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National Rifle Association

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    Ted Nugent, I Have Two Movie Roles For You!

    Gun-toting rocker Ted Nugent told the National Rifle Association convention that if Barack Obama is reelected, "I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year." That kind of veiled threat--even if intended hyperbolically--doesn't generally go over too well with the Secret Service, and I be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    National Rifle Association Convention Attendees Talk Trayvon Martin; Bad Taste Ensues

    The gun lobby has been quite busy... Shortly after news broke that New York pols get more cash from the National Rifle Association than any other state, self-professed Second Amendment enthusiasts spent a weekend full of firearms festivities (and fun) at their annual convention. Of course, attend ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2012

    NRA Calls Bloomberg "An Arrogant Bastard" for Anti-Gun Campaign

    As the trial nears for the Trayvon Martin case, a firestorm of debate has spread across the nation surrounding the centerpiece "Stand Your Ground" law -- the legislation George Zimmerman has used as his defense. And now, the Hozziner is beginning to feel the flames from the nation's go-to gun-toters ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    National Rifle Association *Hearts* New York: Report

    New York might boast the most anti-gun mayor in the U.S., but that hasn't stopped the National Rifle Association from pouring more cash into Empire State campaign coffers than any other place in the county. The NRA has long done battle with Mike Bloomberg's demands for microstamping on bullet casi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Trayvon Martin Shooting Prompts Mike Bloomberg To Tell America How To Handle Guns...Again

    Despite his authority extending no further than the five boroughs of New York City, Mayor Mike Bloomberg is once again trying to dictate gun-control policies for the entire country.In response to the shooting of Trayvon Martin -- an unarmed Florida teen gunned down by a trigger-happy wannabe cop ear ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2012

    Mike Bloomberg Hates Guns. What Else Is New?

    As you've probably heard, four New York City police officers were shot over the weekend during a shootout with a man in Brooklyn. As you've also probably heard, Mayor Mike Bloomberg hates guns -- and he's using the shootout as the latest anecdote to illustrate his point that gun laws need to be toug ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2012

    Department of Ridiculous Press Releases: Valentine's Day Restaurant Gift Cards

    If you're in the food-journalism biz, you get bombarded on a daily basis with press releases, often as many as 30 per day. Some are faintly rational, but others immediately provoke guffaws with their wild assertions. Here's the best one I've received so far today. According to the National Restaura ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2011

    247 'Terrorists' Bought Guns Legally Last Year

    ​The government's terrorist watch list has been in the local news lately because of a new amendment to the Zadroga 9/11 first responders bill, which says that anyone seeking health care assistance must first be screened against the list first to prove they're not a terrorist. You don't have to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    Carolyn McCarthy Preps New Gun Control Bill; Pro-Glockers Up in Arms

    LI rep Carolyn McCarthy​There's nothing like knowing there are crazed gunmen out there with elected officials squarely in their sites to focus political attentions. Which is why it will be interesting to see if official Washington has a stronger reaction to a planned political assassination wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    Mike Bloomberg's Girlfriend Diana Taylor Said (By Bored Press) to Consider Senate Run

    ​We thought the age of celebrity candidates ended with Jesse Ventura. Then, with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Then, with Al Franken. Then, with Caroline Kennedy, Mort Zuckerman, Larry Kudlow... Oh, who are we kidding, it never ends. Now we hear "multiple sources confirm" that Mike Bloomberg's girlf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2010

    Barrett: How Will the Ballot Police Protect Kirsten Gillibrand from the Harold Ford Invasion?

