Big Wednesday 2013
Yesterday, I finally had a spare moment to set up for today’s cases. And I threw in my predictions just to go on the record. No, I don’t know why the Court is taking three days to do what I… Continue Reading
New York City
1,776 Feet
Construction workers bolted a communications spire atop the New World Trade Center in Manhattan today, bringing the still-under-construction skyscraper to its final height of 1,776 feet. Rightly: New York has rebuilt, and are taller and better than before. The new… Continue Reading
Let’s Get Ready To Wharrgarbl!
Headline: Owners of Park51 project apply for $5,000,000 in Federal redevelopment funds designed to encourage development in downtown Manhattan after 9/11. Reaction: Wharrgarbl! Examples of resulting wharrgarbl may be found in all the predictable places, like here, and here. And… Continue Reading
America Is The Measure Of Herself
A clear-eyed blogger has pointed out (in a post that I can no longer locate) that much of the ongoing sturm und drang over the mosque community center that includes a mosque presently in construction nearly tragically underfunded right on… Continue Reading
Only $99,981,745 To Go
Thanks to Reader Maxwell James for pointing out this article, which lends a remarkable perspective to a matter which has caused so many people so much anguish recently. If the Maggie Halberman/Ben Smith article is right, the Park51 project to… Continue Reading
The Manufacture Of A Controversy
Allow me to point you Readers to an article at Slate Salon chronicling the evolution of the “Mosque right on top of two blocks from Ground Zero” controversy. From its inception until less than four months ago, Cordoba House project… Continue Reading
A Gay Bar. Really?
First off, there’s money to be made selling overpriced alcoholic drinks to gay men looking to socialize in Manhattan. And in fact I’ve no doubt there are a lot of gay Muslim men in Manhattan. So Greg Gutfeld’s proposal to… Continue Reading
More On The Mosque Two Blocks From Ground Zero
I’ve heard and read a lot of arguments about why it’s in bad taste for a mosque to be built right on top of two blocks away from Ground Zero, and about how it would be hurtful to the survivors… Continue Reading
Ground Zero Mosque
There is a building near the corner of Broadway and Park Place in New York City, occupying a spot either two or three blocks north of the edge of the World Trade Center reconstruction site depending on how you count… Continue Reading
Senator Giuliani
So it appears that Rudy! Giuliani will run for Senate in 2010 and not Governor of New York. This, I think, is not a good use of his skill set. Rudy! is an executive; he has no experience in a… Continue Reading