Lakewood, NJ – For a man who had lived here only one year, Bill Hobday felt remarkably secure as a candidate for Township Committee in early 2002. He already had Republican Party backing and faced no opponent in the June primary. The only matter left was a meeting a courtesy, he thought with […]
If you thought the race between Assemblyman Dov Hikind and Councilman David Greenfield was over, you havent seen anything yet. In their first public break since they made amends after Greenfields landslide victory over the Hikind-backed/funded/inspired Joe Lazar, Assemblyman Dov Hikind has decided to endorse a Republican challenger to defeat centrist Democratic Congressman Mike McMahon. […]
NPR News has terminated the contract of longtime news analyst Juan Williams after remarks he made on the Fox News Channel about Muslims. Williams appeared Monday on The O’Reilly Factor,
The following Op-Ed was written by Tevi troy for Politico: For decades, conservative Jews have been wondering when the traditionally Democratic Jewish voter would make the same migration as other
Toyota on Thursday announced the recall of 1.5 million vehicles for possible brake and fuel system problems. The automaker submitted a recall notice to Japan’s transport ministry for about 599,000
Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, has claimed the 10th victim in California, in what health officials are calling the worst outbreak in 60 years. Since the beginning of the
Only 26 percent of New York City voters want Mayor Michael Bloomberg to run for president in 2012, according to a poll released Wednesday. The Marist College poll found that
The campaign to recall Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez has erupted into a pitched battle, with the mayor drawing significant funding from the police union as his chief critic said recall
In a speech at the University of Texas at Tyler, former President George W. Bush told a packed house that he misses the creature comforts of the White House. “I
From the IRS: The IRS is warning New York taxpayers about a new phishing scam. Phishing, a word play on fishing for information, is a scam in which Internet fraudsters send seemingly legitimate e-mail messages to trick unsuspecting victims into revealing personal and financial information. Alternately, the purpose of an e-mail scam may be to […]
The Obama administration has notified Congress of plans for a multiyear, multibillion-dollar weapons deal with Saudi Arabia, a State Department official said Wednesday. The sale is meant to further align
New York is instituting new filing requirements in order to ensure the integrity of the home foreclosure process, the states chief judge said Wednesday. Lawyers bringing foreclosure claims will now be required to file an affirmation that they themselves have taken reasonable steps to verify the accuracy of documents filed in support of residential foreclosures. […]
Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile-phone carrier, will start selling Samsung Electronics Co.s Galaxy Tab tablet computer next month, introducing one of the first competitors to Apple Inc.s iPad in the U.S. The 7-inch touch-screen computer will be available on Nov. 11 for $599.99, Basking Ridge, New Jersey-based Verizon Wireless said in a statement today. […]
Carl Paladino needs more than a minor miracle to catch up to Andrew Cuomo, according to the pollster for Siena College Research Institute, which this morning said the Buffalo business man is now 37 points behind the Democratic frontrunner. The latest poll shows Cuomo with 63 percent to Paladinos 26 percent, with 9 percent undecided. […]
Atlanta-based Graco Children’s Products Inc. and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission are recalling 2 million strollers because of strangulation and entrapment risks. The recall follows reports of at least
A half dozen New York officials today strongly endorsed Attorney General nominee Eric Schneidermans plan to create a New York Sanctions And Financing the Enemy (NY-SAFE) task force to investigate and launch enforcement actions against businesses and financial entities that operate in New York that trade with, or invest in, Iran and other countries that […]
A controversial sculpture of former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon in a coma is to be exhibited in Tel Aviv. The life-size sculpture is part of an installation by Israeli
A senior official in Ottawa denied early Wednesday Dubai Police chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim’s claim that Canada had arrested a suspect in the assassination of senior Hamas terrorist Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.
He is a former Democrat, born and raised on Staten Island, the first Republican elected as district attorney there in a half century and then re-elected in 2007 with 67 percent of the vote. He opposes abortion except in cases of rape, incest or to save a mothers life, and he favors civil unions, not […]
One individual seemed to think that money in a Bonei OlamPushka belonged to all the children in the world, including himself. Julio Ortiz walked into a Flatbush store wearing a Borsalino hat while posing as being Jewish. He told the clerks that he came to collect the Pushka money and will leave them a receipt. […]
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