Fredric U. Dicker
Ex-NYPost editor/columnist; chronicled NY's decline over 4 decades,6 govs--A.Cuomo the worst.Many awards;longtime radio show host,"Live from the State Capitol."
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Amazon Cancels Shelby Steele
WSJ 93d 13 tweets
The company won’t stream a film on the ‘real victimization of black America.’
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Fredric U. Dicker Amazon won’t stream a film by Shelby and Eli Steele on the ‘real victimization of black America.’ via 93d
Amy Coney Barrett truly shines under fire in Senate hearings
New York Post 94d 1 tweets
In two days of Senate hearings, Amy Coney Barrett has already shown she has the right temperament — and legal chops — to serve on the Supreme Court: She isn’t ruffled or distracted by hostile quest…
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Fredric U. Dicker “Judges cannot just wake up one day and say, ‘I have an agenda — I like guns, I hate guns, I like abortion, I hate abortion,’ and walk in like a royal queen and impose their will on the world,” she explained. They had to rule on the law. As she would. 94d
How New York’s ‘project labor agreements’ feed union corruption
New York Post 94d 1 tweets
The recent indictment of James Cahill, president of the New York State Building and Construction Trades Council, and 11 others on corruption and bribery charges was a sad moment for organized labor…
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Fredric U. Dicker How New York's 'project labor agreements' feed union corruption via 94d
Kamala Harris Gets a Fracking Education
WSJ 97d 5 tweets
Pence is right: Shale drilling for natural gas has cut C02 emissions.
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Fredric U. Dicker Mr. Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord and eased Obama-Biden climate regulations, and the U.S. is still leading the world in CO2 reductions. 96d
Where Have the Honest Liberals Gone?
Jason Riley - WSJ 101d 8 tweets
‘Critical race theory’ is a dangerous folly, but these days only conservatives are willing to criticize it.
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Fredric U. Dicker Critical race theory is a dangerous folly that used to be criticized by nondoctrinaire thinkers of all kinds, but these days only conservatives are willing to call it out, writes via 100d
Man suspected in deadly Portland shooting calls himself ‘100% ANTIFA’
New York Post 137d 14 tweets
An ex-military man who calls himself “100% ANTIFA” and ready for “war” is being investigated over the deadly shooting of a President Trump supporter in Portland, according t…
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Fredric U. Dicker Man suspected in deadly Portland shooting calls himself '100% ANTIFA':"identified in part to a distinctive tattoo on his neck of a 'black power' fist.." via 137d
Sheldon Silver finally pays (some) for his crimes
New York Post 141d 1 tweets
Sheldon Silver is finally getting at least some of what he deserves: real time behind bars. On Wednesday, Silver, 76, turned himself in at Otisville Correctional Facility, a medium-security federal…
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Fredric U. Dicker Sheldon Silver finally pays (some) for his crimes via 141d
New York City is dead forever
New York Post 151d 8 tweets
People say, “NYC has been through worse” or “NYC has always come back.” This time it’s different.
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Fredric U. Dicker New York City is dead forever via 151d
How to bring New York City’s refugees back home
New York Post 173d 9 tweets
Will people ever return to New York City? Should they? Walk around Gotham right now, any random day, and you will find an empty, hurting city. Boarded up windows still dot the streets of ghost-town…
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Fredric U. Dicker In bad,old days,when crime rampant..NYers could point to culture as why put up with it..now no museums,concerts,clubs..no rhythm to city...minimum needs to be offered..security&stability. Instead,have a hapless mayor, a preening governor&no path forward." 172d
Nine shot, one killed in bloody Saturday as NYC shootings skyrocket
New York Post 180d 2 tweets
At least nine people were shot, one fatally, across New York City on Saturday — capping another week of violence that saw triple the shootings compared to last year, cops said. All but one of…
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Fredric U. Dicker Cuomo "Safe Act" Update: 10 shot, one killed in bloody Saturday as NYC shootings skyrocket via 179d
We immigrants know the America-bashers are ridiculously wrong
New York Post 180d 8 tweets
It’s my America-versary, the day my mother and I arrived in the United States. I was just 1 year old, and America was deep in her 1970s blues. Every July 20, we celebrate. It’s up there with birthd…
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Fredric U. Dicker "There’s irony in fact the party which considers itself 'pro-immigrant' is also the 1 that wants to destroy our country’s rich&complicated heritage.If Democrats believe ­immigrants come to America to be anything but American, they are kidding themselves." 180d
Columnist calls out Chris Cuomo's wife for lack of social distancing, promoting shoes, magazine during Instagram yoga session
Fox News 181d 1 tweets
New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz blasted Cristina Cuomo, the wife of CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, for doing yoga at a high-end shoe store, arguing that people like the Cuomos enjoyed a separate set of rules during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Fredric U. Dicker Columnist calls out Chris Cuomo's wife for lack of social distancing, promoting shoes, magazine during Instagram yoga session 181d
Tucker Carlson: The real reason mobs across the country are tearing down American monuments
Fox News 206d 2 tweets
This is not a momentary civil disturbance. This is a serious and highly organized political movement.
