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Listen, I understand that everyone is talking and writing about the government shutdown and the debt ceiling. I don't have anything to add to that discussion, other than that the dynamics of the situation have not changed materially since December of 2012, when I wrote “The Chicken Game” http://blastedfools.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/the-chicken-game/ I hope that House Republicans will stand their ground, but I don't have anything uniquely insightful on that and certainly not enough to rant for several paragraphs. So, excuse me for that and in the meantime, while we await what will probably be nothing more than a cease fire or a...

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A New York City man who was out driving Sunday celebrating his first wedding anniversary with his wife and 2-year-old daughter was brutally beaten by members of a motorcycle gang in front of his horrified family after a high-speed chase. Police said Tuesday morning it remains unclear what caused the confrontation that led to the assault on Alexian Lien. Lien, 33, was left bloodied and had to be hospitalized. But investigators are studying a 6-minute helmet-cam video that shows part of the chase and cuts off just before Lien is pulled out of his luxury SUV and beaten by the...

The man’s Range Rover was surrounded by several bikers on the West Side Highway on Sunday. One biker apparently cut the driver off and slammed on the brakes just before the SUV bumped his rear tire. But when the driver stopped, several bikers began to damage his SUV. Cops are investigating. A pack of bikers pummeled a driver in upper Manhattan on Sunday, after a wild chase that began with a fender bender on the West Side Highway, cops said. The brawl erupted after the victim — who was driving his wife and their young child — became surrounded by...