++ Spitzer will resign today, according to aides. Good.

++ Gas prices hit all-time high.

++ Obama wins Mississippi primary, by a pretty big margin.

++ Pollution is called a byproduct of 'clean' fuel.

++ Democrats in a fight to define 'winner'.

++ Geraldine Ferraro needs to shut up, kthnx.

++ Clinton disagrees with Ferraro on Obama.

++ ( Read more... )

++ New York in limbo awaiting word on Spitzer. God, just resign already.

++ NY GOP is pushing for impeachment.

++ Politics, and scandal, as usual.

++ 1 in 4 girls has sexually transmitted disease. Whaaaaaaaaa? I wonder how directly this correlates with Bush's abstinence only sex-ed policies.

++ Oil hit a record of $109 a barrel, while ( Read more... )

Oh geez.
ALBANY - Gov. Eliot Spitzer has informed his most senior administration officials that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, an administration official said this morning ( Read more... )

Same old tired tricks.
NEW YORK (AP) - A Republican hoping to challenge Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton this fall is running a television ad that pairs Clinton's face with Osama bin Laden's and accuses her of opposing national security programs that may have helped thwart a terror plot on U.S.-bound flights from London ( Read more... )

I wish I was kidding.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Homeland Security database of vulnerable terror targets in the United States, which includes an insect zoo but not the Statue of Liberty, is too flawed to determine allocation of federal security funds, the department's internal watchdog found.Much of the study by Homeland Security Inspector General ( Read more... )

Via thisisnotover: Hillary's sending postcards of New York's landmarks to Chertoff. (You know, after Homeland Security said New York didn't have any.) The postcard with the Brooklyn Bridge on it reads:

Dear Secretary Chertoff,

Just a quick note from one of New York's many national monuments and icons. Wish you were here!

Hillary and [Rep.] Pete [King]
Oh, ( Read more... )

Oh, come on. How stupid do they think we are?
In a report that outlines why it cut back New York City's share of antiterrorism funds by roughly 40 percent, the Department of Homeland Security was so critical of some highly viewed local measures - like Operation Atlas, in which hundreds of extra police officers carry out counterterrorism duties ( Read more... )

GAH LUNA SMASH.
New York has no national monuments or icons, according to the Department of Homeland Security form obtained by ABC News. (Click here for the actual document.) That was a key factor used to determine that New York City should have its anti-terror funds slashed by 40 percent--from $207.5 million in 2005 to $124.4 million in 2006 ( Read more... )

Oh, come on!
The two cities attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, will receive far less antiterrorism money under plans unveiled today by the Department of Homeland Security, which has designated more money for many smaller cities throughout the country ( Read more... )

I have to say, occasionally, I really like Michael Bloomberg.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, in his most scathing attack to date on legislation working its way through Congress, declared a House proposal to deport 11 million illegal immigrants "pure fantasy" and called parts of a Senate plan "no less ridiculous."

"You have to wonder what world ( Read more... )