The American Spectator

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New York Times editorial board, they who find themselves perpetually stunned that lower taxes raise revenues, that every state that gets to vote on gay marriage opposes same, and that the American public really does not believe a group of liberals in a closed editorial board room should have the right to remove national security decisions from all American voters -- these folks are irate moderates?? They get the Connecticut Message????

They're a hoot, right?

The Times, which wants to raise your taxes, equalize heterosexual marriage with any sexual desire anywhere at any time between those of any sex, age or species, which believes Saddam Hussein should have been left undisturbed to pursue his quest of killing Jews at $25,000 a pop but that the starkly anti-Semitic Al Sharpton's support of Ned Lamont -- or Lamont's acceptance of that support while running against a Jew -- is not worth a verbal shrug...the Times is the monitor of all things moderate?

The Times wouldn't know a moderate if its editors had their high heels polished by one. America has long since gotten the deal here. The Times asks of Lieberman "whether...he learned that changing is necessary." It is a question that many are asking of the Times itself. Many of us are the generational and educational peers of the Times editors and writers -- and of the publisher. The difference between us is that some of us learned something from all those Sixties mistakes. We refuse to hang on to the past. When Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. -- that would be JUNIOR -- refuses to state that he will give up his inheritance of a major American newspaper as some form of penance to equality that his editorial board demands of family farmers in the form of forfeiting farms to the estate tax, well, credibility sinks.

When the Times demands that the Democratic Party state that the foreign policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and John F. Kennedy -- all Times endorsees -- demonstrate "how far off course things have gone"...well, cue the laugh track.

p>One of the unexpected joys of vacation on Eastern Long Island is reading old books quoting old New York Times editorials. Catch this one, published in the aftermath of World War One: br> /p>

"Not only is their (Germany's) military power...destroyed but the military spirit...crushed...Now...their ships have gone; their foreign trade has vanished and they are condemned to half a century of unremitting toil to repay the loss they have caused...The punishment Germany must endure for centuries will be one of the greatest deterrents to the war spirit."

br> For the record and particularly for Spectator readers of a certain age, in contrast to this

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