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America's largest circulation suburban daily newspaper, Newsday, wins the prize for ugliest bit of Reagan-bashing on the day of the great man's funeral, publishing a bile-filled screed by columnist Jimmy Breslin that trashed the American icon as "a callous man" who "hated children." "I don't see how anybody can summon grief [over Reagan's death]," Breslin observed. "His whole weeklong funeral is cheap, utterly distasteful American publicity." The Reagan-bashing writer usually inhabits Newsday's editorial section. But in a remarkably bizarre editorial decision, Newsday decided to move up Breslin's hate-screed to page A8, in the midst of its news section, right behind...

I offered my small prayer for Ronald Reagan when he was shot by this Hinckley. I said another prayer for him when I read this graceful note that he issued about his Alzheimer's. Having said this, I now strongly endorse a suitable memorial for him. Ronald Reagan belongs on a $3-bill. You are supposed to honor and respect the dead. But you also must respect the truth, and live for the living — and this funeral has gone on for almost a week. I am in a car and I hear the radio announcer, who is supposed to be telling...

He was a nowhere guy until the planes hit the World Trade Center buildings. He was a failed mayor, was Rudy Giuliani. He had a commissioner named Harding stealing so obviously that at first people couldn't believe their eyes. Giuliani had an open fear of blacks that produced the one most memorable sight of the last 10 years in my city. On the roof of City Hall were cops with rifles.

In May of 1990, Newsday's syndicated columnist Jimmy Breslin received an e-mail criticizing one of his columns as "sexist." That so outraged Mr. Breslin that he denounced the sender, a female Korean-American reporter, as a yellow, slant-eyed cur. And he went on the Howard Stern filth show to further discuss his displeasure. Newsday, Long Island's daily newspaper, which at one time had a New York City edition, suspended Breslin for two weeks without pay, even though he apologized to the young reporter. They should have fired this New York thug who has now been charged with fabricating quotes in order...

NEW YORK - The head of a conservative lobbying group accused Newsday columnist Jimmy Breslin of making up quotes attributed to him in Wednesday's column. The newspaper's editor said Breslin, a Pulitzer Prize winner, told him the quotes came from a 1992 interview, and that it would have been better if the columnist had made that clear. The Rev. Louis Sheldon, chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition (news - web sites), said he has "never met Jimmy Breslin, never had the conversation described in his column today and never said those sentences to anyone in my life." In the column,...

George Bush won't mention the names below in today's speech, nor will your gullible news and television people - the Pekinese of the Press. Therefore we print promptly and thus prominently the names of American soldiers killed in Iraq and reported from Sept. 9 to Sept. 19: Spc. Ryan G. Carlock, 25, 416th Transportation Co., 260 Quartermaster Battalion (Petroleum Support), Hunter Army Airfield, Ga. Died in attack on truck Sept. 10. Home: Macomb, Ill. Staff Sgt. Joe Robsky, 31, 759 Ordnance Co., Fort Irwin, Calif. Home is a mobile home park trailer in Elizaville, N.Y. Died in Baghdad while trying...

"Why is Bush spending money in Iraq when we need it here?" this misguided young woman at one end of the bench said. Her name was Taslinah Rashid. She was one of seven young women sitting together in the crowded courtyard of the Noble Drew Ali Plaza houses in Brownsville yesterday afternoon....

To the Justice Department of John Ashcroft, John McNicholl is a lifelong criminal. He also is a Catholic, and I almost never waste my time pointing this out, but in matters with John Ashcroft, I believe that his psalm-singing, right-wing, country-road religion leaves him somewhat suspicious of Catholics, if not more.

In the darkness at dawn the other day, I nearly broke every bone in my body when I tripped over something on the sidewalk. It was a dog as small as your foot. No wonder I didn't notice him. "Sorry," a man said, holding the small dog on a leash. ...... Pepe cannot let his pit bull go unchained. Which is just what he had around the dog's neck, a big thick tire chain from a gas station. ...... Here he came lunging and Pepe held onto the chain for all in his arms and the front of the dog,...

Famed New York City columnist Jimmy Breslin abruptly ended a radio interview yesterday about a piece he wrote criticizing President Bush as a bigot based on his handling of the sniper crisis, telling the host, "You're not intellectually suited to have a conversation with me. I'm sorry. Goodbye." In a column placed prominently on page 2 of Newsday's Thursday edition, the writer who rose to fame covering New York's "Son-of-Sam" serial murder case said the president wasn't paying much attention to the sniper crisis because he hates the minorities who live in places like Washington, D.C. and New York. "He...

Bush Should Take a Walk Near Home October 24, 2002 The man who was supposed to be directly in charge of the last three weeks was Bush's favorite, John "Prayer Book" Ashcroft, the attorney general. I think he goes to church to pray against people. But Ashcroft was nowhere because the president was nowhere. Bush should have been taking a walk through Silver Spring or Rockville. That was his job. He pledged to defend the nation. He could have started by helping to repel the attack on Washington. It was one thing that Bush was completely disdainful of the World...

I am walking in a silent city. There is supposed to be noise that does not stop but there is none now. We are, here in New York, the only place in the world that terrorists want to blow up. They'll take Washington as a second choice, but New York is the prize, the place Arabs will die for. New York is a place filled with Jews and blacks and islanders and the government in Washington doesn't care for any of them or what happens to them. And nobody says anything about it anywhere. So yesterday New York sat in...