The New York Times editorial board opined today that requiring students to repay in full freely incurred federal student loan debts is an absolute moral evil. We are also informed privately owned collection agencies are monstrous bastards for insisting on … Continue reading →
If you haven’t seen this piece yet, it’s worth it. The NYT ran an Op-Ed by Timothy Egan about Walmart and its payscales for employees – clearly advocating for a higher wage. Walmart, in a very non-traditional corporate response, posted … Continue reading →
Today’s New York Times calls conservatives “stupid, poopy-headed America haters”* for daring to challenge the procedures under which a Democrat Congress crammed Obamacare down America’s food hole. The editors are exercised because conservatives dare to claim: (1) Congress enacted Obamacare … Continue reading →
Everyone’s favorite Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman takes to the pages of the New York Times to announce the Left’s new position on global cooling global warming climate change. “Government has no choice but to regulate every sector of the … Continue reading →
The New York Times editors argue private lenders unfairly take advantage of poor, innocent college students and their families. How, you may ask, are these nefarious private lenders* taking advantage of these naifs? Conveniently, the editors tell us. College students … Continue reading →
The NYT editors have been listening to columnist and smartest economist ever Paul Krugman too long. They seem to have bought Krugman’s theory that there’s no cost whatsoever to government overreach whatsoever, either in freedom or in dollars. Today ‘Puter … Continue reading →
Requiring voters to produce identification showing they’re eligible to vote is the indubitable moral equivalent of Bull Connor’s reign of terror against Blacks in Jim Crow Alabama. At least, if you’re the liberal genii populating the NYT’s editorial board. If … Continue reading →
Meet Jill Abramson, executive editor of the New York Times. Ms. Abramson’s editorial board thinks you’re too stupid to make up your minds on your own. If Pulitzer Prizes were awarded for outright, bald-faced lies, this New York Times editorial … Continue reading →
The following essay is a guest post from JAB, at the Double-Wide. We remind our readers that you are welcome to submit your thoughts either as an email or as a complete essay. Dear Readers, Hope you’ll pardon an AWOL … Continue reading →
Is there anything liberals care about more than “women’s health,” meaning “not having babies, by any means necessary?” If there is, ‘Puter hasn’t found it yet. This singular focus on abortion and birth control can be seen in this nonsensical … Continue reading →
‘Puter wouldn’t be surprised to start seeing anti-Catholic editorial cartoons on the NYT’s pages again, and soon, based on the paper’s evidenced anti-Catholic bigotry. ‘Puter’s had just about enough of enlightened liberals treating religion generally, and Roman Catholicism specifically, as … Continue reading →
Voting is hard, claims the New York Times. Really, the New York Times is angry because voter fraud is getting harder. It’s the only way to make sense the editors’ four step voting reform program* proposed in this editorial. The … Continue reading →
So this is where Czar goes on vacation! ‘Puter’s had a heckuva start to the New Year, what with picking up pieces of year-end 2013 closings at the office, and dealing with back-to-school craziness at home. In the rush, ‘Puter … Continue reading →
Pictured, Secretary of State John Kerry (who looks like a horse) in full fox hunting regaliabeats a dead horse whilst taking the air at hissummer cottage on Nantucket. Not to beat a dead horse, but ‘Puter’s got to keep his … Continue reading →
Mika is so depressed over ObaamCare’s inexcusably inept roll out, she attempted to burn down the set of Morning Joe early Monday morning, screaming, “If I can’t believe in Obama (PBUH) any more, I don’t want to live, and you’re all … Continue reading →
Paul Krugman (L) and E.J. Dionne pose fora photo as they take in the sights at ClimaxSprings, Missouri during Spring Break atLake of the Ozarks. Show me state, indeed. It’s been quite some time since Operative JAB wrote in from … Continue reading →
Barney the Purple Dinosaur, a survivor of a frontal lobotomy and unrelated massive head trauma, can spot the logical flaws in Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman’s blog post. Can you, boys and girls? Intrepid New York Times opinion columnist and self-proclaimed smartest … Continue reading →
