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		<title>New York City Schools Expecting Flood of Illegal Aliens in Coming Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2014 18:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What's another $50 million? ]]></description>
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<p>While Obama is still making ridiculous promises of border security that are as credible as a crack addict promising that this will be his last go at the crack pipe, the actual liberal infrastructure is prepping for what&#8217;s really coming.</p>
<p>A horrifyingly <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/11/23/city-schools-warned-of-plans-to-enroll-2350-migrant-children/">massive flood of illegal aliens</a> attracted to amnesty like wasps to human sweat.</p>
<blockquote><p>New York has sent a warning to its schools: Expect more illegal immigrants.</p>
<p>The city Department of Education has told principals it plans this year to enroll 2,350 migrant children from Central America who crossed into the United States unaccompanied — with many more to come.</p>
<p>“It is expected that children will continue to arrive in large numbers in the coming years,” says a DOE memo to principals obtained by The Post.</p></blockquote>
<p>And why would we expect that? Right, amnesty.</p>
<p>2,350 new students (whose parents don&#8217;t pay into the system and are free riders) sounds like a lot, but it&#8217;s a drop in the bucket of acid rain.</p>
<blockquote><p>The recent arrivals join an estimated 350,000 children of illegal immigrants already in New York state — about 12 percent of the public-school population.</p></blockquote>
<p>The numbers are obviously a lot worse in the city. New York City at the bottom already looks like Texas or California.</p>
<blockquote><p>The city’s per-pupil spending in the 2012-2013 academic year averaged $20,749, which would bring the total for the migrant kids to $48.7 million.</p></blockquote>
<p>What&#8217;s another $50 million when the middle class is being hollowed out for the rotten welfare class.</p>
<blockquote><p>Under US law, all children have a right to enroll in school and ­receive government services, ­regardless of immigration status.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s really time to change that.</p>
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		<title>De Blasio to Fix Broken New York Schools by Putting Solar Panels on Roofs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2014 16:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rats and squirrels noisily scamper in the walls and ceiling.]]></description>
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<p>Liberals love putting solar panels on things. Obama put solar panels on the roof of the White House. His VA Sec put solar panels on the roofs of VA hospitals. If there&#8217;s anything that can&#8217;t be fixed by putting solar panels on it, liberals don&#8217;t want to know about it.</p>
<p>A lot of New York City schools are in terrible shape. But there&#8217;s nothing that can&#8217;t be solved <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/09/29/mayor-de-blasio-unveils-plan-for-solar-panels-on-two-dozen-school-rooftops/">by putting solar panels on their roofs</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>New York City is making a major investment in solar energy at public schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday.</p>
<p>The mayor said solar panels will soon be installed at a total of 24 schools around the boroughs. The $28 million investment is part of the city’s green buildings plan.</p>
<p>Bill de Blasio said the climate protests and United Nations summit held in New York City made last week an important one.</p>
<p>“A week we’re going to look back on, not only in New York City but around the globe, as having been a turning point,” he said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Meanwhile in the real world,<a href="http://nypost.com/2014/01/12/no-space-no-books-no-leader-no-clue-at-citys-worst-elementary/"> New York City schools are a disaster area</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The isolated building sits a block and a half from the beach, surrounded by vacant, weed-choked lots, the road behind it strewn with trash bags and broken TVs.</p>
<p>PS 106 classes still don’t have the books or teacher’s guides. Teachers muddle through by printing out worksheets they find online, buying their own copy paper.</p>
<p>About 40 kindergartners have no room in the three-story brick building. They sit all day in dilapidated trailers that reek of “animal urine,” a parent said; rats and squirrels noisily scamper in the walls and ceiling.</p></blockquote>
<p>I bet they&#8217;ll love the solar panels though. The rats and squirrels can play on them.</p>
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		<title>9/11 Commission Member Warns NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Undermining Counterterrorism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2014 14:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“A classic case of taking your eye off the ball at the worst possible time."]]></description>
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<p>The selection of Red Bill de Blasio by the media had serious consequences not only for New York, where crime has sharply gone up due to his pro-criminal policies,  but for the country, because the NYPD was the nation&#8217;s firewall with an intel unit and reach that rivaled the FBI.</p>
<p>New York City was ground zero for terrorism and counter-terrorism. Now<a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/news/217628-de-blasio-under-fire-amid-new-threat-from-isis"> it&#8217;s just ground zero for terrorism</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is coming under sharp criticism for making decisions that may have undermined the effectiveness of his police department’s counter-terrorism operations.</p>
<p>Thirteen years after the 9/11 attacks on Manhattan, prominent security experts say de Blasio has made fighting terrorism a lower priority in order to appease the communities that helped elect him.</p>
<p>“A classic case of taking your eye off the ball at the worst possible time is Mayor de Blasio in New York,” said John Lehman, a former member of the 9/11 Commission.</p>
<p>He said de Blasio is failing to take seriously enough the new threat posed to New York and other major American cities by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which has reportedly trained dozens of American jihadists.</p>
<p>“At the very time when the threat suddenly emerges in a whole new additional form focused on the U.S., he decides to end some of the most effective programs in the country in the NYPD counterterrorism unit,” Lehman said.</p>
<p>“He has reassigned people and vehicles and special equipment to non-counterterrorist activities,” he added.</p>
<p>The liberal Democratic mayor has come under fire for several controversial decisions since succeeding Michael Bloomberg, who created a massive counterterrorism unit during his three terms as mayor.</p>
<p>In April, de Blasio disbanded a special unit tasked with conducting surveillance of mosques and Muslim groups suspected of radical ties.</p>
<p>Michael Mukasey, who served as U.S. attorney general from 2007 to 2009, said the unit was instrumental in mapping out possible terrorist ties within Muslim communities.</p>
<p>“They weren’t simply conducting surveillance of mosques and Muslims. They were mapping communities, figuring out where someone from Lebanon or Yemen or any of the other hot spots would go if they wanted to come to this country and find refuge,” he said.</p>
<p>“At mosques that had particularly militant imams, they did have people who would tip them off to what other people were doing or saying. To the extent they’ve curtailed that, I think we’re all less safe,” he added.</p>
<p>Mukasey questioned de Blasio’s decision to replace David Cohen, a former CIA official who served as deputy police commissioner for intelligence, with John Miller, a former television journalist and FBI spokesman. Cohen, who previously served as the CIA’s director of operations, oversaw the NYPD’s surveillance of Muslim groups.</p>
<p>“He was an alumnus of the CIA and that was a distinct advantage. It was regarded as a source of suspicion by the new administration,” he said.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s not surprising that Bill de Blasio, who was an open sympathizer of Communist terrorists in Latin America and who campaigned with Islamic groups would wreck counterterrorism in the city the way that he wrecked the rest of local law enforcement.</p>
<p>The problem is that even if he becomes a one term mayor like his former boss David Dinkins, the damage that he did will take a while to undo.</p>
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		<title>Support Heroic Police Officers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2014 04:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York City returns to the bad old days. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/NYPD.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239762" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/NYPD-450x337.jpg" alt="NYPD" width="320" height="240" /></a>Police nationwide are feeling unsupported by elected officials and government – and that is simply awful and terrible. Nationwide, in the great United States of America, thanks should be constant to heroic police officers who risk their lives to keep us safe.</p>
<p>In America’s biggest city, <a href="http://observer.com/author/ronn-torossian/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">New York City</span></a>, Mayor Bill de Blasio has not been supportive of the police department.  As Sergeant Ed Mullins, President of the Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA) of the NYPD said this week when calling for the 2016 Democratic National Convention to not come to New York City,</p>
<blockquote><p>The Mayor has provided a public platform to the loudest of the city’s anti-safety agitators, instead of giving voice to the millions of <a href="http://nypost.com/author/ronn-torossian/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">New Yorkers</span></a> who want to live and work in safety.  Why would you kowtow to demagogues who push a political agenda?  Do you really think people in the city care more about politics than quality of life?</p></blockquote>
<p>Mullins noted,</p>
<blockquote><p>The degradation of our streets is on the rise.  As reported widely in the media, shootings have increased by 13% percent citywide since last year.  At the same time, the squeegee people are reappearing on the streets, and aggressive panhandlers and con-men are populating the subways and Times Square.  Why?  Because diminished support for police officers translates directly into crime spikes and drops in quality of life.  And right now the number of cops on the streets is insufficient to address the city’s growing problems.  The NYPD is understaffed and overworked, and underpaid.  Morale among police officers is low, and there are few signs that it will get better any time soon.  Our Mayor can’t be a leader in the fight against crime without supporting his police force.</p></blockquote>
<p>While perhaps it is baffling that countless elected officials blame the police constantly, perhaps the answer as to why comes from former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani who said some months ago that the lack of support for our boys in blue “comes more from this very left-wing ideology, which is an anti-police ideology.”</p>
<p>Being a police officer is a very difficult job – it has to be so much harder when people do not feel the support of elected officials and government – the very people who should be supporting law and order.</p>
<p>Mullins noted that when De Blasio “ran for office last year, he spoke of a &#8216;Tale of Two Cities.&#8217;  Indeed, the City is heading toward a very real division: one part of the city consisting of citizens who respect the rule of law, and the other led by anti-safety political opportunists and blowhards pursuing a personal and political agenda.” People want safety – not politics.</p>
<p>Police officers wake up, do their jobs and go home to their families.  Nothing is perfect in anyone’s life – or profession – and unfortunately in law enforcement mistakes happen.  That doesn’t mean that elected officials can throw the baby out with the bathwater. Police officers remain committed to enforcing the law and improving the quality of life of Americans nationwide.</p>
<p>As a <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/author/ronn-torossian/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">native New Yorker</span></a>, I remember a different city.  There was crime, violence,  squeegee men and drug pushers on every corner. New York needs strong law and order in this concrete jungle which I love so much. Police officers remain committed to making cities safe – and elected officials must stand side by side with them.  Supporting the police department should not be a political decision.</p>
