NYT Editorials & Op-Eds (6)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/opinion/the-deficit-supercommittee-collapses.html?ef=opinion
The Supercommittee Collapses
“The smoke from the smoldering failure known as the deficit ‘supercommittee’ spread heavily across Capitol Hill on Monday, allowing Republicans to obscure the simple truth about the failure to reach an agreement.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/opinion/alabamas-shame-cont.html?ref=opinion
Alabama’s Shame (Cont’d)
“The self-inflicted wounds from Alabama’s most-abusive-in-the-nation immigration law just keep on coming.”
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Republicans Are Endangering National Security, by William Cohen
“I have long been concerned that my party’s rigid antitax ideology is harming the fiscal health of our nation.”
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http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/21/the-white-party/?ref=opinion
The White Party, by Thomas B. Edsall
“Republicans running for the House and the Senate defiantly calculated that they could win in 2010 with a surge of white voters, affirming the Republican role as the default party of white America.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/opinion/brooks-the-two-moons.html?ref=opinion
The Two Moons, by David Brooks
“Living in an era of minority governments.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/opinion/the-umbrella-man.html?ref=opinion
The Umbrella Man, by Errol Morris
“For years, I’ve wanted to make a movie about the John F. Kennedy assassination.”
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“The Umbrella Man” has always been a fascinating figure in the story. But the issue is far too “open” to simply take the man who testified at his word. The main reason for this is that we do not even know if the person who testified at HSCOA was really the umbrella man, despite his claim. First, the assassination occurred in 1963, but he did not appear at HSCOA until 1978 – 15 years later. Yet a comparison between the photograph and the man who testified does not show someone who had aged 15 years: he looks nearly the same age. Second, HSCOA began its investigation in 1976 – yet this man did not come forward until almost the end of the investigations, in 1978. Given that “the umbrella man” was one of a handful of “central figures” in the HSCOA investigations, his non-appearance earlier on is suspicious. There is also some evidence that the umbrella man and the man standing next to him were “in cahoots.” For some “wacky conspiracy-theorist” (LOL) info on this, see: http://www.jfk-assassination.de/articles/umbrella.php. BTW, as an aside, as the link notes, the CIA had, in fact, developed dart-firing weapons by this time, and the umbrella could have been a weapon. [N.B. I don’t personally buy this, since it would have been almost impossible to aim it accurately enough, with or without wind.]
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