Ms. Goodstein smugly thinksabout how stupid those sillyRoman Catholics are, with theiranti-gay, anti-abortion bias, insteadof considering it is perhaps shewho is the biased one. ‘Puter was shocked to discover that the New York Times is either stunningly biased against or … Continue reading →
Mr. West is Obama’s secretmortgage reform brain trust, originator of such great ideasas “Imma let you finish, butwhere’s my Hennessey at?” ‘Puter happened to be wandering aimlessly around the New York Times website when this article on President Obama’s forthcoming … Continue reading →
Sir Isaac Newton is not amused with Democrats’willful ignorance of cause and effect. Ah, Democrats. In times of complexity, unease and upheaval like these, ‘Puter finds himself admiring their simplicity of mind. If ignorance is bliss, the vast majority of … Continue reading →
In Sunday’s New York Times op-ed section, Steven Greenhouse shared an article on low wages paid to entry level and low skill employees. ‘Puter chose the term “article” rather than “opinion” in the preceding sentence because ‘Puter could not tell … Continue reading →
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)learned all she needed to know abouteconomic theory selling tax-free boozeand cigarettes on The Rez.Sen. Warren also claims to have watchedaghast as Gen. Whitside slaughtered herpeople at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s your … Continue reading →
Former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick,currently serving federal prison time for whatprosecutors termed a “pattern of extortion, bribery and fraud” is more honest than theNew York Times editorial staff. ‘Puter’s been trying to limit his posting, especially after yesterday’s magnum opus on … Continue reading →
MoDo, the PoMo Ho and NYTemployee, when reached for comment, told ‘Puter the NYT’seditors must have balls this big to expect its readers to believe that women are so dumb they don’t knowhow babies get inside them. ‘Puter’s hopping mad, having … Continue reading →
Maybe if the NYT made up a fake hate crimeto smear Republicans, they’d finally fall intoline. After all, it worked out so well for liberalfeminist blogger Meg Lanker-Simmons. Pityher poor husband, pictured, whose eyes seemto beg for death’s sweet release. … Continue reading →
The New York Times ran an interesting article today on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s draftsof new consumer mortgage rules. Well, the article interested ‘Puter, anyway. Mostly because the article proved ‘Puter’s longstanding position correct. You see, CFPB’s new regulations … Continue reading →
Liberals should ask themselves whether they’d prefer to live next door to low skill,welfare seeking illegal immigrants or degreed, bilingual, taxpaying high skillimmigrants like the ones ‘Puter works with. Imagine ‘Puter’s surprise when he found himself nodding in agreement with … Continue reading →
May the odds be ever in your favor! Dr. J. stumbled upon Nate Silver’s (yes that Nate Silver) Oscar predictions for this year. He worked his fancy math on the Oscars just like he did to predict the 2012 election … Continue reading →
NYT editorial cartoonists rendition ofliberalism’s preferred treatment of the Catholic Church. There can be only one.And Obama’s got the job. New York Times’ former executive editor, now a full-time writer, Bill Keller issued the Left’s marching orders this afternoon, weighing in with … Continue reading →
Dr. J.’s Work Wife II has something to say about your lisinopril. Dr. J.’s Work Wife II forwarded this NYT editorial to him last week and this was the first opportunity he has had to comment on it. When one gets … Continue reading →
‘Puter imagines this to be the creative process in the New York Times’ editorial suites. Here comes another double-flusher from Keller! ‘Puter was enthralled to read today the the New York Times editorial board fervently believes that judicial retention elections … Continue reading →
You know, the Czar has said for years that you will likely go your entire life without ever encountering a legitimately natural-forming quadratic equation. But to suggest that algebra itself is a time-wasting distraction is losing the baby with the … Continue reading →
