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Times Food Writer Doesn't Trust Food

Food writer Kim Severson claims E. coli is "a constant in the food supply" and passes along a filmmaker-activist's suggestions on combatting "Food, Inc.": "Plant a garden. Cook a meal for the ...

"Caring" Obama Has Osama on the Run

Did the Times ever contrast Bush and Osama like this after a Bush speech?: "If the medium were the message, the contrasts could not have been more stark. The American president was polished and ...

Obama's Muslim Outreach Bears Fruit in Lebanon's Elections - Maybe Iran Too!

Michael Slackman, whose previous reporting focused on how much the Muslim world hated America, finds the Obama administration winning hearts and minds and even elections: "There were many domestic ...

Peter Goodman's Marxist Mindset: Hummer a Sign of "Wasteful Decadence"

Peter Goodman: "Yes, that Hummer, maker of the famously gas-guzzling behemoths whose menacing width and armor trace their provenance to the American military....the Hummer has become an object ...

Stop It, Mr. President, You're Making Us Look Bad! Celebrating the Obamas' "Date Night"

"A presidential elbow to the ribs of husbands" read the text box. Would an expensive Manhattan jaunt by George and Laura Bush during a recession have been given such gauzy treatment?

In Cairo, Times Decides It's OK to Use Barack Obama's Full Name

The Times flayed the GOP for saying "Barack Hussein Obama" during the campaign, but celebrates the president's middle name when it may benefit him overseas. Plus, Obama's effortless diplomacy in ...

Times Doesn't Recognize Hateful Protestors at Tiller's Funeral

Does the Times consider the viciously anti-gay protestors of Westboro Baptist Church (who have picketed the funerals of U.S. soldiers) part of the pro-life movement?

NYT Continues to Probe Sotomayor's Racial Rulings

Legal reporter Adam Liptak hints that the decision Judge Sotomayor and her two appeals court colleagues reached in the reverse discrimination case Ricci v. DeStefano was flawed and unprofessional.

Is Obama Getting a Pass on the Bad Economy?

Double standard? Today's 9.4% unemployment rate "fueled hopes" that the economy was recovering, but 4.6% unemployment rates during the Bush administration were characterized as "job growth slowing ...

Mike Hale Can't Stand "Right-Wing Ranter" Glenn Beck Mocking Democrats

Mike Hale can't abide Glenn Beck's mocking of Democrats: "...there was little in the show to reassure those who see Mr. Beck as a right-wing ranter bordering on a demagogue....jokes that pounded ...
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