In Passing

In Passing

A tribute to New York Times All-Stars

Unplugged “ Frank Rich: Tea Partiers Are Terrorists, Beck and Palin Are Their Leaders Barstow confirmed what the Southern Poverty Law Center had found in its report last year: the unhinged and sometimes armed anti-government right that was thought to have vaporized after its Oklahoma apotheosis is making a comeback. And now it is finding common cause with some elements of the diverse, far-flung and still inchoate Tea Party movement. All it takes is a few self-styled "patriots" to sow havoc. [Note to agent Shaw - "QOD "] Krugman: Rangel's Ethics Scandal Has No National Signficance Krugman not technally lying, he just doen't understand economics. George Will Sunday gave New York Times columnist Paul Krugman a much-needed lesson on what happens if ObamaCare is passed. NYT Broder: Van Jones, 'Charismatic Advocate' and 'American Treasure' This Van Jones? NYT Thomas Friedman Sides Against Inhofe "I'd love to see all the e-mails between his office and various coal and oil companies over the last 20 years....we'll let citizens and voters decide where the real science is." NYT Gail Collins: Gov. Tim Pawlenty 'Encouraging People To Assault Government Property' Like Austin Suicide Pilot? Politicians often get into trouble when they’re trying to sound more furious than they feel. And Pawlenty told the conservatives they should try to be more like...Tiger Woods’s wife. “We should take a page out of her playbook and take a 9-iron and smash the window out of big government in this country,” he urged. ”