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DE BLASIO RATCHETS UP HIS WAR ON NYC LANDMARK PRESERVATION
In an act of unsurpassed municipal hubris, the mayor has announced that since one of his developer chums wants to build yet another tower at 14th Street and and Ninth Avenue, an entire row of 1840s designated landmark houses must … Continue reading
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DEMOCRATIC ESTABLISHMENT TELLS PROGRESSIVES THAT FAILURE = SUCCESS
Biden’s refusal to get tough with Manchin and Sinema means that the Build Back Better reconciliation bill has apparently been gutted beyond recognition. Progressives should vote against it, and against the “bipartisan” infrastructure bill dictated by Exxon.
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ALDEN GLOBAL CAPITAL vs. AN INFORMED AMERICA
In The Atlantic, McKay Coppins charts the hedge fund’s selling off our once-great newspapers for parts.
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THOM HARTMAN TUTORS JOE MANCHIN
about the difference between welfare and social investment.
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MUST TO INCLUDE
I hope that Bradley Cooper’s upcoming movie on Leonard Bernstein will at least acknowledge his bisexuality. I mean, when I saw The Aviator, I thought, Where is Gary Cooper?
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HOW STUPID CAN MANCHIN, SINEMA & THE ENTIRE GOP BE?
From Lindsay and Crouse’s 1945 hit satire State of the Union: “There isn’t going to be a free-enterprise system if it means that men are fee to starve!’ Spoken by a hyper-capitalist considering a run for the presidency.
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FDR REBUTS MANCHIN’S “ENTITLEMENT” CANT
IN 1938, Roosevelt clarified just who have been and are today the true inhabitants of the “entitlement society.” “The first to turn to Government, the first to receive protection from Government, were not the poor and the lowly–those who had … Continue reading
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TRUTH AS IN “PRAVDA”?
Trump’s new social media platform for propaganda, hate and lies is called, wouldn’t you know it–“TRUTH Social.”
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THE ART OF THE CAPITULATION
Is that what Biden learned during his eight years as Obama’s VP? His surrender to Manchin and Sinema, two of the most greedy, selfish, and treacherous politicians in the history of the Democratic party, is all tooo familiar.
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NOT SO VERY LONG AGO
Brisk weather in Manhattan like yesterday’s and today’s was more the rule than the exception in October. Now it is more the exception than the rule. And rest assured, we’ll be soaring back into the 70s tomorrow.
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