Liberal Talk Radio

. . . so then your 15-year-old will be shot in secret and not on the street corner. Is there some kind of new metric when it comes to drug dealers? Cory Booker talking about Newark’s new high-tech camera systems: These are not your standard security cameras; these are high resolution, night vision capability, the [...]

This is a pretty good representation of what happens when the GOP governing philosophy holds sway. Apparently the Governator decided to try to cut salaries for all state employees to minimum wage by Executive Order. The Republican governor signed an executive order last week recommending the cut to minimum wage for most permanent state workers [...]

Most Americans don’t give a rip: WASHINGTON — A majority of American voters say that the furor over the relationship between Senator Barack Obama and his former pastor has not affected their opinion of Mr. Obama, but a substantial number say that it could influence voters this fall should he be the Democratic presidential nominee, [...]

Maybe you trust this man to make smart environmental policy? I wouldn’t: Representative Anthony D. Weiner, Democrat of Brooklyn and Queens, drives a 2008 Chevrolet Impala, leased for $219 a month. Representative Michael R. McNulty, a Democrat from the Albany area, gets around in a 2007 Mercury Mariner hybrid, a sport utility vehicle, for $816 [...]

I so, so badly want to return to the heady early days of the internet: When he bought the Web domain pizza.com for $20 in 1994, Chris Clark never imagined it would be his meal ticket. But yesterday, the 43-year-old Queens-born entrepreneur sold the name at auction for a saucy $2.605 million. . . . [...]

Has the Clinton Campaign’s March 4 bounce hit apogee? For our answer, let’s just go directly to Sinbad himself, who today gave up the coveted VP slot that the Clinton campaign had set aside for him: Threat of bullets? Sinbad doesn’t remember that, either. “I never felt that I was in a dangerous position. I [...]

And they say this Congress has done nothing . . . here we are this morning with a whole extra hour of sunlight: For Benjamin Franklin, daylight saving time was about saving candles and for modern lawmakers, it’s about electricity — but a recent university study found it might actually cost more energy when the [...]

Just when I start to believe the vast HRC conspiracy about Obama’s supposed thinness, Bruno encourages me to take a look at the man’s website. He’s right. So let’s start with Obama’s “Sportsmen” platform: Barack Obama did not grow up hunting and fishing, but he recognizes the great conservation legacy of America’s hunters and anglers [...]

The Garden State is the new bastion of progressive politics, says the Times: “They’re a new leader,” said Joel Rogers, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and the director of the Center for State Innovation, which describes itself as a progressive public-policy research institute. “It’s not just California anymore, it’s New Jersey,” [...]

Was the freelance/permalance labor strife at Viacom precipitated by New York Governor Elliot Spitzer’s overaggressive meddling? In other words, was a freelance-employer relationship that actually provided benefits to freelancers stupidly, unaccountably deemed illegal by Spitzer so that the upshot is that now none of them will get benefits? It seems that way: Not every employer [...]