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Conrad Black Before the 9

Editorial of The New York Sun
May 19, 2009

God Bless the Supreme Court of the United States, which has just decided to hear the appeal of the press baron Conrad Black, who has for more than a year been imprisoned at a federal correctional facility at Coleman, Florida. It would be far premature to suggest that the court’s decision to hear Black’s appeal means that he will win the argument at the high court. But it certainly puts paid the idea that the courts should have, as they did, dismissed out of hand Black’s insistence that he was wrongly convicted and that serious errors were made in the trial that cast him into the penitentiary for what could be as much as 6 and ½ years.

Golden Opportunity

May 12, 2009

The big question following Secretary Geithner’s admission that monetary policy was in error during much of the Bush administration is whether the Congress is going to step up to its responsibilities in respect of the national currency. Mr. Geithner’s comments were made last week in response to a question from Charlie Rose about what mistakes he would see looking back. One the secretary cited was that, as he put it, “monetary policy around the world was too loose too long.” That, he said, “created this just huge boom in asset prices, money chasing risk. People trying to get a higher return.”

Sound Familiar?

April 28, 2009

“Cheney for President” is the headline today over the first column by the New York Times’s newest op-ed regular, Ross Douthat — a delightful debut suggesting that, as Mr. Douthat puts it, “both the Republican Party and the country would be better off today if Cheney, rather than John McCain, had been a candidate for president in 2008.”

Well, the left laughed, along with a number of Republicans, when The New York Sun suggested exactly that — more than two years before the Times.

The Arc of the Sun

The Bailout Bust

Wealth Transfer

Plus Ça Change

The Credit 'Crisis'

Gun Nuts

Bailout Baloney

The Real Culprits

The Early Vote

Paulson's Prices

Ahmadinejad in New York

Schumer's Straddle

Monroe and Putin

Governor Palin's Promise

 

The JTA's Bizarro Attack on Neo-Cons

By IRA STOLL
July 3, 2009

The Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Ron Kampeas, has posted a screed against neoconservatives on that organization's Web site. "For eight years we in Washington lived in a bizarro world where the most obvious conclusions were not just ignored, but mocked, actively suppressed and made akin to treason," he said. Now, "neoconservatives are losing," because of "their failure, or their abject inability, to say 'I was wrong.'" He writes, "The Bush administration had not merely an aversion but a psychotic fear of saying 'We wuz wrong.'"

Sotomayor and Spellman

By ALICIA COLON
May 28, 2009

President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court has unleashed, among other things, a cascade of emails into my computer from friends remarking on the similarities of our backgrounds. I, too, am a Newyorican who lived in a housing project. Mine was in Spanish Harlem, hers in the Bronx, and we both went to parochial schools. Our fathers passed away when we were young, and our mothers struggled to support our families. We also speak perfect unaccented English and are both Catholic.

SETH LIPSKY: Ideal of the Scoop

SETH GITELL: George Bush, Democrat?

LENORE SKENAZY: Putting the Great in Recession

DANIEL JOHNSON: Dubious Defense of Democracy

HILLEL HALKIN: Long Walk With Lipsky

ERIC GIOIA: What New York Owes Vets

LAWRENCE KUDLOW: Debating Paulson's Bailout: Win-Win for Taxpayers

LUIGI ZINGALES: Debating Paulson's Bailout: It's a Big Price

ANDREW WOLF: School Change We Can Believe In

KENNETH BLACKWELL: Reason's Debt To Faith

DAVID SHRIBMAN: Voters Come Home

ABRAHAM FOXMAN: The Dangerous Brew

MARK GILBERT: Where To Stash One's Winnings?

PATRICK McILHERAN: Is 'Clean' Clean Enough?

MARCUS WINTERS: Time for McCain To Answer

DANIEL JOHNSON: Deafening Silence

KENNETH BLACKWELL: Obama's Patriotic Tonic

R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR.: 'The Taranto Principle'

JOHN McWHORTER: Long Live the SATs

JAY AKASIE: Closed Doors at Episcopal Church

'What New York Owes Vets'

 

'What New York Owes Vets'

September 30, 2008

Councilmember Eric Gioia's recent column, "What New York Owes Vets," gets at the heart of what at-risk and homeless veterans need to reclaim their lives [Opinion, "What New York Owes Vets," September 29, 2008]. For our city's at-risk and homeless…

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'Rules, Not Rulers'

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'Save Yankee Stadium? Babe's Granddaughter Says "Yes"'

'A Letter From the Editor: The Future of the Sun'

'A Letter From the Editor: The Future of the Sun'

'To Venice: Some Unsolicited Advice'

'New Food Watchwords at 6 Private Schools: Local, Healthy'

'Highlights From the Scottish School'

'Save Yankee Stadium? Babe's Granddaughter Says "Yes"'