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HOYLMAN-SIGAL & KAVANAUGH’S 13% SHAM
So long as new construction provides at least 13% of “affordable” housing, it can waive almost all zoning and height restrictions and override landmark designation for any religious structure. But the language in their bill is so vague that what … Continue reading
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TRUMP IS OBVIOUSLY CONSIDERING SUSPENDING THE CONSTITUION
Thus all his sudden playing dumb about whether he has to follow it. His sleazy, second-rate lawyers are undoubtedly looking for different kinds of possible justifications to obviate our founding document.
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NBC CHERRY- PICKED WELKER’S INTERVIEW TO PROTECT TRUMP
Some of the most embarrassing–for both Trump and Welker–footage wasn’t shone in prime time but is available their web site. As Ben Meisels says, riffing on Trump’s ridiculous law suit against “60 Minutes”–to which Shari Redstone’s greed may capitulate–aren’t we … Continue reading
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SURELY THE CORPORATE MEDIA WILL NOW BE RUNNING DAILY STORIES ON TRUMP’S DEMENTIA
Every single public appearance he makes is a giving-the-game-away disaster. Biden was impaled by the corporate media for statements, actions, public appearances that were miracles of clarity and dignity compared to the ongoing Trump unraveling.
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NYS LEGISLATURE AGAIN EXPLOITING THE CHIMERA OF “AFFORDABLE HOUSING”
to justify more assaults on landmark and neighborhood preservation. Titled in Orwellian fashion the “Faith-Based Affordable Housing Act” would in fact “nullify all future landmark designations to allow oversized developments on any religious site,”Village Preservation warns us. It is in … Continue reading
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HAVE YOU NOTICED
how close to Trump’s Tucker’s weird, vacant smile is becoming? The Trump contagion syndrome.
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WHY DOES ANYONE BOTHER TO INTERVIEW TRUMP?
He responds to any question with lies, deflection, endless quibbles and sophistry, and as well, sneering personal attacks on the interviewer. Terry Moran did his best to correct Trump’s lies and deter his obsessive, repetitive oppositional defiance. But there’s no … Continue reading
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“TORTIOUS INTEFERENCE” INDEED
Trump’s crew of treasonous half wits is still more erudite than he is. Trump’s latest broadside against The New York Times–does he not appreciate all that they have done for him?–makes a preposterous accusation of “tortious interference,” a legal term … Continue reading
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IS SHARI REDSTONE BREAKING THE LAW?
by capitulating to Trump’s shakedown scheme concerning utterly baseless accusations against “60 Minutes”? Yup, it sure looks like it. Somehow Trump has no objection to Fox Propaganda’s aggressive manipulation and cherry-picked editing of his disastrous ravings to the press. But … Continue reading
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NO IFS, ANDS & BUTS
Trump is following Hitler’s play book. I’m watching the 1989 miniseries “The Nightmare Years,” based on William Shirer’s book “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. It recount the progress of Nazism as witnessed by journalist Shirer, a foreign correspondant … Continue reading
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