Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Guns Don't Kill People, Bullets Do

Thomas Fisher | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Gun Violence, Terrell Mayes, Bullets, Thomas Fisher, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Crime, Guns, Crime News
Thomas Fisher

We know who makes bullets and we know how much it costs us when criminals use their products to harm others. By charging the industry for these expenses, companies would have an incentive to put in place better precautions.

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The U. S. Government's Largest Means-Tested Anti-Poverty Program Has Severe Problems

Robert Auerbach | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Milton Friedman, Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), Douglas Schulman, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, John Kennedy, Nina Olson, University of California Los Angeles (U.C.L.A., Beverly Hills, George Mcgovern, Lyndon Johnson, Watts), Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Barack Obama, Politics News
Robert Auerbach

During these dire times for millions of people, many of whom have been unemployed for long periods, the nation's safety net is mangled and inefficient.

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Hugh Carey: New York Mensch

Martin Nolan | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Ed Koch, George Romney, Hugh Carey, Brooklyn, Felix Rohatyn, Montauk Jimmy Carterll, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Jimm Walker, Ted Kennedy, Sinatra, Nelson Rockefeller, Tip O'neil, Bay Ridge, Massena, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Happy Days Are Here Again, Jimmy Carter, Al Smith, Four Horsemen, New York News
Martin Nolan

He had the wit of Jimmy Walker, the vision of Al Smith, the courage of FDR and the energy of Nelson Rockefeller. When New York's history is written, Hugh Leo Carey will have his place as the hero of a dark decade.

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Educational Success: America's New Industrial Policy

Charles Kolb | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: A Nation at Risk, Education, G.I. Bill, No Child Left Behind, PISA Test, National Governors Association, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Darpa, Education News
Charles Kolb

When it comes to the quality of our K-12 education system, the results are risible. We have now had nearly 30 years of rhetoric, much of it aspirational -- but with few solid results.

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Diane Ravitch Wins the 2011 Moynihan Prize

Leonie Haimson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Moynihan Prize, American Academy of Political and Social Science, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Diane Ravitch, Leonie Haimson, John Dewey, Education News
Leonie Haimson

If it is indeed true that education is the civil rights issue of our generation, Ravitch is one of our most esteemed leaders in the struggle for the rights of all children, no matter where they attend school.

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Pat Moynihan's Letters Illuminate an Extraordinary Life

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Library of Congress, Moynihan Station, William F. Buckley Jr., Steven Weisman, Richard Nixon, Mark Feldstein, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Maura Moynihan, Meet the Press, Hirshhorn Museum, A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary, Books News
Michael Sigman

Daniel Patrick Moynihan's career combined the intellectual, the moral and the political in a wholly original way that would be unimaginable for a significant contemporary politician.

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Moynihan, As Nixon Aide, Warned Of Global Warming

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Richard Nixon, Climate Change, Nixon Global Warming, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Global Warming, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Green News

YORBA LINDA, Calif. — Documents released Friday by the Nixon Presidential Library show members of President Richard Nixon's inner circle discuss...

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Daniel Patrick Moynihan Warned Nixon To Act On Global Warming, New Documents Show

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climate Change, Richard Nixon, Green News, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Global Warming, Carbon Emissions, Green News

YORBA LINDA, Calif. — Documents released Friday by the Nixon Presidential Library show members of President Richard Nixon's inner circle discuss...

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Check Blumenthal's Citizenship!

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harry A. Blackmun, Richard Blumenthal, Richard Nixon, U.S. Marine Corps Reserves, Rob Simmons, Vietnam War, Katherine Graham, Sen. Chris Dodd, Connecticut Attorney General, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Wwe, Harvard Swim Team, Linda McMahon, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

Nothing is more despicable than dishonoring the brave men and women who proudly serve our military and who've died in battle by pretending to be one of them while having used every lever of privilege possible to have avoided serving.

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John McWhorter, Party of One

Taylor Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: African-American History, Black History, Paulo Freire, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, John Mcwhorter, Politics News
Taylor Harris

Conservative scholar and author, John McWhorter, who created a list of people he would erase from black history, misses an opportunity to dig deeper and reveal a poignant tension in our racial history.

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Chez Josephine, the World's Best Restaurant!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bruce Weber, Claudette Law, My, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Jean-Claude Baker, Lynn Whitfield, Cordelle-Cleare, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, State Senator Bill Perkins, World's Best Restaurant, New York, Whoopi Goldberg, Michael MC COLLOM, Leonard-Hanna, Chez-Josephine, Curtis Quentin Phelps, Lou Willard, Dale and Ann Dobson, Astor, Vanderbilt, Edna Ratner, Phyllis Briley, Rocky Baron Boler, Terry Wynn, Eva Tuholka, Josephine Baker, Baryshnikov Jesseye Norman, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

'Is it really all you suggest?' "Certainly it's a 'fun' place, with more than decent food. It's in jolly surroundings, with a zany ambiance, that...

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Schumer Announces Rail Center Funding

AP | KAREN MATTHEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chuck Schumer, American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, Rail Center, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, New York, New York City, Charles Schumer, Senator Schumer, New York News

NEW YORK — The federal government will award $83.3 million in stimulus money to transform New York City's main post office building into a rail ...

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Sam Tanenhaus, The Death of Conservatism (Review)

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Death of Conservatism, Sam Tanhenhaus, Civil Rights Movement, Joe Mccarthy, Ronald Reagan, Edmund Burke, Willam F. Buckley Jr., Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Sarah Palin, Communism, Martin Luther King, John Birchers, Tom Brokaw, Vietnam War, Benjamin Disraeli, New York Times, African Amercans, Rick Perry, Barry Goldwater, Newt Gingrich, Soviet Union, Books News
Joseph A. Palermo

Although a masterful writer, Tanenhaus gives his readers disembodied voices plucked from historical context, where the nexus of thought and action, theory and praxis, is either broken or simply ignored.

