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One of the Left’s sleaziest rhetorical tricks is to discredit conservative ideals by claiming they are based on religious beliefs, while liberal ideals are based on science. The Right, they sneer, is “faith based.” The Left, they brag, is “reality based.” So we have Paul Krugman, America’s most dangerous liberal pundit, claiming that the world of conservative thought is “increasingly dominated by people who believe truth should be determined by revelation, not research.” Krugman even thinks the conservative preference for lower tax rates and higher economic growth is nothing more than a matter of right-wing religious zealotry. In his Friday...

China’s announcement last week that it was abandoning its decade-old fixed exchange rate between the Chinese yuan and the U.S. dollar was world-shaking economic news. But for Paul Krugman — America’s most dangerous liberal pundit — it’s only an occasion for more of his usual left-wing economic doomsaying, leavened with crude humor based on ethnic stereotypes. Krugman began his New York Times column Friday saying, Thursday’s statement from the People’s Bank of China, announcing that the yuan is no longer pegged to the dollar, was terse and uninformative — you might say inscrutable. One assumes that if the nation in...

E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend <% printurl = Request.ServerVariables("URL")%> Print Version September 30, 2004, 10:10 a.m. Lie During, Blame AfterKrugman has a strategy for Kerry-the-debater. Paul Krugman — America’s most dangerous liberal pundit — has two pieces of advice for John Kerry on tonight’s debate with President Bush. First, lie. Second, when you lose the debate, blame the media. In a New York Times column earlier this week, Krugman suggested that Kerry should take President Bush to task for supposedly having no strategy for handling North Korea’s nuclear menace. Here’s the lie Krugman recommends that Kerry...

Krugman blamed the Bush administration's alleged penny-pinching as the reason "why U.S. troops in Iraq are suffering such a high rate of noncombat deaths." Krugman Truth Squad member David Hogberg noted on Cornfield Commentary, First of all, let’s look at the numbers. There have been 256 military deaths in Iraq. Excluding helicopter crashes, which I consider to be death in action, there have been 67 noncombat deaths so far. That’s about 26% of the total deaths. I have no clue if that is high relative to other wars. I’ll bet Krugman has no clue either. Of those 67, more than...