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Mayor de Blasio’s First Mistake
Editorial of The New York Sun
December 29, 2014
How is Mayor de Blasio going to defuse the tension with the New York Police Department? Mayor Giuliani is urging him to apologize for giving the impression that he sided with protesters against the deaths black men who have — here and elsewhere —died…
How Jeb Bush Handles
Question of Pope Francis
Could Be Teaching Moment
By IRA STOLL, Special to the Sun
December 29, 2014
How will Jeb Bush handle the Catholic question? A new poll shows the former governor of Florida, brother of President Bush 43 and son of President Bush 41, leading the field of potential 2016 Republican presidential candidates. The poll comes just as…
Yes, Virginia . . .
Editorial of The New York Sun
December 24, 2014
We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun: Dear Editor— I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say…
No Wonder Miss O’Hanlon
Wrote to the New York Sun
Instead of the Times
By SETH LIPSKY, From the New York Post
December 24, 2014
Yes, it’s true. The New York Times really did publish just before Christmas this year a piece mocking the Sun’s reply to Virginia O’Hanlon. Her father had suggested she write to the Sun inquiring about whether there really is a St. Nick. “Yes,” the…
Kaboom?
Editorial of The New York Sun
December 23, 2014
“Kaboom! Dow 18K” is the headline atop the Drudge Report. It links to a story on the Bloomberg wire reporting that the Dow Jones Industrial Average “rallied past 18,000 for the first time, after data showed the world’s largest economy grew at the…
EDITORIALS ›
One City?
Editorial of The New York Sun
December 22, 2014
It’s hard to think of a moment in New York quite like that in which a long line of police — the city’s Finest — turn their backs on Mayor de Blasio as he makes his way into the press conference in respect of the two officers assassinated Sunday at Brooklyn.
For Jose Marti
Editorial of The New York Sun
December 17, 2014
Let us take the moment of President Obama’s betrayal of Free Cuba to step back a bit — back to say, May 19, 1895. That’s when the tribune of Cuba Libre, Jose Marti, was killed in combat against the Spanish Royalists at the Battle of Dos Rios. His body…
Krugman’s Tea Party?
Editorial of The New York Sun
December 15, 2014
“You sometimes hear claims that the Tea Party is as opposed to bailing out bankers as it is to aiding the poor, but there’s no sign that this alleged hostility to Wall Street is having any influence at all on Republican priorities.” * * * That’s how…
FOREIGN ›
In a Lucky Bounce
Saudi’s Oil Strategy
Puts Pressure on Putin
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
December 20, 2014
Responses to the decline in world oil prices have been mystifying — flummoxing, in fact. The secretary general of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Abdullah Al-Badri, said last week that speculation was to blame for the decline by 15%…
How Saudia Arabia’s Gift
Of Plunging Oil Prices
Saves Christmas Season
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
December 18, 2014
Almost the only G-20 government that is behaving sensibly is that of Saudi Arabia. As the sun sets with agonizing dilatoriness on the Obama administration, there is no sign of a resurrection of fiscal sanity, of any concern to reform “Affordable…
Palestinian Rights Activist
Exposes U.N. Duplicity
At Relief and Works Agency
By JEROLD AUERBACH, Special to the Sun
December 8, 2014
The scam perpetrated by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency ever since 1949 has finally been exposed. Defining itself as “a relief and human development agency,” its jurisdiction extends only to Palestinian refugees from the war waged by Arab…