As Long Island struggled to recover from Hurricane Sandy, the area's most influential newspaper, NewsDay, endorsed Mitt Romney for President on Saturday. In 2008, the paper endorsed Barack Obama:
4 Nov 2012
FEMA's vaunted "lean forward" strategy that called for advanced staging of supplies for emergency distribution failed to live up to its billing in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
3 Nov 2012
The FEMA policy may be to "lean forward," to advance the notion that they've established a rapid-response inventory delivery system, but most of those previously staged critical supplies have yet to make it to Staten Island, New Jersey, and Long Island.
2 Nov 2012
Two days after President Obama flew into storm-ravaged New Jersey Wednesday for a 90 minute photo op with Governor Christie, parts of the state have descended into what one local resident calls "an apocalyptic vision." On Friday, in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, this New Jersey resident described the situation there in dire terms.
2 Nov 2012
In Michael Bloomberg's Manhattan, just as in Barack Obama's Washington, D.C., the political and media elite seem to think that talking about something, holding a press conference, or televising a party amounts to doing something to solve a problem. The residents of Staten Island, desperately in need of food and power generators three days after Hurricane Sandy hit, know differently.
2 Nov 2012
Fresh off his "climate disruption"-driven endorsement of President Obama, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has chosen to divert critical food supplies and power generators from desperate residents of Staten Island to Sunday's New York City Marathon
1 Nov 2012
CBS's Sharyl Attkison reported Thursday that "during the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, the Obama Administration did not convene its top interagency counterterrorism resource: the Counterterrorism Security Group, (CSG)."
1 Nov 2012
The Obama administration missed a statutory deadline to file a key report on its second-term agenda to Congress this Thursday.
1 Nov 2012
A huge crowd greeted Mitt Romney at a Thursday morning campaign event inside a window manufacturing plant in Roanoke, Virginia.
1 Nov 2012
Obama campaign chief political consultant David Axelrod told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday that if his boss loses either Pennsylvania, Michigan, or Minnesota, he'll shave off his mustache.
31 Oct 2012