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Quotes of the Day

• Henry Ward Beecher
  "The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." […]
• Bertrand Russell
  "To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." […]
• Aristotle
  "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." […]

This Week Past Years

2009

• CHERRIES "TA-RA-RA BOOM DE AYE"
• WILL-O'-THE-WISP DOOM
• PAPA'S BREW REGAINED

2008

• THE BELATEDLY LATE SPITZER

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

• On This Day in History: March 12 Brooklyn Honors For Sedaka March 12, 2010
  Neil Sedaka has his well-deserved place of honor on the Brooklyn Celebrity Path at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. He was born in Brooklyn on March 13, 1939. Neil’s father, Mac, was a Brooklyn cabdriver. Neil grew up in Brighton Beach, where his grade school teacher at P.S. 53 arranged piano lessons for the aspiring prodigy. By […]
• 3 New Art Galleries Take Space in DUMBO March 12, 2010
  Three new art galleries have leased space in DUMBO, according to Zannah Mass, cultural affairs director for Two Trees Managment Co., landlord for all three galleries. The waterfront neighborhood of DUMBO is already a prime destination for art lovers, is […]
• Calendar: March 11-18 March 12, 2010
  Art ART 101: 101 Grand St., between Berry and Wythe, Williamsburg. (718) 302-2242 or www.art101brooklyn.com. “Just Words.” Through April 4. An exhibition of new work by Peter Scibetta. BROOKLYN MUSEUM: 200 Eastern Parkway. (718) 638-5000 or www.brooklynmuseum.org. Kiki Smith: “Sojourn.” Through September 12. “To Live Forever: Art and the Afterlife in Ancient […]
• Shopping for a Good Cause March 12, 2010
  Housing Works, the non-profit dedicated to ending AIDS and homelessness, is now celebrating its 20th year. In the beginning, it was created when four members of ACT UP, a well-known AIDS activist group, joined together to help “the tens of thousands of homeless men, women and children in New York City living with HIV and AIDS.” Over the past 10 years their a […]
• Free Stuff To Do! March 12, 2010
  Rent is high, so keep your social life cheap. It’s women’s history month, and the world is all abuzz with the latest female “first” — Kathryn Bigelow winning Best Director at the Academy Awards on Sunday night. But this Sunday, you […]
• Pro Bono Barrister: BBA’s Legislative Night Becomes More Interesting March 12, 2010
  By Charles Otey The legal community, especially members of the judiciary, were eagerly awaiting the Brooklyn Bar Association’s (BBA’s) first “Legislators Appreciation Night” where members of the bar and bench would have an open forum to collegially discuss matters of common […]
• Women Declare: ‘We’re Not Dolls!’ March 12, 2010
  They Raise Awareness of Women’s HIV/AIDS in Brooklyn By Mary Frost Brooklyn Daily Eagle BOROUGH HALL — The afternoon crowd did a double take this past Wednesday as they passed through Brooklyn Borough Hall Plaza. On the steps were hundreds of little dolls, each one bearing a large pink label with statements like, “I am an 18-year-old woman who just contracte […]
• SportsThe ‘Weghe’ of the Future March 12, 2010
  By John Torenli Groundbreaking Provides Hope in Otherwise Dismal Nets Campaign “Basketball has always been huge in Brooklyn,” New Jersey Nets interim coach and general manager Kiki Vandeweghe said in the days leading up to yesterday’s historic groundbreaking for the Barclays Center at the Atlantic Yards. Kiki should know. After all, the former NBA scoring ma […]
• David Yassky, Nominated as Taxi Commissioner, Is Expert in Field March 12, 2010
  As Committee Chair, Was At Forefront of Taxi Issues BROOKLYN — After several months of public speculation about his future, former councilman David Yassky, who represented Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO and Downtown until this past January, has been nominated by Mayor Bloomberg as chairman/ commissioner of the Taxi and Limousine Commission. If the nomination is app […]
• ‘A Light-Hearted, Mini-Manifesto of Pragmatic Parenting Advice’ March 12, 2010
  Having had three kids in three years, now in their 20s and 30s, Brooklyn-born author Ellen Pober Rittberg knows a thing or two about raising teens. She put the knowledge she learned along the way into a newly released book called 35 Things Your Teens Won't Tell You So I Will. Not only inspired by […]

