http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nyslimes/ en-us Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:57:55 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2383071/posts Sept. 1, 1939 Nazis Invade Poland Overcrowding in Germany Cited Sept. 2, 1939 For Nazis, a Hard Time To Be Europeans Neighbors’ Suspicions Caused Stress, Resentment Sept. 3, 1939 In Central Europe, Other Countries Invade Their Neighbors, Too Sept. 4, 1939 When Fuhrers Snap Rallies, Pogroms Took Toll on Leader The Volokh Conspiracy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2383071/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:57:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375229/posts It is crunch time on Afghanistan, so here’s my vote: We need to be thinking about how to reduce our footprint and our goals there in a responsible way, not dig in deeper. We simply do not have the Afghan partners, the NATO allies, the domestic support, the financial resources or the national interests to justify an enlarged and prolonged nation-building effort in Afghanistan. I base this conclusion on three principles. First, when I think back on all the moments of progress in that part of the world — all the times when a key player in the Middle East... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375229/posts#comment Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:15:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373359/posts Victory for Obama Over Military Lobby CHRISTOPHER DREW October 28, 2009 When the Obama administration proposed canceling a host of expensive weapons systems last spring, some of the military industry’s allies in Congress assumed, as they had in the past, that they would have the final say. But as the president signed a $680 billion military policy bill on Wednesday, it was clear that he had succeeded in paring back nearly all of the programs and setting a tone of greater restraint than the Pentagon had seen in many years. Now the question is whether Mr. Obama can sustain that... NYTimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373359/posts#comment Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:42:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2354714/posts <p>Those who read the New York Times's coverage of the unsuccessful results of Barack and Michelle Obama's attempt to seal the 2016 Summer Olympics bid for Chicago on Friday afternoon ('For Obama, an Unsuccessful Campaign") might want to read it again.</p> NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2354714/posts#comment Sun, 4 Oct 2009 18:40:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353717/posts For Obama, An Unsuccessful Campaign By PETER BAKER October 2, 2009 COPENHAGEN — President Obama not only failed to bring home the gold, he could not even muster the silver or bronze. A dramatic 20-hour mission across the ocean to persuade the International Olympic Committee to give the 2016 Summer Games to Chicago proved such a miscalculation that his adopted hometown finished fourth of four candidate cities. Rarely has a president put his credibility on the line on the world stage in such a personal way and been slapped down so sharply in real time. While Chicago may have lost... NYTimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353717/posts#comment Fri, 2 Oct 2009 20:44:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2341941/posts WASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans to announce on Thursday that it will scrap former President George W. Bush’s planned missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic and instead deploy a reconfigured system aimed more at intercepting shorter-range Iranian missiles, according to people familiar with the plans. President Obama decided not to deploy a sophisticated radar system in the Czech Republic or 10 ground-based interceptors in Poland, as Mr. Bush had planned. Instead, the new system his administration is developing would deploy smaller SM-3 missiles, at first aboard ships and later probably either in southern Europe or Turkey,... Slimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2341941/posts#comment Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:09:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2340092/posts Obviously, the "main stream" media are hard of hearing and seeing. About 2 million mad-as-hell taxpayers assembling in Washington, D.C. for the largest-ever (most well-behaved ever, most respectful ever) protest did not make it onto their radar screens (or our TV screens). They need our help. Maybe we cannot repeat an assembly of 2 million mad-as-hell taxpaying patriots in one place, but surely those who longed to go and couldn't would love to be a part of Operation "Can You Hear Us Now?" I'll bet for every one patriot who went to D.C. there are 10-20 more who wished they... Website - OperationCanYouHearUsNow.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2340092/posts#comment Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:18:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2339090/posts The news media's credibility is sagging along with its revenue. Nearly two-thirds of Americans think the news stories they read, hear and watch are frequently inaccurate, according to a poll released Sunday by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. That marks the highest level of skepticism recorded since 1985, when this study of public perceptions of the media was first done. The poll didn't distinguish between Internet bloggers and reporters employed by newspapers and broadcasters, leaving the definition of "news media" up to each individual who was questioned. The survey polled 1,506 adults on the phone... Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2339090/posts#comment Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:50:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2331186/posts For the first time in my life, I feel sympathy ofr Sarah Palin.Levi Johnston — you will remember him from his featured role as the father of Bristol’s baby at the Republican convention — has written an article for the new issue of Vanity Fair. It’s his take on the Palin home life, which Johnston says was “much different from what many people expect of a normal family.”Given the fact that Johnston is a 19-year-old high school dropout whose mother was arrested last year on six felony drug counts, it is conceivable that he is not the perfect arbiter of... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2331186/posts#comment Thu, 3 Sep 2009 13:53:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324473/posts Report Shows Tight C.I.A. Control on Interrogations By SCOTT SHANE and MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON — Two 17-watt fluorescent-tube bulbs — no more, no less — illuminated each cell, 24 hours a day. White noise played constantly but was never to exceed 79 decibels. A prisoner could be doused with 41-degree water but for only 20 minutes at a stretch. The Central Intelligence Agency’s secret interrogation program operated under strict rules, and the rules were dictated from Washington with the painstaking, eye-glazing detail beloved by any bureaucracy. The first news reports this week about hundreds of pages of newly released documents... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324473/posts#comment Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:25:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2323013/posts The Justice Department’s ethics office has recommended reversing the Bush administration and reopening nearly a dozen prisoner-abuse cases, potentially exposing Central Intelligence Agency employees and contractors to prosecution for brutal treatment of terrorism suspects, according to a person officially briefed on the matter. The recommendation by the Office of Professional Responsibility, presented to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in recent weeks, comes as the Justice Department is about to disclose on Monday voluminous details on prisoner abuse that were gathered in 2004 by the C.I.A.’s inspector general but have never been released. When the C.I.A. first referred its inspector... NYTimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2323013/posts#comment Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:07:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320263/posts New York Times book critic Dwight Garner on Wednesday enthused over a new biography of Friedrich Engels, cooing that Marxism is “back in vogue” and adding that the founding communist comes across as a “jovial man of outsize appetites” in Tristram Hunt’s new biography “Marx’s General.” Garner opened the review by insisting that decrying capitalism is now hip again: “Thanks to globalism’s discontents and the financial crisis that has spread across the planet, Karl Marx and his analysis of capitalism’s dark, wormy side are back in vogue.” Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320263/posts#comment Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:33:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2296235/posts Palin Hairdresser: NYT Was Lying About "Hair Thinning" Claim By Tim Lindell Chalk this up as Stupid Palin Meme of the Week: In a July 12th hit piece published on the front page of the New York Times, reporters Jim Rutenberg and Serge Kovaleski (assisted by Kim Severson and William Yardley in Alaska) made the following claim: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Friends worried that she appeared anxious and underweight. Her hair had thinned to the point where she needed emergency help from her hairdresser and close friend, Jessica Steele. “Honestly, I think all of it just broke her heart,” Ms. Steele said in... Conservatives4Palin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2296235/posts#comment Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:51:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2296029/posts WASILLA, Alaska — Politics and parody converge in the new Alaska. Right there on Wasilla Lake not long ago, in clear view of the former residence of Gov. Sarah Palin, two Russian pastors dipped seven Russian teenagers into the water as their mothers and fathers sang Russian hymns on a brilliant morning. NYTimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2296029/posts#comment Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:35:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278908/posts Republicans were just starting to breathe a little easier. The news that Senator John Ensign had had an affair with a former aide who was married to another former aide was fading. Polls showed some voter impatience with President Obama’s policies, if not with the president himself. And the Politico, the insidery Web site that is widely read in the capital’s political precincts, even featured an article exploring the possibility of a Republican Party comeback. Then Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina, a fiscal conservative seen by many Republicans as an attractive standard-bearer for the next presidential campaign, went missing.... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278908/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:44:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266799/posts no link, just headline DrudgeReport.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266799/posts#comment Sun, 7 Jun 2009 22:30:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254526/posts CONFLICT-of-interest stories make great front-page headlines -- except when the newspaper that revels in breaking them is itself in the middle of an ethical morass. Take The New York Times. The Times acknowledged this weekend that it had spiked a story on possible illegal coordination between left-wing activist groups ACORN and Project Vote and the Obama campaign just before Election Day. The charges involved Team Obama sharing top campaign-donor lists with ACORN's supposedly nonpartisan canvassing arm, Project Vote (the same group Obama worked for as a community organizer). New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt tried to spin it as... