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Remember the 2004 Republican Convention? Well, here’s the bill

And here’s the Times editorial on the damages to New Yorkers’ civil rights, as well as costs to us taxpayers, that the Bloomberg administration and particularly the Ray Kelly-run New York Police Department inflicted on us all by arresting people … Continue reading

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“Blogger’s Incarceration Raises First Amendment Questions”

A weird story, from the NYT. And of course I read it fairly avidly, given that I blog. But not like this guy, whose central purpose in blogging would seem to be insulting an awful lot of powerful people and … Continue reading

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The Indian diplomat has left the building!

She’s gone. Preet Bharara indicted her and then she left for the airport and went home to India. The Big Sulk India is having over this ugly episode is petty enough to be entered into the George Washington Bridge Closing … Continue reading

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