FDA Conflicts Are Wrong Except Where They Advance NYT Agenda

The FDA has set up a panel on menthol with the aim of outlawing it in cigarettes.  The panel is stacked with people who have a clear bias and in some instances a profit motive. Somehow this salient fact goes missing in an editorial that is ostensibly opposed to conflicts of interest. That's what you call selective outrage... Conflicts of interest are the subject of an editorial about Food and Drug Administration (FDA) committees and the efforts made to guard against potentially unsafe decisio...

Journalistic Gynamistics Used to Explain Away Conservative Appeal in Florida

An otherwise informative piece, falls back on journalistic gymanstics in an effort to explain away the appeal of Marco Rubio in Florida and the Tea Party activism that fuels his candidacy. After uplifting Crist, the NYT then acknowledges he was not so hot after all, but that Rubio will over time prove offensive to the Florida electorate. We'll see... Gov.  Charlie Crist is just getting started on telling Republicans to get lost after the party base succumbed to Tea Party fervor, according to ...

Big Government Schemes Get Free Pass in Report on Greek Tax Cheats

Greece is auditioning for a bailout from other European Union states after running up its debt. The New York Times would have readers believe that tax cheats are the central problem here. But extravagant government benefits and entrenched union interests drive spending programs beyond the point where they are sustainable, nevermind how much tax revenue is collected. This point goes missing in the coverage... Greece is a socialist state bedeviled by unsustainable pensions, mounting debt and a ...