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Showing posts with label New York Times. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York Times. Show all posts
Thursday, April 24, 2025

"Deserve Ain't Got Nothing To Do With It": The Dems Refuse To Be Realistic About the Ukraine War

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  President Trump is trying to end the Ukraine War. Earlier this week, Vice President J.D. Vance proposed that the fighting stop with Russi...
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Wednesday, December 4, 2024

President Biden pardons Hunter. What about Jill?

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  The legacy media , in a frenzy of mendacity and hypocrisy, claims to be disappointed by President Biden's pardon of his son Hunter. A...
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Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Froma Harrop says the Biden economy is "amazingly strong." Are Americans too dumb to realize they're prospering?

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 Froma Harrop, a second-string cheerleader for the mainstream media's Biden cheer squad, has been called out on the field to do a rah-ra...
Monday, July 1, 2024

Baby, Baby, Baby, We're Out of Time: Biden or Trump--We Are Toast

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You're out of touch, my baby, My poor, unfaithful baby, I said, baby, baby, baby, You're out of time Out of Time Rolling Stones (196...
Friday, June 14, 2024

Maureen Dowd labels the Supreme Court as "rotten" and "corrupt": I disagree

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 Earlier this month, Maureen Dowd, an op-ed writer for the New York Times,   published an essay calling the U.S. Supreme Court "rotten...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

It's Official--Joe Biden is a better President than Jimmy Carter!

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  A couple of professors released a pape r on Presidents Day (how ironic!) that ranked all American presidents from first to last. Abraham L...
Tuesday, July 4, 2023

Truth is the first casualty of war: I am opposed to American involvement in the Ukrainian conflict

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  Truth, the sages say, is the first casualty of war. This aphorism certainly applies to the war in Ukraine. Who knows what is actually goin...
Thursday, July 16, 2020

"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out." Reflections on Martin Niemöller, who stood up against the Nazis

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First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—      Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade un...
Monday, April 10, 2017

The New York Times rightly criticizes Betsy Devos for rescinding DOE directive forbidding lenders from gouging student-loan defaulters: But the Times ignores the harm caused by income-driven repayment plans

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A few days ago, the New York Times  criticized Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for rescinding a Department of Education directive forbidd...
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Monday, May 2, 2016

David Kirp's platitudes for cutting college dropout rates: Keep them sophomores movin'

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Keep movin', movin', movin' Though they're disapprovin' Keep them doggies movin', rawhide Don't try to unde...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Paul Krugman ranks Hillary as best presidential candidate to handle an economic crisis: Why am I not surprised that Krugman ignored Bernie?

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In 1928, Myles Connolly (1897-1964), wrote a brilliant Catholic novella entitled Mr. Blue . The title character is a sort of modern-day St. ...
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Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Occasionally, The New York Times Says Something Sensible About the Student Loan Crisis: Bankruptcy Relief for Private Student Loan Borrowers

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Last month, the Student Loan Ombudsman for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)issued a report highlighting the hardships experie...
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Thursday, April 17, 2014

The New York Times Said Something Sensible Today About Predatory For-Profit Trade Schools

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I seldom agree with the New York Times .  I live in the real world, and the Times editorial writers and op ed essayists live in the land of...
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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Saturday, December 21, 2013

The Doting Mother Syndrome: The New York Times endorses America's gross insult to India

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When it comes to President Obama and his administration, the New York Times is like the doting mother of a spoiled brat. You know the type....
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