This is Czar’s idea of making peace. Deadmen don’t cause trouble. “Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.” Jeremiah 5:21. ‘Puter’s been on a bit of … Continue reading →
Liberals count on us not to notice the atfirst small restrictions of our liberties. Once we’re securely bound, that’s whenthey’ll come for our core freedoms. Also,Czar has a Mickey Mouse BDSM fetish. ‘Puter’s been reading his favorite left of center … Continue reading →
Paul Krugman is widely revered by the Left as an economic genius without rival. If Dr. Krugman utters the word, it is treated as gospel truth. In his New York Times column today, Dr. Krugman is plainly testing his believers’ … Continue reading →
SC: “I’ll take ‘The Rapists’ for $400, ‘Puter.” GP: “Uh, Mr. Connery? That’s ‘Public Sector Unions,’ but I can see how you’dmake that mistake.” “I’ll take Obamanomics for $200, ‘Puter.” This is how the nightmare always starts, seemingly innocent enough. … Continue reading →
Cardinal Dolan of the Archdioceseof New York prepares to hostilely subjugate a Latina (!) to the Church’soppressive patriarchy, as told by MoDo. For those of you unschooled in Latin, this post’s title roughly translates to “Hey, shoemaker! Just worry about … Continue reading →
Not actually Ms. Dowd. Just a sexy librarian with which to start your day. If President Obama’s lost America’s Sweetheart and conscience of a generation (the perpetually upbeat and never cynical Maureen Dowd), he’s lost America. Well, he’s lost those … Continue reading →
Paul Krugman clearly appears over the deep end. What should be done about the economy? Republicans claim to have the answer: slash spending and cut taxes. What they hope voters won’t notice is that that’s precisely the policy we’ve been … Continue reading →
The New York Times Sunday Review has a strange editorial that seems completely diconnected from reality. Are you shocked? Entitled “Bring Back the Real Maverick,” the piece covers how Senator John McCain (R-2008) is interested in a law that requires … Continue reading →
I came across this OpEd in the NYT this morning by David Brooks and it illustrates the current economic problems we’re facing pretty well. Brooks allocates two sides to the economic debate. The first he refers to as the cyclicalists … Continue reading →
Paul Krugman deigns to share his Nobel laureate economic wisdom with us intellectual peons in today’s New York Times. And thank goodness Mr. Krugman shared his truthiness with ‘Puter, because ‘Puter never would’ve been able to figure out the correct answer on … Continue reading →
Ah, New York Times. Is there no level to which you will not stoop to ensure President Obama’s reelection? Witness the NYT’s reaction this weekend to quarterly earnings announcements from Wells Fargo and Chase, two of America’s largest banks. The … Continue reading →
File this under “s” for “shocking.” Or under “n” for “not at all shocking.” The New York Times finds it noteworthy and newsworthy to inform its ever-dwindling readership: (1) Occupy Wall Street is complaining and (2) The NYPD thought it … Continue reading →
Sure, the ever-enchanting Ms. Dowd was born and raised in Washington, D.C., like three of your six Gormogons. But she’s able to blast out incredibly racist sentiments in a completely unaware fashion like a native Bostonian, so ‘Puter’s crediting her … Continue reading →
It is astonishing that anyone can possibly take the New York Times’s political reporting seriously anymore. It is beyond satire. Check out an early story about the Rick Santorum stampede. First, the only picture they could find of him? A … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s no economist, thank goodness. It’s not called the dismal science for nothing, and ‘Puter has enough dismal-ness to deal with in the maw of Upstate’s wintery, dead gray. And, to be fair to real science, economics like many other … Continue reading →
Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, who also happens to be a New York Times columnist and shrill Democratic Party shill (but then ‘Puter repeats himself), parrots the White House and Occupy Wall Street talking point cum dogma: Income inequality is the … Continue reading →
First, if you haven’t read Charles Krauthammer’s incisive take down of the Occupy Wall Street boneheads, read it. Read it right now. Second, if you can stomach it, read Paul Krugman’s completely un-self-aware exegesis on “how the Republicans are wrong … Continue reading →