NY Times (NY Regional)

• New York Prisoner Who Posed as Another to Escape Is Captured March 13, 2010
  Freddie Thompson, who escaped during a court appearance on Staten Island, was back in custody after about 56 hours of freedom. […]
• E.E.O.C. Sees Bias in Almontaser Ouster at Khalil Gibran School March 13, 2010
  A federal commission has determined that the Department of Education discriminated against the principal of an Arabic-language public school in Brooklyn. […]
• The Long Story of the Building at 104-106 Bowery March 13, 2010
  Dan Barry revisits the history of the Bowery and looks for a flophouse’s last resident, the subject of a past column. […]
• Hurdles Remain in New York for Ground Zero Settlement March 13, 2010
  At least 95 percent of the workers who sued the city for health damages must accept the deal for it to take effect. […]
• Gillibrand Still Trying to Win Over Bloomberg March 13, 2010
  Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has worked against Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand’s candidacy but never said why. […]
• New York Cabs Gouged Riders Out of Millions March 13, 2010
  Thousands of taxi drivers overcharged riders more than $8 million by switching the meter to double the rate, according to the Taxi and Limousine Commission. […]
• Marilyn Gittell, Advocate for Local School Decisions, Dies at 78 March 13, 2010
  Ms. Gittell was a political scientist and education reformer who in the 1960s was an outspoken advocate of decentralizing New York City’s public school system. […]
• Arrest Stokes Concerns About Radicalized Muslims March 13, 2010
  The arrest of a New Jersey man in Yemen is the latest in a string of cases involving radicalized American Muslims. […]
• United Healthcare and Continuum Health End Contract Dispute March 13, 2010
  A deal between United Healthcare and Continuum Health Partners has prevented many New Yorkers from being cut off from their doctors and the hospitals they use. […]
• Suspect Arrested in Attack in Midtown Bar’s Restroom March 13, 2010
  The police arrested a man from Pennsylvania in connection with the beating of a 29-year-old woman this week in Manhattan. […]