    Kirsten's protector is ever vigilant​Thank God for the ballot police. But for them, five or six elected Democrats would've already committed the crime of running against Kirsten Gillibrand. Now we have the man Harry Reid obviously mistook for Barack Obama, Harold Ford Jr., illegally panhandl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    Gillibrand and McCarthy Are Now Like Two Bullets In a Revolver

    ​Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy made a public showing of reconciliation today. As we wrote last month, Gillibrand is hardly the raging conservative the left initially tried to make her out to be. But as a gun owner and darling of the NRA, she was treated by some ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2009

    Rightbloggers Get a Scalp, and Perhaps a Party, in NY-23

    On the weekend before a nationally-covered upstate New York Congressional election, the Republican candidate endorsed the Democratic candidate. This is a rarity in American politics, if not a first. Rightbloggers played a key role in this historical achievement. Let's step back several weeks and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2009

    GOP, Conservative Candidates Duke It Out in NY-23; Democrat Gains Lead

    ​The NY-23 Congressional race, in which the Conservative Party is promoting candidate Doug Hoffman against Republican Dede Scozzafava, whom they consider too liberal (she's pro-choice and pro-gay), recently got more hilarious. GOP preacher/Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is coming to spea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2009

    Sean Bell's Parents Endorse Aborn for D.A.

    ​The parents of Sean Bell, an unarmed man whom police fatally shot on the night of his bachelor party in 2006, endorsed Richard Aborn for Manhattan District Attorney today. In a press release put out by the campaign, Bell's parents said they threw their support behind Aborn after learning of h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    Washington Post Article Challenges Us: Who Do We Like Less -- Bloomberg or Gun Nuts?

    The Washington Post has a look at Mayor Bloomberg's victory over the NRA via the group he founded with Boston Mayor Thomas Merino, Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), to which Bloomberg has dedicated $2.9 million of his considerable fortunes. As with old Japanese monster movie battles, in this story ... More >>

  • Columns

    July 1, 2009

    Senate Coup Plotters' Hidden Agenda

    Tabloids call it a circus, but the lobbyists' goal is to squelch reforms

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2009

    Tasini, Defying Everyone, Runs Against Gillibrand

    Owlish labor activist Jonathan Tasini has nothing but guts. Back in 2006 he challenged Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Senate nomination because he didn't like her crappy pro-war neo-liberalism. It was a suicide campaign for sure, but he managed to get 19.5 percent of the vote. Now, as Democrats ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2009

    Detectives Like it Hot: DA Fundraiser Bash at Troubled Chelsea Club

    The Detectives' Endowment Association and a bevy of other local police unions backing ex-judge Leslie Crocker Snyder for Manhattan D.A. are throwing a $50-head fundraiser for her candidacy tomorrow night, and they've picked a place well-known for all the wrong reasons to cops and police brass: Chels ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2009

    This Week in the Voice

    You may have heard of the former Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, Judith Kaye. But do you know the man who replaced her, Jonathan Lippman? Do you know he never practiced as an attorney, and barely served as a judge? So how'd he get appointed to this exalted position? Connections, baby -- chief ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2009

    Gillibrand Talks the Talk on Guns; Walking the Walk Pending

    Since being told to evolve on guns by Chuck Schumer, new Senator and longtime NRA favorite Kirsten Gillibrand has been trying to show some sensitivity in that regard without looking weak. Yesterday, as the Times ran a story called "To Some in Gillibrand's Old District, Her Evolution Is a Betrayal," ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2009

    Schumer Tells Gillibrand She Will "Evolve" On Guns

    We said last post that we'd leave the Gillibrand press conference when Chuck Schumer took the podium, but as usual Schumer forces us to pay attention. He just referred to Gillibrand's record on guns (as everyone points out, she has a 100 percent rating from the NRA) and said that, as some conservati ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2009

    Albany Cools toward Kennedy, Catches Gillibrand Fever

    We first noticed Democratic Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand when she pwned challenger Sandy Treadwell and Rudy Giuliani this election season, trumping them with her high NRA rating. Lately she's gotten more attention as a Senate replacement, not to mention a "Select Gillibrand" web site she claims ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2008

    Ballfields Near New Yankee Stadium Won't Be Ready Soon

    We first noticed Democratic Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand when she pwned challenger Sandy Treadwell and Rudy Giuliani this election season, trumping them with her high NRA rating. Lately she's gotten more attention as a Senate replacement, not to mention a "Select Gillibrand" web site she claims ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2008

