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Labor Nominees’ Support for Coercive Union Tactics Goes Unmentioned

This article is supposedly focused on a White House meeting with Republican and Democratic leaders but it is actually built around the rejection of a controversial labor nominee. Once again, Republicans are called out for obstructionism but key facts are omitted and the nominees’ radical record goes unmentioned… Republicans lack the bipartisan spirit because they moved against a nominee to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) who favored coercive union tactics, The New York Times contend...

NYT Continues to Ignore Democratic Role in Blocking Obama’s Agenda

President Obama has thrown down the gauntlet again on healthcare and is challenging Republicans to join him in a half-day bipartisan session at The White House where the minority party is expected to put up. This is the tone of Monday’s front page story built around an interview Obama had with CBS just prior to the Super Bowl.  Republicans are expected to offer their own package of ideas for lower costs and expanding coverage. “He set out a plan that would put Republicans on the spot to of...

Admiral Mullen Earns Lavish Praise for Supporting Gay Agenda

When you elevate political correctness and social engineering above military readiness you earn a big spread in The New York Times, which is quick to extol enlightened views divorced from U.S. interests. There was no “epiphany” one advisor to Admiral Mike Mullen is quoted as saying in Thursday’s paper. There was instead a gradual process of enlightenment at work that brought the admiral into closer concert with the permissive views of the New York Times. A day after the admiral testified b...

Do Obama Reversals Vindicate Bush Policies?

Reality has a way of presenting and in many respects it can be argued that the Obama Administration’s reversals on counter-terrorism actually vindicate many of the policies President Bush set into motion. Given how abrasive The New York Times has been in its criticism of the former president’s post 9/11 initiatives, it is certainly appropriate to ask why Obama now grudgingly concedes the necessity of these actions at least in deeds, if not in rhetoric. After pushing hard for trying the 9/1...

Speaker Gingrich’s Vision for Space Exploration Deserves Media Attention

President Obama’s proposed budget will effectively scuttle current plans to return American astronauts to the moon by 2020 could in the long run of history be viewed as a  particularly tragic decision. The New York Times is not alone in overlooking the potential fall out to U.S. prestige that could result from other nations getting the edge in outer space. At issue, is NASA’s Constellation program, which includes the Orion crew capsule and the Ares I rocket that would replace the aging space shu...