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Times Skips Inconvenient Facts to Insist on 'Peaceful,' 'Nonviolent' Nature of Wisconsin Protests

The Times took pains to emphasize the nonviolent nature of the ongoing pro-union protests over Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's plan to limit collective bargaining for government unions: "Although ...

Krugman: U.S. Students 'Could Learn A Little Bit' From Violent Riots in UK, France

Talking to the University of Oklahoma's student newspaper, did Paul Krugman, respected economist turned partisan liberal columnist, really suggest American college students start rioting about ...

The Times Takes Two More Left Jabs at New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie

The Times just keeps jabbing at New Jersey's budget-cutting Gov. Chris Christie. Reporter Richard Perez-Pena: "Taking credit for leading the way on fiscal austerity under such conditions, they ...

Krugman, Inspired By Leftist Paranoia, Sees 'Shock Doctrine' in Wisconsin

Columnist Paul Krugman uses Naomi Klein's anti-capitalist paranoia tome "The Shock Doctrine" to criticize Gov. Scott Walker's move to get public-sector unions to pay a larger share of their ...

Times Reporting Dotted With Warnings of 'Far-Right,' 'Hard-Right' Conservatives

A Nexis search indicates Times reporters have used hard-right five times in the last two years, and the paper's liberal columnist employ it regularly. By contrast, no Times reporter, columnist, or ...

'Immigration Hardliners' in AZ Draw 'Scorn' From Unidentified Opponents

Phoenix bureau chief Marc Lacey shows his usual fair-and-balanced outlook on immigration enforcement: "Despite boycotts and accusations that the state has become a haven of intolerance, Arizona ...

Obama's Rejection of DOMA Brings Usual Labeling Slant: 'Conservatives' vs. 'Advocates'

The paper greeted the news the Obama administration had decided the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional with big lead-story play and predictable labeling imbalance, presenting supporters of ...

'Pugnacious and Boastful' Gov. Christie Left Education System 'Reeling'

Reporter David Halbfinger relays what unions find "most galling" about the "pugnacious and boastful" Gov. Christie's budget proposals. He displayed far more empathy toward Connecticut's Democratic ...

Tom Friedman's Taxing Obsession

Over the years columnist Tom Friedman has written on the costs of the Iraq war, the federal deficit, the threat of global warming, and the uprisings in the Arab world, disparate problems that ...

More Dreamy News Section Fawning Over the Dream Act

Education columnist Michael Winerip lauds a Dream Act activist, just the latest in a long history of support for the liberal legislation, that would provide amnesty for illegal students: "Isabel ...
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