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		<title>Crime Silently Increasing in New York City</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2014 04:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Concannon]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How politicians' police-bashing empowers criminals. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/h_51502653.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239418" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/h_51502653-411x350.jpg" alt="Police community relations roundtable at New York City Hall" width="308" height="262" /></a>New York City could not have a more polarizing figure sit upon its doorstep than Rev. Al Sharpton coming from a glitzy, gated community in New Jersey.  As “stalker in chief,” Sharpton pours his acid upon the busy streets of NYC and elsewhere in what used to be the safest big city in America.  Sharpton’s history of tearing communities apart is now legendary across the nation, as residents are left to pick up the pieces, put out the flames and replenish inventories of stolen goods.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Yet here in Queens County in a quiet cutout called home by hard working residents, NYC Councilman Rory Lancman seems to want to align himself with Mayor de Blasio&#8217;s Al Sharpton, and continue to debase the historic successes of the NYPD.  How Lancman&#8217;s constituents benefit from his unwarranted attack on the police is questionable at best. His actions as a city councilman are irresponsible to be sure.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Lancman has no horse in the race of the racially divisive overtones and temper tantrums of race baiter Al Sharpton. But Lancman nevertheless seeks to align himself with the harsh rhetoric of this community trouble maker and professional agitator.  The councilman cites a 40-year-old study written up in <i>The Atlantic </i>as evidence to back up his shallow claim that the &#8220;broken windows&#8221; theory doesn&#8217;t work.  While Lancman ties the knot with Sharpton, one can only wonder how this is sitting with the taxpayers of Lancman’s district, which includes Fresh Meadows, Briarwood, Hillcrest, Jamaica Hills, Jamaica Estates, and Kew Garden Hills. What about the ongoing related criminal justice costs we all have to shoulder because of Sharpton and company&#8217;s antics to disrupt New York City and the nation?</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">We invite the community to take a look and see how the <a href="http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/crime_prevention/crime_statistics.shtml">crime numbers</a> in your community are silently and quietly creeping up.  We invite you to see how in &#8220;key&#8221; communities (some of the poorest areas of the city), where violence has historically been raw and uncontrolled, we now have deadly, dangerous shooting incidents and shooting victims climbing upwards.  In some cases a 1500% increase, and overall, citywide incidents of shootings are up 12%.  Grand Larceny Auto was once the defining downward force for substantial decreases for years &#8212; not so much anymore. Check what&#8217;s happening in your part of town.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Signs of the past coming back are all in place with de Blasio and Lancman trashing the police at every opportunity they get.  What do we the community get?  We get historic increases of police officers being injured in the line of duty; the likes of which we have not seen in almost 20 years.  An emboldened criminal element, more violent streets and communities wondering when is it going to hit us next?</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">How did we become the safest big city in America today? Well, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton could tell you: It’s all about addressing the minor problems in a community.  Bratton would say it’s by not letting things get out of hand.  The Commissioner would talk about dampening the appetite for committing a crime within the criminal element in our society and how they used to count on the police looking the other way, not addressing those little things.  You could hear Bratton&#8217;s words echo and ring as he sat at a table this past month with Mayor de Blasio and Rev. Al Sharpton.  The only problem was that at that meeting de Blasio was twisting and turning Bratton&#8217;s words 180 degrees with a decade of police executives shaking their heads in utter disbelief.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">What is the “broken windows” theory and why should you, as a resident of the community, care?  Broken windows is a theory that says if you pay attention to small things such as petty crime, it will not grow into a larger problem such as serious violent crime.  This includes addressing community plagues like graffiti on stores, walls and our parkways, low level street trading, the selling of pirated movies and software, panhandlers, squeegee men, street narcotics, vagrants, untaxed cigarettes and alcohol, prostitution, broken car windows, stolen auto tires and rims, auto computer systems, repairing cars in the street, double parking, disorderly conduct, street fighting, and a whole lot more. These are the things that eat away at our civil order and stable society &#8212; order maintenance in the community.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Lancman would apparently like to see a return of petty crime.  We wonder how this would play out in Glen Oaks where stealing tires, rims and more is getting to be a common experience.  On 73rd Avenue, 188th Street, Utopia Blvd, Union Turnpike and other areas in not only Lancman&#8217;s district but others as well, cars are being &#8220;keyed,&#8221; tires slashed and windows broken and noise out of control. His constituents should let him know about their &#8220;quality of life&#8221; and just how important it may be to them, our senior citizens, our residents attending religious services as we go from dusk to dark, as we board trains and buses during all hours of the day and night.  New York residents need to remember what life in the city was like when crime was out of control, in order to really appreciate where we need to be both today and in the future.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">We can&#8217;t yet call this Bill de Blasio&#8217;s &#8220;2014 Summer of Death.&#8221; But as shootings and shooting victims skyrocket out of control, we can cite escalating violence on the streets of NYC, in taxicabs, NYC housing developments, and compare that with the overall success of crime strategies employed in NYC for the past 20 years wherein over 7,700 human lives were saved because of the hard work of the men and women of the NYPD.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">No discussion of crime in NYC would be complete without addressing NYC Local Law 71, which was better known last year as the Community Safety Act.  This law sought to address alleged constitutional violations by NYPD in the now totally misunderstood stop, question and frisk policy which originates from the NYS Criminal Procedure Law.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The Community Safety Act uniquely puts NYC police officers in the crosshairs of professional agitators such as Al Sharpton. Prior to the implementation of this law, Sharpton and his ilk had to deal with the NYC Law Department to settle what some would call “dialing for dollars” as they brought suit and filed claims against police officers in the City of New York.  The Law Department was well known for settling cases and setting up a cash cow for plaintiffs.  Now because of Local Law 71, police officers have to represent themselves with privately hired lawyers.  Police officers who are fighting to keep their homes, pay the education for their children and put food on the table, now have to weigh how to respond to street criminals and thugs because anyone can now file suit against a police officer as an individual.  It should come as no surprise that the number of stop, question and frisks in the entire City of New York have collapsed from hundreds of thousands a year to less than 20,000.  Likewise, the numbers of guns taken off the streets have been drastically reduced.  The stop, question and frisks were an important component of the city&#8217;s nationally acclaimed CompStat program.  CompStat is a statistical program which puts the data of crime and subsequent actions of police officers on an electronic pin map.  Police executives are held to account for their crime fighting strategies&#8217; effectiveness and overall crime reduction.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">CompStat is a National Institute of Justice award-winning program to fight crime in communities near and far.  The program works, and its successes can be seen all over the nation as well as right here in NYC where it was developed.  The program places performance demands and measurement of activities taken by police personnel.  This program &#8220;properly managed&#8221; can work, but it requires resources and intensive training by all ranks within any policing agency.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">If NYC could be found at fault for anything, it would be the lack of training and professional development of its personnel in properly carrying out this aspect of police operations.  The NYC Council can be found equally at fault for its failure in oversight. The Council has the duty and the obligation to correct these legal violations. However, by design they sought to limit and handcuff the police rather than improve the professional development which these hard-working men and women need and for the subsequent delivery of services to the visitors, residents and citizens of New York City.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">While City Councilman Lancman may take some comfort in bashing the police, the NYPD as a whole or in part,  he would do well to educate himself and his constituents to obey the law and encourage others to do the same, to engage with local police commanders and personnel.  The police need the community in order to be effective and the community expects that police officers solve crimes, expedite the flow of traffic and bring &#8220;order&#8221; to our civilized society.   Police operations are imperfect and at best sometimes the absolute last thing anyone wants.  But it’s all in a day&#8217;s work.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The NYPD is the agency of last resort and when everything else isn&#8217;t working people like you and I call for the police.  When hearing the harshness of any politician’s rhetoric, remember it is a police officer who will defend your right to speak your mind.  It is a police officer who will protect you from unwanted intrusions; it is a police officer who will guide you into safety when no one else seems to care.  Councilman Lancman, there are 7,700 New Yorkers alive and walking the face of this earth today because a New York City Police Officer cared enough for those they don&#8217;t even know to uphold the law and civility in our society.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><em>Joseph R. Concannon is a retired NYPD Captain, Deputy Director of Public Safety under Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and was a City Council candidate in 2013.</em></p>
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		<title>Hey, Bloomberg: Mind Your Own Crumbling City</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 04:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Malkin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The real reason the former NYC mayor lashed out at "rural" Colorado. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Bloomberg-angry.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236212" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Bloomberg-angry-427x350.jpg" alt="Bloomberg-angry" width="268" height="220" /></a>Some sore losers just don&#8217;t know when to pick up their billion-dollar marbles and go away. Far, far away.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m looking at you, Michael Bloomberg.</p>
<p>The former New York City mayor mouthed off about my adopted hometown of Colorado Springs and my friends in nearby Pueblo in Rolling Stone magazine this month. He snidely bashed our neighborhoods as backwater holes &#8220;where I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s roads. It&#8217;s as far rural as you can get.&#8221;</p>
<p>Snotty Bloomberg is as clueless about geography as he is about the Second Amendment. Colorado Springs and Pueblo are the second and seventh largest cities in the state, respectively. If we&#8217;re hee-haw, everyone&#8217;s hee-haw. (And what&#8217;s wrong with hee-haw, anyway?)</p>
<p>Why such vitriol and hatred for the Rockies from the man who pompously co-founded the &#8220;No Labels&#8221; movement for &#8220;civility&#8221; in politics?</p>
<p>Simple: Bloomberg&#8217;s still smarting from the ground-breaking losses he and his gun-grabbing East Coast elite pals suffered last fall.</p>
<p>Grass-roots activists — independents, former Democrats, constitutional conservatives and Republicans — successfully recalled two top gun control zealots in our state legislature.</p>
<p>The recall organizers were outspent by a whopping 7-to-1 margin. Bloomberg poured $350,000 into the failed effort to stave off the historic recalls.</p>
<p>Listen up, Bloomie: Butt out of our state and mind your own crumbling city before you bash anyone else&#8217;s infrastructure.</p>
<p>You were mayor of New York City for 12 years. How are your roads, bridges and utilities doing, Pal?</p>
<p>According to the Center for an Urban Future&#8217;s Adam Forman, &#8220;1,000 miles of water mains, 170 school buildings and 165 bridges were constructed over a century ago.</p>
<p>The city&#8217;s public hospital buildings are 57 years old, on average, and 531 public housing towers were built prior to 1950.&#8221; The center&#8217;s report documented 403 water main breaks last year. And in 2012, &#8220;162 bridges across the city — or 11 percent of the total — were structurally deficient,&#8221; and 47 of these were deemed &#8220;fracture critical.&#8221;</p>
<p>Take a Big Gulp of these additional fun facts:</p>
<p>— &#8220;Thirty seven percent of all subway signals exceed their 50-year useful life, slowing the movement of trains.&#8221;</p>
<p>— &#8220;Approximately 4,000 miles of sewer pipe across the city are made of vitreous clay, a material susceptible to cracking and blockage.</p>
<p>— Meanwhile, 1,500 of the 2,600 public housing buildings do not comply with local standards for exterior and facade conditions.</p>
<p>— In Manhattan and Staten Island, less than 60 percent of roads were rated &#8220;good&#8221; by residents. A &#8220;staggering 65.9 percent of streets in West Harlem/Morningside Heights&#8221; were in &#8220;fair to poor condition.&#8221;</p>
<p>— Highway maintenance has deteriorated over Bloomberg&#8217;s tenure. In 2012, 51 percent of highways were rated poor to fair, compared to 38 percent in 2008. &#8220;Conditions have declined in every borough except Brooklyn.&#8221;</p>
<p>Oh, and dare I mention to you and your city slicker clique that embarrassing time you had a few Christmas seasons ago dealing with a few feet of snow. Hundreds of ambulances were left stranded. Mass transit was paralyzed. Businesses suffered. Your bungling and AWOL jet setting (Bloomberg was flying to Bermuda while New Yorkers braced for the storm) cost taxpayers the entire $40 million snow removal budget and $30 million in city overtime.</p>
<p>But we&#8217;re the bumbling yokels?</p>
<p>Go home, Nanny Bloomberg. Keep your high-and-mighty nose out of our business, your hands off our guns and your money out of our state.</p>
