Tag: New York Times

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The peculiar case of David Hogg exposes media incompetence *UPDATED*

Is David Hogg, the post-Florida shooting media darling, the real deal or a Leftist plant? The New York Times provides no facts to help answer that question. It was inevitable that, after the school shooting in Florida, Progressives would demand that Americans surrender their Second Amendment rights. Their campaign this

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Romaissaa Benzizoune is the worst roommate in America — by guest blogger Lulu

My dear friend Lulu, who is an astute social and political observer, has some comments about everyone’s nightmare college roommate and the roommate’s disgraceful enabler, the New York Times. Romaissaa Benzizoune is the worst roommate in America. She deserves to be publicly called out for it. As does her callous enabler,

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The New York Times ignores the reasons why Swedes might be turning against immigrants

The New York Times ran an article the other day noting that there’s been a big change in Sweden, in that increasing numbers of ordinary Swedes are turning against the countries famously relaxed immigration policy.  I’ll let the Times explain: Opposition to the rising numbers is growing. The far-right, anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats had

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The Bookworm Beat (10/21/14) — Still catching up with email edition, and Open Thread

It’s always the same: Over the weekend, because of family demands, I get almost no time at my computer, and my email starts to back up. By Tuesday, between my two email accounts, I have several hundred unread emails. I then do the logical thing: I cravenly avoid my computer.

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What passes for theater and theater reviews amongst New York’s self-styled finest

America’s upper classes are now and have always been insecure. Lacking a hereditary nobility, social strivers have had to work hard to distinguish themselves from the masses when the only distinguishing feature, really, is cash. In the 19th Century, worried rich people formed “the Four Hundred” to distinguish the social

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The Bookworm Beat — 9/2/2014 Quick, Down, & Dirty edition

I’ve got about 30 tabs open. They’re memory hogs, so I want to share their contents with you as quickly as possible so that I can shut them down and look for more stuff. Hold onto your hats, ’cause this is going to be quick: Voices inside administration challenge Obama’s

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