“Nearly two-thirds of Americans do not trust press coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign, according to a new Harvard University survey, which also revealed four out of five people believe coverage focuses too much on the trivial — and more than 60% believe coverage is politically biased.” Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership National Leadership Index […]

“New York governor Eliot Spitzer said at a private fund-raiser that he wants a Democratic-controlled state Senate to legalize gay marriage — a highly divisive and controversial issue — as one of its first priorities in 2009, a witness to the remarks told The Post. Spitzer, a gay-marriage proponent, pledged to help Democrats next November […]

New Yorkers, New York liberal Democrats, are livid. They are outraged over the decision by Governor Spitzer to pull his driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants plan. Charlie Rangel at the Spitzer press conference. RANGEL: There is no question that nobody’s thinking about identifying, deporting, jailing these people. They are part of our economy; they are […]

Take all the pork-barrel spending from the beginning of the war and compare it with war costs, and I think it would be very interesting. Pork barrel, earmarks and so forth. Here we have a war that is being fought in the interests of US national security. This is one of the legitimate responsibilities of […]

Senator Harry Reid yesterday had a press conference on Capitol Hill, and a reporter said to him, “Senator Reid, do you have expectations that you’ll be able to get 60 votes for this latest anti-war resolution of yours?” and Sen. Reid says, “I always have expectations to get 60 votes,” and then added this. REID: […]