Thursday, July 31, 2008

20080730 Newspaper Editorial Comment

20080730 WSJ, Editor, "The End of Free Trade?"
20080730 WSJ, Editor, "Mr. Paulson's New Bonds"
20080730 WSJ, Editor, "Scandalous Justice"
20080730 WSJ, Lanny J. Davis, "Why Obama Should Pick Hillary"
20080730 WSJ, Karl Rove, "Obama's Iraq Fumble"
20080730 WSJ, Arthur C. Brooks, "Where's the Outrage? Really."
20080730 WSJ, Laurence H. Tribe, "The Supreme Court Is Wrong on the Death Penalty"
20080730 WSJ, James Q. Wilson, "What Life Is Like Behind the Wheel"
20080730 WSJ, Daniel Henninger, "Is John McCain Stupid?"
20080730 WSJ, James Taranto, "Check, Please"
20080730 WSJ, John Fund, "Welfare State"

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

20080729 Newspaper Editorial Comment

20080729 WSJ, Editor, "FCC.politics.gov"
20080729 WSJ, Editor, "The Stevens Indictment"
20080729 WSJ, Editor, "McCain's Tax Blunder"
20080729 WSJ, Debra Burlingame, "From Gitmo to Miranda, With Love"
20080729 WSJ, John C. Goodman, "McCain Is the Radical on Health Reform"
20080729 WSJ, Daniel Ikenson, "Greasing the World Economy Without Doha"
20080729 WSJ, Mark Lasswell, "Under the Lid, a Fresh Sales Idea"
20080729 WSJ, Holman W. Jenkins Jr., "How to Shake Off the Mortgage Mess"
20080729 WSJ, Thomas Frank, "Barack's European Vacation"
20080729 WSJ, James Tarento, "Potemkin Prayer"
20080729 WSJ, political diary, "Bailing Out the Bank of China"


Tuesday, July 29, 2008

20080728 Newspaper Editorial Comment

20080729 LAT, Editor, "Too poor? Look again"
20080729 LAT, Editor, "Living the dream"
20080729 LAT, Editor, "A deficit of discipline"
20080729 LAT, Ian Buruma, "The death of Belgium?"
20080729 LAT, Anthony Rubenstein, "T. Boone Pickens' 'clean' secret"
20080729 LAT, Jonah Goldberg, "'68 Olympics salute deserves no honor"
20080729, LAT, Jimmy H. Hara, "Life on the edge"

20080729 NYT, Editor, "There Was Smoke and Fire"
20080729 NYT, Editor, "Prostitution and Prevention"
20080729 NYT, Editor, "Past Time for Speaking Out"
20080729 NYT, Editor, "Big Tobacco, Meet Big Philanthropy"
20080729 NYT, David Brooks, "The Biggest Issue"
20080729 NYT, Bob Herbert, "Can Obama Run the Offense?"
20080729 NYT, Nick Pope, "Unidentified Flying Threats"
20080729 NYT, Martin Mayer, "Mortgaged to the World"

20080728 WSJ, Editor, "Fannie Mae's Political Immunity"
20080728 WSJ, Editor, "The Thrill Is Gone"
20080728 WSJ, Editor, "The Price of RomnetCare"
20080728 WSJ, Michael J. Boskin, "Obamanomics Is a Recipe for Recession"
20080728 WSJ, Michael Soussan, "Don't hold the Olympics Without Iraq"
20080728 WSJ, Garry Kasparov, " Obama Should Stand Up to Russia's Regime"
20080728 WSJ, Michele Bachmann, "The Democrats' Energy Charade"
20080728 WSJ, John Fund, "He Has a Little List"
20080728 WSJ, William McGurn, "Mercenaries for Darfur"
20080728 WSJ, Bret Stephens, The Berlin Obama Didn't See"
20080728 WSJ, James Taranto, "V-AP Day"
20080728 WSJ, John Fund, "The Obama Principle"

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

20080722 Newspaper Editorial Comment

20080722 WSJ, Editor, "The Pakghani Front - Obama's get-tough for Afganistan needs more nuance."
20080722 WSJ, Editor, "Balkan Justice - Karadzic's victims don't need a repeat of the Milosevic case."
20080722 WSJ, Editor, "World Bank Shots on Corruption - Borrowing countries know there's no penalty for misusing bank money."
20080722 WSJ, Paul A. Gigot, "The Fannie Mae Gang - Crony capitalism and its defenders in Congress, the press and Wall Street."
20080722 WSJ, Fouad Ajami, "Lebanon's 'Soldiers of Virtue' - The cedar Revolution wasw no match for Hezbollah."
20080722 WSJ, Collin Levy, "Democrats and Energy: Reality Bites - High oil prices make the green agenda harder to swallow."
20080722 WSJ, David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey, "The ICC's Blow to Peace Hopes in Darfur - Indicting Sudan's president makes a settlement less likely."
20080722 WSJ, Charles Harrington Elster (Business Bookshelf), "Cubicle Conversation: Beware of 'chainsaw consultants' or 'bozo explosions' or attempts at 'brightsizing.'
20080722 WSJ, Notable & Quotable, "Nancy Pelosi, in an interview with Wolf Blitzer, on a bill to allow offshore drilling for oil."
20080722 WSJ, Allen Brooks (Readers' Corner), "Singling out speculators is just another way congressmen shirk their responsibility for developing a realistic national energy policy. Scapegoats are easier to target and make for great theater."
20080722 WSJ, Holman W. Jenkins Jr (Business World), "Washington Loves Bank Investors: But will equity markets be willing to cough up again for institutions deemed 'too big to fail'?"
20080722 WSJ, James Taranto (Best of the WEB Today), "'Who's John McCain?' - A name-recognition problem in the orthopedics ward."
20080722 WSJ, Pete du Pont (Political Diary), "The Opposite of Progress - Outside the Box: Congress today is even worse than in '1776.'"

