Three cheers to former Congressman Vito Fossella. He’s putting his prejudice ahead of his self-interest. I would have thought that since Islam allows men to have up to 4 wives, Vito would have converted by now.

You might not have noticed it, but two terrorists who tried to attack Kennedy Airport were convicted in Federal Court in Brooklyn this week.

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/17/nyregion/radio-caller-and-giuliani-clash-on-son-s-death-at-hands-of-police.html

After the commercial break, the Mayor continued on the same theme: ''Those are actually the basic fundamental questions that need to be asked, that often aren't and then we displace the responsibility to the police. What about the parents? How was the child brought up? What values were they given? What ethics were they taught? What happened in their church? What didn't happen? These are the basic things that create a lawful society, a decent society.''

A Question For Congressman Peter King - Would you oppose the establishment of a Catholic Church building near the hotel in Brighton, England where your terrorist friends in the IRA set off a bomb that killed 5, narrowly missing Margaret Thatcher? http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-history-brighton-hotel-bombing.htm

Staten Island District Attorney and Republican candidate for Attorney General Dan Donovan is promising not to seek higher office for two years after completing his tenure if he wins the state Attorney General's job.

As sure as death & taxes, one pedicatable result of the signing of LeBron James by the Miami Heat was an op-ed by a Manhattan Institute scholar in the NY Post making a claim about New York’s high taxes versus Florida not having any income tax.

Andrea Peyser in Thursday’s NY Post criticizes CNN – 

Struggling CNN is moving from its perch as a reliably lefty news source and positioning itself as a carnival sideshow. How else to explain Post reports that the network is close to signing the delusional, hooker-loving ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer as a chat host?

My question to Ms. Peyser – what would she call a newspaper that employs Ashley Dupre as a columnist?

http://www.cnbc.com/id/37715195

The U.S government can’t force troubled British energy giant BP to defer shareholder dividends or establish an escrow fund for victims of the Gulf oil spill, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani told CNBC Tuesday, noting that any effort by the White House to do so is merely “political posturing.”

http://www.politico.com/politico44/wbarchive/whiteboard06162010.html

DEAL REACHED: BP has agreed to finance a $20 billion escrow fund to pay claims to people who lost income in the Gulf Coast oil spill, an administration source tells POLITICO. Kenneth Feinberg, who was in charge of payments to families of victims of the 9/11 attacks, will oversee the fund..

Because of the various investigations, the Daily News has called upon Andrew Cuomo to refuse to take the endorsement of the Working Families Party as has the NY Post, which also criticized Cuomo for accepting the Independence Party’s support.

On Tuesday, Liz Benjamin quoted Frank McKay, Chairman of the New York state Independence as saying, when endorsing Andrew Cuomo for Governor.

“I believe strongly that he’ll be the next governor, and we’re proud to hold his coat on the way to the governor’s mansion.”

My advice to Andrew – if McKay or any of the other grifters who run the Independence Party ever hold your coat, check to make sure your wallet is still there afterwards!

Tom Robbins in this week’s Village Voice in a column titled – Pedro Espada's Enablers -The people who brought you Albany's greatest scoundrel, goes after various developers & landlords who have contributed to notorious State Senator’s campaign.

Robbins writes –

... it should be worth the trouble to aim some of that fury at Espada's enablers. These are the deep-pocketed sponsors who have been all too happy to profit from this scoundrel regardless of his obvious taint.

The names on the checks to New Yorkers for Espada are among real estate's most prestigious. They came from the Rudin family, the respected builders, who gave some $4,000; from Leonard Litwin, the grand old man of luxury rentals, who gave another $5,000; from Donald Capoccia, the successful developer who depends on government subsidies, who gave thousands more.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/29/nyregion/29budget.html?ref=nyregion

Mr. Sampson, a Brooklyn Democrat, leads 32 Senate Democrats, a tissue-thin majority. Most of his members, like most of Mr. Silver’s, are from safe districts in New York City. But the most vulnerable Senate Democrats are from places like Long Island, the North Country and Oneida County, occupying districts that were drawn for — and until recently represented by — Republicans.

Should even one of those members lose without a Democratic pickup somewhere else, Mr. Sampson’s majority will become a minority come January.

I watched a few minutes of Morning Joe on MSNBC this morning, where their guests included Daily News publisher, Mort Zuckerman.

John Harris of Politico reported on a story by Room 8 co-founder Ben Smith about union leaders pressuring Democratic Congressmen to vote in favor of the health insurance plan.

Harris pointed to the role being played by Andy Stern, President of the SEIU.

Zuckerman, in an obvious attempt to imply that Obama is a corrupt as those horrible Clintons, stated said that Stern was #1 on the list of people who had overnight stays at the White House.

Today’s New York Times reports on the latest candidate who thinks he can beat Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.

Last January, after the Supreme Court overturned the ban on corporations’ spending money on federal campaigns, the Times Editorial Board got angry.

Here’s some of what they wrote –

With a single, disastrous 5-to-4 ruling, the Supreme Court has thrust politics back to the robber-baron era of the 19th century...

The majority is deeply wrong on the law. Most wrongheaded of all is its insistence that corporations are just like people and entitled to the same First Amendment rights.

It was a fundamental misreading of the Constitution to say that these artificial legal constructs have the same right to spend money on politics as ordinary Americans have to speak out in support of a candidate.