    Giuliani Stumps for Treadwell in Expensive Upstate Race

    We first noticed Democratic Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand when she pwned challenger Sandy Treadwell and Rudy Giuliani this election season, trumping them with her high NRA rating. Lately she's gotten more attention as a Senate replacement, not to mention a "Select Gillibrand" web site she claims ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2008

    On First Day of School, Mayor's Ed Policy Gets Spot Exam

    We first noticed Democratic Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand when she pwned challenger Sandy Treadwell and Rudy Giuliani this election season, trumping them with her high NRA rating. Lately she's gotten more attention as a Senate replacement, not to mention a "Select Gillibrand" web site she claims ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2008

    TABLOIDED: My Bloody Valentine's Day

    We first noticed Democratic Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand when she pwned challenger Sandy Treadwell and Rudy Giuliani this election season, trumping them with her high NRA rating. Lately she's gotten more attention as a Senate replacement, not to mention a "Select Gillibrand" web site she claims ... More >>

  • News

    July 24, 2007

    Mike's Well-Armed Pal

    Anti-gun Bloomberg buys ammo for pro-NRA Bruno

  • Art

    July 4, 2006

    Women's Work

    Anti-gun Bloomberg buys ammo for pro-NRA Bruno

  • NYC Life

    January 3, 2006

    Fresh Catch: Red Hook Bar Lines and Sinks 'em

    Anti-gun Bloomberg buys ammo for pro-NRA Bruno

  • Screens

    May 3, 2005

    Gray Lady Luck

    The center sorta holds: Hello, gay libertarian NRA diehards! Come on down, bitter Howie Dean holdouts!

  • Specials

    November 23, 2004

    Letters

    The center sorta holds: Hello, gay libertarian NRA diehards! Come on down, bitter Howie Dean holdouts!

  • News

    September 7, 2004

    Advice to the Lovelorn

    Memo to a candidate's new aides: just go ahead and let Kerry be Kerry

  • News

    January 13, 2004

    First Amendment Treats for the Rich

    The Media Blew This One Big-Time

  • Film

    October 21, 2003

    It's DéJà Vu All Over Again as Bush and Gore Rerun for Office

    The Media Blew This One Big-Time

  • News

    February 4, 2003

    Nation

    The Media Blew This One Big-Time

  • Film

    October 8, 2002

    They Aim to Please

    The Media Blew This One Big-Time

  • News

    September 4, 2001

    Collision Course

    Drop in Enforcement Leaves Kayaks Vulnerable to Jet Skis

  • Theater

    August 28, 2001

    Caught in the Fact

    Drop in Enforcement Leaves Kayaks Vulnerable to Jet Skis

  • News

    March 20, 2001

    Young Gun

    Packing Heat on Brooklyn Streets

  • Music

    January 9, 2001

    Death Wish

    Creative Music’s Demise—Suicide or Homicide? And Does It Matter?

  • News

    August 15, 2000

    Naming the Corporate Criminals

    Granny D. and Gen X Protesters Welcome Democrats to L.A.

  • News

    August 15, 2000

    Surfing Up Democracy

    Blue Dog Dems—and Their Corporate Sponsors—Hear It From the Beach

  • News

    July 18, 2000

    Nation

    Blue Dog Dems—and Their Corporate Sponsors—Hear It From the Beach

  • News

    June 13, 2000

    Nation

    Blue Dog Dems—and Their Corporate Sponsors—Hear It From the Beach

  • News

    May 9, 2000

    Right Thinking

    Want to Understand Conservatives? Read Them.

  • Columns

    December 7, 1999

    NY Mirror

    Want to Understand Conservatives? Read Them.

  • Long Island Voice

    August 31, 1999

    None More Black

    Want to Understand Conservatives? Read Them.

  • Books

    May 11, 1999

    Bullet Theory

    Want to Understand Conservatives? Read Them.

  • NYC Life

    December 15, 1998

    Top Guns

    Want to Understand Conservatives? Read Them.

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