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<title><![CDATA[Harry Siegel - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17293.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Harry Siegel]]></description><category domain="17293">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Eric Adams Owes Trump Now--and New Yorkers Know It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/new-york-mayor-eric-adams-trump-doj-corruption-case-rcna191761</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president ordered the Department of Justice to drop its prosecution of the embattled mayor '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? but that's just the beginning of the arrangement.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time To Start Judging Eric Adams]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-judging-eric-adams-20220521-3q6o6ww545buba6dxxeokkmb64-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Each new mayor here has to take a dizzying, ominous leap from whatever smaller thing they'd been doing over to what John Lindsay famously called the second toughest job in America.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Eric Adams: A Man With a Job to Do]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-eric-adams-20220312-nteds2wy4jeednjgmn7pns6mem-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Purim begins Wednesday night, and the story in the Book of Esther of an orphan who becomes queen and rises to her position and the occasion to save her people from destruction feels especially timely this year as Ukraine's democratically elected Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelensky,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Eric Adams' Words on Crime&mdash;And the Dems' Actions]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-eric-adams-one-month-in-20220205-nnapmyah6ngxlltsdxstgcjwiq-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Where Massachusetts-reared Bill de Blasio and Mike Bloomberg seemed to loathe speaking with the public and performing the job, native son Eric Adams has thrown himself into being mayor in a way New Yorkers haven't seen since Ed Koch went around asking How'm I doing?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does NYC's Cop-Turned-Mayor Distrust the NYPD?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-eric-adams-family-values-20220115-fg2x6lll5jdmfnryni5h4g7wyi-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The reason I can do that is because I'm the mayor, Eric Adams said on Friday about why he wanted his younger brother Bernard overseeing his security detail and Philip Banks III, an unindicted co-conspirator in a scheme to bribe the last mayor and high-ranking members of the NYPD, as his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mandates &amp; Moving People to Do the Right Thing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-siegel-dec-26-20211225-xgqe7e7qefhaflto5nqv2qeupi-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One in a hundred New Yorkers and nearly one in fifty Manhattanites tested positive for coronavirus in the last week as I write this Friday morning.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Welcome to Bill de Blasio's Party]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-were-all-invited-to-de-blasios-party-20210724-vtrtysescfd4hnctal5uinf7fi-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some relevant New York City history as Bill de Blasio is suddenly hamming it up in his role as mayor, waving homemade FOMO signs while trying to use people's Fear of Missing Out to lure people back to the city and those who holded up here to return to their offices and old ways.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Anti-Asian Violence Not What Progressives Want It To Be]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-of-hate-crimes-and-hate-crimes-20210411-s3dilhpeu5hffcnw7xslawaw5e-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Flipping through the paper on Friday, you could read about:'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' A young Asian man'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' who was at the Home Depot in East New York when a man brandished a two-by-four and asked his girlfriend, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Why you with that little d--k Asian n----r?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' while telling him, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll cut you,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Media Star Andrew Cuomo Has Gone Missing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-harrys-column-20210228-hrh6r546lbcvdjlfopsha2d2oa-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's a reason that Gov. Cuomo, Emmy-winning TV star and best-selling leader of the fight against the coronavirus, has abruptly gone dark.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Truth About New York City Today]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-of-ghost-towns-happy-talk-and-reality-20201025-aremohuwxvajjika5zgnbxzqym-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you go and look at what's happened to New York, it's a ghost town. It's a ghost town, reports Florida Man Donald Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Stirs the New York Pot for a Reason]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-fear-loathing-and-straight-talk-on-crime-20190707-2cbckhdoavebncljcqxgqzzuia-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' remember him? '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' runs ineptly for president, inept President Donald Trump looks at New York City, where crime is at a record low and rents are at a record high, and sees, inevitably, American carnage.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Latest Attack Stuns, Saddens DoJ Officials]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/were-in-venezuelatrumps-latest-fbi-attack-stuns-saddens-justice-officials</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'You can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t overstate how critical it is that people who have information trust us to protect them,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' said a federal prosecutor, adding that Trump is working to break that trust.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Phantom Fears and a Safer City]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/phantom-fears-safer-city-article-1.3726210</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[American Carnage, local edition:The war on cops, the end of stop-and-frisk and our sanctuary city policies meant that in 2017, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'New York City continues to see gang murder after gang murder, the predictable consequence of the city'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'soft on crime'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' stance.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'Or so...