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NYT's Severson: 'Some' Say ID Stripe on Illegals' Drivers Licenses Are 'Modern-Day Scarlet Letter'

Times reporter Kim Severson tees off on a North Carolina proposal on issuing drivers licenses to young illegals whose deportations have been deferred: "In a move some are calling a modern-day ...
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NY Times Credits 'Populist' Despot Hugo Chavez for 'Empowering...Millions of Poor People'

Venezuelan despot Hugo Chavez is dead of cancer, and William Neuman credited the left-wing dictator for having "changed Venezuela in fundamental ways, empowering and energizing millions of poor ...
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'Wow': Rematch With Scarborough Ends Badly for Paul 'Cheap Shot' Krugman

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough doesn't appreciate Paul Krugman hassling him with his sighs: "You and Al Gore really need to talk about it because, again, this is a real problem. If people don't ...
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NYT's Dowd Spreads Author's Gossip on Pope Benedict and His 'Remarkably Handsome' Male Secretary

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is no fan of the Vatican; that's clear from her column on the front of the latest Sunday Review, "How Mary Feels About Being a Virgin." Dowd paid tribute to ...
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Bitter Republicans 'Cling' to Spending Cuts, Suggests New York Times Front Page

Times political editor Richard Stevenson nods along to the liberal view of life in his "conservative"-heavy analysis of a Republican Party "clinging" to spending cuts: "Liberals dismiss the ...
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So Much for Hot Climate News: New York Times Shuts Down 'Green' Blog

The Times is discontinuing the Green blog, which was created to track environmental and energy news and to foster lively discussion of developments in both areas.” Or perhaps people simply ...

NY Times' Dao Sees Marines Leaving War With Hope, But Edited Out a Marine's Hope in 2005

New York Times military reporter James Dao filed from Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan on the Marine Corps leaving the country, "As Marines Exit Afghan Province, a Feeling That a Campaign Was Worth ...
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NY Times Sees 'Austerity,' "Poor May Be Hit Particularly Hard' by 'Painful and Stupid' Sequestration

The perils and victims of the round of the mandatory federal spending cuts known as sequestration led the New York Times' weekend coverage, with the 2.4% cut in annual federal spending labeled ...
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New York Times Ushers Pope Benedict Out Under Clouds of 'Scandal and Intrigue'

Pope Benedict XVI served his final day as pontiff on Thursday, and the New York Times' Rome bureau chief Rachel Donadio sent him on his way from Vatican City under a dark cloud: "As Pope Departs, ...
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In Bob Woodward Dust-Up, New York Times Takes Side of White House, Not Fellow Journalist

The Times finally reacts to the Bob Woodward-White House dust-up, and comes down on the side of Obama's White House. "To some Republican politicians and conservative activists, Mr. Woodward’s ...
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