talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/8/2008
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The NYT is planning to borrow almost a quarter of a billion dollars by taking out a mortgage against its new New York City headquarters. On the one hand this has to do with the specific story of the New York Times. But as I've been reading these various stories over the weekend, with the ...
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 12/8/2008
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By Patrick Appel A reader writes: Andrew leaves
for vacation and somebody leaves a back-stabber like Patrick...
Appel to write crap like " In Defense of Sarah Palin ". Andrew and I spoke last Friday. He encouraged me to air my dissent ...
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In Defense Of Sarah Palin, Ctd.
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 12/8/2008
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By Patrick Appel A reader writes: I have
to take issue with your earlier reader's comment :...
"Unlike in (most) religion, there are no scientific hypothesis (beliefs) that could not be changed if the evidence so indicated." The problem ...
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Less Than Overwhelming Evidence, Ctd.
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 12/10/2008
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By Patrick Appel Lots of reader speculation about
this graph . The most common comment: The more...
willing you are to "believe" in anything, the more likely you are to "believe" in something else. The same reader continues: ...
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Prayer And Partisanship, Ctd.
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... claims, noting that Republicans may perceive Romney as transparent and optimistic like they did in 2008. Also, The Tribune and New York Times’s troubles may be partly the fault of the economic downturn and dwindling circulation, but poor decision-making to leverage tons of debt on their organizations only made matters worse, Josh Marshall writes at TalkingPointsMemo. The falling value of the venerable news properties present an opportunity for conservative investors to step in and buy the distressed organizations and ameliorate perceived bias, ...
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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 2/4/2009 — A reader writes:
I had the same reaction . I happened to walk into the room and hear the words, "...and I've got to own up to my mistake..." and I immediately thought: Grownups in the White House. Hallelujah.
Furthermore I just so ...
Let Them Die?, Ctd.
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 11/12/2008 — Megan weighs in: GM can't be saved. It needs to go into bankruptcy, which is the only possible way I can see to adjust its legacy labor problems, and possibly provide sufficient shock to the corporate culture to allow the...
The Journalism Bailout, Ctd.
rossdouthat.theatlantic.com 11/16/2008 — I offered the carrot ; Megan offers the stick : ... you know that normally, I'd take the libertarian side and argue against
this. But the news business is special. Without us, you wouldn't know
anything. Besides, it provides millions of low-paying, ...
Why No Medical Records?, Ctd.
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 12/8/2008 — A reader writes: I am glad you hold Andrew Sullivan's influence in such high regard. But to think that the McCain-Palin campaign didn't release Saran Palin's medical records so they could discredit Andrew Sullivan is ludicrous. Sorry, for as much as ...
The NYT And The T-Word
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 12/3/2008 —
The front-page piece in the NYT today on Obama's thorny task in staffing the CIA, after seven years of its violation of the Geneva Conventions, is revealing in many ways. Like many in the MSM, the NYT cannot bring itself to describe the ...
Let Them Die?, Ctd.
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 11/13/2008 — Ezra Klein points me to an old article by Obama on the auto industry. It may be as good an indicator of his future policies as anything: ...every automobile the government purchases -- starting right now -- should be a flexible-fuel vehicle. When it ...
No Exit, Ctd
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 3/13/2009 — Megan throws some more cold water on health care wonks: If we get national healthcare, we will not get anything like the neat little systems proposed by academics who can assume away many of the political problems. I am aware that proponents ...
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americanthinker.com 11/24/2008 — Make no mistake, the newspaper industry as we have known it is a dying industry. So why save the Times? Why bother? Many reasons
McCainiacs vs. Palin, Ctd.
corner.nationalreview.com 11/7/2008 — In response to a few emails: 1) No, I don't necessarily believe the Africa story. Hence the "if it's true" in my post below. 2) I think Carl Cameron is a good reporter. 3) I agree that the people trashing Palin should step forward on the record. 4) ...
LGBT, GOP, Ctd
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 11/10/2008 — I'm still bemused by the drop in gay support for Obama after Kerry. I'd put it down primarily to the fact that the gay political establishment, with its usual brilliance, fused itself with the Clinton campaign very early on, and there was a real ...