That reminds me of the old caution our mothers used to give “Make sure you have clean underwear on,just in case you get run over”.

The New York Times is not a charitable institution,it is a business,one which has falling circulation,massive layoffs and loss of profits,the last few years has seen damaging journalistic scandals,this is a killer story,this is “All the news that is fit to sell”.

They are in the selling newspapers and advertising business.

Social Democracy ,a wonderful thing,so wonderful the inhabitants stop breeding,a bit like a Zoo.

Markus typically knows a little about a lot of things, and uses it to make one little thing into a substitute big thing (since the *actual* big thing can’t be admitted: the huge disaster his party has been for two generations now, for everything it has touched, to the great detriment of all the people on the planet).

IOW, the current beef is like a person swept out to sea worrying about his socks being wet.

And there’s no small amount of ingratitude in a person who, having been served, not only refuses to acknowledge the service, but claims that he never needed it, didn’t want it and furthermore shame on you for providing it. This is the cheapest feel-good opportunism in the political realm, and it’s rude, besides.

Those high-tax/high freedom nations in the Freedom House report all have extremely homogeneous populations numbering about equal to an American second-tier city. Of course they work as differntly to the USA as a family does to the state government. Gross comparisons alone, are about as sensible–as analogy–as monkyboy’s, comparing the elapsed time of GWoT to WWII. Please, such analogies need to be a little more substantive than a virtual “Oh, yeah?” It seems important to keep in mind, when constructing clever verbal formulae, that words are a derivative reality–derived from the actual objective actions, relationships, and physical objects.

Markus typically knows a little about a lot of things, and uses it to make one little thing into a big thing, while ignoring the huge disaster his party has been for everything it has touched for two generations now, to the great detriment of all the people on the planet.

The current beef is like a person swept out to sea worrying about his socks being wet.

And there’s no small amount of ingrate in a person who, having been helped, not only refuses to acknowledge that help, but claims that he never needed it, didn’t want it and shame on you for providing it. This is cheap politics and feel-good opportunism.

You, Sunstein, others may be right. I’m too tired to read it myself, and too unqualified to judge.

Marianna — “The press has developed a level of autonomy that it was never meant to have.”

What is it about Congress being unable to pass ANY law abridging the freedom of the press that you don’t undertand? The Press has complete autonomy. (Revealing government secrets that are classified for security reasons is another thing entirely.)

I hope that you are wrong, but I fear that you are right. When the press undermines the war on terror, it needs to be reprimanded. When papers gave aid, comfort, and vital information to our enemies, they need to be shut down.

We are at war, as I said earlier, with the most dangerous enemey we have ever faced. We cannot afford to pull our punches. If that means shutting down the New York Times, so be it. But I fear that even if we do shut down the Times, other left-wing media outlets will continue to spew anti-American filth. The press has developed a level of autonomy that it was never meant to have. I fear greatly for the havoc it may wreak upon this nation.