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Thursday's New York Times letters to the editor: 14 total letters. 5 anti-Bush. 1 neutral. 3 pro-Bush. (One from the Federal Highway Administration in direct response to an editorial). 2 anti-Bloomberg. 1 pro-business. (Response to a direct attack in an editorial). 1 anti-business. 1 nut-case. I just loved the last letter, and wonder if the […]

"Civil rights" attorney Lynne Stewart has been convicted of giving "material support to terrorists" among other assorted charges. Stewart was the lawyer for the blind sheik convicted of plotting to assassinate Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, among other things. But she also testified that she believed violence was sometimes necessary to achieve justice: "To rid ourselves […]

Former President Bill Clinton's 1994 Agreed Framework with North Korea, negotiated by Jimmy "see-no-evil" Carter and lauded by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has brought us to this: North Korea says it has nukes and the rest of the world can pound sand. This is what happens when you don't take foreign policy seriously […]

James Taranto points out a letter in The New York Times science section on the brouhaha over Harvard President Larry Summers suggestion that maybe men and women are wired differently. To the Editor: Many years ago, after taking the G.R.E., I discovered that there were two sets of norms for reporting my math scores - […]

Not the U.S. military, but terrorists. Maybe Eason Jordan can't tell the difference between the two.

Former PBS newsman Bill Moyers has apologized for passing on a smear against former Reagan administration Interior Secretary James Watt. Earlier this afternoon, Bill Moyers called James Watt and "apologized profusely" for misquoting him and misrepresenting his views on the environment. Moyers says he will produce a written apology and think about ways to make […]

The story of CNN news executive Eason Jordan's charge that the American military was targeting journalists in Iraq for assassination finally broke into the mainstream media. The best article on the subject comes from the New York Sun. There is video of the forum and the comments, but that video is apparently not forthcoming. The […]

Wednesday's New York Times: 13 total letters. 6 anti-intelligent design. 1 pro-intelligent design. 1 neutral. 4 anti-Bush (out of 4 on the president's budget). 1 anti-American. I'm just not sure how to classify the intelligent design letters when it comes to conservative/liberal labels. I tend to lean toward saying that anti-intelligent design letters are anti-religious […]

A report in today's New York Times on a August 2000 fund-raiser for then Senate candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton that lead to the indictment of Sen. Clinton's finance director, paints a picture of the VRWC out to get the Clintons. It also shows the continuing effort of a longtime nemesis of the Clintons, Judicial Watch, […]

I finally figured it out. Watching today's news report on President Bush's budget plan and the appearance on Capitol Hill of Treasury Secretary John Snow and White House budget director Josh Bolten before various congressional committees, I figured out why New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has not offered his promised plan to fix Social […]