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How Nice: Justice Sotomayor 'Alert to the Humanity' of People in Her Opinions

Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor "has displayed a quality - call it what you will - that is alert to the humanity of the people whose cases make their way to the Supreme Court," says Supreme Court ...

More Front-Page Climate Fears: the 'Runaway Train' of Carbon Dioxide Levels

Justin Gillis has another scary front-page story on global warming: "Fossil fuel emissions, they say, are like a runaway train, hurtling the world's citizens toward a stone wall - a carbon dioxide ...

Former Times Economics Reporter Lauds Leftist Matt Taibbi's Book

A former prominent economics reporter for the Times lauds a new book by Matt Taibbi, incendiary leftist writer on the financial meltdown of 2008, which argues "the nation suffered the equivalent ...

Another Uncritical Take on a Left-Wing 'War Resisters' Group

A tiny knot of supporters of accused WikiLeaks leaker, Army analyst Bradley Manning, get some publicity in the paper's special San Francisco section.

Jon Stewart Gets Ultimate Liberal Praise: 'Modern-Day Equivalent of Edward R. Murrow'

"Did the bill pledging federal funds for the health care of 9/11 responders become law in the waning hours of the 111th Congress only because a comedian took it up as a personal cause? And does ...

More Wishful Pro-Democratic Reporting From James McKinley: Hispanics the 'Sleeping Giant of Texas Politics'

James McKinley Jr. paints Texas Republicans as vulnerable in a slanted, sentimental take on the defeat of the "Dream Act" amnesty legislation: "The risk for Republicans like Ms. Hutchison is that ...

Times Embraces 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' Repeal As 'Historic'

Congressional reporter Carl Hulse embraces another liberal piece of legislation as "historic": "The vote marked a historic moment that some equated with the end of racial segregation in the military."

Tom Friedman's Latest Silliness: U.S. Military 'Out-Greening' Al Qaeda and the Taliban

Yes, he's serious: "at a time when a fraudulent, anti-science campaign funded largely by Big Oil and Big Coal has blocked Congress from passing any clean energy/climate bill - is the fact that the ...

Times Laments 'Painful Setback' to 'Dream Act' Amnesty for Illegals

Julia Preston offered more slanted coverage of the "painful setback" to a narrowly "tailored" effort to bring illegals "out of the shadows." So why were they doing watching from the gallery of the ...

Times Watch Quotes of Note -Preening Over Publishing Stolen Cables, Snooty Over Swiped Climate-Gate Email

Plus: Frank Rich's latest excruciating metaphor and his lament that "homophobia" is merely a "misdemeanor" in official D.C. circles. And Kate Zernike claims her slanted book on the Tea Party ...
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