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Fredric U. Dicker “Roosevelt was famously decent man. In 1901,invited friend Booker T. Washington to dinner. No African-American had ever eaten in White House. Democrats roared w\rage..For crime having a meal w/a black man,attacked Teddy&his wife for rest of their lives.” 206d
Good Policing Saves Black Lives
Jason Riley - WSJ 228d 9 tweets
A report by Harvard’s Roland Fryer shows that when the cops pull back, homicides increase.
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Fredric U. Dicker "Protesters..vilify police. Rioters take advantage of the protests&media expressed little interest in putting tragedy in context..activists tell us what happened to Floyd is commonplace&racially motivated..evidence points in the opposite direction." 227d
New York’s nursing home horrors are even worse than you think
New York Post 231d 7 tweets
Patricia Castillo remembers when the Newfane Rehab and Health Care Center, where her mother lived, notified her that a patient had just been admitted from a nearby Niagara County hospital with COVI…
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Fredric U. Dicker "COVID-19 has killed at least 11,000 to 12,000 nursing-home and assisted-living residents in New York, nearly double what the state admits to. And as the deaths mount, so have the lies and cover-ups." 231d
Andrew Cuomo's deadly failures
Washington Examiner 231d 12 tweets
The New York governor's handling of nursing homes during the pandemic should be a national scandal.
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Fredric U. Dicker “New York racked up massive coronavirus deaths, as the governor’s policies (as well as those of Mayor Bill de Blasio) left New Yorkers exposed. The rest of the country suffered losses, but nowhere near the intensely high number reached by New York.” 231d
The COVID spike that wasn’t and other commentary
New York Post 240d 1 tweets
Media watch: The COVID Spike That Wasn’t CNN reported that “Texas is seeing the highest number of new coronavirus cases and deaths just two weeks after it officially reopened,” implying that reopen…
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Fredric U. Dicker The COVID spike that wasn't:CNN’s “misfeasance or malfeasance” — a “major media company spreading what is dangerously close to disinformation” — erodes “overall public confidence in an important institution for democracy.” via 240d
Gov. Cuomo admits he was wrong to order nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients
New York Post 250d 8 tweets
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has finally admitted — tacitly and partially, anyway — the mistake that was state health chief Howard Zucker’s order that nursing homes must admit coronavirus-positive patients. O…
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Fredric U. Dicker "Zucker’s Dept of Health issued other heartless orders during crisis,now-rescinded 'don’t even try to resuscitate' mandate to EMTs for cardiac-arrest cases,as well as telling at least 1 home it was OK to keep staffers on job after they’d tested positive." 250d
America Shouldn’t Have to Play by New York Rules
Bret Stephens - Nytimes.com 266d 27 tweets
A national lockdown is bad medicine and worse politics.
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Fredric U. Dicker “Americans are being told they must still play by NY rules — with all the hardships they entail — despite having neither New York’s living conditions nor New York’s health outcomes. This is bad medicine, misguided public policy and horrible politics.” 264d
Return of squeegee men a sign of the decline of de Blasio’s New York
Bob McManus - New York Post 332d 1 tweets
What goes around, comes around — including that venerable symbol of pre-Giuliani municipal disorder, the squeegee man. So what’s next, trashed autos in West Side Highway pull-off alcoves, no wheels…
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Fredric U. Dicker "The sad fact is New Yorkers have elected a political class lacking the fundamental self-respect&the courage to stand up to the nihilists now dragging the city down. And, indeed, some of them are nihilists themselves." 332d