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Times Botches Rachel Corrie Incident

The Times leaves a lot out of its potted history of Rachel Corrie, a pro-Palestinian activist for a group that supported "armed struggle" against Israel whose death was a flashpoint in the ...

Sticking It to Lenders Via 'Homemade Mortgage Modification'

David Streitfeld: "Any moral qualms are overshadowed by a conviction that the banks created the crisis by snookering homeowners with loans that got them in over their heads."

'A Chilling Effect' Among Latino Musicians in Arizona?

Larry Rohter devotes his second story to the major news that some musicians are boycotting Arizona over its new immigration law: "For the singer Larry Hernandez, the 2010 Billboard Latin Music ...

Kristof Characterizes 'Provocateur' Ayaan Hirsi Ali as Bomb-Throwing Anti-Muslim Antagonist

In a condescending review of her memoir "Nomad," Times liberal columnist Nicholas Kristof reduces feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, whose life has been threatened by radical Islamists, into a mere ...

NYT Early to Party ID When GOP's in Trouble - Democrat Labels Often Never Arrive

The Times let its readers know in the headline and first sentence that politician Mark Kirk, caught exaggerating about his military service, was a Republican. Yet profiles on prominent Democrats ...

Tom Friedman Again Urges Obama Not to Waste Oil Spill 'Disaster,' Hits 'Our Addiction to Oil'

Columnist Friedman back in the saddle of his green hobby-horse: "His most important job, though, is one he has yet to take on: shaping the long-term public reaction to the spill so that we can use ...

Times Watch Quotes of Note - 'Mostly Peacefully' Means 'Somewhat Violently' at the Times

Plus: Linda Greenhouse attacks Arizona's "police state" with Nazi comparison, Times columnists see the "bright side" to the Gulf oil spill, and Rush Limbaugh's biographer is accused of "Stockholm ...

Arizona Promises of Fairness 'Ring Hollow to Many Latinos'

Randal Archibold finds sober Arizona citizens with serious concerns about the state's new immigration law: "Mr. Ruiz, who spray painted himself white and wrote on his body, Am I reasonably ...

Obama's Latest Rhetorical Triumph: 'I Was Wrong' (Not to Clean House Quicker After Corrupt Bush Administration)

Obama triumphs by blaming Bush? Peter Baker: "President Obama uttered three words on Thursday that many of his 43 predecessors twisted themselves into knots trying with varying degrees of success ...

The Times Takes on...Fluoridated Water?

In a front-page Home section story that is the epitome of liberal urban paranoia, the Times links up with the John Birch Society circa 1950s: "Municipal water supplies like New York's are ...
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