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May 8, 2011
Rightbloggers Explain How Killing Osama Was Bad for Obama, America
Last Sunday, right after President Obama announced the death of Osama Bin Laden, we did a quick scan of rightblogger responses to the event. The brethren basically felt Obama had nothing to do with it and if he did, it wasn't worth doing. A week has passed. Which means rightbloggers have had time ... More >>
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April 6, 2011
Crying New Jersey Governor Kid Gets What He Wanted
Jesse Koczon, the New Jersey kid who cried all over YouTube because he was "too small" to be the governor of New Jersey, is now going to be the governor of New Jersey. Chris Christie, the actual governor, signed a "proclamation" on Wednesday morning that named Small Jesse "honorary governor" ... More >>
Blogs
March 31, 2011
3-Year-Old Boy Desperately, Hilariously, Wants to Be Governor of New Jersey
Apparently this video was originally on America's Funniest Home Videos (remember that show? Remember home videos?), where it won little Jesse's family a cool $10 grand. And it really is funny! Poor Jesse only wants to be the governor of New Jersey, but he is tooooo smaaaall. Chin up, Jesse... now y ... More >>
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March 25, 2011
Canadian Government Collapses After No-Confidence Vote
Earlier this month, we reported that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper had renamed the country's government after himself. How'd that work out? After today's no-confidence vote in parliament, his Conservative minority government fell. There's a vacuum of power in Canada! Someone rush up ... More >>
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March 7, 2011
Canadian Prime Minister Renames Government After Himself
"You gotta admit it's catchy!"Forget everything you know about the Government of Canada. (We'll wait.) Forgotten? Good, because CBC News reports that the Government of Canada has been officially renamed "The Harper Government" by Prime Minister/re-branding expert Stephen Harper. All official ... More >>
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February 21, 2011
Rightbloggers Denounce the Wealthy, Treasonous Schoolteachers of Wisconsin
The effort by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and the Republican-led state legislature to deprive the state's teachers of collective bargaining rights was catnip to rightbloggers last week. This is because it involves two of their traditional objects of hatred: Unions and public education. You kno ... More >>
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February 14, 2011
New York Post May Not Approve of Andrew Cuomo's High Approval Rating
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, while fair and balanced 99 percent of the time, occasionally allows some bias to creep into one of its many media outlets. Hard to believe, but if you look very close, you can find it. So let's play a game: Guess the News Corp. lede!
Blogs
February 10, 2011
Hosni Mubarak Will Not Resign
Despite reports that President Hosni Mubarak would step down today, the maligned Egyptian leader took to state television and announced that he would be fulfilling his term. He reiterated his February 1 speech in which he said he would not be running for reelection in September, and that it i ... More >>
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February 10, 2011
Chris Lee Could Be Replaced By Carl Paladino
Christopher Lee, the New York representative who resigned yesterday amid a scandal over shirtless pictures, will be replaced between 30 and 45 days after Governor Andrew Cuomo calls for a special election. Rumors have already started as to who might run for the spot, including one that New Yorker ... More >>
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February 1, 2011
Hosni Mubarak Will Not Run For Reelection
Egyptian State TelevisionEgyptian President Hosni Mubarak has announced he will not to seek reelection. This follows reports that President Obama suggested the leader, who has been the subject of protests across Egypt, step down.
