Brooks: Few choices remain on health reform Oct 11, 2009
David Brooks writes for the New York Times ... David Brooks writes for the New York Times. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
Westby of Southbury Joining GOP Run for Fifth District Oct 9, 2009
President Barack Obama has been criticized by New York Times columnist David Brooks and others for spending now and trying to save later with risky plans. In a news release on his entry into the race, Mr. Westby stated that the United State benefited from the broad tax cuts and investment tax credits enacted by Democratic President John Kennedy in the early 1960s and by Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1981. (Litchfield County Times, CT)
* Obama faces tough call on US future in Afghanistan Oct 7, 2009
David Brooks, a moderate conservative, wrote that there are realistic choices for Americas Afghanistan policy X all out or all in, surrender the place to the Taliban or do armed nation-building. And we might as well acknowledge that its not an easy call. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Council meeting rapid, peaceful Oct 7, 2009
Mayor Brian Loughmiller and council members Geralyn Kever and David Brooks recommended Mayo for nomination. Mayo is a current member of the board of directors. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
The Doers vs. The 'Thinkers' Oct 7, 2009
This week, New York Times columnist David Brooks introduced readers to his imaginary friends, Mr. Bentham and Mr. Hume, as a way of highlighting the nation's philosophical divide. If only our ideological split were that complicated. (Townhall.com)
How Nice Are We? Oct 6, 2009
The columnist David Brooks has summarized the findings like this: "From the content of our genes, the nature of our neurons and the lessons of evolution, it has become clear that nature is filled with competition and conflicts of interest." ... Here's one that David Brooks might like: Ownership, it seems, is a profoundly ancient right if you are a primate. (Slate)
Obama facing tough decision on Afghan war Oct 5, 2009
David Brooks, a moderate conservative, wrote that there are "realistic choices for America's Afghanistan policy all out or all in, surrender the place to the Taliban or do armed nation-building. And we might as well acknowledge that it's not an easy call. The costs and rewards are tightly balanced.". The next day, Bob Herbert, a liberal, wrote: "Americans are tired of the war.". (Honolulu Advertiser)
The Powerlessness of Talk Radio Oct 3, 2009
That s not to say talk radio isn t the voice of the GOP. Limbaugh absolutely has more of a following among the Republican base than David Brooks has. When the average, non-political American thinks of what the GOP is all about, he ll think of talk radio (which he may not have heard, but has certainly heard of) in the absence of any serious alternative. (The American Conservative)
Reform Conservatism or Deformed Conservatism? Sep 30, 2009
David Brooks rebrands the failed philosophy of George W. Bush ... Writing a week after the 2008 presidential election, New York Times columnist David Brooks tried to handicap the fight over the future of conservatism. (The American Conservative)
David Brooks is Impressed With Himself and... Obama Sep 23, 2009
Douglas MacKinnon : David Brooks is Impressed With Himself and ... Tuesday, September 22, 2009 David Brooks is Impressed With Himself and ... After just reading a New Republic article about New York Times columnist David Brooks, I now understand that Brooks is better than us. (Townhall.com)
Why the Left Hates Glenn Beck Sep 23, 2009
So Chris Matthews dragged out two of the best known conservatives who relish attacking their own party, David Brooks and Kathleen Parker, to join in the Beck bashing on his TV program. Brooks, the house conservative of The New York Times who giddily supported the most liberal senator for President last year, told Matthews that Beck was a race baiter for suggesting Obama hates white people. (Human Events Online)
Fox anchor lashes out at White House for Sunday snub Sep 20, 2009
Take David Brooks for example, he represent the right in a very respectable and worthy manner, i might agree with him, i might not at times, but in the end he leads a civil discourse representing his side of the story. Something Fox and other shout TV talking heads are simply incapable of doing. (TheHill.com)
Political writer Irving Kristol dead at 89 Sep 19, 2009
"In the mid-1960s, Kristol, Bell, Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan founded The Public Interest, which lasted 40 years and was praised by New York Times columnist David Brooks for having "more influence on domestic policy than any other journal in the country _ by far. "The magazine was originally moderate (Moynihan had suggested calling it "Consensus) and supported civil rights and domestic spending. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Bloomberg in the lead Sep 16, 2009
