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It’s one thing for Mayor Bloomberg to play nanny and hector New Yorkers about smoking and trans fats, as he never stops doing. But it’s quite another for him to grab the flag and start scolding foes of that planned mosque near Ground Zero, as he did Friday. The mayor was way, way out of line. “A handful of people ought to be ashamed of themselves,” he huffed. Well, we know one person who should be ashamed: him. Bloomberg got downright apocalyptic, calling the controversy “[as] important [a] test of the separation of church and state . . . as...

A fired-up Mayor Bloomberg warned the U.S. "is committing national suicide" by passing the buck on implementing comprehensive immigration reform. Hizzoner delivered the blunt message Wednesday as he criticized Arizona's harsh new anti-immigrant law. "This is not good for the country. I don't agree with it," he said. "We love immigrants here." Bloomberg said that because federal lawmakers have failed to tackle the thorny issue, lawmakers in states like Arizona have taken matters into their own hands. "This country is committing national suicide," Bloomberg said. The Arizona law allows cops to stop anyone they think is in the country illegally...