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Now that the general election is nearly upon us, it is probably time to finish up my analysis of this year’s primary returns.
ROCK HACKSHAW: DEAR FOLKS ON MY E-MAIL LIST:
IT IS WITH MUCH SORROW THAT I NOW INFORM YOU THAT MR. MAURICE GUMBS PASSED AWAY YESTERDAY.
THIS TRINIDAD-BORN POLITICAL-ACTIVIST WAS A FIXTURE ON NEW YORK CITY'S POLITICAL SCENE SINCE THE SEVENTIES.
SHARPTON: What the election showed the other night is that a lot of the identity politics of 20 years ago, 30 years ago, has now become identity politics of policy…You can no longer take yesterday’s maps for today’s politics…It’s a
The final tallies in the September 10th primaries have finally been posted by The New York City Board of Elections.
When I announced about five months ago that I was dialing it down, I never thought that the break would last much longer than half a year. But lately, I’ve found keeping up with my political reading to be a burden, and keeping up my political writing, even on only a semi-regular basis, to not be worth the schtuss.
Though I wear proudly my advanced degree (I am a Doctor of Jewish Prune Juice), I never expected that I myself would ever be the subject of any academic study by a Ph.D, unless those letters stood for “Pretty Hip Dude.’
On July 13, I made what would appear to be one of the stupidest statements of the year:
Every once in a while there comes a column by a purportedly reputable opinion writer which is such a monumental pile of intellectual dishonesty or unadulterated ignorance (if not both) that it deserves special notice.
There's a man who leads a life of danger.
To everyone he meets he stays a stranger.