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  • The enablers’ enabler

    For those who still wonder how Albany works, here’s a short scorecard. Not long after a state ethics commission released a report on the serial sexual harassment by Vito Lopez, it became clear he would have to leave. It also became clear the politicians who enabled him would continue with business as usual.

  • The making of a Mayor

    Thank you, Kevin Williamson.

  • 50,000 Trumps $600 million

    Tonight thousands of New Yorkers will try their luck at the $600 million Powerball jackpot. Most won’t win a dime, but it’ll be OK. Life will go on as normal tomorrow.

Yesterday

  • OJ and the IRS

    How appropriate the IRS scandal is breaking at the same moment OJ Simpson is trying to get himself sprung from prison. Because the promises by Washington to find those responsible for the IRS outrages against tea partiers sound an awful lot like OJ’s vow to hunt down the “real killer” of his wife, Nicole, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

  • Cops and pols

    Mayor Bloomberg rightly gets credit for making New York the safest big city in America. But new data the mayor cites reminds us of two striking facts.

  • Ooooooops

    Can government get anything right?

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