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With His $12M Ad Blitz, Bloomberg Is Finally The Opponent The NRA Needed

The substance of this story was almost fit to print. We all know Mayor Bloomberg's stance on guns. He is a co-founder and head of Mayors Against Illegal Guns - a group of America's most powerful metropolitan leaders that all share a very strong stance on gun control. And he's backed his message wit ... More >>

Mayor Bloomberg, President Obama and the Politics of Gun Control [UPDATED]

UPDATED (1/15/13): On the one-month anniversary of Newtown, we heard yet more news about gun control from our Mayor and President. In Baltimore, Mr. Bloomberg attended a summit on the topic at John Hopkins University and, once again, called for more action on a national level. His speech outli ... More >>

After Gun-Control Talk Reportedly Banned on Fox News, Murdoch Turns to the Post

It appears that media mogul Rupert Murdoch may have some level of, dare I say, morality and compassion inside of him. A day after New York Magazine reported that higher-ups at Fox News directed producers and reporters to avoid engaging in gun-control talk, Murdoch's New York Post published an edit ... More >>

Mayor Bloomberg On Meet The Press: Economy, Guns And Parades

Mayor Bloomberg appeared on a Super Bowl-themed Meet The Press segment this morning, and sounded off on topics like increasing taxes for the wealthy, his Mayors Against Illegal Guns Super Bowl ad and the potential for an Iraq War veterans' parade in the city. Paired with Indiana Governor Mitch Danie ... More >>

New Teachers Union Ad Attacking Mayor Starts Today

Watch out, Mr. Mayor! The United Federation of Teachers is launching an ad campaign today that attacks Mike Bloomberg -- who has loudly criticized the union at a handful of public appearances this year. At his State of the City speech earlier this month, the mayor went after the UFT for insisting on ... More >>

Am I Supporting the Mexican Drug Cartels if I Smoke Pot?

Republicans Call Obama Plan 'Class Warfare'; Don't Know Definition of 'Warfare'

​Tomorrow, President Obama will unveil a deficit-cutting proposal that will include a revision to the U.S. tax code. The proposed change will feature a higher tax rate for the wealthiest 0.3% of Americans, who currently pay the IRS with a $15 gift card to Sam Goody every April (estimated figur ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg Solves Country's Immigration Debate

​Our mayor Mike Bloomberg has found the solution for America's immigration issues, as he outlined this morning on "Meet the Press." Let the immigrants come as they may, and simply force them all to live in Detroit! It's a perfect fix for the ongoing disaster zone that is the Motor City. Tell ... More >>

Chris Christie, GOP Star, Is a Man for Four Seasons -- Hotels

​Chris Christie, a.k.a. "Governor Wrecking Ball," likes to live large we now know thanks to an intrepid inspector general for the Department of Justice, although it's not clear if this helps or hurts the political fortunes of the XXX-sized New Jersey gov.

Harold Ford Declines to Discuss His Bonus

​Senate candidate-in-abeyance Harold Ford didn't much want to talk about his finances on Meet the Press this morning. Ford, whose spokesman says he requested a leave of absence from his NBC contract "while he travels the state, listens to voters and weighs an opportunity to serve them in the S ... More >>

Chertoff uses former job to promote undisclosed client

​Former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has been making the media rounds since the Christmas terror attempt promoting wider use of full-body scanning in airports to keep us safe in the skies. According to the Washington Post, he's also been promoting a client. Unfortunately, he ha ... More >>

Hillary and Palin catch a cup of coffee, maybe

​Sarah Palin, or maybe her ghostwriter, wrote in Palin's new book about sharing a hypothetical cup of coffee with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. On Meet the Press today, David Gregory passed the idea along to Clinton, who said OK.

Barrett: It's a Rotten Time for Paterson To Promote Bogus Budget Numbers

​It's hard to imagine a worse time for a governor to lapse into lazy lies. But with the state in its most troubled fiscal condition in decades, facing daunting deficits, David Paterson has become all spin all the time, putting his own concocted narrative ahead of the state's need for crisis cr ... More >>

Clip Job: An Early Vietnam War Protest

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesDecember 24, 1964, Vol. X, No. 10Thomas Hits Viet War at Washington Sq. RallyMore than 1000 people, including turbaned writer Marc Schleifer, bearded, bereted hippies, mothers with baby carriages, and the Police Department's Special Services ( ... More >>

Bloomberg Tweets!

​ As you can see, he's a twittering mayor for all the people. Though his twitter feed is usually written by campaign operatives, with such breathless dispatches as "@corybooker praises Mike's leadership on Meet the Press today. Video of Mayor Booker endorsing Mike last month," just this once ... More >>

Real motherfuckers: AIG still hands out bonuses

DARK SECRETS

Writers and lawyers discuss human rights in a post-9/11 world

Gov Sticks Up for O'Byrne, Gay Pols for Term Limits, Goldberg for Powell at Pride Dinner

Jane Comfort and Lloyd Newson Tell It Straight (or Not)

Mayor On MTP: Taxes to Preserve Our "Future"

'Meet the Press' Moderator Tim Russert Dead at Age 58

Remembering Tim Russert

America's Suicide Bomber

Tenet's Version Doesn't Have a Prayer

Anchors Way, Way Away

Port Security and the Politics of a Good Story

Hunger Strike at the Gates of Guantánamo

Marchers against torture pledge five-day fast if denied entry

U.S. Torture: Who'll Break First?

Rice, Bush, McCain all say no compromise

Repairing Journalism

Plamegate made some major flaws transparent. Time for a transparent solution.

'Bush Lied, 2,000 Died'

New Yorkers take to the streets in protest of the war in Iraq

Crude Manipulation

In Katrina's wake, the supposed oil shortage and suspicious gas price hikes

Repairing Leaks

Reporters could fill us in on the Plame saga by describing their own roles

Morning Report 7/25/05
Sending Rice to Africa

The Courting of Bill

Busting that GOP dream plot: shut out Hillary by appointing hubby to Supreme Court

While Hillary Drifts Along, Other Women Move On Up in Congress

Defendant Rumsfeld

Secretary of Defense sued for torture while media cover Michael Jackson trial

Condi's Growing Fan Club

European tour '05: A jumping-off point for a White House run in '08?

The Humane Society

The leashes belonged on our own soldiers—no matter how you spin it

Dems for Death

How the Candidates Come Down on Capital Punishment

Go With the Flow

Bubbling, Crude Documents From Cheney

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Ashcroft’s Master Plan to Spy on Us

'Citizens Will Not Become Informants'

It's Back!

The Return of Public Sex

Feinberg's Follies

Gay 9-11 Widows Left in the Lurch

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Clinton's Deal: Justice Denied

'Never Anything About Obstruction of Justice'

The Other America 2000

Hunger in Texas and Tennessee

Ralph Nader—Not a Wasted Vote

Bipartisan Dismal Choices

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