Fixation on Goldman Sachs Practices Overlooks Government Meddling

President Obama and his congressional allies are looking to extend the government's control of the financial sector with the help of a compliant news media. The New York Times eagerly takes up this charge in a front page story that suggests to readers that the unsavory practices of Goldman Sachs are to blame for their fiscal woes but the premise here is all wrong... Washington’s culpability in the housing crisis and its larger economic fallout continues to go unreported in the liberal news me...

Anti Tea Party Agenda Evident in Report on Poll Results

A new poll shows that Tea Party activists are well-educated, well-informed and financially independent. This does not exactly fit with the image the New York Times is trying to sell at the expense of small government activists... Angry white males who are opposed to anti-poverty initiatives fuel and animate the Tea Party movement, according to a front piece in the New York Times that explores the results of a new poll the newspaper organized in tandem with CBS News. The report includes int...

Union Bosses Escape Disclosure Requirements as NYT Pressures Corporations

Financial disclosure for thee, but not for me. This is the message union bosses are transmitting to average Americans through The New York Times. Even as the White House and Congressional Democrats push for additional provisos aimed against politically active corporations, Obama officials are rescinding disclosure requirements for organized labor's top officials.... President Obama campaigned on openness and transparency in government but his top officials are rolling back financial disclosur...

ACORN’s Partisan Activities on Behalf of President Obama Should be Re-Examined

ACORN's questionable financial transactions and political activity were explored by the New York Times in the months leading up to the 2008 presidential election. But this reporting was abruptly cut off. Now would be a good time to reactivate the investigation since the organization is supposedly disbanding... Just a few months ago, ACORN denied that it would be changing its name and reconstituting itself.  But that process is now in motion as various nationwide affiliates assume more generic...

Obama’s Aggressive use of Executive Authority Goes Unreported

President Bush never received a free pass on his use of executive power and neither should President Obama. There is a legitimate debate over the use of recess appointments, executive orders, and various national security initiatives. But now that a Democrat is in the White House The New York Times seems remarkably complacent about presidential exercises that short-circuit legislative channels... When President Bush was in office, the liberal media assumed a jaundiced view of executive power ...