Study: In Florida, every single candidate running for higher office is a jerk/toad/idiot — Sharron Angle to journalists: What have you done for me lately? — Senators explain how to waste millions of dollars that belong to someone else — Don’t count Linda McMahon out just yet — NY Budget fiasco: a curtain-raiser for the rest of America? — British artists no longer beholden to monarchy (more)
From California to New York state, Arizona’s illegal immigration law has been making headlines. In what is perhaps a last ditch effort, the state chose to enforce border security and stop criminality that comes with undocumented immigrants. (more)
How much do Dems love discussing tax increases right before an election? SO, SO MUCH! — Faced with ethics investigation, senile congressman tells colleagues to eat his shorts — The children of America have placed a bounty on Arne Duncan’s head –
Christian student banned from counseling program for refusing to abandon 2,000-year-old belief system — Pitbull owners may be last hope for California Democrats — States cannot waste money fast enough (more)
May 26 a noted Wall Street short-seller, Steve Eisman, gave a speech criticizing certain public companies that are for-profit colleges and universities. Eisman is known for “shorting” stocks in public companies in the sub-prime industry before the collapse — meaning he made tons of money when these companies’ share values went down or virtually collapsed. (more)
Times Square isn’t big enough for the two of them. (more)
New York’s political scene was rocked this week when a GOP consultant was charged with stealing $1.1 million from Mayor Michael Bloomberg. (more)
President Obama this week brought his unique brand of leadership to the U.S. Military Academy. Speaking to the West Point graduation, the commander-in-chief outlined a foreign policy that sharply differed from the Bush Doctrine that was proclaimed from that same podium eight years ago. (more)
Census officials waded into the online comments section of the New York Post on Wednesday to refute claims that the Census Bureau has been gaming its employment figures. (more)
City cops are livid over a legislative proposal that could handcuff the brave officers involved in life-and-death confrontations every day — requiring them to shoot gun-wielding suspects in the arm or leg rather than shoot to kill, The Post has learned. (more)
A death in the afternoon might be preferably to what happened to one unlucky matador in Las Ventanas, Spain. (more)
Guggenheim, the early political auteur, who helmed films for the Kennedy brothers, has found a successor. His name is Alex Gidney. (more)
Peter Elkind’s new book, “Rough Justice,” a chronicle of the fall and supposed resurrection of Eliot Spitzer, is a contorted piece of shit. Elkind joins the growing Upper East Side Liberal chorus that would have us forget Spitzer’s violation of various state and federal laws, his repeated lies about the abuse of power involved in using the state police to spy on his political opponents and his lies regarding the source of the funding of his first two campaigns for attorney general. (more)
Sitting at the Purim Spiel (an annual Jewish fundraiser where Broadway stars perform to raise money for the Birthright Israel Foundation) and waiting for the stage lights to dim, I began chatting with a friend about how exciting it is to see a resurgence of young Jewish conservatives in New York. (more)
Wow. Great scoop from the New York Post: (more)
Not since porn star Cicciolina was elected to the Italian parliament has there been a sexier political candidate. The first thing you notice is her bust. Round, full, in the Dolly Parton/Jayne Mansfield sense, they are just too “perfect.” Then you notice her eyes: blue, piercing, determined. (more)
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