"You can't talk honestly about the environment today ... without being critical of the president" -- Robert F. Kennedy .

With New York's State Supreme Court ruling Thursday that the city's ban on dancing is constitutional, perhaps it's time to start...

"American lifestyles are creating a climate holocaust," says Frontline , India's "national magazine," in its March 9...

Gale Brewer is proposing, The New York Sun reports , to ban city businesses from leaving windows or doors open while air conditioners are on...

Headline right now on New York's City Council website : "02/22/07 Speaker Quinn Brings A Tase Of NYC To Wounded ...

Most Appreciated Performance by Underperforming Male Troupe: Will Ferrell/Jack Black/John C. Reilly. Funny, but not up their usually hilari...

New York City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Queens), is introducing legislation, New York 1 reports , banning dog owners from keeping thei...

Democrats go native .

Remember Jeanne Calment , the world's "longest-living" woman? At the tender age of 122, Calment passed away a lifelong smoker....

Not through government "investments," writes a Buffalo ex-pat in today's Post-Standard : A few years ago I wrote a letter reg...

To its credit, The Daily News runs an excellent letter to the editor today: Double-dipping New Hyde Park, L.I.: Now that Mike Lupica is th...

Today, the University of Sydney announced: Global warming will cause children's fevers to soar . Earlier : Science Direct : "Global...

Even with a smoking ban, it seems you can still smoke at bars in Washington, D.C . D.C. - 1, NYC - 0

Mike Lupica, aka the FunkyPundit's favorite columnist , writes in today's Daily News : You make up your own mind about the senator f...

Next on the United Nations' list of American outrages to vilify: cheeseburgers? A recent report by the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture ...

Our British friends imagine what such a world might look like.

"Pula Ea Na," Hugh Masekela, live at SOBs, New York, mid-80s:

National Review Online has launched a global-warming focused blog . Iain Murray's all over it, which in itself makes it bookmark-worthy.

Today, The New York Post reports , construction begins at the Atlantic Yards. Meanwhile, Develop Don't Destroy, an anti-Atlantic Yards o...

From The Smoking Gun : Giuliani, 62, requires private air transportation to his gigs. But, the contract states, any old plane won't do: ...

From this week's National Review: A nationwide smoking ban went into effect in France, yet another blow to the stereotype of the French ...

"Doublethink," as defined by In George Orwell's 1984 , means holding "simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, kn...

University of Illinois bans Indians .

"Master Blaster," Stevie Wonder, 1982