Tag: new york daily news
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Living ‘Black’ in the United States of America
And living to tell the tales. Traffic was heavy on Route 17 in Hasbrouck Heights on my way home to Ridgewood, NJ, after work on Wednesday, which wasn’t exactly news. But, as I approached a stretch where Route 46 and Interstate 80 go over Route 17, traffic eased and I saw the reason why. Rubbernecking…
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Irrefutable
This kind of infallible logic is exactly how you become a big city newspaper columnist. Sen. Barack Obama, (D-IL), has won 11 straight Democratic Party primaries and caucuses in the contest with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, (D-NY), for the presidential nomination. During the past month, Mr. Obama has won states big and small, won some…
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Old (sort of) Liberal
I used to debate Jim Sleeper when we both toiled at the New York Daily News. I thought many of his columns were wrongheaded. Although I was a young reporter, he graciously listened to my criticism and even deigned to debate me. I lost touch with him over the years. It’s good to see him…