20080722 NYT, Editor, "China's Unreality TV - Apart from China, no one deserves criticism more than the International Olympic Committee, which has indulged Beijing at every turn."
20080722 NYT, Editor, "Poverty's Real Measure - mayor Michael Bloomberg's new formula for measuring poverty should stand as an example to other cities and, ultimately, the federal government."
20080722 NYT, Editor, "T. Boone Pickens Rides the Wind: President Bush should listen to his fellow Texan and longtime political ally that drilling for more oil is not the answer to the nation's energy problems."
20080722 NYT, Verlyn Klinkenborg (Editorial Notebook), "A Secret Society of 30 Million - One Effect of so much social networking is that the language of actual human interaction begins to feel degraded."
20080722 NYT, Mary E. Peters, " End Gridlock on the Runway - The airlines prefer the status quo, which is simply not working. Americans deserve better."
20080722 NYT, Anthony H. Cordesman, "Help the Palistinians Help Us - Unless there are effective Palestinian security forces, Israel will never trust in a Palestinian state or be able to act on the quiet progress being made toward a final settlement."
20080722 NYT, Bob Herbert, "Madness and Shame: When the constraints of the law are unlocked by people at the pinnacle of power, terrible things happen in the real world."
20080722 NYT, David Brooks, "The Culture of Debt: America once had a culture of thrift. But over past decades, that unspoken code has been silently eroded."

20080722 LAT, Editor, "
Sack the plastic bags - A City Council proposal to ban the shopping bags make environmental and political sense."
20080722 LAT, Editor, "V-day in Iraq? - It doesn't matter who's right. If all sides agree on an Iraq drawdown, then claim victory and get out."
20080722 LAT, Editor, "Banning fast food in South L.A. - A proposed ban on new outlets is a reasonable attempt to improve the area's potential."
20080722 LAT, Michael Shermer, "Towards a Type 1 civilization - Along with energy policy, political and economic systems must also evolve."
20080722 LAT, Paul C. Light, "Hit the Rose Garden running - It wouldn't be hubris for both campaigns to begin transition planning now."
20080722 LAT, Jonah Goldberg, "For McCain, the surge is a losing stratgy - Its success in quieting Iraq may make it easier for voters to choose Obama."

Monday, July 21, 2008

20080721 Newspaper Editorial Comment

20080721 WSJ, Editor, "An Energy Sarbox"
20080721 WSJ, Editor, "Mr. Muskasey's Modest Proposal"
20080721 WSJ, Editor, "Iran Has Earned Nothing"
20080721 WSJ, Shelby Steele, "Why Jessie Jackson Hates Obama"
20080721 WSJ, David Gratzer, "American Cancer Care Beats the Rest"
20080721 WSJ, Al Hubbard + Noam Neusner, "A Better Way to Support Home Buyers"
20080721 WSJ, Ann Marlowe, " Afghanistan Doesn't Need a 'Surge'
20080721 WSJ, Paul Beston, "A Look Back at the New Age" (Bookshelf)
20080721 WSJ, Bret Stephens, "Al Gore's Doomsday Clock"
20080721 WSJ, William McGurn, "Humanizing al Qaeda, Demonizing the Bush Team"
20080721 WSJ, James Taranto, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House"
20080721, WSJ, L. Gordon Crovitz, "Information Age: Good Scholarship is Worth Honoring"

20080721, NYT, Editor, "Failing Zimbabwe"
20080721, NYT, Editor, "Pushing Back on Immigration"
20080721, NYT, Editor, "Two Million Acres of Wilderness"
20080721, NYT, Editor, "Muzzling the Joneses"
20080721, NYT, Roger Cohen, "Sobriety, Herr Obama"
20080721, NYT, William Kristol, "No Substitute for Victory"
20080721, NYT, Stephen R. Heifetz, "The Risk of Too Much Oversight"
20080721, NYT, Steve Ross, "Chimps Aren't Chumps"
20080721, NYT, Tobin Harshaw, "Has the Press Voted for Obama?"
20080721, NYT, Sue Makin, "Saving Mothers, One at a Time"
20080721, NYT, Steven Heller, "Stuck on the Lapel Pins"
20080721, NYT, Buzz Bissinger, "Takedown at the Ballgame"
20080721, NYT, Judith Warner, "Domestic Disturbances: Trust Buster"
20080721, NYT, Olivia Judson, "Let's Get Rid Darwinism"

20080721, LAT, Editor, "SAG, vote on a deal"
20080721, LAT, editor, "A Shipshape ports bill"
20080721, LAT, editor, "Sharing risks of fire-prone homes"
20080721, LAT, Jonah Goldberg, "John McCains's veepstakes"
20080721, LAT, Gregory Rodriquez, "For Obama, beyond civil rights"

20080720, LAT, Cary Lowe, "Is growth over""
20080720, LAT, David Rieff, "For Darfuris, justice is the enemy of peace"