Columns
January 12, 2011
Acting Prickly
You can't stop us from picking plants, crops
Blogs
January 6, 2011
Queens Pol Tony Seminerio, 75, Dies in a Federal Pen
Former Queens assemblyman Tony Seminerio died today in a federal prison hospital in North Carolina where he was serving out the six-year fraud sentence he received in February. Seminerio, 75, had long been in poor health. Prior to his sentencing by federal Judge Naomi Buchwald for taking hund ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2010
The Peggy Lipton Affair Takes Down Another Albany Big Shot
We got yet another fascinating look inside the Albany favors factory yesterday when Andrew Cuomo released his latest revelation in the state pension fund scandal. Pat Lynch, the uber-lobbyist and close friend and ally of Sheldon Silver, was slapped with a half-million-dollar fine and banned f ... More >>
News
December 1, 2010
Sidebar: Fantasy Voter Fraud
We got yet another fascinating look inside the Albany favors factory yesterday when Andrew Cuomo released his latest revelation in the state pension fund scandal. Pat Lynch, the uber-lobbyist and close friend and ally of Sheldon Silver, was slapped with a half-million-dollar fine and banned f ... More >>
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November 22, 2010
Joe Scarborough's Political Contributions Revealed by Voice in 2008: What Took So Long for the Suspension?
Decades ago, when I was new to the pages of the Voice and when my work actually appeared on pages, I was visited at the office by state investigators. They had in their hands a campaign filing by Al Vann, then a young and ballsy assemblyman from the heart of Bed Stuy. I was astoni ... More >>
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November 19, 2010
The TSA Battlefront: Privacy Vs. Security
"The good ol' days.."What with the looming holiday season and the busiest travel days of the year, along with the TSA's most recent security measures, there's a significant debate brewing over who's right, who's wrong, and what, exactly, is going too far. Many have reported being patted down "ina ... More >>
News
November 10, 2010
Andrew Cuomo Goes to Albany, Where Lobbyists Are Waiting
"The good ol' days.."What with the looming holiday season and the busiest travel days of the year, along with the TSA's most recent security measures, there's a significant debate brewing over who's right, who's wrong, and what, exactly, is going too far. Many have reported being patted down "ina ... More >>
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November 9, 2010
David Paterson Post Mortems Begin in Earnest
The day after the election, the Times ran a comparative chart of the personal preferences of the outgoing and incoming governors. Asked how he relaxed at the Governor's Mansion in Albany, David Paterson said: "Reading in the family room." A few days earlier, Joe Fisch, the state's in ... More >>
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November 2, 2010
Silvio Berlusconi of the Undying Passions Offends Gay Men, Women, Everyone
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a/k/a Mr. Foot in Mouth, will not resign just because maybe he had some sex parties with young girls, or because he likes to look a beautiful girl in the face now and again in the midst of a productive, hard-working day.
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November 1, 2010
New York Gubernatorial Candidate Makes Final Pre-Election Push With Local Constituents
According to photographic evidence provided by WNYCMedia.net, New York's Republican option for governor, Carl Paladino, partied with sexy wenches, a, er, "guy in blackface" (or maybe a burn victim/devil person/sexy post-op Jocelyn Wildenstein?), and a zombie for Halloween at West Seneca bar Potter's ... More >>
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October 26, 2010
The U.S. Is More Corrupt Than 21 Other Countries, Which Is All Bernie Madoff's Fault
The most and least corrupt nations have been "diagnosed" by Transparency International in their 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index, which measures the "perceived levels of public sector corruption" in 178 countries around the world. Corruption levels go from "very clean" to "highly corrupt" an ... More >>
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October 24, 2010
Carl Paladino's Hometown Newspaper Endorses Andrew Cuomo
Batty and bigoted Republican candidate for governor of New York, Carl Paladino, is trailing his opponent Andrew Cuomo by doubt-digits in the polls and suffered another blow Sunday when his hometown newspaper, the Buffalo News, endorsed Cuomo. "In the end, there is no choice for governor but A ... More >>
News
October 20, 2010
Grinding Justice
Operation Streamline Costs Millions, Tramples the Constitution, Treats Migrants Like Cattle, and Doesn't Work
Blogs
October 14, 2010
How Does Carl Paladino Get the 'Tea Party' Tag After Teabagging the Tea Partiers?