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		<title>Unions Swell New York Budget to $75 Billion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2014 13:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>I wrote a while back that <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/is-new-york-city-the-next-detroit/">New York City might be the next Detroit</a>. Next month <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/7/mayor-michael-bloomberg-nyc-may-be-next-detroit/">Mayor Bloomberg warned that the city might </a>become the next Detroit if it didn&#8217;t get union costs under control.</p>
<blockquote><p>New York City is headed toward the same bankrupt fate as Detroit, unless the incoming mayor tends to municipal union issues and curbs soaring pension costs right away, Mayor Michael Bloomberg warned on Tuesday.</p></blockquote>
<p>And then the radical left elected a mayor who is big on social justice and is in thrall to municipal unions.</p>
<p>Bill de Blasio&#8217;s deals with the unions include all sorts of giveaways including a retroactive pay hike.<a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/pensions-and-health-care-boost-city-budget-1403746523"> And the city&#8217;s budget </a>looks like the national debt of a small country.</p>
<blockquote><p>Facing skyrocketing pension and health care costs, the New York City Council on Thursday morning adopted a $75 billion budget for the fiscal year that begins next week, on July 1.</p>
<p>The $75 billion in Mr. de Blasio&#8217;s inaugural budget marks a 68% increase in spending over his predecessor&#8217;s first one 12 years ago.</p>
<p>Pension costs during the current fiscal year are projected to be roughly $8.3 billion, up from about $1.4 billion in fiscal year 2002 when Mr. Bloomberg took office. Annual employee health-care costs have climbed to $6.6 billion, up from $2.7 billion in fiscal year 2002.</p>
<p>During his 12-year tenure, Mr. Bloomberg repeatedly ordered his commissioners to cut agency spending. Mr. de Blasio ordered no such wholesale cuts this year.</p>
<p>&#8220;We feel great about this budget and our commitment to fiscal prudence,&#8221; Mr. de Blasio said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Nothing says fiscal prudence like a $75 billion dollar budget. New York City is now on course to Detroit. But first it has to get to Chicago. When you see De Blasio pulling a Rahm and finding ways to jam tax hikes into everything, you&#8217;ll know we&#8217;re there.</p>
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		<title>High Court Blocks Bill de Blasio&#8217;s Effort to Protect Black People from Soda</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2014 15:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First they came for cigarettes. Then they came for absolutely everything.]]></description>
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<p>It was a bad day for left-wingers drunk on executive authority. Not only did Obama <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/supreme-court-obamas-recess-appointments-violated-constitution/">have his recess appointments blocked</a> by the Supreme Court, but New York&#8217;s radical left-wing mayor <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/new-yorks-highest-court-blocked-a-measure-to-ban-sales-of-large-sugary-drinks-at-food-carts-delis-and-concession-stands-1403796921">lost his war on soda</a>&#8230; which he claimed to be fighting for black people.</p>
<blockquote><p>Mayor de Blasio&#8217;s statement: &#8220;The city&#8217;s proposal to cap the size of sugary drinks responds to the alarming obesity and diabetes crisis that so <strong>disproportionally affects minority communities</strong> in New York City. We are hopeful that the State Court of Appeals will respect the expertise and authority of the Board of Health and its public health professionals and allow the city to move forward with a sound policy that can save the lives of many New Yorkers.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Disproportionate impact. It&#8217;s everywhere. But sadly the court blocked Bill de Blasio&#8217;s effort to save black people from drinking the large sodas they wanted to drink.</p>
<blockquote><p>New York&#8217;s highest court ruled 4-2 on Thursday to block New York City from banning the sale of large sugary drinks in restaurants and other venues.</p>
<p>In its majority opinion, the New York State Court of Appeals ruled that the Board of Health &#8220;exceeded the scope of its regulatory authority. By choosing among competing policy goals, without any legislative delegation or guidance, the board engaged in law-making and thus infringed upon the legislative jurisdiction of the City Council.&#8221;</p>
<p>When running for mayor last year, Mr. de Blasio, a supporter of the ban, said he would pursue council legislation to impose the ban if the courts ultimately refused to let the city move forward. An aide said Thursday the mayor is reviewing his options.</p>
<p>In a statement, Mary Bassett, commissioner of the city&#8217;s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, said the ruling &#8220;does not change the fact that sugary drink consumption is a key driver of the obesity epidemic, and we will continue to look for ways to stem the twin epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes by seeking to limit the pernicious effects of aggressive and predatory marketing of sugary drinks and unhealthy foods.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>First they came for cigarettes. Then they came for absolutely everything.</p>
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		<title>Shootings in Parts of New York City, Triple, Double After End of Stop and Frisk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 15:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The liberal media have the blood of black people on their hands. ]]></description>
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<p>Liberals really love minorities. They fought long and hard against &#8220;Stop and Frisk&#8221; because even though they are obsessed with gun control, stopping and frisking likely gang members discriminated against minorities. Most shootings in urban areas are gang related. Stop and Frisk was an effective way of keeping gang members from carrying.</p>
<p>It was also racially disproportionate because unfortunately there&#8217;s a shortage of white Crips in East New York&#8230; and a shortage of white residents in the areas where most shootings happen.</p>
<p>Stop and Frisk was shut down. <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/shooting-deaths-sharply-canarsie-east-new-york-east-bronx-article-1.1824729">The killings started up</a>. Now Judge Shira Scheindlin and the liberal media have the blood of black people on their hands.</p>
<blockquote><p>Shootings in some of the city’s most dangerous neighborhoods are up, tripling in one Brooklyn precinct and doubling in another as well as one in the Bronx, NYPD figures show.</p>
<p>The number of shooting victims so far this year in the 69th Precinct in Canarsie, Brooklyn, increased threefold to 18 compared to six fatalities in the same period last year.</p>
<p>In the 75th Precinct in East New York, the number of shooting victims had doubled as of Sunday, from 17 to 34. And in the 47th Precinct in the Bronx, the number of people shot has already more than doubled, from 12 to 25.</p>
<p>“While any increase is always a concern, this one is a spike and a spike that we’ll be able to respond to,” said NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton on Tuesday.</p></blockquote>
<p>Bill Bratton won&#8217;t respond to the shootings because his boss has tied his hands. Bill de Blasio opposes every effective crimefighting measure.</p>
<p>The only thing Bratton is still allowed to do is put more cops on the street&#8230; and there aren&#8217;t enough cops to shut down gang violence by just patrolling. Ask Chicago.</p>
<blockquote><p>Bratton, who said a decrease in stop-and-frisk tactics wasn’t the cause of the jump, also pointed out that about a third of shooting victims weren’t cooperative with cops.</p></blockquote>
<p>They&#8217;re not cooperative&#8230; because they&#8217;re gang members. Stopping gang members from shooting each other was what Stop-and-Frisk did.</p>
<p>Would Bratton like to share with us a reason for the massive spike in gang violence? Nah, he&#8217;ll just let his boss roll out some more income inequality programs to fix the underlying social issues which will keep gang members from shooting each other.</p>
<p>It worked in the 70s. It&#8221;ll work now.</p>
<blockquote><p>“I used to walk to the store late at night, but now I can’t,” said Chelsia Febles, a 22-year-old Bronx Community College psychology student, as she pushed her 4-month-old in a stroller. “All of the shootings have me scared.”</p></blockquote>
<p>And yet Chelsea probably voted for Bill de Blasio.</p>
<blockquote><p>Andre Green, 20, said he believed gangs were responsible for most of the violence.</p>
<p>“The police should get on it, but it’s hard to tell who they are,” he said. “It looks good around here with homes and working people. But it isn’t safe.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The police can&#8217;t get on it because stop and frisk was banned.</p>
<blockquote><p>Katherine Lee, a 78-year-old retired bookkeeper, blamed a lack of police as she stopped on the corner of Baychester Ave. and Tillotson Ave. in the Bronx’s 47th Precinct.</p>
<p>“There’s not enough police,” she said. “They only come after people get shot. Where are they? Look around you. You don’t see a single cop.”</p></blockquote>
<p>There&#8217;s not enough police because after every shooting, procedure floods the area with cops. Multiple shootings mean watchtowers and massive police patrols of the kind that would freak out any of the bloggers complaining about MRAPs.</p>
<p>But meanwhile the gangs beat the heat and deal and feud somewhere else. Then the cops swarm there.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s like nothing has been learned from the seventies. Nothing at all.</p>
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		<title>The Puerto Rican Terrorist Day Parade</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_233600" style="width: 320px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Melissa-Mark-Viverito.PRDParade.jpg"><img class="wp-image-233600" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Melissa-Mark-Viverito.PRDParade-412x350.jpg" alt="Melissa-Mark-Viverito.PRDParade" width="310" height="263" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito</p></div>
<p>The hijacking of the Puerto Rican Day Parade began when New York’s radical leftist Attorney General purged its board of directors. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman had promised during his campaign that Al Sharpton would have “an annex in Albany for the first time in the history of this state.”</p>
<p>When Schneiderman announced the results of his investigation, standing by his side was City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito. Mark-Viverito had called for the Schneiderman “investigation” and its results predictably gave her and her radical allies control over the parade.</p>
<p>Her handpicked board took over and Melissa Mark-Viverito became one of its grand marshalls, along with her close ally, Red Bill de Blasio.</p>
<p>Melissa Mark-Viverito is a class warrior <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/06/06/mark-viverito-has-properties-valued-well-over-1m/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">who owns $1.5 million in land</span></a> back in Puerto Rico. She is a top public official in one of the biggest cities in the United States and also a Puerto Rican separatist who <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/nyc-council-speaker-wannabe-suddenly-embraces-pledge-article-1.1516272"><span style="color: #0433ff;">refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance</span></a>.</p>
<p>The retooled Puerto Rican Day Parade honored FALN terrorist leader Oscar Lopez Rivera and alcoholic separatist poet Julia de Burgos who served as a top official in the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party before dying of cirrhosis of the liver</p>
<p>The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party was responsible for numerous acts of violence including the attempted assassination of President Truman and an armed attack on Congress. (The surviving perpetrators of both attacks were pardoned by Jimmy Carter.) The latter terrorist attack had been carried out in the name of “our apostle of independence, Don Pedro Albizu y Campos.”</p>
<p>Campos returned the favor by calling the terrorist attack on Congress an act of &#8220;sublime heroism&#8221;.</p>
<p>PRNP leader Pedro Albizu Campos served on the National Committee of the International Labor Defense which had been set up as part of the Comintern&#8217;s International Red Aid network and Communist literature had been found in the apartment of one of the terrorists.</p>
<p>Julia de Burgos edited the culture section of Pueblos Hispanos, a publication set up by the PRNP and the Communist Party. Under Obama, Burgos was honored with her own stamp by the Postal Service.</p>
<p>The “King” of the Puerto Rican Day Parade was Calle 13 frontman Rene Perez Joglar. Joglar, like Melissa Mark-Viverito, is a champion of convicted FALN terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera. After the death of FALN founder and Macheteros terror group leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios during a shootout with the FBI, Calle 13 released a protest song boasting of “spitting” on the FBI. He performed that song in Castro’s Cuba where he praised Rios as a “good Puerto Rican.”</p>
<p>The biggest shadow over the parade though was FALN leader Oscar Lopez Rivera.</p>
<p>FALN was a Marxist terrorist group whose goal was to direct “an armed and political struggle in accordance with the Marxist-Leninist principle” and to implement “the Stalinist ideological position concerning the concept of ‘nation’ to the North-American context.”</p>
<p>The terrorist campaign began with bombings in New York. The worst of these was the attack on Fraunces Tavern where George Washington had bid his troops farewell. The FALN terror attack killed four and maimed many others. A FALN message demanded freedom for the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party terrorists responsible for the attacks on Truman and Congress.</p>
<p>Oscar Lopez Rivera was busted for receiving 200 sticks of dynamite after investigators stumbled onto his Chicago FALN bomb factory and he was locked away for 55 years.</p>
