So says The New York Times:
Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has decided not to run for governor of New York next year after months of mulling a candidacy, according to people who have been told of the decision.
His decision is a blow to many Republican leaders, who had viewed [...]
The New York Times is absolutely bubbling with rage at one of the following bumper stickers. Can you guess which one it is?
The obvious answer is below the fold, of course.
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Not surprisingly, The New York Times review of Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue: An American Life isn’t exactly positive:
“Going Rogue,” the title of Sarah Palin’s erratic new memoir, comes from a phrase used by a disgruntled McCain aide to describe her going off-message during the campaign: [...]
Via Hot Air, comes this interesting story from 1994:
It wasn’t a bow, exactly. But Mr. Clinton came close. He inclined his head and shoulders forward, he pressed his hands together. It lasted no longer than a snapshot, but the image on the South Lawn was indelible: an obsequent [...]
We’ve reached 4,000:
ATLANTA - Federal health officials now say that 4,000 or more Americans likely have died from swine flu — about four times the estimate they’ve been using.
The new, higher figure was first reported by The New York Times. It includes deaths caused by complications related to swine [...]
According to The New York Times, as much as ten percent of America’s electricity comes from material recovered from old Soviet nuclear weapons:
MOSCOW — What’s powering your home appliances?
For about 10 percent of electricity in the United States, it’s fuel from dismantled nuclear bombs, including Russian ones.
“It’s a great, [...]
The New York Times:The New York Times has an interesting round up of opinion from political bloggers who live in New York’s 23rd Congressional District about the month-long kerfuffle that recently made it’s way through their area.
The one theme that comes through loud and clear is the feeling that interference from [...]
In 2005, on a candidate who won 52-to-46-percent:
RICHMOND, Va., Nov. 8 - Lt. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, a Democrat, won the race for governor in Virginia tonight, scoring a major political victory for his mentor, Gov. Mark Warner, and sending a powerful message that President Bush's political standing has' [...]
Adam Kirsch reviews Anne Heller’s Ayn Rand and the World She Made in yesterday’s New York Times and makes this curious statement
Nor would Rand, sooner than any other desert prophet, allow her message to be trifled with. When Bennett Cerf, a head of Random House, begged her to [...]
It used to be that we called this "putting the cart before the horse." Given this illustrious example, I think it's fair to update that ancient adage to a more appropriate form for the New York Times:
"Putting the denials before the story."
Which is entirely appropriate, considering that this seems' [...]
As I noted two weeks ago, the California lawsuit seeking to overturn Proposition 8 passed it’s first hurdle when the Federal Judge hearing the case denied the Motion to Dismiss filed by proponents of the gay marriage ban.
Today’s New York Times notes, however, that the ultimate outcome [...]
