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The Times Can't Stop Pushing Two Itsy-Bitsy Amnesty Marches

After two full stories on a grand total of nine protesters marching for amnesty for illegal immigrant students, the Times follows up with a pungent editorial on the same lame marches.

Kate Zernike Takes Another Crack at Understanding Tea Party In Wake of Paul's KY Win

Reporter Kate Zernike last month pigeon-holed the Tea Party movement as "white and male," fueled by anger and memories from a time "when the country was less diverse." This time Zernike actually ...

Spinning Democratic Optimism for 2010 on the Front Page

Democrat Mark Critz's victory to fill the House seat of late Pennsylvania Democrat John Murtha merited a front-page story analysis on Thursday by congressional reporter Carl Hulse: "House Victory ...

Soda Pop As Dangerous as Cigarettes?

Economics writer David Leonhardt gets a little melodramatic: "Someday, we will probably look back on our gallon-a-week soda habit the way we now look back on allowing children to ride without seat ...

Gulf Oil Spill: Obama's 9-11, Says Tom Friedman

Tax-hiking columnist Thomas Friedman took issue with conservatives who claim the massive BP oil spill is Obama's Katrina. According to Friedman, it's actually Obama's 9-11.

Tolerant Young Fight AZ Immigration Law: Stick-In-the-Mud Baby Boomers Embrace It

Where's the contradiction? The Times' Damien Cave looks at the Times polling on Arizona's immigration law and divides people into young idealists opposed to it and old baby boomers supporting it: ...

NYT Still Late to the 'Party' When It Comes to Identifying Scandal-Plagued Dems

The Times' didn't mention the Democratic affiliation of controversy-plagued Connecticut Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal until paragraph three of its expose. By ...

Krugman's Gratified Media Finally Recognizing Republican Extremism

Columnist Krugman sees a welcome change: "News organizations have taken notice: suddenly, the takeover of the Republican Party by right-wing extremists has become a story."

Times Needles Obama on His Own 'Finger-Pointing' Over BP Oil Spill

"President Obama on Friday angrily assailed the finger-pointing among the three companies involved in the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as a 'ridiculous spectacle,' even as his own ...

Sentences We Were Obliged to Finish: 'Barack Obama Demonstrated his Economic Prowess...'

Business writer/book reviewer Harry Hurt III summarizes a gushing new autobiography of Obama by Newsweek's "moderately liberal" Jonathan Alter: "Barack Obama demonstrated his economic prowess at ...
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