<p>Following in the footsteps of Jimmy Carter, and at Carter’s request, Bill Clinton and Eric Holder offered FALN terrorists clemency on the condition that they renounce violence. The terrorist leader was the only one to refuse the offer of the man whose wife had political ambitions distinctly centered on New York.</p>
<p>Rivera remained behind bars because he refused to renounce violence even in name only.</p>
<p>When Bill de Blasio first began pushing Melissa Mark-Viverito for the speaker’s post, Joe Connor, the son of one of his victims, asked “How she could possibly expect to have the second-most important position in our city while advocating for a terrorist whose group attacked and murdered New Yorkers.”</p>
<p>But Red Bill got his way and so did Melissa Mark-Viverito. The Puerto Rican Day Parade celebrated a Communist supporter and a Communist terrorist.</p>
<p>Republican City Councilman Republican Dan Halloran blasted Melissa Mark-Viverito, saying, “This terrorist, like all terrorists, should rot in jail forever. It is only a shame the death penalty was not imposed to prevent him from becoming a threat in the future.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I guess the 9-11 bombers could make the same argument. They were merely responding to the &#8216;evils&#8217; of the U.S. Will you be asking for them to be pardoned too?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Some people did not want to call Oscar a patriot but some people consider him a patriot &#8211; there might be divergent opinions but they are all valid,&#8221; the parade’s Chairwoman Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez said.</p>
<p>Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez was a Spitzer appointee and had sworn in Melissa Mark-Viverito during her inauguration. Cortes-Vazquez and a number of the other new Schneiderman/Mark-Viverito board members are tied to the MirRam Group <a href="http://nypost.com/2012/08/26/twited-web-of-political-nonprofits-in-bx/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">which is tangled up with dubious Democratic Party Latino interests</span></a> in New York. The MirRam Group also helped Melissa Mark-Viverito get her speakership.</p>
<p>This may seem like petty politics, but Melissa Mark-Viverito has moved to take control of Puerto Rican culture in New York and that has larger implications for the city, the state and the country. Melissa Mark-Viverito’s targeting of Taller Boricua to take over the Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, like the Puerto Rican Day Parade, is an attempt at imposing her radical vision on Puerto Ricans in New York.</p>
<p>Melissa Mark-Viverito’s FALN heroes were second-generation radicalized Puerto Ricans. Controlling Puerto Rican culture in New York is vital to repeating the process of radicalization. If the process succeeds, then the terrorist attacks can begin again. That is the monster lurking behind the parade.</p>
<p>The Puerto Rican Day Parade, like every cultural Puerto Rican event controlled by her allies, is about the ambition of a wealthy and powerful woman to indoctrinate Puerto Ricans with her hatred for America.</p>
<p>Patriotic Puerto Ricans who oppose Melissa Mark-Viverito’s radical separatist agenda have an opportunity to speak out and reclaim their community and their culture from radicals who once again want to use their sons and their daughters and their way of life as a weapon against the United States.</p>
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		<title>Rejecting the Boycotters at the Celebrate Israel Parade</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Closing the communal tent to the promoters of Jew-hatred. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1370206259-nyc-fifth-avenue-turns-blue-and-white-for-the-celebrate-israel-parade_2112940.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224019" alt="1370206259-nyc-fifth-avenue-turns-blue-and-white-for-the-celebrate-israel-parade_2112940" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1370206259-nyc-fifth-avenue-turns-blue-and-white-for-the-celebrate-israel-parade_2112940-450x299.jpg" width="315" height="209" /></a>If a small group of grass-roots Jewish organizations have their way, more than one hundred protestors will <a href="http://jccwatch.org/">assemble in New York City on April 29, 2014</a>, each carrying a shofar. On cue, at 5:30 in the afternoon, rain or shine, all will raise their curved rams’ horns, long and short, and wail to the heavens in visceral unison producing a piercing spectacle of protest. The cacophonous alarums will continue their outcry until the shofar blowers feel they have made their point.</p>
<p>What are they protesting? It is their communal leadership.</p>
<p>The dissident shofar blowers will assemble in front of the 59<sup>th</sup> Street headquarters of the UJA-Federation of New York. The Federation’s beneficiary, the Jewish Community Relations Council, is the chief organizer of the <a href="http://celebrateisraelny.org/">Celebrate Israel Parade</a> scheduled for June 1st. The upbeat procession of floats, runners, and marchers is normally a public show of Jewish unity in support of Israel. But this year, the parade has become a maelstrom of disunity over the participation of the controversial New Israel Fund and other groups which recent revelations now link to the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment (BDS) movement and the campaign to delegitimize Israel internationally.</p>
<p>The outrage in some American, Jewish, and Israeli circles over the NIF’s inclusion in the highly visible parade, formerly known as the Israel Day Parade, may be more than just a passing horn blast. The discontent may be energizing a historic decision among American Jews. Just what constitutes the Jewish mainstream? Is American Jewry about to set limits on its open tent of inclusion, a precept the community wears as a badge of honor?</p>
<p>More than a few American Jews feel their community has been hijacked from within by such groups as the J Street lobby, the New Israel Fund, and other organizations that constitute a powerful, well-funded minority able to wage war against Israel seemingly in the name of the Jewish people. “These groups are anti-Jewish,” says Judith Freedman Kadish, special project director of Americans for a Safe Israel, “and they are funding groups that are anti-Semitic. They just veil their actions by saying they are trying to influence public policy and an occupation.” The accused organizations and their defenders in the Jewish media and within the Jewish activist community vigorously insist their activities are simply democratic dissent aimed at solving Israel’s problems.</p>
<p>The New Israel Fund, enabled by taxpayer subsidies of its 501(c)(3) status, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/edwin-black/financing-mideast-flamesc_b_4874795.html">has been a pivotal funder of the BDS movement</a> that wages economic war against Israel. Until 2011, the NIF was a lead supporter of the Coalition of Women for Peace, which established a global BDS infrastructure. According to NIF financial records, in 2008 alone, the NIF bestowed $93,457 upon the Coalition of Women for Peace. Over a period of years, NIF financing of this organization reached a strong six-figure sum, which included both direct grants and those where the NIF acted as a go-between for other donors—a technique they called “donor advised funding.”</p>
<p>The NIF no longer provides money to the Coalition of Women for Peace. Now, the CWP is strong enough to gather its monies from other sources. But detractors say—the irreparable damage was done. Moreover, the BDS movement today is fortified by a conveyor belt of brutality and oppression accounts—some legitimate, some exaggerated, some invented—force fed to the world by agitation NGOs, including many financed by <a href="http://www.jta.org/2014/02/05/news-opinion/opinion/op-ed-boycotting-settlements-is-not-anti-israel">the New Israel Fund</a>. NIF’s financial records for 2012 indicate that it granted $109,615 to Breaking the Silence, $255,477 to B’Tselem, and $209,161 to Adalah. These three groups are among dozens of NIF grantees that critics accuse of operating on the front lines of anti-Israel information and distorting the facts about international law as it affects Israel. Numerous Knesset members and Israeli military men have gone on record to decry the NIF as a well-financed, foreign, multinational NGO, hell-bent on “destabilizing the Israel Defense Forces” and erasing the Jewish identity from the State of Israel.</p>
<p>For example, NIF recipient Adalah’s admitted mission is to erase Israel’s Jewish identity and get Israelis prosecuted for war crimes in foreign capitals. On its website, Adalah brags of its robust role in the now-retracted <i>Goldstone Report</i> that accused Israel of war crimes in Gaza. B’Tselem provides cameras to agitators involved in orchestrated confrontations with Israeli soldiers, even as it tolerates repeated child endangerment by Palestinian provocateurs in the process. Another NIF recipient, an online publication known as <i>+972,</i> has published a Photoshopped image graphically depicting Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders in their underwear holding their crotches while carrying rifles, as well as a cartoon depicting former <a href="http://972mag.com/the-hater-in-the-sky-by-eli-valley/45492/">Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barack raping and eating the limbs of Barack Obama in outer space</a>.</p>
<p>On its website, Partners for a Progressive Israel, has prominently encouraged the boycott of such Israeli products as Ahava and Sodastream. If the Sodastream facility were being run by Mormons from Utah, Polish nuns from Warsaw, or Mennonites from Indiana, it would be up for a Nobel Prize. Moreover, when confronted and called on it, no one can reliably cite the international law Sodastream is allegedly violating with its factory known to treat all equally.</p>
<p>Now, several Jewish and Zionist organizations are vociferously demanding that the NIF, B’Tselem, and Partners for a Progressive Israel all be excluded from marching in the upcoming annual Celebrate Israel Parade. The NIF has participated in prior years. These grass-roots groups and individuals—about a dozen main ones— include Rabbi Elie Abadie of the architectonic Edmond de Safra Congregation in Manhattan, the Zionist Organization of America, Americans for a Safe Israel, and the campaign’s central mover, JCC Watch, headed up by Richard Allen, a private individual.</p>
<p>The anti-NIF protestors have been dismissed as a “fringe.” New York’s <i>Jewish Week</i> ran an NIF op-ed defaming the protestors as a “<a href="http://www.thejewishweek.com/editorial-opinion/opinion/why-new-israel-fund-marching-israel">tiny extremist group.”</a> Ardent Israel supporter Alan Dershowitz decried the exclusion effort. The Anti-Defamation League in a statement and New York’s <a href="http://www.thejewishweek.com/editorial-opinion/editorial/making-mischief-parade"><i>Jewish Week</i> in an editorial, denounced JCC Watch</a> for a protest flyer featuring a photo of the 1933 iconic “April First” Nazi boycott of Jews in Germany.</p>
<p>In his flyer, Allen of JCC Watch was referencing that the organized international Arab boycott against Jews began on April 1, 1933, after the Mufti of Jerusalem imported Hitler’s April First boycott into the Arab and Islamic world. Few remember that April First Nazi boycott was launched by Hitler after a million-man, anti-Nazi protest in <a href="http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/b/black-edwin/chapter-03.html">Madison Square Garden</a> and elsewhere a few days earlier on March 27, 1933. Even fewer recall that the <a href="http://reformjudaismmag.net/rjmag-90s/999eb.html">March 27 rally</a> was preceded earlier that month by a scraggly, rag-tag assemblage of Jewish War Veterans, who marched in New York City calling for a pre-emptive boycott of Nazi Germany. As they marched, those JWV were vociferously denounced, disowned and marginalized by the leaders of organized Jewry who labeled them as “nobodies” and “extremists,” saying they “speak for no one.” History immutably records that the JWV actually spoke for many — and long before others were willing to speak at all.</p>
<p>JCC Watch and its anti-NIF coalition might be a so-called “fringe,” with an unpolished website, inelegant rhetoric and few dollar resources. But its message has struck a chord. Perhaps one hundred chords. Perhaps wailed by one hundred shofars on a street corner in Manhattan. Kadish of AFSI says she has never blown a shofar before in her life—but on April 29, she intends to be in front of the UJA offices to sound off. Allen of JCC Watch says he has been assured, “Shofars will come from far and wide as we chant ‘Hear O’ Israel.’”</p>
<p>Maybe … just maybe … something is happening.</p>
<p>The movement for the Jewish community to draw lines may have gained traction as a result of an unrelated April 11, 2014 event. The controversial lobby known as J Street, which applied for membership in the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, was subjected to what <a href="http://forward.com/articles/196459/j-street-fails-to-win-over-key-committee-for-presi/"><i>The</i> <i>Forward</i>  called “a grilling”</a> by the Conference’s membership selection committee over J Street’s ties to other BDS movement organizations, such as Jewish Voices for Peace. A source described the session as “passionate, intense—a lot of arguing.” Ultimately, she added, “the selection committee declined to vote, making it procedurally very difficult” for J Street to join the Presidents’ Conference. The esteemed Presidents’ Conference epitomizes the Jewish communal mainstream, reflecting a vast gamut of views&#8211;from Americans for Peace Now, highly-critical of Israel, to the staunchly defensive Zionist Organization of America—52 organizations in all.</p>
<p>In the days before the selection committee’s “grilling,” the leadership of several organizations and well-known commentators expressed dismay that J Street—sometimes accused of fronting for the Arab Lobby—would even apply. An opinion piece in <i>The</i> <i>Jerusalem Post</i> last fall declared, “[J Street] Founder and president Jeremy Ben-Ami refuses to recognize Israel as a ‘Jewish state’ … co-founder Daniel Levy has described Israel’s creation as ‘an act that went wrong.’ … Ben-Ami was also proven to be a serial liar when, despite his repeated denials, the anti-Israeli George Soros was exposed as one of his major contributors.”</p>