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254526/posts#comment Wed, 20 May 2009 10:06:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2235750/posts A case could be made that New York Times Co. shares are worth nothing as the newspaper company’s debt load threatens to overwhelm its earnings power, a Barclays Capital analyst said Wednesday. “Net debt to (operating profit) is way too high,” Barclays analyst Craig Huber said in a research note. “We could argue the stock to zero given the high debt load.” -snip- "In our opinion, the long-term viability of the company may be at stake, though.” BizJournals http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2235750/posts#comment Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:03:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2226898/posts Seriously, can someone check on Fox News host Glenn Beck? I ask because it certainly looks like the poor guy's finally gone completely 'round the bend, and at the very least someone should do him the favor of checking his molars to make sure that whatever alien radio station his fillings are receiving plays some good music occasionally. On his show Thursday night, the ever-eccentric Beck seemed to be pushed over the edge by that New York Times report saying -- as the president had said repeatedly when on the campaign trail -- that the Obama admistration plans to move... Salon.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2226898/posts#comment Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:38:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223542/posts Saturday's New York Times front-page story by Shaila Dewan from Columbia, S.C., was a hostile profile of the state's conservative Republican Gov. Mark Sanford, who has been unpopular on the Times news pages ever since he dared challenge Barack Obama's expensive spending ideas. Dewan mocked Sanford's "extreme" frugality (an odd thing to make fun of in these recessionary times) in "Rejecting Aid, One Governor Irks His Own." Showing her own frugality, Dewan squeezed two insults into her first line: Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223542/posts#comment Mon, 6 Apr 2009 19:42:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2221376/posts Did the Times spike a story linking the left-wing activist group ACORN to the Obama campaign? A Republican lawyer made that claim at a House hearing two weeks ago, claiming information from ACORN whistleblower Anita Moncrief. The Philadelphia Bulletin newspaper reported on Monday: A lawyer involved with legal action against Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) told a House Judiciary subcommittee on March 19 The New York Times had killed a story in October that would have shown a close link between ACORN, Project Vote and the Obama campaign because it would have been a “a game changer.” Slimes Watch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2221376/posts#comment Fri, 3 Apr 2009 11:08:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200553/posts A federal judge threw out a lawsuit questioning President Obama’s citizenship, criticizing the case as a waste of the court’s time. Mr. Obama has been dogged by rumors, spread on the Internet, that he is ineligible to be president because he is not a “natural born citizen” as the Constitution requires. In response last summer, his campaign posted his Hawaiian birth certificate on its Web site. But the lawsuit argued that the certificate was a fake and that Mr. Obama was actually born in his father’s homeland, Kenya. The judge, James Robertson of Federal District Court, said the case could... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200553/posts#comment Fri, 6 Mar 2009 13:16:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2193537/posts RUSH: This is from September 30th, 1999. Headline: "'Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending' -- In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders. The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets -- including the New York metropolitan region -- will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. Fannie Mae officials... Nuevo York Slimes Via Rush http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2193537/posts#comment Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:26:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168674/posts MEXICO CITY (Dow Jones)--Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim's decision to loan the New York Times $250 million gives a vote of confidence to a debt-strapped publisher at a time when the financial viability of print is being widely questioned in the age of the Internet. The New York Times Co. (NYT) said Tuesday it will use the money to refinance existing debt, but also continues to seek other financing and will press ahead with cost-cutting measures. Slim's move to expand his involvement with the Times raised some eyebrows given difficulties faced by newspaper publishers seeing double-digit declines in advertising revenue. Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168674/posts#comment Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:07:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2167197/posts It will be interesting to see if The New York Times runs negative stories on Obama's inauguration. They slammed President Bush in an Op-ed piece on the cost of his inauguration and then had the audacity to state that the Iraq war should have been cause for restraint in spending for the inauguration. The New York Times on the Bush inauguration. At the rate President Bush's supporters are giving money, his second inauguration threatens to stand out in the history books like the common folks' muddy boot prints on the White House furniture at Andrew Jackson's gala. The $40 million... It's a Kwazy Life http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2167197/posts#comment Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:00:24 GMT