe Meets Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Son of a Pitch!

Looking for answers about the pathetic Mets' collapse

Let Ahmadinejad Defend Himself in Academic Court

Bad Guys at Ground Zero

Chatting with Jafar Panahi

Denied a U.S. visa, filmmaker speaks from abroad

A Marriage Made in Hell

Iranians and Iraqis work together to advance an evil cause

Stoning Women to Death

Coming soon to the United Nations: Iran's chief executioner of women

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Going Nuclear

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Deathbed Confessions

Honorary Jew

Hillary Clinton becomes kosher for a community that had its doubts