Just two days after promising not to scapegoat anyone over the bureaucratic bungle that cost New Jersey federal Race to the Top money, Gov. Christie last week jettisoned Education...
Summer of recovery? Not quite. The Obama administration, with VP Joe Biden playing head cheerleader, has been pushing the idea that last year’s $862 billion stimulus, the linchpin...
"What's the difference between selling out your party's values and the oldest profession?" -- Joe Miller, who holds a slim lead in the Alaska GOP Senate primary, on reports that...
Special interests — particularly labor unions — have long been used to getting their way in New Jersey. Which is why it’s no surprise that 20 of the top 25 PAC contributors in...
Once upon a time, patriotism was said to be the last refuge of the scoundrel. Today, it’s racism. Or, more accurately, manufactured claims of racism. Take Charlie Rangel, for...
Nobody will ever mistake Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver for Jerry Seinfeld, standup-comic-wise, But he can be a funny guy at times. Consider this howler, delivered at...
Hang an "I don't get it" sign on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The San Francisco Democrat (actually, San Francisco roots explain a lot) wants to form up a posse and set off...
Could Mayor Mike finally have read the First Amendment to the US Constitution? Seems so. Regarding the swirling debate over the Ground Zero mosque, the mayor said this...
It was three years ago today that firefighters Robert Beddia and Joseph Graffagnino Jr. perished in a blaze at the 9/11-scarred Deutsche Bank building at 130 Liberty St. They...
If not for the home run he hit in the Polo Grounds on the afternoon of Oct. 3, 1951, Bobby Thomson might best be remembered as one of only four Scotland natives to play Major...
Does anybody really know what President Obama's position is on the Ground Zero mosque? Does he even know? At first glance, he seems to be saying that its supporters have a...
It's hardly surprising that the mosque controversy has reduced some of the political world's most notorious publicity hounds to a state of abject silence. Like the normally...
Jerry Speziale collects a disability pension from the NYPD -- but he's healthy enough to have just been installed deputy superintendent of the Port Authority Police Department. ...
Mayor Bloomberg thinks Gov. Pater son should don a cowboy hat and play sheriff -- if that's what it takes to collect cigarette taxes from Indian reservations. Hey, whatever...
Just as state Sen. Kevin Parker was finally set to go to trial -- fully 15 months after he was charged with assaulting Post photographer William Lopez -- the case has been put...
So, will the union rat -- you know, that giant inflatable rodent that strikers bring with them to picket "evil" employers -- soon show up outside the offices of the United...
WikiLeaks, the anti-war group that dumped 75,000 pages of secret US military material onto the Internet, may already have blood on its hands -- even as it gets set to dump...
Andrew Cuomo took to the airwaves yesterday, unleashing a barrage of new campaign commercials in which he decried political corruption, unveiled a plan for ethics reform and...
Sixty-five years ago tomorrow, Japan accepted Allied demands for its un conditional surrender -- ending the bloodiest conflict in human history. It had been a long, hard, ugly...
"The jump in jobless claims is another nail in the coffin for the economy." -- bond trader Tom Gigaloma, yesterday, as unemployment claims hit a six-month high and Wall Street...
Voters' focus on spending forced Democrats to make a telling choice this week -- between public unions and folks on food stamps. Guess who they picked? Yup: To fund another...
City officials may be starting to feel taxpayers' pain, rather than the supposed pain of public-sector pension scammers. Sure is about time. As The Post's Philip Messing...
The hard-core left has ramped up its attacks on President Obama so much that this week White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs found himself playing defense, albeit clumsily. ...
The details of Sunday morning's wild shootout in Harlem still aren't to tally clear, but this much is certain: New York can't afford to see such incidents become as frequent as...
For any worker who's been told "the customer is always right," even when he's clearly wrong, JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater is now a hero. No, his spectacular...
When it comes to the Ground Zero mosque, Gov. Paterson -- unlike Mayor Bloomberg -- gets it. The governor, who until now has been silent in the debate, yesterday offered to...
It's not sufficiently divisive, apparently, that a controversial imam wants to erect a mosque near Ground Zero; now the Obama folks have him conducting "outreach" to Arab...
Rep. Charlie Rangel says he has no re grets about helping steer taxpayer money to a financially troubled nonprofit -- and, indeed, resents The Post even asking questions about...
Even in a boom economy, tax hikes are risky -- but in rocky times like these, the pain is doubled. And good for Mayor Bloomberg to say so. "Taxes are not good for anybody,"...
City Hall says it plans a speedy appeal of Brooklyn Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis' latest attempt to rebuild the FDNY to his personal racial specifications. Good move. ...
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