Query: Will Lincoln Restler and Chris Owens call for the resignation of Councilman Jumaane Williams? Dirty little secrets: City Council members have skirted laws, bent rules and abused their power www.nydailynews.com
I agree they'll find bodies when they dredge the Gowanus Canal, but I'm guessing they'll be of more recent vintage. Polluted Gowanus Canal Could Be Revolutionary War Treasure Trove www.nbcnewyork.com
Touched by an Angel Department: Mr. Overalls hits the big time (What could be more bog time than the Sunday Times magazine?)
Does anyone need me to explain my “Angel” pun above?
Whatever one thinks of O’Connell’s activities in Red Hook, he was and is a man of guts and vision dreaming things that never were (or were long forgotten) and saying “why not?“
Incidentally, Greg once made a pretty embarrassing cameo in a Gatemouth piece concerning the single most repugnant member of my Synagogue (and believe me, Peyser has stiff competition). Remaking Mount Morris www.nytimes.com
Res Ipsa. One day someone should make O’Keefe stand on one foot and learn Rabbi Hillel’s lesson about not doing to others that which you find personally unpleasant. Activist O'Keefe won't be videotaped himself www.nypost.com
No matter what your opinion of our actions in Libya, the Arab League's 180 degree pivot is both morally reprehensible and utterly predictable. Arab League condemns broad bombing campaign in Libya www.washingtonpost.com
From O's Nobel speech: " I believe that force can be justified on humanitarian grounds, as it was in the Balkans, or in other places that have been scarred by war. Inaction tears at our conscience and can lead to more costly intervention later. That is why all responsible nations must embrace the role that militaries …with a clear mandate can play to keep the peace."
The wisdom of this move may be up for debate, and perhaps the legality–though I defy anyone but a Buchanite to tell me that that should have stopped Clinton from taking action in Kosovo in the face of a negative Congressional vote–but no one but a pacifist can doubt the morality underlying this action, and no one can call it "American unilateralism"