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NY Times Tag

The New York Times has a story on the return of Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi to Egypt (emphasis mine): Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an influential Sunni cleric who is banned from the United States and Britain for supporting violence against Israel and American forces in Iraq, delivered his...

Now this represents real change.  After two years of using the pages of The NY Times to lash out at peaceful health care protesters and Tea Parties, the Board of Editors of The New York Times has decided that actual violence by unions in Wisconsin...

In the wake of the overthrow of Hosni Mubarek, we have heard much praise for the "Arab Street," including by Roger Cohen writing in The New York Times two days ago:In the Middle East you expect the worst. But having watched Egypt’s extraordinary civic achievement in...

I heard Supreme Court Justice Antonin "Nino" Scalia talk many years ago at a function in Rhode Island held by the Justinian Law Society.  If I recall correctly, the topic was the "living Constitution."Scalia was both brilliant and entertaining.  He is a wonderful speaker, and...

As reported by The NY Times (via NRO, h/t Weasel Zippers), Jared Loughner -- among his many mental illnesses -- was caught up in Bush Derangement Syndrome (emphasis added):He became intrigued by antigovernment conspiracy theories, including that the Sept. 11 attacks were perpetrated by the...

Obama's speech at the Tucson memorial was an opportunity thrust upon him, not one of choice.But the tone of the speech was consistent in many ways with the Obama 2.0 we saw during the lame duck session when Obama struck a tax deal with Republicans. ...

David Brooks is correct in his overall analysis of the media smear against Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement:All of this evidence, which is easily accessible on the Internet, points to the possibility that Loughner may be suffering from a mental illness like schizophrenia...

This photo montage from National Review Online perfectly reflects what I have been writing about all weekend regarding the lie that Sarah Palin, the Tea Parties or right-wing "vitriol" caused Jared Loughner to shoot and kill dozens of people in Tucson:There really is no difference at...

The shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the killing of several people by gunman Jared Loughner in Arizona yesterday has revealed two sicknesses.The first and most serious is the sickness living in Loughner's head.  Evidence in the form of farewell videos, internet postings, and the...

If you demand to see Obama's actual birth certificate, you will be called a "Birther."  It doesn't matter if your position is that anyone ascending to a constitutional office should provide the best evidence of constitutional qualification, you're a Birther.  It doesn't matter that you...

I take offense to MoDo's PDS hyperbole:Sarah’s view of America is primitive. You’re either a pointy-headed graduate of Harvard Law School or you’re eviscerating animals for fun, which she presents as somehow more authentic.I'm the former, but not the latter, yet.  But the two absolutely are...

The New York Times had an Op-Ed yesterday complaining about anonymous trolls on blogs who post inflammatory messages to get a reaction:Trolling, defined as the act of posting inflammatory, derogatory or provocative messages in public forums, is a problem as old as the Internet itself, although its...

Frank Rich asks the question "Who Will Stand Up To The Superrich?"Rich never answers the question, he just complains (mostly about Republicans who self-fund campaigns, and Republican corporate interests, etc.)But Rich knows the answer.  And there isn't a Democrat in sight.  The One who might...

...Update 11-04-2010:  The Gail Collins gets the point:O.K., you poor little Democrats. Stop sobbing. Lift up your little liberal heads and shout. There’s gonna be. ... Umm. Harry Reid! There’s gonna be more Harry Reid! --------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube...

As my readers know, we have been on a New York Time's cone of silence watch as relates to allegations by an upstate reporter (corroborated at least in part by others) that Congressman Maurice Hinchey assaulted the reporter after the reporter asked tough questions regarding...

The NY Times continues its cone of silence regarding Democratic Congressman Maurice Hinchey's (D-NY22) assault on a reporter for the Kingston (NY) Daily Freeman who questioned Hinchey's possible conflict of interest in obtaining federal earmarks for a property partially owned by Hinchey.The reporter is standing...