Media Matters

• Quick Fact: Perino falsely claims health care benefits would take years to start
  March 12, 2010
  On March 12, Fox News contributor Dana Perino falsely claimed that people would "not see benefits for four to five years after" the health care reform bill passes. In fact, numerous benefits contained in the Senate bill would become available in the first year after the bill is enacted.Perino falsely claims benefits will take years to begin Perino:
• Beck attacks social justice
  March 12, 2010
  Glenn Beck has repeatedly attacked the concept of social justice and churches that promote it, asserting that it is "code language for Marxism" and warning that "when you see those words, run." In fact, numerous churches and religious faiths, as well as prominent religious scholars, espouse social justice, including the Catholic Church, t
• Media Matters: In which Glenn Beck hosts talk of tickle fights
  March 12, 2010
  This may forever be remembered as the week when "tickle fight" entered the political lexicon. The story stretches back to last week, when Eric Massa (D-NY) announced his resignation from the House of Representatives. It took many people by surprise, including conservative commentators, who initially reacted to the story by trumpeting ethics allegat
• Karl Frisch: Gone fishin': Right-wing media hook another dubious Obama conspiracy theory
  March 12, 2010
  After Robert Montgomery wrote in an ESPNOutdoors.com column that the federal government had a strategy in the works that "could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation's oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters," it was only a matter of time before the conservative media took the bait -- hook, line, and sinker. Easily
• Doocy falsely suggests Byrd opposes reconciliation to finalize health care reform
  March 12, 2010
  Fox & Friends' Steve Doocy falsely suggested that Sen. Robert Byrd opposed using reconciliation to pass health care reform, citing comments Byrd made in 2001. However, Byrd recently defended use of reconciliation to complete passage of health care reform legislation already passed by both the House and the Senate.Doocy suggests Byrd would oppose rec
• Applesauce redux: Doocy endorses "treat them like dogs" health care reform fix
  March 12, 2010
  Less than two weeks after Rush Limbaugh proposed eating "applesauce" as a solution for not being able to afford dentures due to lack of health insurance, Fox's Steve Doocy endorsed a veterinarian's idea to "fix" health care by "treat[ing] people like dogs." Limbaugh has also cited a lack of a "federal dog health c
• Upping the double standard: Fox now asking if it's "time for Speaker Pelosi to go"
  March 12, 2010
  Despite presenting no evidence that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was personally aware of concerns regarding former-Rep. Eric Massa's behavior months before those claims were made public, Fox & Friends hosted a panel on March 12 to discuss whether it's "time for Speaker Pelosi to go." But Fox news figures defended then-House Speaker Denn
• Jamison Foser: Running with a bad crowd
  March 11, 2010
  For a few weeks last fall, editors and ombudsmen at The Washington Post and New York Times seemed obsessed with the idea that they should be paying more attention to right-wing media and websites. In the wake of some wildly hyperbolic claims about ACORN, the nation's leading news outlets apologized for being too slow to run chasing after every "sca
• Glenn Beck: Behind the Music
  March 11, 2010
  Glenn Beck has repeatedly attacked popular music as "propaganda" that is helping to advance a progressive agenda and undermine America. Fox example, Beck warned that Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" is "about a progressive utopia" and that the Beatles' "Revolution" "spell[s] it all out" abou
• Doocy baselessly claims Slaughter is angling to pass health care reform without a vote
  March 11, 2010
  Fox & Friends' Steve Doocy baselessly claimed that Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) is offering a way to pass health care reform legislation "without actually voting on it." However, the House has already voted on and passed a health care reform bill, and a legislative rule reportedly under consideration would still require the House to vote o
• Double standard: After defending Hastert over Foley scandal, Fox now attacks Pelosi over Massa
  March 11, 2010
  Fox News has trumpeted stories that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's staff -- but not Pelosi herself -- may have been made aware of some concerns regarding Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) last year. However, following the revelation that then-House Speaker Dennis Hastert had likely been personally informed of email then-Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) sent to a congressional
• Fox accuses admin of "secret" and "sinister" plan to "grab" land
  March 11, 2010
  Seizing on allegations made by Rep. Bob Bishop (R-UT), Fox & Friends accused the Obama administration of moving ahead with a "secret" and "sinister" plan to "grab 12, 13 million acres, designating them as federal monuments." In fact, there is no such plan; the allegations are reportedly based on a "very preliminary
• Cato's Tanner twists facts in NY Post op-ed on Dems "twisting arms" for health care votes
  March 11, 2010
  Referencing HBO's "The Sopranos," Cato Institute senior fellow Michael Tanner wrote in the New York Post that Democrats "are willing to use every trick in the book to get this [health care] bill passed." However, many of Tanner's allegations of suspect tactics by Democrats are not supported by the facts.Tanner baselessly claimed
• Rove's anti-health care reform column full of misinformation
  March 11, 2010
  In a March 11 Wall Street Journal editorial, Fox News Contributor Karl Rove falsely claimed that the Senate health care bill has "abortion-funding language," adds to the deficit and contains no immediate benefits. In fact, the Senate bill prohibits federal funding of abortion, contains numerous immediate benefits, and, according to the Congressiona
• Hannity falsely claims that health care bill doesn't provide immediate benefits
  March 11, 2010
  On March 10, Sean Hannity falsely claimed that "we're going to pay taxes on this bill what for three, four years, before the bill is even implemented." In fact, numerous benefits contained in the Senate bill would become available in the first year after the bill is enacted.Hannity: "We're going to pay taxes" for years before th

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