Alan Greenspan and Ayn Rand (4/28/08, page C1)
Steve Butler, Retirement Planner, CCTimes
Although we at CCTimesWatch.com often disagree with Steve Butler’s political viewpoints, we normally find his writing crisp.
This column left us confused.
Is Alan Greenspan a good guy or a wrong guy?
Did “Atlas Shrugged” correctly depict government’s damaging role in the private sector? (we know Ayn Rand was right)
Was the Fed right to bail [...]
Bullying incident leaves boy, 7, with fractured skull (4/25/08, page A5)
Kristin Bender, CCTimes
Perhaps this wasn’t the story to ask this, but would the victim, Zachary Cataldo, have had to put up with this abuse 3 TIMES if the teachers’ unions weren’t opposed to school choice?
It’s time to give parents a choice in where they send their children to school. Now this poor boy has a [...]
Obama struggles to win white votes (4/24/08, Front Page)
Steven Thomma, McClatchy
Yes, the headline is accurate, but couldn’t it just as easily been, “Hilary struggles to win black vote”?
Police chief hiring broke rules (4/24/08, Front Page)
Matt Krupnick, CCTimes
Fabulous story by Matt and the Contra Costa Times exposing another rip-off of students (and taxpayers) by the University of California.
THIS is what a newspaper is all about.
Inconvinient Truth uses fake video (4/22/08, not in CCTimes)
There is no way CCTimes prints this story.
It seems “An Inconvinient Truth” uses computer-generated video from the movie ”The Day After Tomorrow” to demonstrate the so-called loss of glaciers.
Get the details here.
Democrats, students protest cuts (4/22/08, Front Page)
Steve Geissinger, MediaNews
Not once did we see in this story any mention of cutting spending in other areas of state government in order to eliminate the proposed cuts to higher education.
Not once did Senator Perata or Assemblyman Nuñez offer to take a pay cut to help reduce those cuts. But they did offer to give you [...]
Rice praises Iraq’s anti-militia push (4/21/08, page A8)
Raviya Ismail, McClatchy
Deep in this story stands this paragraph:
Sadr has consistently called for peace since he froze his militia on Aug. 29 and again in February; his freeze has been a major factor in curbing violence in Iraq.
Whoa. That first statement runs counter to everything we’ve read. If anything, Sadr only calls for peace when [...]