Today's Fresh Blogs...

• The Substance Thing

  Published: August 6, 2007, 2:52 am

  Tags: American Idiot, Times Editorials, George The Liar, Krugman Paul, Times Select

  By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: August 6, 2007 Two presidential elections ago, the conventional wisdom said that George W. Bush was a likable, honest fellow. But those of us who actually analyzed what he was saying about policy came to a different conclusion namely, that he was irresponsible and deeply dishonest. His numbers didn't

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• Patriots Who Love the Troops to Death

  Published: August 4, 2007, 11:08 pm

  Tags: Times Editorials, Liars, Neocon Chickenhawks, Rich Frank, Times Select

  be found in today's New York Times Magazine, where the former war supporter Michael Ignatieff acknowledges that those who truly showed good judgment on Iraq might have had no more information than those who got it wrong, but did not make the mistake of confusing wishes for reality. But those who remain dug in are having none of that.

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• A Test for Democrats

  Published: August 3, 2007, 12:31 am

  Tags: Times Editorials, S Chip, Krugman Paul, Times Select

  according to a report in The Times earlier this week, Mr. Schumer says that he opposes any increase in hedge fund taxes unless tax breaks for the energy and real estate industries are also eliminated, and pigs start flying. Seriously, his claim that he really would support closing the hedge fund loophole if other, deeply entrenched tax privileges

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• Stacking the Electoral Deck

  Published: August 21, 2007, 11:39 pm

  Tags: Times Editorials, Source Ny Times, Electoral College

  Published: August 22, 2007 The Electoral College should be abolished, but there is a right way to do it and a wrong way. A prominent Republican lawyer in California is doing it the wrong way, promoting a sneaky initiative that, in the name of Electoral College reform, would rig elections in a way that would make it difficult for a Democrat

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• Restoring American Justice

  Published: September 17, 2007, 12:52 am

  Tags: Times Editorials, Mca

  Published: September 17, 2007 In 2006, acting in reckless haste before an election, 65 senators and 250 members of the House defied the Constitution, endangered the safety of American soldiers and hurt the nation's global reputation by passing the Military Commissions Act. The law created a separate, substandard and clearly

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