All Posts Tagged With: "New York Times"

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The Lazy Media

Sarah Palin = random blog commenter

9Jan2011 | Unstable Isotope | 13 comments | Continued
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Nick Kristof On The Military Taboo

NYT’s Nick Kristof gives us a little information about how much money the U.S. really spends on the military.

27Dec2010 | Unstable Isotope | Comments Off | Continued
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United States – Banana Republic?

NYT’s Nick Kristof discusses rising income inequality in the United States and what it means for the future.

8Nov2010 | Unstable Isotope | 6 comments | Continued
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Whiny Rich People

Economist Greg Mankiw whines about taxes and threatens to go Galt. Just go, already.

12Oct2010 | Unstable Isotope | 3 comments | Continued
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Frank Rich On Christine O’Donnell – “Useful Idiot”

Frank Rich has a smart column on Christine O’Donnell and her importance to the GOP.

4Oct2010 | Unstable Isotope | 9 comments | Continued
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NYT Blumenthal Bombshell Was A Political Hit Job

The NYT story on Connecticut AG Richard Blumenthal relied on a misleading video clip. The full video clip shows that Blumenthal correctly characterized his Vietnam-era service.

20May2010 | Unstable Isotope | 23 comments | Continued
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Frank Rich On The Tea Party Movement

New York Times op-ed writer Frank Rich takes a look at the Tea Party movement and the GOP embrace of it:
No one knows what history will make of the present — least of all journalists, who can at best write history’s sloppy first draft. But if I were to place an incautious bet on which [...]

28Feb2010 | Unstable Isotope | 6 comments | Continued
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The Peasants Are Revolting

New York Times “Wealth Matters” columnist Paul Sullivan brought us the dire tale of how the wealthy are suffering during the economic downturn:
IT turns out the other half — or at least the tiny slice who live at the top of the wealth pyramid — are not sleeping any better than the rest of America.
At [...]

20Oct2009 | Unstable Isotope | 2 comments | Continued
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Zachary’s Story Goes National

Do you remember the story of Zachary, a 6 year-old student in the Christina school district who was suspended for bringing camping utensils to school? This story has been picked up by the New York Times.
Finding character witnesses when you are 6 years old is not easy. But there was Zachary Christie last week [...]

12Oct2009 | Unstable Isotope | 118 comments | Continued
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Bob Herbert’s Column Today Is A Must Read

We haven’t talked on Delaware Liberal about George Sodini, the right-wing misogynist who killed three women at a fitness club in Pittsburgh. He wrote some very disturbing things on his blog about race and women. Sodini was obsessed with women and sex and how he wasn’t getting his fair share (according to him). [...]

8Aug2009 | Unstable Isotope | 4 comments | Continued
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Joe Biden’s Revenge?

The New York Times’s Maureen Dowd has admitted to “inadvertently” plagiarizing from Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo. Maureen Dowd, if you remember, exposed Joe Biden’s plagiarism in 1987.
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, in an email to Huffington Post, admits that a paragraph in her Sunday column was lifted from Talking Points Memo [...]

18May2009 | Unstable Isotope | 7 comments | Continued

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