Matt Bai and Frank Rich keep spouting myths about the racist Tea Party, while Kevin Sack wonders why Texans aren't more grateful about Obama-care.  Full Story..

The Times and the Washington Post don't seem to agree on the import of the leak of classified information on the war in Afghanistan.  Full Story..

Unlike the Washington Post, the Times' print edition left out Obama's two $30,000 entry fee fundraisers in Manhattan in favor of these vital details from his visit to the Tastee Sub Shop in Edison, NJ: "Mr. Obama ordered a six-inch 'super sub' - he declared that at nearly 49 he can no longer eat the 12-inch variety - and sat down at a table with the owner, Dave Thornton, and the owners of three businesses in nearby towns."  Full Story..

And Hulse is helping them do it: "Calculating that moderate and independent voters might be turned off by some of the more extreme positions postulated by Tea Party types and Republican conservatives, the Democratic National Committee and Congressional Democrats are trying to join the two in the minds of voters."  Full Story..

Really? Reporter Kevin Sack sounds surprised Texas officials aren't enthusiastic over Obama-care, since it would give Texans so much help: "The state's elected officials might be expected, therefore, to cheer a federal health care law that is likely to deliver billions of dollars from Washington to Austin and cover millions of low-income Texans. Instead, the Republican political leadership has greeted the law and its anticipated costs with open hostility..."  Full Story..

Times Watch has long marveled at how quickly economist and columnist Paul Krugman become a reliable purveyor of talking points from the leftist blogosphere. Turns out he was subscribed to JournoList, the now-notorious e-mail list of liberal reporters, pundits, and bloggers.  Full Story..

Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak uncovered "a sharp jolt to the right" under Chief Justice John Roberts, and the Times put his 3,000-word story on the Sunday front page.  Full Story..

Health reporter Robert Pear attempted to dispel Berwick's image as a cost-cutting, Ivory-tower intellectual who favors severe health-care rationing, but left off his most direct paeans to socialized medicine: "Please, don't put your faith in market forces."  Full Story..

Seth Mydans' reports from Cambodia on the verdict in the trial of a Khmer Rouge jailer, but fails to explain or even mention the ideology that motivated the Communist group to kill almost two million of its citizens.  Full Story..

Democrat failure to pass expensive "climate change" regulation and unpaid for unempoyment benefits adds up to a "nasty...near paralysis that has infected the Senate despite the Democrats' control of 59 votes."  Full Story..