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Matt Bai Gives Obama a Pass on Budget Whiff

Another Times writer gives Obama a "Yes, but," pass on his lack of budgetary leadership: "Mr. Obama would seem to be taking the more balanced approach. True, Mr. Obama didn't act on his own debt ...

G.O.P. on a Spending-Cut 'Frenzy,' 'Destroying Vital Government Programs With Gleeful Abandon'

More of the sober, substantive commentary we've come to expect from the nation's leading newspaper: "But that wasn't enough for [Speaker John Boehner's] fanatical freshmen, who demanded that it be ...

Union Boss Sweeney Among Those Who 'Have Worked on Behalf of Equality for the Poor and Struggling'

Reporter Michael Shear gets carried away in praise of John Sweeney, former head of the AFL-CIO, and highly partisan Democrat.

NJ GOP Gov. Christie 'Blustery and Bellicose', While CT Dem Gov. Works Hard Sparing 'Most Vulnerable'

David Halbfinger gushes over Connecticut's new Democratic governor, in contrast with the "blustery and bellicose" budget-slasher Chris Christie of neighboring New Jersey: "And as he closes a 20 ...

Sunday Front Page: Clarence Thomas Caught in Quiet-Gate Controversy!

News you can use: "The anniversary will probably be observed in silence. A week from Tuesday, when the Supreme Court returns from its midwinter break and hears arguments in two criminal cases, it ...

Times Again Promotes Common Cause's Anti-Thomas Crusade, Skips Racism at CC Protest

The "advocacy group" battling "conservatives" and Justice Clarence Thomas: "...Justice Thomas reported that the Federalist Society, a prominent conservative legal group, had reimbursed him an ...

Calmes Again Compliments Obama's Budget; Times Bashed Bush's Budgets

Jackie Calmes again suggests Obama's budget for fiscal year 2012 threaded the needle just right between spending cuts and increases, downplaying his lack of leadership on deficit-cutting: "With ...

Jackie Calmes: Behold Obama's Budgetary Brilliance

Reporter Jackie Calmes defends Obama's lack of budgetary leadership as clever strategy: "...President Obama has not opted for the bold, comprehensive approach to reining in the fast-growing ...

'Huff and Puff and Blow Your House Down' - Will Your Home Survive Global Warming?

Reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal rushes in where scientific consensus fears to tread: "Global warming is most likely responsible, at least in part, for the rising frequency and severity of extreme ...

Deborah Solomon Gives Up 'Q&A' Slot; Showed Blatant Hostility Toward Conservatives

Peter Baker's respectful interview with Donald Rumsfeld in the Times Sunday Magazine makes quite a contrast with Deborah Solomon's aggressive and hostile approach toward conservatives like William ...
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