Sometimes it's really tough to figure out what's news in New York. Everywhere in America, and on every national cable channel, it's Tea Party talk all the time. Carl Paladino runs for governor as if he's a Tea Partier and knocks off the ballot the only candidate to actually file petition ... More >>
Columns
October 13, 2010
The Sick Looting of Home Health Care
A connected company's license to loot—at the expense of the taxpayers, elderly, and infirm
Blogs
October 4, 2010
The Parker/Spitzer Liveblog!
Parker/Spitzer, the biggest thing to happen to CNN since Larry King farted on Octomom, is finally here. Our former governor Eliot Spitzer and his foil, the saucy Putlizer-prize winning conservative columnist, Kathleen Parker, are about to go on the air.
Blogs
October 1, 2010
Carl Paladino vs. The Tea Party: No Love Lost
Third party politics in New York is so byzantine most voters turn off when it comes up. But Rudy Giuliani wouldn't have been mayor without the now-defunct Liberal line and George Pataki's margin over Mario Cuomo in 1994 was provided by the State Conservative Party. So the swing this week ... More >>
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September 25, 2010
Gov. David Paterson Coming to SNL Tonight
"Fuck SNL and the whole cast," New York governor David Paterson rapped in his comeback single "Power," continuing, "Tell 'em David said they can kiss my whole ass." Now, after years of being somewhat mercilessly tortured by a Fred Armisen caricature (pictured) -- focused on the governor's bli ... More >>
Blogs
September 3, 2010
Andrew Cuomo's Opportunity is Here: When Will He Endorse an A.G. Candidate?
Andrew Cuomo will show us in the next few days if he has the balls to be a change agent as governor. His feud with Eliot Spitzer caught fire when Spitzer got stuck in neutral during Cuomo's 2006 primary race for attorney general against Mark Green, refusing to endorse Cuomo when it mattered. ... More >>
Columns
September 1, 2010
Special Labor Dia Edition
Workin' for the man
Blogs
August 5, 2010
David Paterson: A Lame Duck, Sure, But Why the Lame Media Coverage?
The governor and David JohnsonIt's a week since Judge Judith Kaye issued her 54-page report exonerating and damning Governor Paterson for his handling of a domestic violence case, and nothing has happened. That's news. Clemmie Harris, who admitted to Kaye that he tried to kill the complaint, ... More >>
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July 27, 2010
Gov. Paterson Will Attempt to Resurrect His Soda Tax
poolie/FlickrGovernor Paterson won't take no for an answer: despite the fact his proposed soda tax was killed earlier this month by relentless lobbying and advertising from the beverage industry, he's planning to reintroduce the tax during a special legislative session on Wednesday.
Blogs
July 2, 2010
Mike Bloomberg Draws Praise for the Same Budget Decisions That Reap Tabloid Ridicule for Shelly Silver
The recently passed Bloomberg and state legislative budgets each contained precisely the same, optimistic assumption that New York would get hundreds of millions of additional federal Medicaid funds even though the bill to provide the windfall was stalled in Congress. The Daily News said Bloomber ... More >>
Blogs
June 21, 2010
David Paterson Shadow-Boxes Himself; Press Awards Him TKO
The biggest joke in Albany these days is the supposed rehabilitation of David Paterson. The New York Post kicked it off with an editorial salute on Thursday, June 17. By Monday, the Associated Press was posting a profile-in-courage hurrah, calling him "a bit of a hero in a time that despera ... More >>
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June 15, 2010
Andrew Cuomo's Pledge Proving Tricky for Fellow Dems
By Gavin Aronsen Andrew Cuomo, New York's likely next governor, has made it known that fellow Democratic office seekers should sign onto a single-page pledge to reform Albany if they expect to win his endorsement for this fall's election. But only two of his hopeful AG successors, Nassau County DA ... More >>
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May 24, 2010
Sarah Palin Blames Obama/BP Connection for Slow Oil Spill Response; BP to Attempt to Plug Well with Mud
Since we're all pointing fingers and naming names with regard to whose fault the BP spill really was, why wouldn't Sarah Palin jump in the ring? On Fox News Sunday, the former Republican candidate for VP said, "I don't know why the question isn't asked by the mainstream media and by others ... More >>
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May 21, 2010
Senate Republicans Suddenly Against Budget Extensions They Used to Wallow In
The Republican near-majority in the state senate has sunk to new lows in the ongoing budget battle, but unlike the Democrats, they are catching no media flak. Incredibly, 29 of them (with one absentee) voted as a bloc last week against the emergency budget extender that barely passed the senate. Ha ... More >>
Columns
May 18, 2010
'My Sons Beat Up Mexicans'
And their mother is an idiot: A success story
Blogs
May 11, 2010
British Labour Leader Gordon Brown Resigns; David Cameron Becomes New British PM
That was fast. British prime minister Gordon Brown has announced his resignation after stating yesterday that he would be stepping down. Thus ends 13 years of Labour Party rule.
