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Celebrity ghostwriter, creator of Overheard New York, and regular on the Fox Business Channel's The Independents.

Also, author of Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography Of Kim Jong il .

New York media ping.

It is the perfect supervillain name, isn’t it?

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It's not quite as amusing as it looks.

LOL.

Not even the slightest resemblance, as you'll see.

17 percent

Personally, I can't wait for the day he buys out Pinch and turns it into a Spanish-language tabloid.

Yeah, I heard about this on Eyewitness News the other day.

Very bizarre, to say the least.

Don’t mention it.

Here ya go.

A better metric to use is the extent of jihadist casualties that occur in a single month.

Over 5,000, according to the BBC and King's College.

In other words, two 9/11 massacres with every month that elapses.

This is why the lie by Merkel, Cameron, Obama and the rest of the political class is so toxic.

The idea that Islam is a religion of peace is not only not true, it's such an inversion of the truth that it's something Orwell would have created.

It's akin to saying Joseph Stalin was a humanitarian.

“I’m not exaggerating. We have more Albanians in Turkey than in Albania. More Bosnians in Turkey than in Bosnia. More Abkhazians, definitely, than in Abkhazia. Almost equal [number] of Georgians, and you know, all the Kurds and others. We are a small Caucasia, a small Middle East,” Davutoğlu said.

More Armenian corpses than all the cemeteries in Armenia.

The Burning Tigris

Millions of Algerians have come to France, and the nation is both bigger and stronger for it.

Could have fooled me.

I'd settle for banning feminists.

BTTT.

The MTA squandering New Yorkers' money?

You don't say.

This always struck me as the height of stupidity, which for the NCAA is quite a feat.

How do you 'erase' victories which have already occurred?

Indeed.

It's the only one in their deck.

What a shame.

BTTT.

This listened to this story on WNYC this weekend.

Remarkable.

Maybe Ronald Kessler should investigate.

That was my first impression, i.e. maybe he knows more than just bloated union leaders and brothel owners back in Nevada.

Boehner and Co. are the perfect embodiment of the new nomenklatura.

Complete mediocrities in almost every respect, except for grasping at-and obtaining-power.

Obama's Accomplice

Agreed.

Boehner needs a golden parachute-maybe he can join his old friend Eric Cantor on K Street.

With all due respect, this is the intellectually laziest justification I've come across.

The reason deportations are not occurring has nothing to do with the cost, which-as I've already explained-is negligible compared to a policy of open borders in perpetuity.

This is a country, not a hotel.

-John Derbyshire

It's a fiscally illiterate argument, especially when it's posited by leftists who think programs like Medicare and Social Security are financially sustainable.

Plus, FAIR has already demonstrated that it's a complete fallacy.

It's all about the money.

Always.

Corporations, agri-businesses, the political class, the hospitality industry, VOLAGs, Catholic Charities, organized labor, the tech industry looking to cut labor costs, i.e. Zuckerface & Co., among others.

Essentially, the elite stratum which is insulated from the worst consequences of open borders policies.

I would opt for Gohmert, but doubt it will get to that point.

Unfortunately, it looks like we'll be stuck with Speaker Spray Tan for the next two years.

I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I think it's an amazing idea-and I like some of the safeguards they've built into the system.

OTOH, adopting a pet dog or cat is a life-altering decision, and as someone who adopted a chihuahua from North Shore three years ago, I'm a bit leery of something that lends itself to impulse decision-making.

He also set the table for mass immigration from the developing world, alas. Although he was not unique among Western "leaders" in that regard, unfortunately.

See the gastarbeiter program in Germany and the Hart-Celler Act in this country.

Americans are so last century.

MSNBC: Last in war, last in peace, last in the Nielsen ratings.

Will it ever end?

And a street hustler who speaks Ebonics from New Jersey in the bargain.

Of course not.

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The Story of Christmas

Close.

58%

In its 2012 IRS filing, Wounded Warrior reported that about 73 percent of its expenses went toward programs. But the charity is one of many that use a commonly accepted practice to claim a portion of fundraising expenses as charitable works.

By including educational material in solicitations, charities can classify some of the expense as good deeds. Ignoring these joint costs reduces the amount Wounded Warrior spent on programs last year to 58 percent of total expenditures. The charity has been criticized for its salaries, with 10 employees earning $150,000 or more. Chief executive Steve Nardizzi, whose total compensation was about $330,000 last year, said salaries are in line with similarly sized organizations.

They're far from the worst, as far as veterans service organizations go, but the exalted status they enjoy is undeserved, IMO.

There's also a gauche commercial exploitation that characterizes the WWP, which I wouldn't find so off-putting if the money raised were being put towards more useful purposes, which I don't think it is.

The organization also engages in branded partnerships for everything from ketchup to paper towels to playing cards—something that rubs other veterans’ groups the wrong way.

“It’s more about the Wounded Warrior Project and less about the wounded warrior,” said a second veterans’ advocate. “You have an organization that is spending God knows how many millions of dollars saying that they’re helping people, but they’re not,” said Davis, an Iraq War veteran.

It reminds me in some ways of Susan G. Komen's exploitation of breast cancer.

Something Mickey Kaus pointed out repeatedly at the end of 2010, when Reid & Co. were trying to shove the DREAM Act through a lame duck session of Congress, is that this is the stalking horse for comprehensive legislative amnesty.

Whenever you see someone like Gowdy-or any politician-advocating citizenship for DREAMers, they're effectively signing off on legal status for 15-20 million illegal aliens.

It's amazing how many conservative buddies that fellow has on Capitol Hill, isn't it?