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Former NYC Firefighter Responds to IAFF Flap Former NYC Firefighter Lee Lelpi responds to the attack on Mayor Giuliani: To America ’s Firefighters: No American will ever forget the terrorist attacks of September 11th. As a firefighter, I know the courage and sacrifice the firefighters and first responders showed that day to rescue our friends and loved ones. I also greatly respect the leadership by our public officials. One of those people was Mayor Rudy Giuliani. There is no one who respects firefighters and first responders more than Rudy Giuliani. That’s why I was deeply disappointed and disheartened to learn...

Let's Make a Deal Social conservatives, Rudy Giuliani, and the end of the litmus test. by Noemie Emery 03/12/2007, Volume 012, Issue 25 Next year may see the party of the Sunbelt and Reagan, based in the South and in Protestant churches, nominate its first presidential candidate who is Catholic, urban, and ethnic--and socially liberal on a cluster of issues that set him at odds with the party's base. As a result, it may also see the end of the social issues litmus test in the Republican party, done in not by the party's left wing, which is shrunken and...