Blogs
May 10, 2010
Breaking: U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown to Resign
Following last week's U.K. general election in which no party won an overall majority, Gordon Brown has announced that he will be stepping down as Labour Party leader, reports BBC News. He has been prime minister since 2007.
Blogs
April 27, 2010
Dance and Sex for Health, as They Do in Brazil
Oh Brazil, we love you so much. First you gave us Brazilians. And then you gave us that Gisele, what a charmer! Say what you will about models, but it was kinda funny when she had that tiff with Bridget Moynahan for saying that she considered Bridget's son her son, which of course pissed Brid ... More >>
Blogs
April 23, 2010
Fox News Poll Blames Barack Obama for Blaming George W. Bush
Fox News took a poll, and according to the results, 66 percent of Americans think that President Obama should start taking responsibility and stop blaming the Bush administration for things. That's more than three times as many as the 21 percent who think it's right to continue to blame the ... More >>
Blogs
April 19, 2010
The New Tea Party People: Now With Black People (Onstage, Anway), Proud to Teabag, But Still Batshit Insane
There were several Tea Parties on April 15, and rightbloggers who normally have nothing good to say about the "main stream media" (whom they consider biased and/or corrupt) were surprised by relatively flattering coverage from the New York Times, CBS, and other agents of the evil MSM. Perhaps bec ... More >>
Blogs
April 11, 2010
Mitt Romney Wins Southern Republican Straw Poll by One Vote
Mitt Romney couldn't make it to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference this year, but with the help of a "grass roots" group of supporters led by '08 Romney presidential campaign advisors (one of whom is Mrs. Romney's ghostwriter), he scraped by second-place Ron Paul to win the preside ... More >>
Columns
March 30, 2010
In Honor of April Fools' Day: A Minuteman Takes Over Ask a Mexican
A special column for a special day
Blogs
March 14, 2010
Eric Cantor, Dan Senor Host Fundraiser for Tea Party Candidate in NY-1
Via Elizabeth Benjamin in the Daily News, House Minority Whip (and Republican Rebranding specialist) Eric Cantor will be a special guest tonight at a fundraiser for self-funding millionaire Suffolk County House candidate Randy Altschuler. On the host committee: Bush loyalist, Iraq Coalition a ... More >>
Columns
January 12, 2010
George W. Obama
After his first year, Obama shows his true face
Blogs
January 10, 2010
Embattled RNC Chair Michael Steele calls for Harry Reid to step down
Steele's the one on the left.Michael Steele, who's spent the last two weeks fending off calls for him to step down or get fired from his job at the head of the Republican National Committee, leaped for the opportunity to turn the heat on someone else this morning. Steele is calling for Harry ... More >>
News
October 27, 2009
We've Bailed out the Banks. When Do We Go After the Crooks Behind our Financial Collapse?
Steele's the one on the left.Michael Steele, who's spent the last two weeks fending off calls for him to step down or get fired from his job at the head of the Republican National Committee, leaped for the opportunity to turn the heat on someone else this morning. Steele is calling for Harry ... More >>
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