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State Applies For $98 Million In Stimulus Funds For Moynihan

The New York Observer | Eliot Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tiger, Moynihan Station, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, David Paterson, Penn Station, New York News

It's official: The Paterson administration has passed Washington, D.C., the collection plate for Moynihan Station. Earlier this week, the state submit...

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Kennedy's Quick Win for Social Security

Dean Baker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Security, Ted Kennedy, Alan Greenspan, Economics, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Consumer Price Index, Business News
Dean Baker

Someone who had been receiving Social Security in 1996 would be getting about 13 percent less in their monthly check today. Senator Kennedy protected the financial security of millions.

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Guys Who Wear Bow Ties: Love It Or Lose It? (PHOTOS, POLL)

Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Winston Churchill, Slidepoll, Men's Fashion, Louis Farrakhan, Ties, Chuck Bass, Anthony Williams, George F. Will, Pee Wee Herman, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Tucker Carlson, Harry S. Truman, Karl Lagerfeld, Manolo Blahnik, Slideshow, Fonzworth Bentley, Fashion, Gossip Girl, John Paul Stevens, Groucho Marx, Bow Ties, Style News

Two weeks ago when we asked "Who's the best-dressed Supreme Court Justice?", your answer was Justice Sandra Day O'Connor for her signature lace jabot....

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Defining Extravagance Up

Jamie Malanowski | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Worldcom, Aig, Tyco, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Bonuses, Enron, Economy, Aig Bonuses, Bank Bonuses, Recession, Federal Bailouts, Bailout Bandits, Financial Crisis, Aig Federal Bailouts, Wall Street Bonuses, AIG Scandal, Politics News
Jamie Malanowski

It's admirable that our leaders now want to be frugal with our money but let's remember what the taxpayers themselves have been buying with money not rendered unto Uncle Sam.

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An Anti-Kennedy Coalition: Radio Ranters and Intellectuals

Martin Nolan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Ellen Alderman, Otis Pike, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Joseph P. Kennedy, Hempstead, Greenwich Village, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Ted Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, Harvard, Eugene McCarthy, Ronald Reagan. Adlai StevensonRobert Kennedy, Ed McCormack, James Buckley, Kenneth Keating Sam Stratton, Alfonse D'Amato, Caroline Kennedy Senate Seat, Caroline Kennedy Senate, David Paterson Caroline Kennedy, David Paterson, Roosevelts, Adamses, U.S. Senate, Hillary Clinton Senate Seat, Politics News
Martin Nolan

The Empire State is a triumvirate uniting the House of Clinton, the House of Cuomo and the House of Paterson. Would reviving the Kennedy dynasty disturb this delicate ecological balance?

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Me, Too! I Want To Be A Senator From New York

Diane Tucker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deborah Solomon, New York Senate Seat, New York Times, Prince Charles, Diane Tucker, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Caroline Kennedy, Politics News
Diane Tucker

Lots of New Yorkers are throwing their hats into the ring, but everyone's talking about Kennedy. Did you read her interview in the New York Times on Sunday?

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What the CIA Doesn't Need You to Know

Keith Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Central Intelligence Agency, Ryszard Kuklinski, Michael Hayden, Cia, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Espionage, David Ignatius, Journalism, Soviet Union, Politics News
Keith Thomson

CIA Director Michael Hayden is taking significant steps to soften critics of the CIA's overclassification and other obfuscations -- and perhaps even to rekindle America's confidence in the Agency.

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Moynihan Endorses Caroline

Lawrence O'Donnell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Caroline Kennedy Senate Seat, U.S. Senate, Caroline Kennedy Senate, David Paterson Caroline Kennedy, David Paterson, Hillary Clinton Senate Seat, New York Senate Seat, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Pat Moynihan, Bobby Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, Caroline Kennedy, Liz Moynihan Endorses Obama, Moynihan Endorses Obama, Politics News
Lawrence O'Donnell

No one in New York politics knows more about the state than Liz Moynihan. And no one else can tell us what Pat Moynihan would think about who should be the next person to take his old seat in the Senate.

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Is This The End Of The "Tough Guy" President?

Ron Mwangaguhunga | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Toughness, John McCain, Presidency, Tough Guy Politics, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Unilateral Politics, Tough Guy President, David Brooks, George W. Bush, Multilateral, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Ronald Reagn, Barack Obama, Dubya, Politics News
Ron Mwangaguhunga

The testosterone party is over. And not a moment too soon. America is looking for another type of President, a multilateralist -- flexible, able to admit his or her error, self-examined, and intellectual.

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How Tim Russert Got His Start

Martin Nolan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Josh Brolin, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Hugh Carey, NBC News, Tim Russert, Mario Cuomo, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Woodrow Wilson, Chris Matthews, Patrick Buchanan, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, Hubert Humphrey, Dick Cheney, Buffalo, Maureen Orth, Boston College, The West Wing, Lawrence O'Donnell, George Stephanopoulos, William S. WhiteWilliam Safire, Adali Stevens Joseph Kraft, David Brinley, Walter Lippmann, Jimmy Carter, Al Smith, Lyndon Johnson, Larry Grossman, Clayton Fritchey, David Burke, Media News
Martin Nolan

For more than 30 years, my friendship with Tim was rooted in a shared Irish heritage and similar education, with minimal emphasis on self-expression and more on what Tom Brokaw calls "accountability."

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