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Keyword: Al D'Amato
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July 15 was a big day for President Obama. Not only did BP miraculously cap the oil spill — albeit temporarily — but Goldman Sachs settled with the SEC and Congress approved all 2,300 pages of a historic financial overhaul bill.
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by Al D'Amato
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7/22/10
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I can’t remember the last time I picked up a copy of Rolling Stone, but I urge you all to read the article in which Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of our troops in Afghanistan, and his colleagues gave a candid interview to journalist Michael Hasting.
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Al D'Amato
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7/1/10
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If you’re a political junkie like me, you love a good knock-down fight. In the political record book, June 8 will go down as the day when women, particularly Republican women, scored a knockout, and boy, did they roar!
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Al D'Amato
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6/20/10
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Rumors obscure facts in Long BeachTo the Editor: I'd be remiss if I did not answer some incorrect information in a letter to the editor by Barbara DuBow Bernardino about the City of Long …
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6/10/10
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My father served as a union president — a teachers union president — in Suffolk County nearly four decades ago, in the days when educators like him were given little respect, and even lower wages.
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Scott Brinton
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6/3/10
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On April 20, an explosion off the Gulf Coast on an oil rig leased by British Petroleum marked the unfortunate beginning of the worst oil spill in our nation’s history.
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Al D'Amato
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6/3/10
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If we learned anything from last week’s elections, it’s that voters have become a lot smarter than we give them credit for. The May 18 primaries were just the first round of tests for many influential incumbents, and several big names flopped at the polls.
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Al D'Amato
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5/28/10
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Once again, New York state’s two biggest enemies — the ravenous unions and the legislators who are afraid to vote against them — have reared their ugly heads. Love him or hate him, let’s give our lame duck governor, David Paterson, credit for taking a stand.
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Al D'Amato
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5/20/10
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Last week, freshman Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano laid it on the line for county residents. He told us that the county is facing a $286 million deficit, the largest in its history.
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Al D'Amato
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5/6/10
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The great Mayor Ed Koch used to say he’d like to take a pitchfork through the Wall Street executives who fleeced Americans over the past decade.
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Al D'Amato
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4/29/10
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