Last December I wrote a column suggesting that Brooklyn’s next borough president should be a woman. I even suggested one: Lori Cintron Knipel.  I feel that it is time to make history in Brooklyn.  It’s time for a woman: case closed.

After I published that column, some people asked:”why not a black, Hispanic or Asian?” I have no qualms with either of those options, since such an election will also be historic.  Anyway, that column brought a little attention, and it was requested that I revisit this topic as soon as I got a chance to. So here I am.

The trajectory of Europe puts it on a path to surpass both the United States and China as an economic superpower contrary to chest beaters in both those countries.  What can be done to put America back on its own upward course through history into the future?

Something interesting happened with the news coverage of the Arab Rising.  More and more women were appearing in scenes that were once dominated solely by men.

Celeste Katz looks at the Mayoral field and asks "Then the question becomes how does each candidate make a case to bear the party standard…where does Thompson fit in?"

Historically, layoffs are often threatened as a budgetary bargaining chip.

In other words, the mayor basically yells what amounts to “fire” in a crowded theater, and more often than not, the money surfaces from the State or Washington, and the bad news is avoided. (layoffs in this case)

However this time, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is not bluffing, and for the first time since the 1970’s, public school teachers are looking at pick slips. A loss of 6,166 teachers, including an anticipated 4,100 layoffs.

In the attached article, we learn that while Tony Kushner thinks that Israel should never have been created, he's now willing to concede them their coninued existence.

Admittedly, this is also the position of Richard Cohen, who I like, but when Cohen says he supports Israel's right to exist, he doesn’t wink.

It was Monday Night, and Domestic Partner had commandeered the TV away from eight year old Dybbuk, as she sometimes did, to watch an important news story.

But this night was different from all other nights. She was taking no chances about anyone spoiling this story for her.

Instead of MSNBC, we were watching CNN.

Dybbuk was already displeased, but he then threw us for loop.

“He was a bad guy, but no one should be killed. I am not happy when anyone is killed.”

News reports indicate that OBL was shot in his pajamas.

Query: where is Groucho when you need him?