‘Puter promised a wrapup to his thoughts on Maureen Dowd’s cowardly, execrable column on Roman Catholicism in the public square, and here it is. Ms. Dowd is no different than many of ‘Puter’s so-called Catholic friends. Many of ‘Puter’s friends … Continue reading →
In the first part of our serial drama, we learned that Ms. Dowd can’t complete a thought. Let’s see where the second part of our analysis of this column leads, shall we? Now we get to the meat of Ms. … Continue reading →
Or Ms. Dowd fails to understand basic tenets of the Roman Catholic faith she claims to follow. Most likely, Ms. Dowd is both ignorant and malicious. Ms. Dowd’s columns are always a target-rich environment. However, this one is exceptional for … Continue reading →
And then the editors go and muck up a decent argument with a fundamental misunderstanding of separation of powers, fueled by a mistaken and discredited liberal world view. The New York Times’ editors make a perfectly valid argument that application … Continue reading →
The New York Times‘ editorial board predicitably calls for “fairness” in application of the tax code. To the NYT’s editors, this means that “the rich,” (i.e., everyone making over some undisclosed income threshold) must pay more in federal taxes. ‘Puter … Continue reading →
The New York Times editorial board remains steadfastly determined to bar reality from ruining its thoroughly discredited world view. In this editorial, the NYT’s editors blame racism for favored minorities defaulting on their home mortgages. The editors allege that minorities … Continue reading →
Sharp-brained Gormogon readers (the Czar repeats himself, as you are all sharp-brained) will recall the Czar musing on the development of a new meme: One-Term President, which has been catching on fire among the liberal media. Some of us, however, … Continue reading →
Specifically, the intellectually impoverished, such as the elites holding forth from their perch on the New York Times’ editorial staff. Our noble and wise betters today put forth this nugget of wisdom, in the form of an editorial. You see, … Continue reading →
Not too far off from an essay in which is Czar showed how liberals continually move the goalposts out of a mistaken belief in their own popularity, Walter Russell Mead at The American Interest recounts the same history of the … Continue reading →
In today’s gripping installment of “How Do These Guys Even Have Jobs Anymore?”, the New York Times editorial board appeals to its readers’ faith. To be certain, not faith in God, because that’s for uneducated, gun-owning hicks. Rather, the NYT … Continue reading →
The New York Times has a house editorial today excoriating Republicans for signing on to pledges, such as Grover Norquist’s anti-tax pledge and the Susan B. Anthony list’s pro-life pledge. The NYT also lists two pledges ‘Puter has never heard … Continue reading →
David Brooks must be reading your Gormogons, as is the rest of the New York Times’ assemblage of editors and columnists. Everyone who is anyone reads your Gormogons for our trenchant analysis, Hello Kitty news and juvenile put-downs of one … Continue reading →
‘Puter read this New York Times editorial regarding the Minnesota state government shut down and finally lost his ever-loving mind. ‘Puter will quote liberally and at length. Like Republicans in Washington, they have the delusion that they can balance the … Continue reading →
The Supreme Court is chock full of conservative bias, resulting in all non-rich Americans being thrown to the wolves. At least that’s ‘Puter’s takeaway from this morning’s poorly reasoned and factually challenged editorial. ‘Puter took note that liberals have recently … Continue reading →
‘Puter has a tough time figuring out whether the New York Times editorial board is comprised of fools or liars. Today’s editorial on the debt ceiling impasse does nothing to help ‘Puter come to an answer. 1. ” … Republican … Continue reading →
The New York Times poison penned an editorial blasting Republicans for failure to compromise (read: cave) on the debt ceiling. Now ‘Puter’s a simple man-child, and he understands that editorials are by their nature opinion. But that’s no excuse to … Continue reading →
In today’s New York Times, Maureen Dowd criticizes Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for not pressing Saudi Arabia harder on women’s rights. As in most of her recent work, Ms. Dowd ignores or brushes aside inconvenient facts. Let’s take it … Continue reading →
