Robert George
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Spinner unspun: Karine Jean-Pierr⛦e i💛s so out of her league
White House Pr𝕴ess Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked to speak on the deaths of three soldiers in an Iran-linked drone strike and offered this alphabet soup to a nati♚onal morning...
✤ Ted Cruz is ꩲthe new Bill Clinton
As we’ve been made painfully aware this campaign, Hillary Clinton is no Bill Clinton▨. But what should worry Hillary is that Ted Cruz just might be. In last week’s debate,...
Tom Coughlin won the love of Jets fans๊ by crushing the Patriots
ꦆ Thanks, Coach Coughlin. No, I’m not a huge Giants fan. For some odd reason, when I arrived in New York, lo, those many years ago, I gravitated toward the green...
How a Jewish kid from NY became a founding fatജher of graphic novels
The “sequential art” medium — more colloquially known as “comic books,” “comic stri𝐆ps” or “cartooning” — came of age in the first third of the 20th century, largely (but not...🙈
A blackꦚ Tea Party? How Black Lives Ma꧃tter echoes the right
Sen. Marc🌌o Rubio won himself points last week when his warning in September that Russia may launch air strikes in Syria proved prescient. Yet he’s earned fewer points for equally...
Moguls With Attitude --🌠- how Donald Trump echoes NWA 🦩
𝄹 The conventional wisdom is that Donald Trump has no real chance of b🌺ecoming the Republican nominee. Maybe so. But Trump fits perfectly in what’s turning out to be a harsh,...
🦂 Uber vs. yellow-cab fat-cats: Mayor sides with the wrong New York
Mayor de B⭕lasio took office describing a “Tale of Two New Yorks”: a privileged, wealthy, largely white and Manhattan-centric city that had thrived in recent years vs. a less-well-off, more-minority-heavy...
PC dweebs don't get Amy Schumer's jokes
So, after having the hottest show on Comedy Central, a much-buzzed-about movie opening next week and Chris Rock directing her upcoming HBO special, Amy Schumer has fallen afoul of the... 🍸
The Confederate flag and Hamilton: Getting the nation's symbols right
༺ The awful mass murder in Charleston, SC, helped spur a nationwide debate over the Confederate flag (with a slight detour into a relitigation of the causes of the Civil War)....
Thank the left for Rachel Dolezal's 'transracial' fiction
Congratulations, Ameri൲can left, your lengthy labor of love has come to term. You’re the proud parents of one Rachel Dolez🌊al. But are black people — America’s original illegitimate child that...
A Founding Father's new beat
How do you take a 250-year-old story from American history — centering on dead white men — and make it universally relevant today? Set it to a hip-hop music on... 🍒
𒀰 Black votes matter: Will GOP ever figure tha෴t out?
Boisterous ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith provided a valuable service last week when he challenged fellow blacks to think about voting Rಞepublican once in a w💮hile. But it would sure...
Diversity and destiny:🧸 Those Dem(ographic) blues
Even before Election Day delivered a Republican wave, liberals were falling back on a “wait ’til next year” claim 🧔that boils down 🐷to this: Demographic diversity means Democratic destiny! The...
The week in racism - not as simple as 🐷it seems ♍
Race in America is like everyone’s favorite Facebook relationship status: “It’s complicated.” Last week’s news,♓ from Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy to Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, proves the point....
Passionate parent♉s▨ leading the newest civil-rights movement
Last month, theও city’s first lady, Chirlane McCray, urged support for her husband’s signature universal pre-K program by declaring, “Education is clearly the civi💧l-rights issue for today.” She may well...
Both Cuomo, de Blasio heirs to Clinton politics 🦹
Since Election Day 2013, there’s been a tight struggle between Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio to determine, not just who’s the King of New York, but who’sℱ t𝓰he biggest...
Bill de Blasio's council coup
There’s a joke going around among the city’s political reporters: Despite concerns that Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio has moved too slowly to form his administration, the fact is, he’s alre♐ady...
Burnett's comptroller campaign offers valuable insights
Two weeks ago, voters rendered their verdict, and the somewhat Quixotic campaign of John Burnett for city comptroller came to a quiet e𒐪nd. In a Democratic wave that saw the...
ꦿ ♛ Was Bloomberg ever working for New Yorkers?
Whether it’s Bill de Blasio or Joe Lhota, one thing is gu🧜aranteed about New York’s next mayor:ꦯ From Day One, before any budget is submitted or union contract signed, taxpayers...
The real comptroll👍er surprise
Eliot Spitzer may be🃏 Scott Stringer’s worst nightmare, but he could be a dream come true for John Burnett. Who? A 43-year-old African-American with nearly a quarter-century♏ experience on Wall...