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None Dare Call It Inflation
Editorial of The New York Sun
September 4, 2010
“What about inflation?” is the question that Paul Krugman puts in the middle of a column this week run out under the headline “The Real Story.” The column is an attempt to debunk those who have been warning that President Obama’s massive stimulus…
The Gold Audit
Editorial of The New York Sun
August 31, 2010
With the value of the Obama dollar collapsing, why in the world wouldn't Americans want to make sure of their holdings in gold.
Correction?
Editorial of The New York Sun
August 20, 2010
It is suggested by a reader that next week — the 175th anniversary of what is called by competing newspapers the Sun’s great moon “hoax” — would be an apt moment to issue a long overdue correction. Our correspondent writes in respect of a series of…
Mission Accomplished?
Editorial of The New York Sun
August 19, 2010
President Obama declares America's combat mission has ended in Iraq, and now it is up to Congress, where, 35 years ago, Vietnam was lost long after our combat troops came home.
OPINION ›
Obama Turns Out To Be, After All, Merely a Community Organizer
By R. EMMETT TYRRELL JR., Contributing Editor of the Sun
August 18, 2010
WASHINGTON — It is becoming apparent for all to see, that a man who made his name as a community organizer does not have the skills to be President of these United States. Maybe he could develop the requisite skills as a governor. Possibly, he could…
The Real Road to Jewish Unity
By AVI SHAFRAN, Special to the Sun
July 23, 2010
The proposed Israeli conversion-reform legislation known as the Rotem Bill — now on hold for several months — became a sort of Rorschach test for many Jews’ fears. The bill was introduced by Yisrael Beiteinu, a nationalistic and not infrequently…
Foxes, Hounds and Liberty
By R. EMMETT TYRRELL JR., Contributing Editor of the Sun
July 14, 2010
WASHINGTON — My friend, Andrew Roberts, has inherited the title of Historian of the English-Speaking Peoples, from Winston Churchill. Churchill wrote his four-volume history up to 1900. Roberts took up the story from there and has written his…
Outpourings of Emotion Stir City As A Central Park ‘Killer Tree’ Claims An Infant
By HENRY STERN, Special to the Sun
June 28, 2010
The tragic death of a six-month-old baby on Saturday just outside the Central Park Zoo was the result of a major limb of a honey locust tree which suddenly fell about thirty-five feet. The infant was being held by her mother when the falling branches…
Conrad Black’s Principles
By R. EMMETT TYRRELL JR., Contributing Editor of the Sun
June 28, 2010
WASHINGTON — “If you have nothing else you have your principles,” Lady Thatcher told me when things were pretty tough at The American Spectator in the late 1990s. Sharks were circling the ship and there was blood in the water and I was getting anxious…
EDITORIALS ›
What Was Hillary Clinton Thinking?
Editorial of The New York Sun
August 29, 2010
This newspaper has been, and is, as pro-immigration as any newspaper we’ve ever encountered. We’re for the free movement of capital, the free movement of trade in goods and services, and the free movement of labor. We see efforts to curb immigration…
Beck, Palin, and Martin Luther King
Editorial of The New York Sun
August 28, 2010
The speeches were not incendiary, for the movement is not basically political. The deep feeling present came of itself from the crowd. The spontaneity of the marching, the emotional reaction to the singing, the quiet fellowship of the audience…
Woman of the Year
Editorial of The New York Sun
August 27, 2010
It’s a classic movie plot. Think “Woman of the Year,” with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. At first the man and the woman hate each other, then they fall into each other’s arms? Well, feature the fight that has erupted between the president of…
California and the Constitution
Editorial of The New York Sun
August 24, 2010
One of the points these columns have been pressing is that our country’s politics are in such extremes right now that we are getting down to the bedrock of the Constitution. For an example of what we mean by that, feature the email that came in, out…
Losing the Aura of Leadership
Editorial of The New York Sun
August 21, 2010
For an example of how the White House is losing the aura of leadership feature the news from Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts. While President Obama is vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard, the Associated Press is reporting that the White House wants the man…
SPORTS ›
Soccer Emerges As A Flourishing Academic Pursuit, Full Of Beauty, Bigotry, Hooliganism, Economics
By BRENDAN BERNHARD
June 15, 2010
Whether or not soccer is destined to become a genuinely popular sport in the United States, as opposed to an ingenious way to exhaust children, it is already a flourishing academic pursuit. Because of its transnational, multi-racial nature, its mix of…
Idiots' Guide to Roland Garros
By BRENDAN BERNHARD, Special to the Sun
May 25, 2010
Two-Headed, Racket-Wielding Monster Known as ‘FedNadal’ To Sizzle on Court at Madrid
By BRENDAN BERNHARD, Special to the Sun
May 15, 2010