The delightful, not-at-all-harpyish Maureen Dowd truly outdid herself in the this Sunday’s New York Times. Ms. Dowd penned this fine opinion piece, laying into Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York for daring to defend Church teaching and stand against gay … Continue reading →
Let ‘Puter start with his conclusion. Either the New York Times has no editors, or the editorial board has smoked so much dope that its collective short term memory is entirely shot. In today’s editorial, the New York Times comes … Continue reading →
The New York Times editorial board strikes another blow for market ignorance today in this editorial. Its premise is that in order to save the housing market, we have to destroy it. Sadly, this is an all too common attitude … Continue reading →
The New York Times editorial board gets something partially correct today! This editorial lauds the Supreme Court for upholding a Ninth Circuit decision requiring California to remedy intolerable (“cruel and unusual”) prison conditions.* Based on the decision, the conditions inside … Continue reading →
A New York Times columnist dissembles on an important issue today regarding the hotly contested House race in New York’s 26th district in order to promote the official party line on Medicare and Republican vulnerability thereon. Of course, the New … Continue reading →
Mrs. ‘Puter told ‘Puter last night that she had but one wish for a Mother’s Day gift. ‘Puter loves it when Mrs. ‘Puter tells him what to get her. It prevents unfortunate occurrences such as the infamous Hickory Farms Incident … Continue reading →
The New York Times reports today that a state senator, Carl Kruger, and a state assemblyman, William F. Boyland, Jr., surrendered to federal authorities to answer numerous criminal corruption charges. You know, little things, like “taking bribes over the course … Continue reading →
When the New York Times’ official position on public sector unionism and the damage caused thereby is closer to ‘Puter’s than to the unions’, the party’s over for the unions. Read the entire editorial, and be amazed. 'PuterAlways right, unless … Continue reading →
Math is hard. At least it seems that way, as New York Times’ editors are either ignorant of basic math or lying. ‘Puter will politely assume that the editors are not liars, and will generously assume their ignorance instead. Today’s … Continue reading →
Today’s New York Times breathlessly reports that: Edward N. Peters, a professor at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, who last year was named by Pope Benedict XVI as a consultant to the Vatican court, the Apostolic Signatura, called the … Continue reading →
Gormogon Operative JS sent a coded message to ‘Puter utilizing as a cipher the number of purely gratuitious shots of Teri Hatcher’s rack on Desperate Housewives. JS writes: Have you chimed in yet about Unions and Wisconsin? I would’ve thought … Continue reading →
New York’s public sector unions are in danger of becoming lost in space. [ed. — ‘Puter acknowledges the lameness of this references, he’s just too lazy to come up with something creative.] This morning’s New York Times puts forth the … Continue reading →
The answer according to Nicholas D. Kristof writing in today’s New York Times seems to be that Jesus would do whatever comports with Mr.Kristof’s liberal nostrums, regardless of what the Magisterium says. One of ‘Puter’s few conservative friends from college, … Continue reading →
‘Great Ghettoputer, Yes, it appears that Dr. J refers to himself in the third person. The Czar takes no responsibility for this, as the Czar sometimes refers to himself in the third person. Sometimes we refer to ourselves in the … Continue reading →
The increasingly shabby New York Times, in an effort to show the world it can reduce news stories ad absurdum like Time or Newsweek, has prepared a pretty good proof that their junior editors can be just as shoddy as … Continue reading →
And here ‘Puter thought it was sheer incompetance and Obama idolatry that explained the decline in the NYT’s quality. Turns out it was the booze all along. Sadly, the booze explanation is less humiliating. 'PuterAlways right, unless he isn’t, the … Continue reading →
Or simply a collection of the most willfully ignorant people on Earth? This is the question ‘Puter asks himself almost every time he reads a New York Times editorial. Here’s today’s whopper, pre-spinning Republican concerns over our bankrupt government entitlement … Continue reading →