<p>Now, as the Jewish and Israeli media buzzes with the kitchen-table revolt cooked up by JCC Watch, Rabbi Abadie, and others railing against the NIF’s participation in the Celebrate Israel Parade, the umbrage against the NIF’s participation is only growing. Rabbi Abadie has threatened to pull his congregation’s participation and financial support for the parade, and like-minded Sephardic congregations have promised to join him. An article in <i>The Algemeiner</i> likened the NIF’s parade inclusion to “appeasement.” Earlier this month, <a href="http://www.jns.org/latest-articles/2014/4/10/at-50th-anniversary-israel-parade-aims-for-pride-but-gets-protests#.U1Pcg1dgyHg">Member of Knesset Nissim Ze-ev joined flag-waving protestors</a> in a Manhattan demonstration against the JCRC. MK Ze-ev declared, “Any Jewish organization which supports the BDS [movement] has no place among supporters of Israel. The UJA and JCRC, as leading organizations of American Jewry, must adhere to this policy if they are to be considered supporters of Israel.”</p>
<p>An April 4, 2014 article on the controversy in <i>The</i> <i>Jerusalem Post</i> led with the subhead: “Diaspora Affairs Ministry reconsidering its funding of future parades.” Subsequent reports conveyed confusion over whether the ministry was considering pulling funding or simply reallocating its budget. A number of Israeli officials consider themselves at war with the New Israel Fund. A source in the Celebrate Israel Parade management, not authorized to speak to the media, stated, “The parade derives its revenue from registration fees, float sponsorship, private philanthropy, and a grant from the Israeli government.” A second parade management source added, “The money from the Israeli government is not reduced but each year comes from different ministries and offices in tweaked amounts.”</p>
<p>In an interview, NIF CEO Daniel Sokatch defended his group stating, “Some of these folks are saying that the NIF is now synonymous with the boogie man … We get blamed for everything. It is patently absurd. It bears no relation to reality. It would be laughable if it wasn’t so sort of sad.”</p>
<p>Clearly, a key demonstration of Jewish unity for Israel has now transmogrified into roiling divisiveness. That’s the opposite of the parade’s intent. For this reason, NIF supporters call for the open tent of inclusion to be broad enough to allow the most dissident factors in.</p>
<p>The Jewish community is now looking at its own mainstream and some are asking if the river banks need to be more defined and steeper. Some are also asking if whether the open tent, so precious to all, can survive if burning flames are brought inside.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2014 04:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/taxes_Flickr_401K.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223013" alt="taxes_Flickr_401K" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/taxes_Flickr_401K-450x337.jpg" width="315" height="236" /></a>I, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://insights.wired.com/profile/RonnTorossian">Ronn Torossian,</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> am a born and bred New Yorker, who raises a family here, owns a business – and loves all this city has to offer.  Yet I would be among the first to advise people not to live or move to New York if they don’t have to.  If they have ambition or drive, New York isn’t the place to be. From the non-stop energy to the culture, indeed, this city deserves its title as capital of the world.  Yet from a business perspective, there are so many obstacles for living – and dying – in New York that one shouldn’t do it unless they absolutely have to. Why? The issue is really quite simple – while you are alive, if successful, you will pay 54% taxes as a resident of New York City.  And if you are successful, your heirs will be taxed on the monies which you kept after the government took their share.</span></p>
<p>The latest report from the Tax Foundation notes yet again in 2014, New York ranks as the highest taxed state in America. New Yorkers spend 12.6% of their per capita income on state and local taxes, the highest percentage of any state in the nation. 2014 marked the third consecutive year that New York had the highest tax burden in the nation. And New York ranks 50th in the Tax Foundation&#8217;s State Business Tax Climate Index. The Index compares the states in five areas of taxation that impact business: corporate taxes, individual income taxes, sales taxes, unemployment insurance taxes, and taxes on property, including residential and commercial property.</p>
<p>Of course, there was a much ballyhooed change of the law for estate-taxes. As of January 1, 2019, the exemption will jump to the inflation-indexed federal level, which by then will be about $5.8 million.  Anyone who goes over that amount will see their family pay more than half of it out to the government.  Given those facts, it should come as no surprise that New York has indeed become the Must-Leave State. Census Bureau estimates show that 104,470 more people moved out of New York than moved into it during the 12 months ending July 1.  This comes off a decade where more than 1.6 million New Yorkers moved out of state between 2000 and 2010. (And if the awful winter which we saw in 2014 continues next year, I am sure the trend will only further increase).</p>
<p>Against this backdrop, The New York City Council introduced a bill that would impose a 10-cent fee on plastic and paper bags. While sane people review and consider this, one may wonder if New York City can possibly get any more expensive – <i>or absurd.</i> With all the issues that exist, is this really something for New York government to be involved with? <i>(And as an aside, won&#8217;t these costs be passed along to consumers? How about all the companies who make these bags – how many people will be fired because Americans stop using bags?)</i> Do politicians need another tax?</p>
<p>New York cost of living is very high &#8211; as are individual income taxes and property taxes. Despite all that New York has to offer, between cost of living and taxes, this is increasingly becoming the State not to live in. (And it has long been &#8211; and remains &#8211; the State not to die in.) As a 39-year-old born and bred New Yorker, I work very hard for my money, and I must ask, when is enough enough? Why does this government insist on putting so much strain on hard-working, successful people? New York taxes energetic people who sacrifice every day to create opportunities for others as well as themselves.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Rest assured, however, I am standing now in my </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.5wpr.com/">PR Firm New York</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> office– and the good news is there are no longer people drinking Big Gulps – and soon people will not be carrying plastic bags in the Land of the Free.  They will, however, </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">between life and death,</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> pay the majority of their income in taxes.</span></p>
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		<title>I was Right, Paul Krugman was Wrong, Citi Bike is a Disaster</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2014 03:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Last year, I wrote &#8220;<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/bloombergs-banana-republic/">Bloomberg’s Banana Republic</a>&#8221; which, among other things, predicted that Citi Bike, the bike sharing program, would be a disaster.</p>
<p>The history behind the program made it obvious.</p>
<blockquote><p>Citibike was supposed to launch last summer, but the software developed by the Montreal parking authority didn’t work. In only two years, the Montreal taxpayer funded company and its bike share plan had managed to get into enough financial trouble to require a 108 million dollar bailout. But then the big contracts from Chicago and New York City arrived and in a fortuitous coincidence, the Chicago Department of Transportation intern who wrote up the proposal was given a top position in the company.</p></blockquote>
<p>The article was attacked by everyone from Paul Krugman to Gawker to the New York Observer.</p>
<p>This year the company actually did file bankruptcy protection and now <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304256404579451770072629130?mg=reno64-wsj&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304256404579451770072629130.html">Citi Bike is desperately scrambling to survive </a>while looking for a taxpayer bailout.</p>
<blockquote><p>Leaders of Citi Bike are moving quickly to raise tens of millions of dollars to rescue the popular bike-share program as it loses money, according to people familiar with the matter.</p>
<p>Citi Bike&#8217;s bright blue bicycles have become a seemingly indispensable part of some city neighborhoods, but its managers don&#8217;t believe it can survive if it doesn&#8217;t become more appealing to tourists and expand to new neighborhoods, the people familiar with the matter said.</p>
<p>Citi Bike has been forced to contend with a number of costly issues, including damage to equipment during superstorm Sandy, software glitches and a difficult 2013-14 winter that discouraged ridership.</p>
<p>One issue is that Citi Bike has proved more popular than expected with annual users who generate comparatively little revenue. Some 99,000 people pay $95 a year plus tax to be able to use the bikes for 45 minutes at a time.</p>
<p>The potential for far greater revenue, however, is with short-term users. Many of those were expected to be tourists, and they haven&#8217;t used the bikes nearly as much as officials had anticipated, people familiar with the matter said.</p></blockquote>
<p>This was a completely foreseeable problem. Did anyone really expect tourists to spend a lot of time cycling around the city? And New York City has a poor ratio of bad weather to good weather. Citi Bike appealed to a limited demographic which was willing to shell out money for long term use.</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t a city for tourist biking. It&#8217;s risky and dangerous.</p>
<p>Citi Bike appealed to a limited number of people. Those people chose to hijack public spaces while insisting that it was really for everyone. Now they should pay the price in higher rental rates. Make the rates subsidized for tourists, but higher for annual users. Either they&#8217;ll stick with it or they won&#8217;t, in which case we can get rid of the eyesores.</p>
<p>Bill de Blasio, in his only correct decision so far and probably ever, has said that there won&#8217;t be a bailout.</p>
<p>Portland <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/index.ssf/2014/03/portlands_alta_bicycle_share_r.html">will face the same problem as New York</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>An analysis by The Oregonian earlier this month showed Portland is counting heavily on tourists to keep the local bike-sharing system afloat when it launches.</p></blockquote>
<p>Meanwhile<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/man-sues-nyc-citi-bike-15-million-article-1.1704829"> here come the lawsuits</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>A Citi Bike rider claims a horrific crash last year damaged a nerve in his brain, robbing him of his sense of taste and smell.</p>
<p>Ronald Corwin and his wife sued the city and Citi Bike’s private operator Thursday for $15 million over the Midtown accident.</p>
<p>“This has turned my life inside out,” Corwin, 73, said. “I do nothing now but go from one (medical) specialist to another trying to find some relief.”</p>
<p>The Westport, Conn., man, who works as an executive planner, says he flipped over the Citi Bike he was riding on Oct. 25 after his front wheel struck a low barrier that had been installed next to the bicycle docking station at E. 56th St. and Madison Ave.</p>
<p>He now suffers from traumatic nerve palsy, which has left him unable to taste and smell and his doctors believe it’s permanent, said Guy Smiley, his lawyer.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is why you don&#8217;t advertise biking in the city being for everyone. The accident rate is high.</p>
<p>Top that off with allegations of mismanagement by Alta <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-citi-bike-operators-neglecting-bikes-stations-article-1.1731484">and the whole thing is imploding badly</a>. It wouldn&#8217;t surprise me if all the little blue stations were gone within a year.</p>
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		<title>Muslims: Halal Lunches in School are a Constitutional Right</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2014 03:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>First Bill de Blasio provided special privileges to Muslims by adding Muslim, but not Hindu or Buddhist holidays, to the school calendar. During the Democratic primaries, he promised Muslims that he would bring Halal meals to city schools.</p>
<p>Now the Muslims are <a href="http://pamelageller.com/2014/03/muslim-group-pushes-taxpayer-funded-halal-food-nyc-public-schools.html/">making their demands known</a>. In a city with the largest Jewish population in the country, Kosher meals are not served in city schools. But as usual, Muslims are special and their <a href="http://www.voicesofny.org/2013/06/push-to-bring-halal-food-to-schools-tests-candidates-%C2%AD%C2%AD/">sense of entitlement</a> knows no bounds.</p>
<blockquote><p>Marge Feinberg, another spokeswoman for the city’s Department of Education, added that the schools’ menus include vegetarian dishes. “Our kitchens and our kitchen staff are not equipped for specialty meat requirements,” she said. “We have a variety of non-meat options for children.”</p>
<p>But for labor leader Maf Misbha Uddin, the District Council 37 treasurer and founding president of Alliance of South Asian Association of Labor (ASAAL), halal food is not an issue of demand or will, but of religious freedom.</p>
<p>“I feel that serving halal food in school is our constitutional right since the constitution has ensured equal rights for all religious groups and ensured the observance of religion without any obstacle,” said Uddin, whose five children grew up in the city and never ate school lunches because halal menu choices were unavailable.</p></blockquote>
