Tag Archives: NYT

U.S. Companies Brace for an Exit From the Euro by Greece

Posted on September 3rd, 2012

THE NEW YORK TIMES Even as Greece desperately tries to avoid defaulting on its debt, American companies are preparing for what was once unthinkable: that Greece could soon be forced to leave the euro zone.   Bank of America Merrill Lynch has looked into filling trucks with cash and sending them over the Greek border [...]

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Both Campaigns Seize on Romney’s Years at Bain

Posted on May 25th, 2012

By:  Ashley Parker New York Times   Mitt Romney’s campaign sees the time he spent at Bain Capital, the private equity firm he co-founded and ran for more than a decade, as a positive experience that highlights his leadership skills and his ability to turn around companies and create jobs. President Obama’s campaign, meanwhile, views [...]

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Obama’s Marriage ‘Evolution’ Poll Problem

Posted on May 19th, 2012

Bad press and falling support may cause panic for the reelection campaign.   By: Michael Barone The National Review Is it panic time at Obama headquarters in Chicago? You might get that impression from watching events — and the polls — over the past few weeks.   In matchups against Mitt Romney, the president is [...]

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The ‘Your Money Is Not Yours’ Crowd

Posted on January 29th, 2011

By:  Bill Costello Paul Krugman, columnist for the New York Times, recently criticized those who “see taxes and regulation as tyrannical impositions on their liberty” and who believe “that people have a right to keep what they earn.” One branch of American politics shares Krugman’s view that the money you earn — the material manifestation [...]

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Respectable Conservatives Still Don’t Get Obama

Posted on November 22nd, 2010

By Jack Cashill If United States Senator Al Franken — it hurts to say that — ever had a redeeming moment, it was in the role of Stuart Smalley, a character he created for “Saturday Night Live.” In the most memorable of Smalley’s “Daily Affirmations,” the lisping, wildly insecure psycho-babbler hosts Michael Jordan. After explaining [...]

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NYT’s Michael Luo Talks about Romney & Pawlenty’s PACs

Posted on November 14th, 2010

The New York Time’s Michael Luo discusses the role of PACs (political action committees) in Presidential politics, how they allow likely Presidential candidates like Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty to build organizations at the state level, in anticipation of a run for the White House. Looking at the buzzsaw the feckless Democrat Party ran into [...]

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White House press pool, Fruit of Islam collide on Farrakhan’s lawn

Posted on May 30th, 2010

Last night’s pool reportage, by the New York Times’s Jackie Calmes, described a standoff between Secret Service and Louis Farrakhan’s security force, the Fruit of Islam, as Obama watched hockey at the home of a friend who lives across the street from Farrakhan. The standoff was reportedly resolved when someone identifying himself as “Rev. Gary [...]

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U.S.’s Toughest Immigration Law Is Signed in Arizona

Posted on April 24th, 2010

By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD PHOENIX — Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona signed the nation’s toughest bill on illegal immigration into law on Friday. Its aim is to identify, prosecute and deport illegal immigrants. The move unleashed immediate protests and reignited the divisive battle over immigration reform nationally. Even before she signed the bill at an [...]

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This Just In…Obama’s Favorite Authors: Mitt Romney & Karl Rove

Posted on March 26th, 2010

Obama Stops to Browse at a Bookstore By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG IOWA CITY — President Obama spent plenty of time in Iowa as a candidate. On Thursday, he had a little homecoming of sorts, making a surprise visit to the Prairie Lights bookstore, a business he had referred to during a campaign-style rally just an [...]

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Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

Posted on March 13th, 2010

The press finally falls out of love with Obama. By Howard Fineman | NEWSWEEK Robert Gibbs, the White House Press Secretary, was 50 minutes late for his briefing, apparently a record for tardiness, but few reporters in the White House Press Room bothered to feign outrage; they didn’t seem all that eager to ask him [...]

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