According to the latest numbers from Iraq Body Count, a website that “maintains and updates the world’s only independent and comprehensive public database of media-reported civilian deaths in Iraq that have resulted from the 2003 military intervention by the USA and its allies,” between 56,640 and 62,363 Iraqi civilians have died since the American invasion. And these figures do not include the 3140 [...]
Posted in The City on February 19th, 2007 | 
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Hillary death watch politics
According to a Newsweek Poll, Hillary Clinton leads all heavyweight presidential challengers — John McCain, Barack Obama, and Rudy Giuliani. Not that it means squat. Presidential-race history is littered with the forgotten corpses of front-runners. In our recent lifetime, the cadavers of Edmund Muskie (who cried himself to ruin in New Hampshire), Michael Dukakis (who was so far ahead of Bush Sr. after the Democratic Convention that he could’ve stayed in Massachusettes), Mario Cuomo (who dropped out for shrouded-in-mystery reasons), [...]
Posted in The City on January 29th, 2007 | No Comments »
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Hillary death watch politics
The Daily News poll of 501 registered New York City voters showing Hillary Clinton trouncing Barack Obama among every ethnic group — even blacks — is about as prescient as a poll asking Bronx residents if they’ll root for the Yanks or Cubs in the World Series. Despite the surge in publicity, most voters don’t know Obama from Joe Biden. Most voters — we know this from an experiment we’ve often conducted — can’t name the two senators from their [...]
Posted in The City on January 23rd, 2007 | No Comments »
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Hillary death watch politics
Recharger has nothing but admiration
for ex-banker Christine Jennings who is running for Congress from Florida’s 13th District. Though Jennings didn’t graduate from college, she rose from bank teller to bank president. Better yet, she’s a democrat running for arch villain-Republicaan Kathleen Harris’s vacated seat.
Still, during an October 25th fundraiser at the posh Fifth Avenue digs of Christine Bacher, Jennings made a bizarre comment to the assembled, including Congressman Charlie Rangel, Congressman Jerry Nadler, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, and Senator Hillary Clinton: [...]
Posted in The City on November 6th, 2006 | No Comments »
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Josh Shnayer politics
