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March 30, 2012
Baseball Predictions Are Much Better In Hindsight
Suppose you brought all the smartest baseball kids on the block together, locked them in a house for two weeks with an unlimited supply of Twinkies and beer, and asked them to pool all their statistical tools to predict the upcoming baseball season? What might the result look like? SBNation's J ... More >>
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November 13, 2011
Rightbloggers Get Behind Newt Gingrich, This Month's Next President of the United States
The GOP Presidential race has had its share of joke candidates -- all of whom rightbloggers have taken seriously. There was Donald Trump; then the black Trump, Herman Cain; then Paul Ryan, Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry, Chris Christie, and Herman Cain again. As erstwhile frontrunner Cain's campaig ... More >>
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October 30, 2011
Rightbloggers Double Down on the Second Coming of Herman Cain
Months ago, rightbloggers were celebrating the rise of Herman Cain. Then they grew restless, and moved on to Michele Bachman, Rick Perry, and Chris Christie, each of whom disappointed. Now Cain is back, hilariously leading in some GOP Presidential polls and winning some straw polls, too. Cain is pr ... More >>
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October 14, 2011
This Is What the Occupy Wall Street Arrest Pattern Looks Like
C.S. MuncyCops faced off against protesters this morning in the Financial District.A number of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested this morning during confrontations with the police on various streets in the Financial District. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne puts the number at 14. One man ... More >>
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September 26, 2011
Harry Levine of Marijuana-Arrests.com: "We Are Always Encouraged When the Police Decide to Obey the Law"
Queens CollegeMuch of what we know about the racial discrepancy between marijuana use and marijuana arrests in New York comes largely from the research of one man: Queen College sociology professor Harry Levine. Levine is the go to guy for information on marijuana and the criminal justice sys ... More >>
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September 24, 2011
Was Bloomberg's Case of White Mayor's Burden the Straw That Broke Ray Kelly's Back?
As we learned yesterday from the excellent reporting of WNYC's Ailsa Chang, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly has ordered that cops stop arresting people for marijuana (or "marihuana," as the NYPD spells it) if the pot was never in public view. The timing of this announcement is curious. Ever sinc ... More >>
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September 12, 2011
Ruben Diaz, Sr.: "I Praise the Lord" for Ability to Support Republican Bob Turner in NY -9
C.S. Muncy"Senator Reverend" Ruben Diaz, Sr., the sole Democratic Senator to vote against the Marriage Equality Act, has just announced that he's supporting Republican Bob Turner in tomorrow's special election in NY-9, which will fill the seat vacated by Anthony Weiner. Gee, we wonder...wha ... More >>
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August 13, 2011
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 >>
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June 3, 2011
You Are More Likely to Get Laid on a Wednesday
In a very important undertaking, Christian Rudder of OkCupid and Nate Silver met up to talk about various dating -- okay, let's call it what it is -- sex statistics, because everyone loves statistics that help them have sex. OkCupid being OkCupid, they're very good at figuring out these datin ... More >>
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May 16, 2011
Huckabee Out, Gingrich, Paul In, Which Rightbloggers Declare Good News for Herman Cain
There was some action in the GOP 2012 Presidential race last week, with Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul declaring themselves in and Mike Huckabee declaring himself out. Rightbloggers sifted the results, and found them good -- because there was at least one true conservative left whom they could support ... More >>
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April 22, 2011
Ruben Diaz Sr.: Gay Marriage Over My Dead Body
