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A powerful New York politician claims she was just speaking as a private citizen when she tried to run Chick-fil-A out of town, but she used her official letterhead and even invoked her position as City Council speaker to apply pressure on the embattled chicken chain. New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who has mayoral aspirations, sent a letter to New York University president John Sexton on Saturday asking the school to immediately end their contract with the fast food restaurant. The Atlanta-based company's sole New York City outlet is in the school's food court. "I write as the...

Reprinted from NewsMax.com Time for Muslim Show-and-TellTammy BruceWednesday, July 3, 2002 Last time I checked, it was Muslims who attacked this country on September 11, killing thousands of Americans. I predicted then to my friends that we were about to descend into the equivalent of the Looking Glass: There would be a frenzy by our cultural and political establishment to cozy up to Muslims in this country in a perverse effort to 'prove' we still love them; to prove we aren't racist; to prove we aren't anti-Muslim. Somehow the pathetic proving would rest with the victims as we swim in...