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Huge Keller Cover Story Defends Spilling Diplomatic Secrets From WikiLeaks

The biggest laugh line in Executive Editor Bill Keller's proud defense of his paper's publication of secret diplomatic cables from WikiLeaks and Julian Assange: "...it is our aim to be impartial ...

Times Again Covers Small Leftist Protest; Ignored Massive 'March for Life' 4 Years Running

After ignoring the conservative "March for Life," the Times covers a lefty protest against a gathering by the conservative Koch brothers, accusing them of trying to influence American politics for ...

Severson Promotes Gay Protests Against Chick-fil-A (AKA 'Jesus Chicken')

Kim Severson: "Nicknamed 'Jesus chicken' by jaded secular fans and embraced by Evangelical Christians, Chick-fil-A is among only a handful of large American companies with conservative religion ...

Hypocritical Times Smears Whistleblowing Conservative Councilman With Wife's Bankruptcy

Given the importance the Times gives toward the financial situation of the wives of subjects, one wonders how the paper managed to miss it when one of its own economics reporters, Edmund Andrews, ...

Is David Firestone Playing Dim Bulb?

Does David Firestone not know the federal government does enforce light-bulb standards? "The three Republicans portrayed government as a grim juggernaut that kills jobs and dreams and even, in Ms. ...

NYT Movie Critic Warns of the Violence Inside Critics of 'Laudable' Gay Marriage

A Times movie critic celebrates the message of a film "about double lives, the violence that can lurk inside those who cannot face themselves and the laudable quest for gay marriage in the United ...

After State of the Union, Obama Takes a 'Victory Lap' in Wisconsin

Jackie Calmes follows Obama to Wisconsin on his "victory lap" tour of factory floors, finds enthusiasm and applause for the president.

Krugman Celebrates Europe's 'Strong Safety Nets' Letting It Weather Crisis Better

Paul Krugman on the superiority of the European welfare state: "On the one side, those strong safety nets have meant that the amount of sheer misery in Europe is considerably less than here....But ...

Hypocrisy on Display: NYT Defends, Runs Photo of Ants-on-Crucifix Art, But Proudly Refused to Run Muhammad Cartoons

From London, critic Michael Kimmelman mocked conservative critics of the Smithsonian's sponsorship of an artist's clip showing ants crawling on a crucifix, a picture of which appears in the Times. ...

Obama to Rescue America From 'Its Latest Funk'

David Sanger: "At a moment when the momentum in Washington is driving toward slashing budgets and shrinking government, President Obama argued on Tuesday evening that the politics of austerity, ...
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