UPDATE AFTER THE JUMP: Why Diaz's date for a protest presents a special problem for a potential counter-protest. As the newly formed New Yorkers United to Marry sets their sights on the New York Senate, there's one vote they're definitely not going to swing. It's no real surprise that Senat ... More >>
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April 12, 2011
Huffington Post Hit With $105 Million Lawsuit By 9,000 Angry Unpaid Bloggers
In its intermittent battles with unpaid writers, The Huffington Post and its (often reluctant) defenders have trotted out a number of arguments, including most commonly the assertion that the bloggers write without compensation for attention, and most like it just fine that way. Others have a ... More >>
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February 28, 2011
Rightbloggers Compare Large National Protests (Union) Unfavorably with Large National Protests (Koch Brothers)
Last weekend rallies were held in all 50 states in support of the teachers' union in Wisconsin. And at the Wisconsin state capitol, at least 70,000 people came out on Saturday to protest Governor Walker's attempt to break the union. Sounds like a big deal, right? Hundreds of thousands of people tur ... More >>
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November 2, 2010
Live-Bonging the Prop. 19 Vote with Broam Chronsky
As the results of America's midterm elections come to light, the Village Voice's expert panel of political thinkers and shapers will be weighing in live over the course of the evening. Covering California's landmark vote on whether or not to legalize Marijuana, Proposition 19, is our special ... More >>
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September 23, 2010
Andrew Cuomo, Carl Paladino, and Those Nutty Polls
The day before Mike Bloomberg defeated Bill Thompson by 4.6 percent of the vote last November, Quinnipiac said the mayor would win by 12 points. Its poll the day before the 2005 election predicted Bloomberg would beat Fernando Ferrer by 38 points, twice his actual margin. The good news for ... More >>
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August 30, 2010
Press Clips, Day 8, Lunch Edition: New York vs. The New Yorker Cage Match Edtion
Pictured: a figurative portrait of New York Observer senior editor Christian Lorentzen. Press Clips has returned to the roost, and we're starting the week off with great news, great media squabbles, hypocrisy, and self-awareness. In other words, your Monday Media Proctology Exam has arrived. ... More >>
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August 25, 2010
Dr. Doom ("Nouriel Roubini"): 40% Chance of "Renewed Recession" for American Economy Is
Nouriel Roubini -- who's basically living like a rap star after screaming about how utterly fucked the American economy was before it happened, watching it happen, and telling everyone how he told them so -- just made a headline tonight when he put the chances of a "renewed recession" for Ame ... More >>
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August 16, 2010
Mosque Near Ground Zero Becoming Political Hot Potato
Our little neighborhood construction flap over whether to build a mosque (which is really like the equivalent of an Islamic version of the Jewish Community Center) near Ground Zero took a huge step onto the national and then international stages over the weekend. At a Ramadan Iftar dinner at the Wh ... More >>
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June 27, 2010
Bringing Down Dave Weigel Reactions Round-Up: Who Dunnit and Why?
Speculation continues to swirl surrounding the leaked listserv emails that led to the resignation of Dave Weigel, the Washington Post's blogger on the conservative beat. To recap: Weigel belonged to an exclusive group of political reporters and commentators, headed by fellow WaPo young Ezra K ... More >>
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April 19, 2010
Statistician Nate Silver Takes on the KFC Double Down
Robert SietsemaBad, or just drawn that way?We were content to rate the KFC Double Down a two out of five blechs and leave it at that, but FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver has taken it upon himself to add some interesting analysis to the already hyper-analyzed monstrosity. Statistically speaking, ... More >>
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April 11, 2010
Nate Silver Rates Park Slope Top New York Neighborhood
Nate Silver, the baseball statistician whose analysis of political polls has made his fivethirtyeight.com one of the top independent political websites in the country, has turned his eye on New York and picked Park Slope as our top neighborhood.
