Abridged Daily News Columnists

Michael Smerconish: Okay, let’s bring up a bunch of times where cops hitting people on tape, and explain why they were all good. Oh, but this recent one… maybe it wasn’t so okay! But he gives them some options for stories the cops can tell that will make him feel better: “Did they believe that one of the men they were apprehending was wanted for the murder of Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski? Did they think the three were involved in the shooting of a civilian? Did they encounter resistance that the camera didn’t pick up? Were any police injured in any way by the three men? Were racial epithets hurled by the men toward police?” What a strange column, even for Smerconish.

Stu Bykofsky: Come on, Stu, enough people know about the Tuskegee Airmen by now — look how long their Wikipedia entry is! — to call them “one of World War II’s least-known outfits.”

John Baer: Ha, ha, Bill Clinton has become a trainwreck of some sort.

Ronnie Polaneczky: Yes, how dare the Boy Scouts attempt to keep their rent-free building with a lawsuit. Come on, they’re just doing the American thing!