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Revenge of the Deplorables]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/revenge-deplorables-article-1.3686605</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Al Franken, accused by multiple women over the last three weeks and change of grabbing behinds and behaving]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Right Way to Resist Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/resist-trump-article-1.2963954</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bill de Blasio Is In Big Trouble]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/harry-siegel-diagnosing-bill-de-blasio-disease-article-1.2603154</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The bad news has been snowballing for Bill de Blasio, what with the emergence of a federal probe involving, among other things, top cops in Brooklyn accepting diamonds, trips and more from two big donors to various appendages of his political operation and what'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s now four separate...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Battle for New York's Democratic Soul]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/harry-siegel-clinton-sanders-cuomo-de-blasio-n-y-article-1.2585718</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The People Get What They Ask For]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/harry-siegel-people-article-1.2511790</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Remember when our jaws were clenched at the all-but-inevitable prospect of a Bush-Clinton dynastic rematch?Those were simpler times, six months ago.Now, a hate-spewing, strongman-fetishizing Republican of convenience is dominating his party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s polls while a socialist shouter, one who...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pamela Geller, Charlie Hebdo &amp; the Assassin's Veto]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/harry-siegel-muhammed-cartoons-fear-assassin-veto-article-1.2213111</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Fear is part of it.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s how the Boston Phoenix explained its decision, back in 2006, not to run the Muhammad cartoons that had appeared the previous year in the Dutch newspaper Jyllands-Posten, only to spark riots months later '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' cartoonists in hiding with bounties...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Welcome to Crippled America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/harry-siegel-crippled-america-article-1.2453359</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s talk Trump, like Trump would:He'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a liar. A racist. A guy born on third base who thinks he hit a triple, a TV pitchman who gets paid to play a mogul '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' one with open contempt for the schmucks dumb enough to buy his shtick, and even more contempt for the schmucks who...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton May Win It All--for Republicans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/harry-siegel-clinton-win-gop-article-1.2354513</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s an incredible headline: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Hillary Clinton to show more humor and heart, aides say.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m pretty sure spontaneity rarely follows a New York Times article, sourced to aides, announcing it.Which is fine. Running for President is serious business, and anyone actually...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Uber Wins, Liberals Lose]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/23/opinions/siegel-uber-de-blasio/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The rise of the "gig economy" has given Democrats from Hillary Clinton on down a tough issue to wrestle with, one that wedges them uncomfortably between Silicon Valley money and millennial digital natives on one side, and organized labor and disempowered workers on the other -- in a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Lonesome Death of Eric Garner]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/harry-siegel-lonesome-death-eric-garner-article-1.2032281</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the second Eric Garner video that made me cry.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Not the one where Officer Daniel Pantaleo chokes Garner for 15 seconds before smashing his head into the sidewalk for 10 seconds as other cops hold down and cuff Garner, ignoring the pleas he issued with the last air in his lungs:]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sharpton's Shady Snitch Story]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/sharpton-shady-snitch-story-article-1.1750057</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s no small irony in seeing Al Sharpton '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' hardly an amateur when it comes to impugning the reputation of others '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' responding with frustration to an attack on his own.Old history came back Monday to nip at the heels of the once-rotund reverend, immortalized by Tom...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Spike Lee and Other Sentimental Segregationists]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/spike-lee-sentimental-segregationists-article-1.1710867</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve been in Brooklyn so long, I remember when Spike Lee lived here.When I was in Fort Greene in the late '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'90s, living in the predominantly Caribbean Long Island University dorms, our basketball team landed Richie Parker, a fantastic player who came to LIU after he pled guilty...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[De Blasio's Moment of Truth]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/de-blasio-moment-truth-article-1.1507951</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I was born in 1977, and have been in Brooklyn since. For 32 of those years, the mayor has been to the right of the city'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s political center, owing to one exceptional circumstance or another.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pendulum Swings Left in New York]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/pendulum-swings-left-article-1.1479928</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Where have you gone, Carlos Danger? After a rollicking primary, the general election has been dull political theater. Spoiler alert: The Democrats, from Bill de Blasio on down, will win.Never mind the doomsayers, including Joe Lhota, muttering darkly about the imminent return of the bad...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Citizen Bloomberg: An Uncertain Legacy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newgeography.com/content/002353-citizen-bloomberg-how-our-new-york-mayor-has-given-us-business</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After a charmed first decade in politics, Mayor Mike Bloomberg is mired in his first sustained losing streak.His third term has been shaky, marked by the Snowpocalypse, the  snowballing CityTime scandal, the backlash to Cathie Black and  "government by cocktail party," and the rejection...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Camelot, The Puppet Show]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-01-01/camelot-the-puppet-show</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Siegel</author>
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