<p>To no one&#8217;s surprise, Mustafa has no idea how Freedom of Religion works. It means freedom from government compulsion in areas of religion, a concept Muslims who push for theocracy everywhere they live simply refuse to understand.</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t mean a government entitlement to religious practice. That&#8217;s not freedom of religion, it&#8217;s theocracy.</p>
<p>All the stories about Muslim kids &#8220;going hungry&#8221; in school are nonsense. There are plenty of non-meat options for them. I went through school without having meat served. Having meat served is a luxury.</p>
<p>More problematically, many Halal certifying organizations are linked to the Muslim Brotherhood or other terrorist and hate groups.</p>
<p>New Yorkers should not be forced to subsidize Muslim terrorism by Islamist pressure groups using their kids as human shields. Those kids aren&#8217;t starving in a corner somewhere as their lying parents would have you believe, they&#8217;re stuffing their faces with pizza and french fries.</p>
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		<title>De Blasio&#8217;s War on Minority Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2014 04:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Democratic political machine versus the students. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/winters13e-1-web.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-220913" alt="winters13e-1-web" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/winters13e-1-web-448x350.jpg" width="269" height="210" /></a>One of the biggest challenges to the miserable status quo of public school education is taking place in New York City. On one side are leftists like Mayor Bill De Blasio, Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, and NAACP President Hazel Dukes. Along with their allies in city government and the teachers unions, they want to keep city children, especially minority children, in the failing, Democrat-run public school quagmire. On the other side are the advocates of school choice and charter schools that have provided poor minority students with superior educations that threaten the status quo. Their champion is Eva Moskowitz and her Success Academy Charter Schools. The former group embraces the status quo of languishing students and bleak futures. The latter group embraces hope and change.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">We begin with the Mayor. De Blasio, who promised to close some charter schools during his election campaign, made good on that pledge in February, when he </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://politicker.com/2014/02/chancellor-says-we-are-turning-the-page-while-pulling-plug-on-some-co-locations/">closed</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> three charter schools run by fellow Democrat, but arch-nemesis, Eva Moskowitz. Moskowitz&#8217;s crime? The 6,700 students at her 22 Success Academy Charter Schools </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304434104579382993628994458">scored</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> in the top 1 percent in math and top 7 percent in English on the most recent state test. These are students who come overwhelmingly from poor, minority families, who overcame the achievement gap progressives regularly bemoan. Even &#8220;worse,&#8221; four in five charters in the Big Apple outperformed comparable schools, posing a dire threat to the aforementioned status quo of dismal results. Dismal results that would be held up as a national disgrace were it not for campaign contributions provided to Democratic politicians who continue to con New Yorkers and other Americans with promises of &#8220;reform&#8221; that never happen.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">De Blasio didn&#8217;t stop with Moskowitz. Since becoming Mayor, he cut off funding for </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">all</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> charter school construction that was to occur after 2015, and announced a &#8220;moratorium&#8221; on co-locating charters in existing schools. He is also looking for a way to roll back 25 of those co-locations that were already approved for next year. Ten of them involve Success Academies. He did all of this despite the reality that there is a waiting list of 50,000 New Yorkers determined to get their kids in charter schools. A lottery process that literally determines the city&#8217;s educational winners and losers.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Or at least it did. Public Advocate Letitia James, who along with City Council Speaker Melissa Mark Viverito is already planning a lawsuit to shut down co-located charter schools, is now </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://nypost.com/2014/03/09/public-advocate-wants-to-suspend-charter-school-lottery/">asking</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> a judge to suspend the admission lottery for the 2014-2015 school year while that lawsuit proceeds. “We may ask the court to push the deadline back,” said lawyer Arthur Schwartz who is leading the effort on behalf of James. Unsurprisingly the suit is being backed by the teachers union. Incredibly, both James and the union claim De Blasio isn&#8217;t doing enough to inhibit the growth of charter schools. “We’re moving forward with the litigation because, clearly, the process is broken,” James said at a parent forum in Downtown Brooklyn. “The mayor did not engage parents today on this issue, so we’re looking for an expedited review.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Which parents would that be? Last fall, when De Blasio looked like he was going to be elected, Moskowitz amassed a crowd of 2,000 parents, teachers and students for a pro-charter rally at the Brooklyn Bridge. At least 4,500 families scheduled to enter next year&#8217;s charter class would be put in limbo by James&#8217;s lawsuit &#8212; along with the thousands of parents with kids already in the charter school system whose lives would also be thrown into turmoil if James and the union prevail.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">New York City Charter School Center CEO James Merriman got to the heart of the issue. “The destructive tactics . . . would create havoc and uncertainty for tens of thousands of New York City families from low-income communities,” he explained. He also blasted James. “She would do well to remember that her title is public advocate, not advocate for the teachers union,” he added.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Queens Councilman Daniel Dromm, who heads the City Council Education Committee, is a staunch advocate for the teachers union. He has </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://nypost.com/2014/03/12/councils-education-head-ask-charter-network-boss-about-corruption/">scheduled</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> a hearing next month aimed at pressing Moskowitz and other charter school executives to explain how they spend public funds. His real agenda is transparent. A spokeswoman told the </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">New York Post</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that Moskowitz has not received an invitation to testify, even as the paper itself noted that it &#8220;isn&#8217;t clear&#8221; that Dromm has any jurisdiction over Moskowitz, who is not a city employee.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Dromm remained undaunted. &#8220;We need accountability, we need transparency, and we need to know who is giving them the money and what they’re doing with that money,” he contended. “This is an opportunity, if corruption were to exist . . . I can’t just let it go.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">No one has ever accused Moskowitz of corruption, and this is not Dromm&#8217;s first effort to defame and single her out. On March 1, he </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2014/03/8541138/dromm-hold-hearing-moskowitzs-rally-day">announced</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> he would hold an oversight hearing to investigate whether Moskowitz acted illegally when she closed her schools on March 4 so that her students could participate in a pro-charter rally in Albany. &#8220;I am deeply concerned about the legality of a school leader closing schools for entirely political purposes,&#8221; Dromm said in a statement, adding, &#8220;no educator should be allowed to use children as pawns for their political agenda.&#8221; That would be a rally </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://politicker.com/2014/03/cuomo-joins-charter-advocates-at-rally-critical-of-de-blasio/">attended</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> by Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, who said he was “committed” to making sure charter schools will succeed. </span></p>
<p>A competing rally for universal pre-kindergarten was <a href="http://www.wgrz.com/story/news/education/2014/03/04/albany-new-york-state-education-rally/6020581/">held</a> by De Blasio and his supporters on the same day. As this <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Albany,+rally+for+pre-K&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;hs=Sc7&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;channel=sb&amp;tbm=isch&amp;tbo=u&amp;source=univ&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=E4AgU7m-C4mokQexyYGYBA&amp;ved=0CGwQ7Ak&amp;biw=1552&amp;bih=830#facrc=_&amp;imgdii=_&amp;imgrc=Xa0-o4nZPYzWWM%3A;LYV85PlkQrTrsM;https%3A%2F%2Ffbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net%2Fhphotos-ak-prn2%2Ft1%2Fs403x403%2F1900065_10152273957080970_1643039222_n.jpg;https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FOpportunityToLearn%3Fref%3Dstream%26hc_location%3Dstream;403;302">picture</a> indicates, it also included student &#8220;pawns&#8221; advocating on behalf of a political agenda.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">With regard to political agendas, perhaps nothing makes the Mayor&#8217;s unstinting support for the miserable status quo clearer than his reaction to the results of the latest entrance exam for the city&#8217;s elite public schools. Tragically, but predictably, the achievement gap of black and Hispanic students relative to their white and Asian peers made itself evident once again. Out of the 5,096 students accepted by eight top-end schools, only 5 percent were black and 7 percent were Hispanic, despite an increase in the percentage of black and Hispanic students taking the test from 43 percent in 2012, to 46 percent last October.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Did De Blasio demand accountability from the public school system for failing these students? No. The Mayor&#8217;s answer is lowering standards &#8212; yet more degradation of the education children are entitled to. De Blasio has called for an overhaul of admissions system, insisting that one exam shouldn&#8217;t be the sole criteria that determines admission to the city&#8217;s best schools. He was echoed by David Jones, CEO of the Community Service Society of New York. “We have to come up with an admission system that is wider than this one-size-fits-all exam,” he contended, further suggesting that schools consider grade point averages and teacher recommendations along with the test. Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña played the diversity card. “We must do more to reflect the diversity of our city in our top-tier schools&#8211;and we are committed to doing just that,” she said.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Mona Davids, head of the New York City Parents Union, cut right through the blather. “Leave the exam alone and help our students meet the standards,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The solution is to improve the elementary and middle schools in neighborhoods of color so the students can perform and pass the exam.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It is precisely that kind of improvement </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">already</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> demonstrated by Success Academy Harlem 4, where the same minority students achieved some of the highest math scores in the entire state and 55 percent passed English exams last year. Both rates far exceeded city averages. For reference, only about a <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/311178-fewer-one-third-new-york-city-students-pass-state-tests/">quarter</a> of New York City students in third through eight grade earn passing scores on English and math tests; 26.4 percent passed in English proficiency and 29.6 percent passed math proficiency, according to statistics from last year. Moreover, there is compelling </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.calcharters.org/understanding/research/africanamericanreport/?utm_source=africanamericanreport&amp;utm_medium=go">evidence</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that some charter schools are closing that very same achievement gap reflected on the entrance exams. Yet late last month, Success Academy Harlem 4 was one of the charter schools De Blasio </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/28/nyregion/de-blasio-seeks-to-halt-3-charter-schools-from-moving-into-public-spaces.html?_r=1">kicked</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> out of its space in a New York City public school building.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This is a tragedy with real victims. “We’re lost right now,” said Tisha Hatch, 38, whose son Robert Loveless, 9, would be unable to attend fifth grade there next fall. “I refuse to let my son go to any public school in New York City because you have failing schools that need to be closed.” Maria Rodriguez&#8217;s three children share the same fate. “This is the future of my children they are playing games with,” she said, explaining that nearby traditional &#8212; and failing &#8212; public schools were not an option.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Chancellor Fariña&#8217;s initial reaction revealed that her commitment to diversity did not breach the boundaries of union loyalty. “They’re charter schools. They’re on their own now,” she </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/charter-school-families-left-searching-article-1.1712379#ixzz2vC1qiSse">said</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. “That’s part of what they do. They’re an independent structure, and that’s how they function.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It&#8217;s exactly that independence &#8212; coupled with success &#8212; that is utterly anathema to the teachers unions and their political puppets. Yet both De Blasio and Fariña were unable to withstand the firestorm they created. Two days after Farina made her callous remarks the city backed down and said it will find space for the charter school.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Regardless, Moskowitz and her supporters are taking no chances. They are </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://nypost.com/2014/03/10/de-blasio-faces-three-new-charter-school-lawsuits/">filing</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> three lawsuits of their own against the Mayor on two separate fronts. The Success Academy is filing a federal civil rights lawsuit to overturn De Blasio&#8217;s decision preventing them from co-locating in a public school building. They are also filing papers in Albany with state Education Commissioner John King, seeking a reversal of De Blasio&#8217;s decision to prevent two elementary schools from opening at all. They had been approved by former Mayor Mike Bloomberg before De Blasio axed them. </span></p>
