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Showing posts with label Frank Bruni. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frank Bruni. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

To the Barricades! NY Times's David Brooks Calls for a "Civic Uprising" Against the Trump Administration

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  David Brooks recently published an op-ed essay in the New York   Times calling for a "civic uprising" against the Trump admini...
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Sunday, June 5, 2016

Someone needs to wake George Will and tell him Ronald Reagan is dead

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They tell the story in England of a British politician who dreamt he was addressing the House of Lords. When he awakened, he found that inde...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Barney Frank, World Class Sleaze, Accuses Bernie Sanders of McCarthyism

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Barney Frank, former Congressman from Massachusetts, will be one of Hillary Clinton's Super Delegates at the Democratic Convention. Inde...
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Monday, May 23, 2016

Froma Harrop insinuates that Bernie Sanders is a racist: Is Froma pimping for Hillary?

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The media elite are furious that Bernie Sanders won't go away and that he continues to win primary elections. And some journalists have ...
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Sunday, November 23, 2014

You can't win if you don't play! Elite colleges engage in "promiscuous" recruiting to get their acceptance rates down

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Frank Bruni wrote a provocative op ed essay in the Times  awhile back about aggressive recruiting practices by elite colleges and universit...
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Monday, June 16, 2014

Why Humiliate Yourself To Get into an Ivy League College? The Search for a Richer Life

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Years ago I had a professor at the University of Texas who hung his college diploma in the guest bathroom of his home--right above the toile...
Monday, June 9, 2014

For what we have done to you, we are truly sorry: The Baby Boomers should apologize to the Millennial Generation for the student-loan mess

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Frank Bruni wrote a long op ed essay in yesterday's Sunday Times  about the wrongs the Baby Boomers have committed against the Millennia...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

We live on different planets: The World of the New York Times is not the world of the average American

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I live in fly-over country and can't get home delivery of the New York Times . Nevertheless, I get the Sunday Times   delivered to my ho...
Monday, December 23, 2013

Bah humbug: Why are the secularists so mean spirited?

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Ross Douthat  recently wrote a perceptive essay in the New York Times about the spiritual condition of American society.   Today, Douthat ...
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