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Times Warns Perry Tax Plan Would Send Us Back to 'Drastically Austere'...Clinton Years

Richard Oppel Jr.: "The plan also proposes reducing the scope of the federal government by requiring drastically austere federal budgets - compared with what exists now - that spend no more than ...

NYT Claims Poll Finds America Has Affinity for Lefty OWS Protesters

"The combustible climate helps explain the volatility of the presidential race and has provided an opening for protest movements like Occupy Wall Street, to highlight grievances about banks, ...

Puzzlement Over NYT Opinion Editor's 'Petty Fib' on Times' Endorsement of McCain

The Times' Andrew Rosenthal told James Taranto his paper had not endorsed John McCain in the Republican primary in 2008: "We said he was best of BAD choices. No endorsement." So why did other ...

Nocera Surprise on Bork Anniversary: 'Democrats Can Be...Mean-Spirited and Unfair.'

Joe Nocera: "[Bork's] nomination battle is also a reminder that our poisoned politics is not just about Republicans behaving badly, as many Democrats and their liberal allies have convinced ...

Pacifica Isn't Radical Left, It's 'Grass Roots' And 'Gives Voice to Struggles'

Pacifica Radio and its best-known broadcast, Democracy Now, can be easily identified as a radical-left enterprise. Currently, it touts the Occupy Wall Street protests with leftist guests like ...

Times Denies Broad Anti-Semitism at OWS; Quick to Uncover Racism During Tea Party Rallies

Joseph Berger spins away accusations of anti-Semitism against OWS: "The Occupy Wall Street protests...have increasingly been criticized by a variety of groups, most of them politically ...

NYT's OWS Reporter Talks Shop With Radical Supporters, Pot-Shots Police

Lennard's comments, alternately post-modern and potty-mouthed, were peppered with potshots at the NYPD: "...one bloody face courtesy of New York's less than finest." Also, self-policing "is a risk ...

Wall St.'s Candidate? Times Says Romney, But WP Says Obama Still Rules the Street

NYTimes: "Mitt Romney has raised far more money than Mr. Obama this year from the firms that have been among Wall Street's top sources of donations for the two candidates." But "Those figures do ...

Paul Krugman's Big Wet Kiss to the Left: 'Thank You, OWS'

"Overall, what struck me was how non-threatening the thing is: a modest-sized, good-natured crowd, mostly young (it was a cold and windy evening) but with plenty of middle-aged people there, not ...

Gail Collins Still Haunted by Romney's Crate-Gate - Mentions Dog-on-Roof Tale 23 Times

Gail Collins is still "haunted by Seamus," the story of Mitt Romney's family dog strapped to the car roof in a crate, mentioning the infamous incident 23 times over four years of columns.
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