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Walter Mosley (Anthony Barboza)Time to Divorce the Democrats?
Bill Clinton once called Walter Mosley, the author of dozens of mysteries, science fiction, and young adult novels, one of his favorite writers. Now Mosley has written a polemic arguing that black Americans should abandon the Democrats and form their own political party.
Cheney Reaction
Tom DeFrank,Daily News Washington Bureau Chief
- on the fallout from the VPs hunting accident
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Sid Evans, editor in chief, Field & Stream Magazine
- on bird hunting
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New Man at the Fed
Mike Mandel, chief economist at BusinessWeek
- on the new Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke
Walter in the House
Walter Mosley, author of two series of mysteries, literary fiction, science fiction and political philosophy, including
Life Out of Context: Which Includes a Proposal for the Non-violent Takeover of the House of
Representatives (Nation Books, 2006)
- on his call for African Americans to leave the Democratic Party and form their own Black Party
» Nation Books
Mexico en Nueva York
Robert Smith, associate professor of Sociology , Immigration Studies and Public Affairs at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College and the Graduate Center (CUNY) and author, Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants (University of California Press 2005)
- on the transnational lives of Mexican immigrants here in New York
Prescription: Read The Fine Print
Joe Baker, chief of the Attorney General's Health Care bureau
- explains your rights when it comes to hospital billing
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