According to the list, which was compiled by editors and data crunchers, the Top 10, starting from No. 1, are Paul Krugman, Rush Limbaugh, George Will, Thomas Friedman, David Brooks, Charles Krau thammer, Glenn Beck, Frank Rich, Andrew Sullivan and Karl Rove. The site is launching with sponsors Toyota and German software maker SAP.. (New York Post -- Business)
ZERO COVERAGE: NY TIMES, WASH POST, ABC, CBS, NBC... Sep 5, 2009
Maybe if David Brooks would offer Obama his best and newest necklace VanJones would get the needed support. Obama loves adulation. (The Drudge Report)
LETTER: Conservatives lie about health care reform Sep 3, 2009
As early as last October, conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks called Palin "a fatal cancer on the Republican Party," and George F. Will, a voice of the Republican establishment, dismissed the former Alaska governor as "an inveterate simplifier." Huffington post. Oh my, it looks like some members of the GOP see Palin for what she really is. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Reading Ted Kennedy Sep 2, 2009
the New York Times, David Brooks dubbed Kennedy "The Great Gradualist," a legislator whose actions came to reflect that the American people reject "proposals that centralize power and substantially reduce individual choice." Appearing on ABC News' This Week, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R.-Utah, , "[T]he people out there are very concerned. They don't want a Washington-run government plan. It's just that simple. Teddy would have recognized that." The program's host, George Stephanopoulos, in an... (Slate)
Brooks s Barack Sep 2, 2009
Proof positive that love is blind: David Brooks has convinced himself that the change candidate is a Burkean ... In the spring of 2005, New York Times columnist David Brooks arrived at then-Senator Barack Obama s office for a chat. (The American Conservative)
Obama's Right Mistake Sep 2, 2009
If commentators like David Brooks are to be believed, Obamas mistake is tilting too far to the left and losing the middle. If commentators like Paul Krugman are to be believed, Obamas mistake is trying to do business with Republicans in the first place, and thus poorly serving his broad core constituency. (Slate)
What's Happening to Sam Tanenhaus? Sep 1, 2009
If all a Tanenhaus wants is a Right that is a.) a little abashed about how Iraq turned out, but not really repentant, and b.) in favor of a pro-family welfare state, then he already has much of what he wants, since Ramesh Ponnuru, David Frum, Ross Douthat, David Brooks, and a host of neoconservatives already affirm a program exactly like that. Hell, Karl Rove belongs in that category, too. (The American Conservative)
Top State Stories Mo. man defends rural life in major magazines Aug 31, 2009
In 2002, he wrote a response to Atlantic Monthly contributor David Brooks' writings on Red America/Blue America. The colors refer to states that usually vote Republican in presidential elections vs. those that vote Democratic. (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
MTP: Celebrating the 'Liberal Lion' Aug 29, 2009
Plus our roundtable: The New York Times' David Brooks; CNBC's Erin Burnett; and Newsweek's Jon Meacham. Video clips. (MSNBC -- Politics)
History Unkind to Health Care Reformers Aug 13, 2009
David Brooks has even said recent remarks by Limbaugh and Palin are "insane." I think when most Americans see these angry white middle aged to elder mobs, they will realize these folks need help with for their psychological maladjustments. by mooksie1 August 12, 2009 2:44 PM EDT. (CBS News -- Health)
MICHAEL BARONE Aug 10, 2009
The always thoughtful David Brooks complains in his New York Times column that Republicans learned the wrong lessons from John Ford s classic Western movies. They should not be the party of. (The Drudge Report)
Mark Sanford's Family Moves Out Aug 8, 2009
" by nanc12 August 7, 2009 10:45 PM EDT With MorganBarber's attitude toward a woman's "contractual duty" and what he thinks is Mrs. Sanford's fault, I would imagine MorganBarber is doing a lot of self-care of his Mr. Johnson. by John_Merritt August 7, 2009 4:49 PM EDT Will you please leave those people alone. Let them deal with their own family problems, they don't need camera's and microphones in their faces right now. SAVE THE CHILDREN! by pjk12354 August 7, 2009 4:59 PM EDT Jenny did the... (CBS News -- Politics)
Credit Where Credit's Due Aug 7, 2009
Related in SlateIn April 2009, Anna Husarska David Brooks' hit-and-write columns from Afghanistan. Friedman is honest about his uneasiness regarding the war, but he draws conclusions about a military operation based on a civilian NGO project, and that is not right. (Slate)
Public Nuisances Aug 6, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Back in the 1990s, David Brooks, then an editor at The Wall Street Journal, called me and asked me whether I would like to "gloat" on the newspaper's op-ed page. What inspired him to encourage such ungentlemanly behavior was the publication of a book, "First in His Class," by David Maraniss, which vindicated my claims of the prior year that Bill Clinton was a rampant philanderer, widely recognized as such throughout Arkansas, where he apparently had maintained a harem. (Townhall.com)
