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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• Sarkozy Surfs the U.S.A.

  Published: August 6, 2007, 2:39 am

  Tags: Cohen Roger, Source Ny Times, French Politics, Sarkozy Nicolas, International Herald Tribune, Times Select

  By ROGER COHEN International Herald Tribune Published: August 5, 2007 NEW YORKOf all the tradition-trampling surprises of the Sarkozy administration - the proper term because its model is American - none has been bolder than the French president's decision to forsake the charms of the C te d'Azur and vacation in the United

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• Mr. Bush, Here's a Plan for Darfur

  Published: August 6, 2007, 1:59 am

  Tags: Kristof Nicholas, Darfur, Times Select

  at Mr. Kristof's blog,

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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

  over an Op-Ed article in The Times, A War We Just Might Win, by Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack. The two Brookings Institution scholars, after a government-guided tour, pointed selectively to successes on the ground in Iraq in arguing that the surge should be continued at least into 2008. The hole in their argument was gaping. As

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• Getting Coffee Is Hard to Do

  Published: August 4, 2007, 11:06 pm

  Tags: Coffee, Fish Stanley, Times Select

  a contributing columnist to TimesSelect, is a guest columnist. Maureen Dowd and Thomas L. Friedman are off

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• Mortgage Mania Didn't Grip Everyone

  Published: August 4, 2007, 10:58 pm

  Tags: Times Business Finance, Housing Bubble, Morgenson Gretchen, Times Select

  By GRETCHEN MORGENSON Published: August 5, 2007 THE seized-up United States mortgage market claimed more victims both here and abroad last week. The American Home Mortgage Investment Corporation, once a big lender, closed its doors, laying off more than 6,000 workers. In Germany, IKB Deutsche Industriebank received a $4.8 billion

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• With Pasture as His Canvas, an Artist Turns a Purple Heart Green

  Published: August 4, 2007, 10:49 pm

  Tags: Applebom Peter, Purple Heart, Times Select

  Ramirez for The New York TimesBy PETER APPLEBOME Published: August 5, 2007 HAMPTONBURGH, N.Y.First came a chance encounter at the antique store he and his wife run in Ellenville, 90 miles north of New York City, then a trip to the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor in nearby Vails Gate, and along the way an idea he could not

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• Chasing No. 300, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

  Published: August 4, 2007, 10:41 pm

  Tags: Vecsey George, Baseball, Sports Of The Times, Times Select

  the camera is on you at all times. No. 300 will come with any luck, sooner than it did for old Gus.E-mail:

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• Teaching From His Mistakes

  Published: August 4, 2007, 10:33 pm

  Tags: Football Hall Of Fame, Baseball Hall Of Fame, Sports Of The Times, Rhoden William, Times Select

  get through it. A lot of times, you don't learn until you're in the mess yourself. Irvin's career ended in 1999 in Philadelphia. His head was driven into the hard artificial turf by a hard tackle. He was carried off the field on a stretcher, praying, God if you let me walk away from this, I will straighten up. He sustained a cervical

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• Haunted by Seamus

  Published: August 4, 2007, 10:28 pm

  Tags: Source Ny Times, Romney Mitt, Collins Gail, Times Select

  By GAIL COLLINS Published: August 4, 2007 Most high-profile politicians acquire weird little bits of biography that you just cannot shake out of your mind. A reporter once told me that he sat next to a member of Congress on a trip, while said lawmaker kept eating mayonnaise out of those little packets they give you at fast-food

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• The Columbine Syndrome

  Published: August 4, 2007, 10:25 pm

  Tags: Warner Judith, Times Select

  series of articles in The Times about Joshua Komisarjevsky, the Cheshire, Conn., 26-year-old who, on early parole for a long string of late-night home robberies, teamed up with an accomplice and broke into a nearby house, sexually assaulted a woman and at least one of her young daughters, beat the father with a baseball bat and left them all

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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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• The Opinionator: A blog at the NY Times by Tobin Harshaw & Chris Suellentrop

  Published: August 3, 2007, 12:10 am

  Tags: Suellentrop Chris, The Opinionator, Times Blogs, Times Select

  August 2, 2007, 2:23 pm How to Examine Gonzales By Chris Suellentrop Tags: Alberto Gonzales The Washington Post editorial page says Alberto Gonzales should not be impeached, nor should a special prosecutor be appointed to determine whether he perjured himself before the Senate Judiciary Committee though the editorial does add the caveat,

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• Being Old, Then and Now

  Published: August 3, 2007, 12:05 am

  Tags: Brooks David, Times Opinion, Times Select

  her young; the rewarding times when she and her children were adults together and companions. But then something changed. I do not know when the change came, nor do they, if indeed they realize it at all, she writes. There was a time when I was of their generation; now I am not. I cannot put my finger on the time when old age finally

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• Floyd Norris: Notions on High & Low Finance

  Published: August 3, 2007, 12:03 am

  Tags: High Low Finance, Norris Floyd, Times Blogs, Times Select

  be worthless. (In Friday's Times, I look at the accounting games American Home played, and the evidence that some stock traders knew what was happening before the company disclosed its problems a week ago.)

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