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• TimeSelect Firewall Reportedly to Come Tumblin' Down

  Published: August 7, 2007, 2:32 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Frank Rich, Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, Media Business, New York Times, Major Newspapers

  ability to read Mo Dowd and Paul Krugman for free during the past almost-two years? Times writers were deliberately taken out of the national conversation by their short-sighted management. It must be difficult to see your relevance diminish with each passing column. I suppose the Times walled-off columnists believe they believe they'll have

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• Remembering Molly

  Published: September 12, 2007, 6:34 pm

  Tags: Arts Amp Amp Culture, Calvin Trillin, Eden Lipson, Joseph Lelyveld, Maya Angelou, Molly Ivins, Paul Krugman

  Calvin Trillin recalled Paul Krugman's a column immediately after Ivins' death. Mr. Krugman cited these examples of the Texan's extraordinary prescience: Nov. 19, 2002: ''The greatest risk for us in invading Iraq is probably not war itself, so much as: What happens after we win? There is a batty degree of triumphalism loose in this

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• Paul Krugman: The Unconsciousness of a Liberal

  Published: September 19, 2007, 8:09 am

  Tags: Economy, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Taxes, Fdr, Karl Marx, Paul Krugman, New York Times, Times Select

  On the other hand, Paul Krugman has decided that his column isn't enough to contain his wisdom, and that he will henceforth be inflicting his blog on us. He entitles it "The Conscience of a Liberal," which as he notes is also the title of his recent book. Give Krugman credit for giving us fair warning. He does let us know

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• NYT's Paul Krugman Calls Republicans Racists

  Published: September 24, 2007, 10:21 am

  Tags: 2006 Congressional, 2008 Congressional, 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Moveon Org, Racial Issues, Racism, Paul Krugman, New York Times

  that didn't stop the Times' Paul Krugman, as facts never seem to matter whenever he puts his fingers on a keyboard. As such, for those that can stomach it, here were the lowlights of his "Politics in Black and White" (emphasis added throughout): Consider voting in last year's Congressional elections. Republicans, as President Bush

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• Open Thread for Night Owls

  Published: October 5, 2007, 3:44 am

  Tags: Open Thread For Night Owls, Paul Krugman

  out an option: Intentional. Paul Krugman plants another big wet one on the GOP: Conservatives Are Such Jokers On Wednesday, President Bush vetoed legislation that would have expanded S-chip, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, providing health insurance to an estimated 3.8 million children who would otherwise lack coverage.

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• Krugman: Conservatives Are Such Jokers

  Published: October 5, 2007, 9:36 am

  Tags: George W Bush, George Bush, Paul Krugman, Republican Values

  a little Krugman with your hot cup of smokey Joe. Of course, minimizing and mocking the suffering of others is a natural strategy for political figures who advocate lower taxes on the rich and less help for the poor and unlucky. But I believe that the lack of empathy shown by Mr. Limbaugh, Mr. Kristol, and, yes, Mr. Bush is genuine,

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• NYT's Krugman: Reagan Thought Hunger 'Was Nothing But a Big Joke'

  Published: October 5, 2007, 12:23 pm

  Tags: Fact Checking, John Kennedy, Paul Krugman, Ronald Reagan, New York Times

  today's New York Times, Paul Krugman's commentary, "Conservatives Are Such Jokers," begins: In 1960, John F. Kennedy, who had been shocked by the hunger he saw in West Virginia, made the fight against hunger a theme of his presidential campaign. After his election he created the modern food stamp program, which today helps millions of

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• Paul Krugman: How Bush and the right mock the poor.

  Published: October 5, 2007, 12:20 am

  Tags: George W Bush, Ronald Reagan, Paul Krugman, Immigration, Children, Schip, Environment, Global Warming, Bill Kristol

  George Bush's veto of the SCHIP was based on ideology and not on reality, as the lead NYT editorial pointed out. Paul Krugman gives a whole history of how the Republicans have mocked poor people and their sufferings and how they have engaged on s

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• Paul Krugman: Bush a Model Conservative.

  Published: October 7, 2007, 11:47 pm

  Tags: Paul Krugman, Conservatism, George W Bush

  Paul Krugman writes that contrary to those who would say that Bush strayed from right-wing principles, he is in fact a true Conservative. For example, people claim to be shocked that Mr. Bush cut taxes while waging an expensive war. But Ronald Reagan

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• Today In Embarrassing Musical References By Boomer Pundits: Krugman: Boilerplate GOP-bashing becomes ...

  Published: October 8, 2007, 4:40 pm

  Tags: Columnists, Music, Paul Krugman, The Note, Today In Embarrassing Musical References By Boomer Pundits

  Krugman: Boilerplate GOP-bashing becomes Talking Heads homage. (‘Now, as they survey the wreckage of their cause, conservatives may ask themselves: “Well, how did we get here?” They may tell themselves: “This is not my beautiful Right.” They may ask themselves: “My God, what have we done?”’) The

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• Today In Embarrassing Musical References By Boomer Pundits: Krugman: Boilerplate GOP-bashing becomes ...

  Published: October 8, 2007, 4:40 pm

  Tags: Columnists, Music, Paul Krugman, The Note, Today In Embarrassing Musical References By Boomer Pundits

  Krugman: Boilerplate GOP-bashing becomes Talking Heads homage. (‘Now, as they survey the wreckage of their cause, conservatives may ask themselves: “Well, how did we get here?” They...

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• Bill Maher Uses Mexico's Vicente Fox to Insult President Bush

  Published: October 13, 2007, 4:12 pm

  Tags: 2008 Congressional, 2008 Presidential, Anti Iraq War Bias, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Taxes, Bill Maher, Joy Behar, Paul Krugman, Tucker Carlson

  to the New York Times' Paul Krugman were absolutely spectacular. In particular, when Maher moved the discussion to SCHIP, Carlson ripped Krugman to little pieces (video available here, relevant section begins at 1:50): Krugman: What actually happened was they were looking for a bipartisan bill. This is a bipartisan bill to expand the

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• Shuster Sad Krugman Didn't Call Conservatives 'Wingnuts'

  Published: October 15, 2007, 6:53 am

  Tags: An Incovenient Truth, Conservatives, Al Gore, Mika Brzezinski, Paul Krugman, Morning Joe, Msnbc, New York Times, Video

  be a first: someone accusing Paul Krugman of being insufficiently insulting to conservatives. That someone is, unsurprisingly, David Shuster, the rabidly anti-conservative MSNBC "correspondent." Shuster is appearing on [was exiled to?] today's "Morning Joe." When it came time to share his "must-read" of the

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• Paul Krugman and the Conscience of a Liberal.

  Published: October 19, 2007, 1:42 pm

  Tags: Paul Krugman, Unions, Republicans, Corporations, Corporate Personhood

  Paul Krugman's new book, "Conscience of a Liberal" is out, and in it, he argues that what is needed is a resurgence of unions in order to strengthen the American Middle Class. And in the book, Krugman rightly argues that “revitali

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• S-CHIP: Dems, Media Mount Another 'Smear' Campaign

  Published: October 19, 2007, 11:19 am

  Tags: Health Care, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Schip, Mitch Mcconnell, Paul Krugman, Kentucky

  Enter the New York Times' Paul Krugman, who penned a malicious, misleading piece attacking McConnell on October 12 which was full of falsehoods. It was subsequently picked up by the Louisville Courier-Journal in print on the fourteenth (no link available).In fact, however, Republicans had already made their first move: an e-mail message from

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