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The Ground Zero Mosque's Dubious Champions

By now, a growing number of Americans have heard about the 13-story, $100 million megamosque planned for the immediate proximity of Ground Zero, thanks in part to recent appeals by Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, the Southern Baptists’ Richard Land and

Where Do We Get Such Men?

The last line in the movie “The Bridges At Toko Ri” asks the poignant question about the US Military: “Where do we get such men?” That same question being asked during the Korean War film is just as applicable today

New Aerial NYPD Photos of 9/11 Attack Released

AP: Newly released aerial photos of the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center attack show the towers coming down from a dramatic new angle. The photos were obtained by ABC News, which filed a Freedom of Information Act request with

9/11 Cop Wins Cool $1M in Poker Challenge

NY Post: Mike Kosowski was dealt a bad hand on 9/11 – but now the former NYPD detective has come up all aces. Kosowski, a 53-year-old amateur card-player, won $1 million on the FOX poker game show PokerStars.net Million Dollar

The Gulag Archipelago

Like everyone else driving along Sunset Boulevard in Echo Park last year, I couldn’t help but notice the now-iconic Shepard Fairey “Hope” poster of candidate Barack Obama emblazoned 20 feet high on the side of a building near Dodger Stadium.

Review: 'The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3'

The publicity emphasis around director Tony Scott’s “The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3” is that this is not a remake, but a “retelling” based on the original source material, John Godey’s novel of the same name. Fair enough. After

Daily Gut: The Consequences of Incompetence

So The FBI and NYPD busted a homegrown terror cell Wednesday – a group of four men who wanted to replace two Bronx synagogues with a crater. (Thank God religion had nothing to do with it.) It turns out that

The Audacity of Bruce Springsteen

With his trademark look of severe yet not unwelcomed constipation, his trusty acoustic guitar in hand, working class diva Bruce Springsteen kicked off Barack Obama’s We Are One Inaugural Celebration concert at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18. Indeed, Bruce

NYPD Detective Rallies Against AG Nominee Holder

New York police detective Anthony S. Senft was a victim of a terror attack in New York in 1982, now he’s urging Congress to vote ‘no’ on Eric Holder for Attorney General because he played a key role in awarding

Movie Review: Max Payne

This is one of those movies where for most of the two long hours you sit and wonder why?. Why with all that money they didn’t spend more time on the script. Why with a star like Mark Wahlberg they

NYPD Responds To Climbing Chaos

WCBS: In the past 24 hours, two men climbed the New York Times building — stopping hundreds of people in their tracks. So what happens now? What is the city doing to prevent this from happening again?