It’s very rare that a regarded documentary crew would get banned away from filming on Capitol Hill, but this morning, Gasland director Josh Fox was arrested and charged with “unlawful entry” after House Republicans specifically requested his removal from the hydrofracking hearing. Read more »
There’s no denying that rats are a huge problem in the NYC transit system, but a lawmaker’s plan to fine straphangers for eating on the subway and platforms reeks worse of nanny-state politics than the food being consumed out of styrofoam containers. State Senator Bill Perkins is proposing an all out ban and a $250 fine for anyone caught consuming, which is plain stupid, since the problem isn’t food, it’s littering. (Photo: digital_trash/flickr)
Republican crazer and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich was campaigning on Florida’s Space Coast this week and in what has to be the most obvious political pandering moments of all time, told the adoring crowds that by his second term, he’d build a “permanent base on the moon and it will be American.” Read more »
Last summer, when it was reported that the NYPD, with an assist from the CIA, occupied Muslim neighborhoods in New York City with the hopes of finding terrorists there, Mayor Bloomberg applauded their actions: “In the end the NYPD’s first job is prevention, and I think they’ve done a very good job at that.” Read more »
Looking to make his last stand in South Carolina by appealing to the racist, union-hating Republican mob who attended last night’s Fox News/Wall Street Journal debate, Newt Gingrich lashed out at NYC public school janitors. Read more »
Quick now. Who’s the first real presidential contender in history to call for the legalization of drugs? How about the first explicitly anti-war candidate with a sizeable constituency—at least since George McGovern topped the Democratic ticket in ‘72? The first to ever question both the CIA’s and the Federal Reserve’s right to exist under the US constitution? Read more »
New York City’s mayor who refuses to inform the public when he flies away on his private jet to Bermuda for the weekend, but is up everyone’s ass about how much salt they put on their fries is now tackling a new vice loved by city residents: alcohol. Read more »
On Wednesday, Governor Cuomo gave his State of the State address and said New York City should stop the electronic fingerprinting of residents who receive food stamps. He said the system is already demeaning enough for those seeking assistance and the city is the only place in New York that still requires it, but Mayor Bloomberg disagrees, naturally. Read more »
The City Council is on a roll. After recently voting to sue Mayor Bloomberg for his patently retarded homeless policy, members symbolically passed a resolution defying the U.S. Supreme Court’s notorious Citizen’s United ruling that proclaimed corporations are people. This ruling lifted restrictions on the amount of money that entities could spend in a given election, paving the way for unlimited contributions and putting our democracy up for the sale.
As if the United States didn’t do enough damage to Iraq during an illegal, eight year occupation that destroyed infrastructure, killed civilians, and fragmented the populace, the New York Times reports on the $11 billion arms package being peddled by the Obama administration. Read more »
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