NYC Soda Ban Loses Again in Court; Politico, WSJ Portray as 'Blow' to

July 30th, 2013 5:45 PM
Today another New York state court upheld an earlier decision in March that invalidated outgoing Mayor Mike Bloomberg's much-maligned "soda ban" which restricts many establishments in the Big Apple from selling soda cups larger than 16 ounces in capacity. As the media report on the court ruling, watch for a) the media to paint the ruling as a "blow" to an "ambitious," well-meaning effort by…

Abortion or Bust! Pro-Choice Extremism Doomed 10-Point 'Women's Equali

June 24th, 2013 7:13 PM
A stubborn, doctrinaire insistence by hard-line abortion rights advocates that a bill titled the Women's Equality Act must not pass without language further liberalizing the Empire State's abortion laws doomed the bill to failure in the New York State Assembly, the New York Times's Thomas Kaplan reported today. Even so, the Times did its best to shield the abortion lobby -- groups like NARAL…

The Continuing Disgrace of Anthony Weiner, Brought to You by the Liber

June 3rd, 2013 5:15 PM
From time to time, Americans manage to elect extraordinarily corruptible people—and these walking moral catastrophes, in turn, pass laws for us, enforce those laws for us, presume to lecture us, and run, in general, as much of our lives as they can gets their hands on. It's not that we don't care about being governed by vulgarians, and it's not that we're pathologically gullible—so what is it?…

‘Rent is Too Damn High’ Guy Runs for NY Mayor, Bashes Economic Rec

April 25th, 2013 12:23 PM
Two years ago, Jimmy McMillan ran for New York governor and became a viral sensation, with more than 7 million Youtube views.  Now the creator of The Rent is Too Damn High party is running for New York City mayor and has expanded his platform is his new rap anthem video. In the first 30 seconds of his video, the news reporter declared that rent in New York is at an all time high. “Critics say…

Disgraced Journal News Removes Gun Owner Map

January 18th, 2013 9:36 PM
The suburban New York paper that caused a nationwide uproar over its online interactive map of gun permit owners in two counties has finally removed the chart from its website. The map prompted thousands of complaints to the paper which also prompted the anti-gun paper to hire its own armed guards supposedly to protect its employees. The removal of the map was preceded by a new state law…

Another Day, Another Burglary at a House ID'd on N.Y. Paper's Interact

January 18th, 2013 9:53 AM
Another home included in an interactive map of gun permit holders published by the Lower Hudson Valley’s Journal News shortly before Christmas has been burglarized. This time, according to the related report at Newsday, "The thieves ransacked the house Wednesday night, breaking into two safes on the home's third floor and stealing a third safe." The third safe, in what was either an amazing…

Recall Point: Journal News FOIA Requests Asked For 'How Many and What

January 15th, 2013 11:46 AM
The Lower Hudson Valley's Journal News based in White Plains, New York has been very tight-lipped since it published an interactive map showing the names and addresses of pistol permit holders in Westchester and Rockland Counties. The Washington Post's Erik Wemple reports that the paper has hired "a Manhattan public relations, marketing and government affairs firm" whose job appears to involve…

Criminals Apparently Targeted Gun Permit Holder Exposed in NY Newspape

January 14th, 2013 10:44 AM
A White Plains, New York home included in an interactive map of gun permit holders published by the Lower Hudson Valley's Journal News shortly before Christmas was burglarized on Saturday. According to a local CBS News report, in what was either about the oddest coincidence one can imagine or a direct result of that map's publication, "the burglars' target was the homeowner's gun safe." The…

Ten Outrageous Anti-Gun ’Journalists

January 8th, 2013 11:01 AM
The media agenda against guns is nothing new. But recent mass shootings have encouraged supposedly neutral journalists to push for gun regulation instead of reporting the facts surrounding the tragedies. One thing the media seldom mention is that both the Newtown and Aurora shootings occurred in gun free zones. In the Clackamas Town Center Shooting in Oregon, however, a gunman was…

New York Newspaper's Gun Permit Map Already Having Negative Repercussi

January 5th, 2013 8:11 AM
Many of those who expressed outrage at the publication of a two-county interactive map of pistol permit owners by Gannett's White Plains, New York-based Journal News just before Christmas have raised serious concerns that the paper's action would directly harm law-abiding citizens. Evidence is pouring in that those fears are legitimate. Fox News, doing something the wire services should have…

Gun-hating New York Journal News Hires Armed Security After Map Contro

January 2nd, 2013 3:54 PM
Less than two weeks after a New York regional newspaper created a national controversy by publishing an online map of registered gun owners in its circulation area, the Journal News has once again brought attention to itself by hiring armed guards to protect its employees, an obvious case of hypocrisy given the publication’s virulently anti-gun editorial stance. As you would expect, the…

Rockland County, NY Paper Publishes Names, Addresses of Gun Permit Map

December 29th, 2012 9:27 AM
Turnabout is fair play. A week ago, Gannett's White Plains, New York-based Journal News published an interactive map containing " the addresses of all pistol permit holders in Westchester and Rockland counties" (previous related posts are here, here, and here). Like so many others throughout the U.S. and even throughout the world, Dylan Skriloff, Editor-in-Chief at the Rockland County Times,…

Blogger Creates Interactive Map of Employees of Paper Which Published

December 26th, 2012 6:43 PM
In response to Gannett's Jounal News headquartered in White Plains, New York publishing an interactive map containing the names and addresses of all pistol permit holders in Westchester and Rockland Counties (previous related posts are here and here), blogger Robert Cox at NewRochelleTalk.com (HT Instapundit) has produced an interactive map at a post entitled "Where are the Journal News…

Gannett's Journal-News in New York Defends Publishing Gun Permit Holde

December 26th, 2012 3:33 PM
Here's another entry for the "They can dish it out but can't take it" file. Jammie Wearing Fool is reporting, with supporting links, that Editor CynDee Royle at the Journal News headquartered in White Plains, New York, which on Saturday, as noted on Monday at NewsBusters, published an interactive map showing the names and address of all pistol permit holders in Westchester and Rockland…