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What Christian kid in Elementary School in the 1960s when learning of holiday practices didn’t want to spin a dreidel yet felt constrained from doing so out of a lack of understanding?
Well today you can spin the dreidel. You can pick and choose aspects from different religions to heighten your spiritual awareness.
I noticed something this football season. There are two kinds of football fans in New York. There are those that support both the Giants and the Jets but perhaps lean one way or the other when they meet and then there are those fans that rigidly believe you can only root for one team or the other. I disavowed the later approach after 9/11 when I realized we are all New Yorkers and now I find that I have doubled my viewing satisfaction because chances are when one team lo
The two “Johns” of whom I write are John Liu and John Sampson. Liu is the NYC comptroller. Sampson is the state senator from Brooklyn’s 19th district. He is also the conference leader of the senate democrats. I want to believe he is actually the senate minority leader but some folks tell me that’s not official.
Anyway, both Liu and Sampson have come in for some serious ragging in mainstream media lately. I want to believe there is more to this than meets the unsuspecting naked eye.
A couple months ago I told some people that Rick Santorum might just win the Iowa caucus. His poll-numbers were around two per cent then. A few of them laughed at me. One cynically asked me if I owned a crystal ball. Another questioned my punditry. Another said I was getting too full of myself. All these comments were similar to those made when I called the Obama caucus-victory four years ago.
A Super PAC attack ad is coming to a TV near you soon. If you reside in Iowa, and New Hampshire, you have already been flooded by them.
As I noted the other day, most of the voluminous literary legacy of likely GOP State Senate candidate, Kings County Republican Vice Chair David Storobin, mysteriously disappeared from the web almost immediately after I revealed I’d been exploring it and intended to deeply
The Governor is meeting with his top aides. His consigliere says "
one more thing Governor, we have to schedule that election for Kruger's seat. A March date would probably be best for the Senate Democrats."