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Why So Cynical? Steinhauer Nitpicks Reading of Country's Founding Document

Reporter Jennifer Steinhauer seems a little crabby about Republicans reading the Constitution on the House floor: "If you are a member of the House and you plan to read the text of the ...

Obama's New Press Secretary - David Brooks? It's Not That Far-Fetched

Could Times "conservative" columnist David Brooks become Obama's press secretary? Politico speculates: "David Brooks is one of the few columnists Obama is known to read with respect..."

Nick Kristof Doesn't See Any Harm in Bowdlerizing Huck Finn

Behold the great free-speech liberal on his Twitter feed: "If censoring Huck Finn will help get a great book back on h.s. reading lists, isn't that worth it?" Meanwhile, the paper's editorial page ...

Carl Hulse, Ignoring History, Assumes Obama-Care Will Save Money

The paper's congressional reporter claims that rules proposed by the new Republican majority "would permit repeal of the health care legislation, which was estimated to save the government more ...

Three-Fifths Of A Newspaper

While sniffing over the "theatrical production of unusual pomposity" put on by the incoming Republican Congress for daring to require "that every bill cite its basis in the Constitution," Times ...

Left-Wing Village Voice Not Liberal But Heroically 'Muckraking'

After the shock departure of two of its veteran reporters, Jeremy Peters ponders the future of the "muckraking" Village Voice, without a hint of its proud tradition of counter-cultural leftism.

The Times Finally Covers Union Snow-Shoveling Slowdown, Buries It on A-20

After being beaten to the punch by local TV and the New York Post, the Times tentatively tackled charges that sanitation workers sabotaged the cleanup after last week's city blizzard - but only ...

The Times Finds Very Pregnant Mexican to Argue Against Conservative 'Birthright' Talk

The front of the Times told a heart-rending story from the Arizona border, of a pregnant Mexican woman being deported who had tried to waddle north to America for a better life. Reporter Marc ...

Times Buries Admission of Self Interest in Chevron-Ecuador Lawsuit Story

The Times reported Chevron has been using outtakes from the film "Crude," an anti-Chevron film, in its legal battles over an environmental damage lawsuit filed in Ecuador. The Times called it "a ...

Jackie Calmes Tosses Cold Water on 'Deep' Spending Cuts

Washington-based reporter Jackie Calmes says the "deep" spending reductions proposed by conservatives could threaten the economy's recovery while "carrying substantial political and economic risks."
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