Explore More Parts of New York’s Hudson Valley got up to 15 inches of snow from this weekend’s nor’easter, which was mostly a rainy dud in the five boroughs, extending New York City’s nearly 700-day snow drought.
Plattekill, in Ulster County had recorded 14.6 inches of snow had fallen by 8 a.m. Sunday morning, and Norfolk, Connecticut had received 12 inches and Poughkeepsie saw 11.5 inches, according to the Fox Forecast Center. Read More...
Dana Milbank failed to give critical context in his Nov. 10 Washington Sketch column, "Bibi keeps driving the wedge." Mr. Milbank cited an alliance between antiwar (and possibly anti-everything) group Answer Coalition and Rabbi Dovid Weiss, who was described as being "from a bizarre sect of Orthodox Jews." Mr. Milbank failed to point out that the rabbi's opposition to Israel is for a reason not even remotely similar to Answer's platform, inadvertently giving anti-Israel people the ability to use the old Pravda tactic that the best way to be persuasive is to quote seemingly credible sources. Read More...
"American democracy is a sham, no matter how much it's pumped by the oligarchs who run the country (and who control the nation's "news" media)," he writes. "The US, in other words, is basically similar to Russia or most other dubious 'electoral' 'democratic' countries. We weren't formerly, but we clearly are now."
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