<p>NAACP President and union water-carrier Hazel Dukes was enraged by the Success Academy’s efforts. “This lawsuit is an outrageous and insulting attempt by Wall Street hedge fund managers to hijack the language of civil rights in their shameless political attack on Bill de Blasio,” she wrote.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Duke’s class warfare rhetoric is transparent. Moreover, the irony of her position is breathtaking. The president of the nation&#8217;s foremost civil rights organization &#8212; ostensibly tasked with advancing the agenda of black Americans &#8212; is upset that someone is fighting tooth and nail to save the educational future of black American children. If there&#8217;s a better indication of the poisonous influence exerted by the the teachers union, one is hard-pressed to imagine what it is.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The children of New York City are up against enormous foes. The pipeline of taxpayer money flowing to De Blasio and the Democratic Party through the teachers union will not be parted with willingly. Powerful allies like the NAACP are circling the wagons as well. Only a substantial public outcry will be able to right this ship, but it remains to be seen if such a backlash will emerge. </span></p>
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		<title>DeBlasio Ally&#8217;s &#8220;ID for Illegals&#8221; Bill May Help Illegal Aliens Vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 00:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill de Blasio promised municipal ID's for illegal aliens.]]></description>
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<p>Vote officially that is, under their own names, as opposed to just voting twice under the names of whoever they stole their identity from.</p>
<p>In his S<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/bill-de-blasios-red-apple-agenda/">tate of the City rantfest, Bill</a> de Blasio promised municipal ID&#8217;s for illegal aliens. Daniel Dromm, a<a href="http://nypost.com/2013/12/29/de-blasio-camp-promises-sweet-gigs-for-support-of-mark-viverito/"> Bill de Blasio ally</a>, is <a href="http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=225591">now discussing whether t</a>he illegal aliens<a href="http://therightscoop.com/not-kidding-nyc-council-member-admits-municipal-id-may-allow-illegals-to-vote/"> will be able to vote with those IDs</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>     DROMM: I have a piece of legislation that would allow non-residents to vote in NYC municipal elections…</p>
<p>Back and forth between Ball and Dromm</p>
<p>HOST: Let me ask you though, will the municipal ID be used for voting and can you vote if you have one of those?</p>
<p>DROMM: It’s a possibility, but that may be a way that we can try to find out who people are…</p>
<p>Back and forth between Ball and Dromm</p>
<p>HOST: But answer that question…could it be used for voting?</p>
<p>DROMM: We haven’t determined that yet but it’s a possibility that may be a way that we can have people, for the first time, when they come in to vote, if their non-residents, non-citizens, that may be a way that we could do it.</p></blockquote>
<p>The answer, yes it can and will be. That&#8217;s why Bill de Blasio is pushing the idea. But as the politicians who benefit from voter fraud keep telling us, voter fraud doesn&#8217;t exist.</p>
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		<title>An 1887 Science Fiction Novel Predicted DeBlasio and Bloomberg&#8217;s New York</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2014 01:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Officer of Hygiene prescribes the kind of food he thinks you require]]></description>
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<p>&#8220;The Republic of the Future: or Socialism a Reality&#8221; was an anti-utopian novella that was part of a field of satirical responses to Utopian Socialist novels like Looking Backward. (I discuss one of the more curious forms of that genre in <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/green-socialists-on-mars/">Socialists from Mars</a>)</p>
<p>Written by Anna Bowman Dodd, a New York journalist, The Republic of the Future spoofs the futuristic Socialist travelogues of the utopian writers by visiting a Socialist New York City in the year 2050. ABD&#8217;s views on some subjects don&#8217;t hold up that well and her version of New York where all the houses and people are the same doesn&#8217;t actually exist, but under one mayor obsessed with food and another obsessed with equality, it appears rather timely in places.</p>
<p>Diet in the Socialist New York is regulated to a degree that Bloomberg and Bill de Blasio could only fantasize about with no more kitchens, only a centrally planned single food production center in Chicago and dietary inspections for all.</p>
<blockquote><p>When travelers had found themselves forced to abide by the rules and regulations governing the socialists&#8217; diet. But what was this diet?</p>
<p>The State scientists now regulate all such matters. Once a month our Officer of Hygiene comes and examines each member of the household. He then prescribes the kind of food he thinks you require for the next few weeks, whether it shall be more or less phosphates, or cereals, or carnivorous preparations.</p></blockquote>
<p>Of the shops in the Socialist New York of 2050, ABD writes;</p>
<blockquote><p>The total lack of contrast which is the result of the plan on which this socialistic city has been built, comes, of course, from the principle which has decreed that no man can have any finer house or better interior, or finer clothes than his neighbor.</p>
<p>There is, consequently, neither rivalry nor competition. The shop keepers, who are in reality only clerks and salesmen under government jurisdiction, take naturally, no personal or vital interest either in the amount of goods sold, or in the way in which these latter are placed before the public.</p>
<p>The shop-windows, therefore, are as uninviting as are the goods displayed. Only useful, necessary objects and articles are to be seen.</p></blockquote>
<p>This has yet to be true of New York store windows, but it was true of store windows in the Soviet Union. ABD describes the dulness of the people who have nothing to strive toward.</p>
<blockquote><p>They have the look of people who have come to the end of things and who have failed to find it amusing.</p>
<p>The entire population appear to be eternally in the streets, wandering up and down, with their hands in their pockets, on the lookout for something that never happens. What indeed, is there to happen ? Have they not come to the consummation of everything, of their dreams and their hopes and desires? A man can&#8217;t have his dream and dream it too. Realization has been found before now, to be exceedingly dull play.</p>
<p>As it is, I am free to confess, that the dullness and apathy of these ideally-perfect socialists weighs on me.</p></blockquote>
<p>ABD goes on to conjecture about social changes.</p>
<blockquote><p>Both men and women are muscled like athletes, from their continual exercises and perpetual bathing.</p></blockquote>
<p>This would be somewhat true for the upper classes, though the Greek baths she envisioned aren&#8217;t a reality.</p>
<blockquote><p>It is now nearly two hundred years since women have enjoyed the same freedom and rights as men. It is interesting and curious to note the changes, both upon the character and nature of the two sexes, which has been the result of this development.</p>
<p>One&#8217;s first impression, in coming here, is that women are the sole inhabitants of the country. One sees them<br />
everywhere — in all the public offices, as heads of departments, as government clerks, as officials, as engineers, machinists, aeronauts, tax collectors, firemen, filling, in fact, every office and vocation in civil, political and social life.</p>
<p>The few men — by comparison, whom I saw seemed to me to be allowed to exist as specimen examples of a fallen race. Of course, this view is more or less exaggeration. But the women here do appear to possess by far the most energy, vigor, vitality and ambition. Their predominance in office just now is owing to their over-powering number, the women&#8217;s vote polled being ten to one over that of the men.</p></blockquote>
<p>ABD didn&#8217;t anticipate the service industry shift and did assume, for the purposes of the narrative, that machinery could fill in.</p>
<blockquote><p>As motherhood came in course of time to be considered in its true light, as perhaps the chief cause of the degradation of women, it was finally abolished by act of legislature. Women were still to continue to bear children, or else the socialistic society itself would cease to be. A law was passed providing that children almost immediately after birth, should be brought up, educated and trained under state direction to be returned to their parents when fully grown, and ready for their duties as men and women citizens.</p>
<p>It has followed, of course, that with the jurisdiction of the state over the children of the community, all family life has died out. Men and women live together as man and wife, but the relation between them has become more nominal than real. It is significant of the changes that have been brought about between the sexes, that the word &#8221; home ** has entirely dropped out of the language. A man&#8217;s house has in truth ceased to be his home. There are no children there to greet him, his wife, who is his comrade, a man, a citizen like himself, is as rarely at home as he.</p>
<p>The word wife has also lost all its original significance. It stands for nothing. Husband and wife arc in reality two men having equal rights, with the same range of occupation, the same duties as citizens to perform, the .same haunts and the same dreary leisure.</p></blockquote>
<p>The word wife has already nearly vanished in the UK to be replaced by Partner. Under the influence of the gay rights lobby, the US will probably be next.</p>
<p>The collective child-rearing scheme that ABD describes was pursued by Socialists in her day, but it hasn&#8217;t been fully implemented on a national level. The push for universal Pre-K is a manifestation of the same phenomenon.</p>
<p>This too forms a rather familiar scene&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>The exercises of the day began at the great Ethical Temple. Here ten thousand children were gathered to listen first to a lecture on the history of Christmas. There was a play in which Santa Claus appeared and a number of other legendary characters, to show the children in what mythological, absurd beings the children of the unenlightened nineteenth century believed in. Then ten thousand toys were distributed, dolls and whips and tops, and sleighs and skates. But as all were distributed indiscriminately by State officers to the children as they passed out on review, of course all the boys got the dolls and the girls the whips and tops.</p></blockquote>
<p>ABD notes accurately that happiness will becoming the great missing quality and indeed much of modern culture is preoccupied with the search for happiness.</p>
<blockquote><p>I asked myself, again and again, why should this people, of all people, be full of this discontent and unhappiness ? Haven&#8217;t they come to the realization of all their dreams? Have they not attained to the very summit and to the full glory of the possession of their social, civic and political desires and aspirations? Is there not equality of sex? Has not leisure instead of labor become a law ?</p>
<p>Is not private property abolished — is not the land the property of the State — the wage&#8217;system become a thing of the past, and the possession of capital made a crime punishable bylaw? Does not the State also exist for the people, educating them, training them for their work in life, distributing among them any surplus funds that the public treasury  may accumulate, and furnishing for their amusement and leisure a vast system of educational clubs, educational theaters, public games, museums and shows ?</p>
<p>If a people are not happy under such conditions, what will insure content ?</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Al Roker Delivers Bill de Blasio&#8217;s Forecast: One Term</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2014 20:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A visibly shaken Mayor de Blasio grew red-faced]]></description>
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<p>It was bad news all around for the radical politician<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/de-blasio-bishop-released-article-1.1613284"> as the press asked him some pointed questions </a>about his intervention on behalf of a political ally who was arrested after driving with a suspended license while TV weatherman Al Roker blasted him over passing the buck on the snow.</p>
<blockquote><p>A visibly shaken Mayor de Blasio grew red-faced Thursday as he fended off more questions about his late-night call to the NYPD on behalf of a longtime supporter who’d been picked up by police.</p>
<p>“It’s very simple. I received a report &#8230; I made an inquiry,” said de Blasio of his call Monday night to NYPD Deputy Chief Kim Royster to inquire about Findlayter’s status.</p>
