 As Michael Moore pointed out, yesterday marked the 78th anniversary of the start of the New Deal. Republican State Senators in Madison, Wisconsin marked the date by stripping public employees' unions of collective-bargaining rights. The Republicans invented a procedural maneuver to pass the measure without 14 Democratic senators who fled the state in an effort to block it. [MORE]  | The winter can be a tough time to be pregnant on the subway. Everyone is so cold and tired that they can barely register anyone else, and let's face it, those bulky winter coats make it hard to tell if a woman is actually pregnant or just packing a few extra pounds. For the final four months of her pregnancy, Elizabeth Carey Smith tracked her subway commute (below) from Greenpoint to West 65th Street in Manhattan to see just how often she was offered a seat or left to stand. And it turns out the G train is selfish and the L train is full of chivalrous men! ... [ MORE ] |  | It's outrageous enough for a cab driver to refuse to take customers to the Bronx (and then run them over), but now the gauntlet's really been thrown down: A Williamsburg blogger was nearly denied service by a cabbie! Only after some heated bickering with the hack did Animal New York's Bucky Turco finally get his legally-mandated ride home. But is this a troubling sign that cabbies are discriminating against hipsters now? Be warned: the footage you are about to see is deeply disturbing:... [ MORE ] |  | Rep. Peter King (R-Long Island), who heads the Homeland Security Committee, is getting ready for tomorrow's hearings on Muslim radicalization and was on CBS's The Early Show and tried to address criticism that they were racist. King promised to "run a good hearing. I will run an honest and fair hearing." But what about his support of those white guy terrorists, the IRA? ... [ MORE ] |  | After a taxi driver not only refused to take a group of passengers to the Bronx over the weekend but then ran them over, the city is making a concerted effort to increase awareness of the fact that hacks are required by law to take you to your destination. Even if it is in the Bronx. In addition to fast tracking plans to increase the fines for refusing fares they even went so far as to make a YouTube video of bad taxi drivers in action (below).... [ MORE ] |  | American Apparel employees be warned: if you want to go in front of a judge and bring up that an X-rated visit you paid The Dov, don't sign that legal thingamajig the company hands you upon your departure. Former AA employee Irene Morales filed a $260 million lawsuit against Dov Charney this week, claiming he held her captive in his Manhattan apartment once she turned 18, and forced her to perform sexual acts, and then subjected her to eight more "anguished months of forced sex." Even if this is true, however, Morales signed an agreement when she left the company stating she would not sue, and gave "a full release of claims and an agreement to submit any future claims to confidential binding arbitration."... [ MORE ] |  | Joseph McCarthy's Rep. Peter King's hearing on "Muslim radicalization" began with the moving testimony of Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota), one of two Muslims in Congress. Ellison broke down during his moving testimony in which he described the sacrifice of Mohammed Salman Hamdani, a Muslim and first-responder who perished on September 11, 2001 and was later the subject of unfounded rumors that he conspired with the hijackers. ... [ MORE ] |  | Yesterday, a Brooklyn teenager was arrested and accused of killing her nine-year-old brothers' pet hamster. Today, more details have emerged about the incident, revealing the messy backdrop that led to a hamster getting a necropsy.... [ MORE ] | | |
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