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March 18, 2010
Yankees Prospects Look Grim -- Star Pollster Nate Silver
If Nate Silver is correct, both the Democratic Party and the New York Yankees might be headed for tough times this fall. The ace political pollster/baseball analyst projects the numbers for 1,600 major league ballplayers in the current Baseball Prospectus 2010, and things don't look good for ... More >>
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January 19, 2010
Nate Silver Predicts Republican Odds of Victory in Today's Senate Race are "3:1"
When Nate Silver talks...New York is looking to the North today as Martha Coakley attempts to keep Ted Kennedy's old Senate seat for the Democrats. The Massachusetts senate race has the cover of the Post and has President Obama pleading with New York Democrats (via e-mail) to report to a phon ... More >>
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December 29, 2009
Vijay Iyer Tops the Fourth Annual Village Voice Jazz Poll
Historicity and records from other fresh faces take our 2009 jazz poll
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November 1, 2009
Local paper: Scozzafava supports Democrat
In the wake of yesterday's suprise announcement that Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava was dropping out of the race for the open congressional seat in NY-23, a number of powerful state unions, Scozzafava's husband, and possibly Scozzafava herself have switched their suppport to Democrat Bi ... More >>
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October 26, 2009
New Poll: Mayoral Election Out of Reach, Give Up
The election is a week from tomorrow, and the final vote-discouraging polls are rolling in. Today Quinnipiac shows Mike Bloomberg up 53 to 3r percent among likely voters -- pretty much what the Marist Poll showed last week. The only question, says Quinnipiac's polling director: "Will voters see thos ... More >>
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June 24, 2009
The Queer Issue: Beefcake's Golden Age
The election is a week from tomorrow, and the final vote-discouraging polls are rolling in. Today Quinnipiac shows Mike Bloomberg up 53 to 3r percent among likely voters -- pretty much what the Marist Poll showed last week. The only question, says Quinnipiac's polling director: "Will voters see thos ... More >>
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June 18, 2009
City's Public (and Maybe Private) Drinking Down
The new Zagat New York City Nightlife Guide is out, and its survey indicates that citizens are not hitting the bars and clubs like they used to. Zagat finds 56 percent of survey respondents going out less, 38 percent finding cheaper places, 27 percent ordering fewer drinks, etc. Given the economy, ... More >>
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June 1, 2009
Rightbloggers on Sotomayor: Everything They Hate
Obama's nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court has stirred some interesting debate, but we who follow rightbloggers will forever remember it for the reaction of National Review's immigration expert, Mark Krikorian. It's as distinctive as Roman Hruska's defense of G. Harrold Carsw ... More >>
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April 17, 2009
Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared
"As Christians we are sorry if you have ever felt pushed away from Church or ever felt like you didn't fit in. That was people, not Jesus." -- message handed out by members of the Awakening Church at Union Square station. Tea parties were all the rage -- literally! We read the tea leaves and att ... More >>
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April 16, 2009
2,000 Tea Party Denounces Obama Spending, Cheers USA, Fox News
On February 28, a Tea Party demonstration in New York's City Hall Park drew about 250 protesters who decried President Obama as a socialist, a communist, and the second coming of Hitler. This evening's Tea Party on the edge of the same park was much, much bigger -- stretching on the west sidewalk ... More >>
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February 23, 2009
Oscar Night Rightbloggers Mad at Milk, Indians
We're still congratulating ourselves on beating Nate Silver and other geniuses with our Oscar predictions. But, as you might imagine, rightbloggers had a worse night -- not just in predicting, but in reaction to Sean Penn's win for Milk. "As I emphasized in my article from earlier this week," harrum ... More >>
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February 21, 2009
Alleged Leaker, Nate Silver, Carpetbagger, and Runnin' Scared Pick the Oscar Winners!
Yes, Carly Simon won an Oscar, but not for Costume Design. Photo by Alan Light. The Oscars are tomorrow night, and an alleged leak of the winners is making it more interesting than usual. The Academy has denounced the list as a "complete fraud." If so, it should be exposed tomorrow, though the ev ... More >>
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January 12, 2009
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 >>
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December 10, 2008
Prognostication is a Lonely Business
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 >>
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November 24, 2008
Rightbloggers On Palin's Turkey Slaughter ("The Lady's Got Spunk") and Other Big Wins
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 >>
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November 4, 2008
Pollster-of-the-Moment Says: Obama 349, McCain 189
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 >>
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August 29, 2006
Your Turn: Where the Yankees Spend Big
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 >>
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August 22, 2006
Atlas Slugged
Alex Rodriguez is one of the greatest Yankees ever. And the whole world is on his back?

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