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Bye-bye, Barney Rep. Frank shuffles off

Dec

2011

When Barney Frank announced Monday that he was shuffling offstage after three decades in the congressional limelight, I was brought back to 1980, when some very thoughtful friends from Harvard told me to watch him. Paul H. Weaver had been an aide to Irving Kristol, the godfather of neoconservatism, which was lustrous in ...

CNN Helps Politicize Tragic Teen ‘Dream Act Suicide’

Dec

2011

After an illegal immigrant teenager killed himself allegedly because his lack of citizenship would derail his college dreams, CNN ran a segment on the “‘Dream Act’ Suicide” and asked his family about the importance of the liberal “Dream Act” to other illegal immigrant students via CNN Helps Politicize Tragic Teen ‘Dream Act Suicide’.

NBC’s Brian Williams Gushes Over 1950s ‘Wholesomeness’ of Obama Family

Dec

2011

In an interview with President Obama’s outgoing assistant Reggie Love on NBC’s Rock Center Monday night, host Brian Williams fawned over the First Family: “…like a retro almost 1950s American family, that there’s a – kind of a wholesomeness about them. They play board games, they play on the floor of the living ...

NYT Covers Falling Tea Party Support, Ignores Polls Showing Sharp Downturn in OWS Appeal

Dec

2011

Kate Zernike, whose reporting on the Tea Party for the New York Times is often hostile, on Wednesday devoted a full story to an outside poll, from the Pew Research Center, claiming falling support for the Tea Party “may be dragging down the Republican Party heading into a presidential election year.” (“Support for Tea ...

More NY Times Hypocrisy, Attacking Lauder for Using Tax Loopholes It Employs As Well

Dec

2011

Ira Stoll dissected the Times’ latest outburst of “sheer hypocrisy masquerading as journalism,” a Sunday front-page attack on the tax-shelter practices of Ronald Lauder, in a Monday post at the New York Sun website — “Owners of New York Times Used Tax Loopholes the Paper Scored Ambassador Lauder for Using.” via More NY ...

Bloomberg: I have my own army in the NYPD

Dec

2011

“I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom’s annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into the diplomatic world that Washington does not have,” Mayor Bloomberg said in ...

D.C. funds for needy used more for perks

Dec

2011

D.C. Council member Tommy Wells on Wednesday called for the elimination of special funds the city’s lawmakers are supposed to use to help the needy — money critics consider “slush funds” rarely tapped to help residents. A Washington Times review of 10,000 payments totaling $3.3 million since 2004 shows that just 3 percent or $84,000 ...