Tag Archives: NYT

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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Extremism in the Defense of Liberty

Posted on March 2nd, 2010

You students of political history may recognize the title of this post as part of a famous Barry Goldwater campaign slogan from the ’64 presidential contest. It is now being used as a title for a YouTube video that discusses the Tea Party movement, the Old Guard Republican Party, Frank Rich of the NYT and [...]

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Obama’s fellow Dems are cannon fodder in his plan

Posted on February 22nd, 2010

By: Chris Stirewalt No one believes that the president’s health care summit with Republicans is about bipartisanship. Republicans fear that it is a trap intended to hold them and their ideas up to ridicule. And though the president and his party certainly want to shift the blame to Republicans after months of unilateral failure by [...]

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Bloomberg Bails on WTC Bombers

Posted on January 28th, 2010

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg guestimates that the Gitmo detainee circus trial/propaganda extravaganza will cost the City upwards of $1Billion…..like they say: billion with a “b.” This is of course utter insanity. A city and a country as broke as NY and the US, needs to stop doing insane stuff like spending a billion dollars [...]

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