A problem with Social Security? Who says? Michael Hiltzik of the Los Angeles Times says that rumors of fiscal problems with Social Security are a conservative trick. In fact, by his math, there is no better program out there. Social … Continue reading →
The New York Times has a good and correct editorial in today’s edition regarding the United States Supreme Court’s recent decision in a privacy case. A California police officer used his government issued text messaging device for numerous communications with … Continue reading →
The New York Times again beclowns itself. In an editorial today, it opines in support of a proposed law requiring all new semiautomatic handguns sold in New York to microstamp shell casings. Thus spake the editorial board: The microstamping process … Continue reading →
On occasion, ‘Puter reads something so chock full o’ nuts, he is astonished. This morning’s New York Times presents just such an occasion. Timothy Egan manages to state with a straight face that the Millennial Generation, whose huge turnout helped … Continue reading →
In Czar’s response to Gormogon operative FJR’s communique, located here, Czar invited ‘Puter to get mount his soapbox and vent about religion again. Czar asked for it, so here goes. FJR’s position on religion appears to be about the same … Continue reading →
In a stunning display of non sequitur, illogic and sheer, unadulterated ass-hattery, the New York Times editorial staff beclowned itself (again) today. The NYT published yet another tired anti-gun tirade, which is its right. However, this one is remarkable even … Continue reading →
The New York Times continues to display a stunning lack of basic economic knowledge. Today, the editorial board argues for giving bankruptcy judges the power to modify the terms and conditions of first mortgages, in the name of helping out … Continue reading →
In ‘Puter’s estimation, this post’s title is a more accurate descriptor of the New York Times‘ current journalistic standards than its stated motto. One need look no further than the NYT’s knowingly misleading coverage of the ongoing pedophilia scandal engulfing … Continue reading →
The New York Times editorial board today calls out pro-life Democrats for holding up passage of ObamaCare. In so doing, the NYT’s editorial board show little to no understanding of the pro-life contingent’s principled stand in opposing ObamaCare. The NYT … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s treading lightly here to avoid setting the Czar off, and causing a new Tunguska Event, but ‘Puter respectfully disagrees with Czar’s reading of the NYT editorial. First, the Bill of Rights was incorporated against the states by the Fourteenth … Continue reading →
Apropos Czar’s post below, ‘Puter offers the following. First, Czar, as always, is correct. Second, what’s up with Czar’s post last night? ‘Puter fears he has been called out as a simpleton. Even more fearfully, ‘Puter fears he is too … Continue reading →
Mandarin stormed into ‘Puter’s rumpus room last evening looking for an escaped hybrid ocelot/macaque he’d engineered in one of his more whimsical moments. As ‘Puter helped the Mandarin corner and tranquilize the rabid beast, Mandarin mentioned that the remote operating … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s working part-time writing headlines for the New York Post. But seriously, when, as a liberal Democrat, you’ve lost Maureen Dowd, you’re in real trouble. Money quote: “Even before the Salahis swept in preening, the Obama staffers were there preening, … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s second to no man in his schadenfreude at the New York Times’ self-destruction the Czar aptly cites below. However, the NYT actually hits one out of the park today, calling the state legislature dysfunctional, and blaming New York’s financial … Continue reading →
‘Puter makes sport of the New York Times for being myopic and intellectually lazy. However, even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and again. And today, blind squirrel, your name is the New York Times editorial board! ‘Puter … Continue reading →
Displaying a four-year-old’s understanding of cause and effect, the New York Times editorial board today complains that it got what it asked for. The solons at the NYT moan that despite the United States’ exclusively diplomatic carrot-or-an -even-bigger-carrot approach to … Continue reading →
