Governor Paterson has announced a deal with party leaders that will allow him to withdraw his proposed taxes on non-diet soda, music downloads, porn downloads, movie and concert tickets, golf courses, cigars, massages, beer, wine, and more — all seemingly predicated on a notion of making New Yo...

It's been widely documented that Richard Gere has an innate ability to peer into a person's soul and find their hidden redemptive qualities, be they fickle brides or sassy prostitutes. But Gere's passionate support for Tibetan rights may be messing with his finely tuned instruments in the case of Hi...

How many times has this situation occurred: You disembark from your cramped rush-hour subway train, along with seemingly everyone in the city. You bound up the stairs and head for the turnstiles, where you know you'll have to waste precious seconds waiting for your turn as the masses merge into a si...

President Obama issued a directive yesterday that all his predecessors' signing statements — namely, those of President Bush — should be checked with the attorney general before being followed. Signing statements have been used by all presidents to declare opposition to parts of a law they...

Who would you expect to threaten the life of New York's attorney general, Andrew Cuomo? Mobsters or violent drug lords, perhaps. Maybe even those powerful financial bigwigs whose bountiful bonuses Cuomo has been targeting. Or, how about NAMBLA, the North American Man/Boy Love Association? As if you ...

It was all the way back on January 26 that Nadya Suleman, now widely known as Octomom, gave birth to eight children. That was kind of interesting, and the fact that she already had six other kids piqued the country's interest, and even got some people mad (although nobody seems as pissed about the 1...

Remember when you were bored back in college, and you would bet your friends that they wouldn't do idiotic things, like eat dog food or run around campus naked in the dead of winter? No? Neither do we. But imagine for a moment that you had an experience like that. Now think of a bet that falls on th...

In a CPAC conference full of fascinating moments, from the 13-year-old wunderkind to the guy still questioning Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as president, Rush Limbaugh's keynote address is the one receiving the most attention. Drudge acolyte Andrew Breitbart believes it "could have altered th...

The massive budget that President Obama outlined yesterday was much more than the first salvo in the new effort for health care reform. Though Congress will certainly change some aspects of Obama's budget as it crafts its own bill, Obama's intends to place much of the burden of funding his policies ...

In 2007, the city doled out $500,000 for an old ferry it hoped to use as a shuttle between Manhattan and Governors Island — $250,000 less than the Martha's Vineyard and Woods Hole Steamship Authority was asking for. Score! But later, when city officials actually plopped it in the water, they r...