<p>But critics noted that Findlayter didn’t immediately have to face a judge because of his political connections. He was a member of de Blasio’s inaugural committee and was invited to give the invocation in the City Council chambers.</p>
<p>“This is an unusual situation where a very prominent member of the clergy obviously was experiencing a pretty unusual situation,” he said. “I thought it was appropriate to make an inquiry and I got a response, and that’s the end of the story.”</p>
<p>When a reporter brought up a ticket-fixing scandal within the NYPD that erupted during former Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s tenure, de Blasio’s got snappy.</p>
<p>“I don&#8217;t even understand the parallel. Ticket fixing is illegal, period. Making an inquiry is perfectly appropriate, ticket fixing is illegal,” he shot back at the reporter.</p></blockquote>
<p>And this is much bigger than a ticket. A phone call from the mayor is a sign of favoritism and an implicit call for intervention which is exactly what happened here.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/US/Bill-de-Blasio-New-York-City/2014/02/13/id/552587">GOP Chairman has called for an investigation</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>New York state GOP Chairman Ed Cox has demanded an investigation into New York  Mayor Bill de Blasio’s phone call to help a political ally get out of jail, the New York Post reported.</p>
<p>The mayor contacted the city police department on Tuesday after learning that his friend, pastor Orlando Findlayter, had been pulled over for driving without a license and then arrested after cops found he had two outstanding arrest warrants.</p>
<p>Findlayter, who helped deliver the black vote to de Blasio last year in the mayoral election, faced spending the night in jail before his arraignment until the mayor stepped in and called NYPD spokeswoman Kim Royster.</p>
<p>Deputy Inspector Kenneth Lehr, the commanding officer of the 67th Precinct, later went to the station house personally to free Findlayter.</p>
<p>Now Cox has called for a probe into de Blasio’s “abuse of power.” He said, “For the mayor of New York City to interfere with law enforcement on behalf of his political allies is ‘telephone justice,’ not American justice.”</p>
<p>The newly elected city Comptroller Scott Stringer, a Democrat, said the mayor had put himself in the firing line with his action.</p>
<p>“I think the rule is, mayors should not get involved in any way about somebody’s arrest,” Stringer said. “It can only be problematic.”</p>
<p>A source close to former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Republican, said that de Blasio was encouraging police to give special dispensation to the pastor by making the phone call. “Tell me this doesn’t have a chilling effect [on the NYPD],’’ the source said. “That’s what this was a wink and a nod.”</p>
<p>Fred Siegel, a political historian at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, said that, even if Mr. de Blasio did not urge special treatment for the bishop, the simple fact of a phone call from the mayor carries enormous weight.</p>
<p>“When the mayor is inquiring in this personal manner, a deputy chief knows what this means,” Mr. Siegel said.</p></blockquote>
<p>But Bill de Blasio wasn&#8217;t getting any better reviews when it came to the snow getting into a feud with everyone <a href="http://politicker.com/2014/02/teachers-union-and-elected-officials-blast-de-blasios-school-day-call/">from the teachers&#8217; union</a> <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/al-roker-blasts-mayor-de-blasio-twitter-cancelling-school-article-1.1613110">to Al Roker</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The NBC weatherman, who normally has a rather sunny disposition, traded icy barbs with Mayor de Blasio Thursday for Hizzoner’s handling of Thursday’s snow storm.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>I knew this am <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayorsOffice">@NYCMayorsOffice</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCSchools">@NYCSchools</a> would close schools. Talk about a bad prediction. Long range DiBlasio forecast: 1 term</p>
<p>&mdash; Al Roker (@alroker) <a href="https://twitter.com/alroker/statuses/433991168771096577">February 13, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>How dare <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayorsOffice">@NYCMayorsOffice</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCSchools">@NYCSchools</a> throw NWS under the school bus. Forecast was on time and on the money</p>
<p>&mdash; Al Roker (@alroker) <a href="https://twitter.com/alroker/statuses/434008330684465152">February 13, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Mr. Mayor, I could never run NYC, but I know when it&#39;s time to keep kids home from school</p>
<p>&mdash; Al Roker (@alroker) <a href="https://twitter.com/alroker/statuses/434013915345719296">February 13, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Why are schools all around NYC closed? It&#39;s going to take some kid or kids getting hurt before this goofball policy gets changed</p>
<p>&mdash; Al Roker (@alroker) <a href="https://twitter.com/alroker/statuses/433959625277190145">February 13, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The teachers&#8217; union wasn&#8217;t any happier with Bill de Blasio&#8217;s incompetence.</p>
<blockquote><p>Michael Mulgrew, the union’s president, called the decision a “mistake.”</p>
<p>“I understand the desire to keep schools open. The only thing that trumps that is safety. Having students, parents and staff traveling in these conditions was unwarranted. It was a mistake to open schools today,” Mr. Mulgrew said in a statement.</p>
<p>This is the first time Mr. Mulgrew, a close ally of the mayor, has criticized Mr. de Blasio’s school closure call, though the mayor has taken flak on the issue before.</p></blockquote>
<p>Bill de Blasio&#8217;s radical and incompetent pick for schools chancellor <a href="http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&#038;id=9429997">Carmen Farina cluelessly called</a> it &#8220;a beautiful day.&#8221;</p>
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<p>De Blasio then defended the whole thing on class warfare grounds treating school like a babysitting and meals service.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;So many families depend on their schools as a place for their kids to be during the day, a safe place where they are not only are taught, they get nutrition and they are safe from the elements,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So many families have to go to work, the members of these families have to go to work, they do not have a choice, and they need a safe option for their kids.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Farina chimed in with the same catering nonsense proving that she doesn&#8217;t understand what a school even is.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Many of our kids don&#8217;t get a hot lunch and, in many cases breakfast, unless they go to school. So it&#8217;s still a parent&#8217;s decision whether they send their kids to school or not. My decision is where the kids are safest and the most taken care of, and the answer to that is in schools.&#8221;  </p></blockquote>
<p>And Governor <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/nyregion/cuomo-rejects-another-plan-by-de-blasio-minimum-wage.html">Cuomo shot down Bill de Blasio&#8217;s tax</a> plans.</p>
<blockquote><p>The governor, who also opposes Mr. de Blasio’s proposal to increase taxes on high-earning New York City residents to pay for prekindergarten classes, said allowing local governments to set their own tax rates, wage requirements and labor laws could create “a chaotic situation” in which cities wound up pitted against one another.</p>
<p>“We don’t want to cannibalize ourselves,” Mr. Cuomo said on “The Capitol Pressroom,” a program on public radio.</p>
<p>Even one of Mr. de Blasio’s allies seemed uninterested, citing the agreement that lawmakers negotiated last year.</p>
<p>“Let’s move on,” said Senator Jeffrey D. Klein, a Bronx Democrat who shares leadership of the Senate with Dean G. Skelos, a Long Island Republican.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>New York Marxist Mayor&#8217;s Lesbian Wife Claims Pre-K is the &#8220;Defining Civil Rights Issue of our Day&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So we solved all the big stuff. All the civil rights people can retire.]]></description>
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<p>So we solved all the big stuff. All <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/de-blasio-mccray-call-pre-k-civil-article-1.1610661">that&#8217;s left now is universal pre-K</a> and all the civil rights people can go retire and live in Florida.</p>
<p>At least that&#8217;s what New York City&#8217;s Marxist Mayor&#8217;s lesbian wife thinks and if you can&#8217;t trust the lesbian wife of a Communist on civil rights, whom can you trust?</p>
<blockquote><p>With his tax hike for universal prekindergarten in serious jeopardy, Mayor de Blasio and his wife ramped up the rhetoric Tuesday, comparing the fight for expanding preschool to the struggle for civil rights.</p>
<p>“Make no mistake, this is the defining civil rights issue of our day,” de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, told 200 applauding African-American clergy members at a Baptist church in Brooklyn.</p>
<p>“Universal prekindergarten and after-school programs are essential to our children’s future, are essential to our future,” she said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Without universal prekindergarten, we&#8217;re nothing more than animals, animals crawling on our bellies in the jungle. Only prekindergarten can lift us out of the savage darkness into the light of civilization.</p>
<p>Fortunately, Governor Cuomo has already said he will fund universal pre-k. But Bill de Blasio aka William Wilhelm jr. and his lesbian wife insist that they want to raise taxes to pay for universal pre-k.</p>
<blockquote><p>Meanwhile, de Blasio said that state Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos (R-Nassau), who strongly opposes the tax, was “denying us our rights in a democracy,” treating New York City like “a colony that doesn’t even get to decide its own future.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Bill de Blasio just realized that New York City isn&#8217;t its own state. Now someone has to slowly sit him down, wait till whatever he&#8217;s on is flushed out of his system and explain to him how cities and states work.</p>
<blockquote><p>De Blasio and the Rev. Al Sharpton, who hosted the breakfast gathering, then led the crowd in a chant of, “We want a vote! We want a vote!”</p></blockquote>
<p>You get a vote every election. A lot of Sharpton supporters get three or four.</p>
<blockquote><p>McCray quoted the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who was close to the church’s late pastor, the Rev. William Jones.</p>
<p>“As Dr. King said, ‘Now is the time to make justice a reality for all God’s children.’ We need this program. We’ve got a plan for the program. So let’s get with the program,” she said.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is exactly what Martin Luther King had in mind.</p>
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		<title>De Blasio Frees Backer Arrested for Driving with Suspended License</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>It&#8217;s a real tale of two cities. One city has to stay in jail because it doesn&#8217;t have Bill de Blasio&#8217;s phone number. The other is a backer of De Blasio and gets a Get Out of Jail Free card.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Let&#8217;s elect Bill DeBlasio the next Mayor of NYC. It&#8217;s in our own best interest to do so.</p>
<p>— Orlando Findlayter (@BishopOrlandoF) <a href="https://twitter.com/BishopOrlandoF/statuses/379658907352072192">September 16, 2013</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>It sure is, Orlando. It sure is.</p>
<p>Is there anything that <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/02/11/bill-de-blasio-called-cops-to-spare-pastor-pal-from-jail/">we can possibly do to end this tale of two cities</a>?</p>
<blockquote><p>A politically connected Brooklyn pastor was arrested for a pair of open warrants — but was spared a night in jail after Mayor de Blasio called an NYPD boss to inquire about his close pal.</p>
<p>Hours later, Bishop Orlando Findlayter was yukking it up with Hizzoner at the head table at a Bed-Stuy breakfast Tuesday with guest speaker Rev. Al Sharpton and 200 other pastors.</p>
<p>Findlayter — the head of Brooklyn’s New Hope Christian Church who was instrumental in delivering the black vote to de Blasio — was pulled over at 11:21 p.m. Monday in East Flatbush for making a left turn without signaling, police said.</p>
<p>Cops ran his license plate and discovered two outstanding warrants, issued Jan. 16, for failure to appear in court for prior arrests at protests. He was hit with the traffic violation and charged with driving without a license.</p>
<p>Findlayter was looking at a night behind bars because the arrests came too late for him to be arraigned.</p>
<p>So his clergy pals reached out to the mayor and the NYPD. De Blasio admittedly called a top police spokeswoman, Kim Royster.</p>
<p>Around the same time, the 67th Precinct’s commanding officer, Deputy Inspector Kenneth Lehr — who also knows Findlayter — went down to the station house to personally spring the bishop and tell him to be in court Tuesday.</p>
<p>But Sgt. Ed Mullins, president of the Sergeants Benevelent Association, cried foul.</p>
<p>“If a guy has a warrant, you don’t let him go. Period,” he said. “There is no ‘discretion.’ What if you release him [and] he drives a block, blows a red light and runs somebody over and kills him? As a [police] supervisor, you have a lot to answer for.</p>
<p>“He just confirmed that it really is a ‘tale of two cities,’ ” referring to de Blasio’s campaign mantra.</p>
<p>Monday’s arrest wasn’t the bishop’s his first run-in with the court system.</p>
<p>Public records show he has a string of court judgments against him, was foreclosed on by a mortgage lender and also declared bankruptcy.</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m confused, is this New York or Newark? Bill de Blasio aka William Wilhelm Jr. is already running the city like it&#8217;s Newark.</p>
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