Scary tales of New York: life in the Irish slums In the 19th century, Irish people fled poverty at home for dirt, disease and danger in the American city’s overcrowded tenements
Sat, Mar 23, 2013, 06:00 Niamh O Sullivan
In 19th-century New York, even tenements were ranked. Some were considered too good for the Irish, who were relegated to densely packed hovels in the urban shanty town of Five Points, on the Lower East Side. Here families huddled together, with several hundred people in one building.
In the 1860s, almost 300,000 people lived within one square mile. Rear structures were appended and floors were added, stacked precariously one on top of another. Rooms were divided and subdivided. It was not uncommon for five families – about 20 people – to share one room that measured 12ft by 12ft and had two beds and no table or chairs. There was no v
The Roger Stone Acolyte Who Trolled Staten Island Politics Intelligencer 6 hrs ago James D. Walsh
Late one night in December 2017, Richard Luthmann and his wife settled into their Staten Island living room to watch a movie. Lately, Luthmann, a 38-year-old attorney, had been staying up all hours of the night, stoked by scotch and cocaine, pounding out legal briefs and public-relations work. But that night, Luthmann decided to watch
Get Me Roger Stone, a documentary about the infamous strategist whose career Donald Trump had revived. Luthmann chose the film not only because he was friends with one of its producers, local political activist Frank Morano, but also because Luthmann considered himself something of a dirty trickster.
Through the decades, the right to vote in U.S. elections has seen massive change and expansion.
Since America’s founding days, when voting was limited to white male property owners, to the transformative Voting Rights Act of 1965, to sweeping voting process reform introduced in the early 2000s, the right to vote in U.S. elections has seen massive change.
The original Constitution left voting rights to the states for a range of reasons, including a compromise over slavery and the fact that the concept of setting up a representative democracy was new, says David Schultz, a political science professor at Hamline University and the University of Minnesota School of Law.
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You hear a lot these days about angry weirdos who have all these outlets for posting their kooky ideas, so that other weirdo kooks can spread the word. âWhose country is this?â one such angry fella asked not long ago.
âOur country must cease to be regarded as a dumping ground,â sneered Vice President Calvin Coolidge, exactly 100 years ago.Â
The future president unfurled his rage in the pages of yes Good Housekeeping magazine. He believed that Ellis Island immigrants were ruining America.
âIt would not be unjust to ask of every alien, What will you contribute to the common good, once you are admitted through the gates of liberty?â¦Of late, the answers have not been so readily or so eloquently given.â
Republicans Are Too Subservient to Corporate America to Wage War on “Woke Capitalism”
Big business has no reason either to believe or worry about the GOP’s empty threats.
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“From election law to
environmentalism to radical social agendas to the Second Amendment, parts of
the private sector keep dabbling in behaving like a woke parallel government. Corporations
will invite serious consequences if they become a vehicle for far-left mobs to
hijack our country from outside the constitutional order. Businesses must not
use economic blackmail to spread disinformation and push bad ideas that
citizens reject at the ballot box.”