Don't call tax cuts for wealthy 'compromise'
If one side gives up when it has maximum leverage, and the opposition says only that it will keep fighting for its original position, it's more apt to use the term 'surrender' or 'fecklessness.'
First, 'blame the borrowers.' Now, 'blame the lawyers.'
Reporting that obscures the central role played by mortgage lenders in creating the housing crisis has aptly been described as “blame the borrowers” coverage. Last week, the Journal added a "blame the lawyers" wrinkle. Readers are told that it is "the growth of a legal sub-specialty called foreclosure defense" that has "sown confusion and turmoil in the housing market."
NYC student testing scandal: roots and reverberations
Characterizations of an extension of tax cuts for the wealthy are misleading in the extreme.
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