Posts Tagged ‘new-york-times’

Buffett’s shared sacrifice farce

October 12th, 2011 | No Comments

On August 14, 2011, Warren Buffett penned an op-ed for the New York Times. It was named, subtly enough: Stop Coddling the Super-Rich Get the idea? While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks. [...]

Paul Krugman is Still an Idiot

October 25th, 2010 | 3 Comments

Some people are just unlearned.  Some people are just stubborn.  Some people are just stupid.  Some people just can’t quit lying.  Paul Krugman has to be the latter.  His argument for why we should still vote Democrat in spite of the fact their economic policies to date have failed miserably is because we shouldn’t return [...]

Byrd and Thurmond, only Adam Clymer can tell them apart.

July 6th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Strom Thurmond, Foe of Integration, Dies at 100 And: Robert C. Byrd, a Pillar of the Senate, Dies at 92 Both opposed civil rights initially.  Both converted to support civil rights.  One was an outspoken member of the Ku Klux Klan.  One was not.  Wanna guess which was which? Oh, and one died a Democrat, [...]

The politics of bailouts gone bad

December 1st, 2008 | No Comments

Now, that title is a little iffy.  it could be read the politics of “bailouts gone bad”.  Or, it could be read “politics of bailouts” gone bad.  I love equivocating, it keeps people on their toes.  With what we are experiencing today, both would apply. A couple of weeks I made my argument on why [...]

Making the best of the New York Times

August 20th, 2008 | 2 Comments

Received this via email.  It’s so true in so many ways: A biker is riding his Harley by the zoo, when he sees a little girl leaning into the lion’s cage.  Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the cuff of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her, under the eyes of her screaming parents. The [...]

McCain not American?

February 28th, 2008 | No Comments

A lot is suddenly being made over a New York Times article that questions whether John McCain qualifies for President.  It seems he was born in Panama.  Some people are taking the Times to task since they endorsed McCain a long time ago and “suddenly” realized a critical piece of his biography.  Now, to the very [...]

Keith Olbermann’s idiot statement of the day

February 21st, 2008 | No Comments

OLBERMANN: The phrase here, “protect the candidate from himself.” “Intervene.” This sounds, this sounds eerily familiar. We harkened back to the efforts from members of President Clinton’s staff to try to keep Monica Lewinsky away from him ten years ago or more. Those are eerily similar uses of the language, are they not? The only [...]

New York Times just lets it all hang out

March 16th, 2007 | No Comments

“In partisan Republican circles, the pursuit of voter fraud is code for suppressing the votes of minorities and poor people.” New York Times, March 16, 2007 editorial. How can one single person take them seriously after a comment like that? Kind of amazing considering it was just a few hours ago I was belaboring the [...]

Washington Planneth to Cross Delaware

July 3rd, 2006 | 4 Comments

Gaggle nails it: Everyone knew about that top-secret program. It was so well known that NYT felt compelled to relegate it to front page headline news. Y’know, at first I assumed the NYT assumed we are all incredibly stupid. Now, after watching them make the rounds explaining to us that their top-secret revealed to them [...]

Peter King wants NY Times prosecuted

June 26th, 2006 | 10 Comments

Here’s the story: (Peter King) To me, the real question here is the conduct of The New York Times. By disclosing this in time of war, they have compromised America’s anti-terrorist policies. This is a very effective policy. They have compromised it. This is the second time The New York Times has done this. And [...]