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To paraphrase Erich Segal, “What can you say about a 22 year old girl who died?”
I’m pretty sure I met Hope Reichbach in her childhood, probably more than once.
The first time I met her as an adult, she was walking down Montague Street with then Council candidate Stephen Levin.
Steve introduced us.
The next Republican line of attack: By dignifying the ravings of idiots with a response, the President showed incredible weakness
The Obama spending binge is sorta like his Kenyan birth certificate.
Many worry that the Arab Rising may be a short lived phenomena susceptible to violent put downs by autocratic government forces throughout the region. This is simply not true. A reading of Anwar Sadat’s autobiography reveals that in the past Arab freedom fighters were quite willing to face adversity, imprisonment and death for their cause and in the end seek out political solutions to their situations. Sadat did all of this during British colonial rule and went onto be
“The Presidential candidacy as joke is a perennial sideshow along the raucous midway of the American political carnival. Sometimes the candidate—Will Rogers (1928), Gracie Allen (1940), Pat Paulsen (1968 through 1996), Stephen Colbert (2008)—is a fully qualified professional humorist.
On December 19, 2009, then State Senator-Elect Hiram Montserrat (Amigo-Hell) was arrested and charged with assault.
Three days later, State Senator Marty Golden introduced a Resolution asking Monserrate not to file the papers allowing him to assume his seat until the charges against him were resolved.
For Easter, a story which makes me exclaim the name of Jesus.
An Upper East Side Investment Banker wants to run for Congress on Staten Island.
The nerve of this guy; does he think his name is Straniere?
SHAKESPEARE: One might say that a blog spat over the Kings County Young Republicans is the dictionary definition of much ado about nothing. Just saying…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110421/ap_on_go_co/us_ensign_resignation
LAS VEGAS – Nevada Sen. John Ensign announced Thursday he will resign amid an ethics investigation