Senate Under Pressure to Extend "Clunkers" Aug 4, 2009
Bob Woodward, Kathleen Parker and David Brooks discuss the latest on 'Cash For Clunkers. And Bob Schieffer on being a senior citizen. (CBS News)
Our lives would mean very little indeed without posterity Aug 3, 2009
The Age - Business News, World News & Breaking News in Australia Skip directly to: Search Box, , , Text Version. What a sad, selfish, limited lot we would be if we didn’t reproduce. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Irrational Review Aug 3, 2009
Oddly enough, the most insightful examination of this subject was produced by David Brooks in his book, Bobos in Paradise, where he devoted a chapter to the ideological entrepreneurs, whose chief political orientation is their own career ambition to ascend to the status of public intellectual. Much of what *appears* to be ideological combat in DC is actually better understood in terms of *ambition* and until you ve spent a few years in Washington getting stabbed in the back by your friends, it s... (The American Conservative)
Repositioning Obama Aug 1, 2009
David Brooks made the case most luridly in a July 20 New York Times column entitled "The Liberal Suicide March 00004000 ." Clive Crook of The Atlantic followed up with a piece claiming that by "splitting with moderates," Obama was "repudiating one of the most brilliant campaigns ever seen." And pointing to the difficulties the administration is having with the Blue Dogs, Republican speechwriter Troy Senick of RealClearPolitics attributes all the blame to Obama, suggesting he is "perilously close... (CBS News)
Squaring Dupont Circle Jul 31, 2009
Dupont today, like the gay community generally, has gone aggressively bobo (David Brooks s abbreviation for bourgeois bohemian, those who want the perks of living outside the rules as well as the perks of following them). Happiness beat ecstasy, order beat alienation, respectability beat solidarity. (The American Conservative)
Seven Things That Would Be Different If McCain Had Beaten Obama Jul 29, 2009
While a few conservatives couldn't bring themselves to pull the lever for McCain, most of us, in the end, gritted our teeth and decided to vote for Sarah and "the other guy." Ironically, the moderates in the party, like Colin Powell and David Brooks, seemed even more reluctant than conservatives to vote for a politician whose style of politics they championed. In the end, the less-than-enthusiastic support for McCain from the Right wasn't able to make up for a Republican brand that had been... (Townhall.com)
Bailouts could top $23 trillion yes, trillion. Jul 22, 2009
Great piece today from the well respected David Brooks of the NYT. He is right on. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Why It's "Limbaugh Redux" Time Jul 22, 2009
And if, as New York Times' columnist David Brooks the Democrats have fundamentally misinterpreted the 2008 election results, then the "liberal suicide march" won't need much of a helping hand to reach its inevitable denouement. We'll only know the real answer six to twelve months from now. (CBS News)
E.J. DIONNE JR.: Crisis in educating our nation Jul 19, 2009
DAVID BROOKS: Sotomayor is cautious at heart. Sonia Sotomayor had bad timing. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Late TV Listings Jul 19, 2009
Guests: David Brooks, New York Times columnist; Kelly O Donnell, NBC News congressional correspondent; Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune columnist; Kathleen Parker, Washington Post columnist. 11 a.m. (5). (Boston Globe)
Who Touched David Brooks' Thigh? Jul 15, 2009
Kausfiles : David Brooks' Deep Thigh ... David Brooks may spend until the end of his days being asked which Republican senator he's referring to in. (Slate)
‘Ethical lapse of monumental proportions’ at Post Jul 12, 2009
The latest I read was about this columnist David Brooks claiming he set next to a Republican Senator that had his hand on his thigh during the whole dinner. And some were even so mean they claimed it was the saintly SC Senator Lindsey Graham. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
The next conservative thinkers Jul 12, 2009
He has this personality which is culturally very contemporary but at the same time his ideas are more on the right, and that s very important for the right, says David Brooks, who Salam worked for as a research assistant for two years at the New York Times. If big government is necessary, Salam asks, and can even help create a society more agreeable to conservatives, then what should it be doing. (Boston Globe)
Meet the Press Jul 11, 2009
Insights and analysis on all the week's news from our political roundtable: New York Times' David Brooks, Washington Post's E.J. Dionne, Vanity Fair's Dee Dee Myers & Republican Strategist Mike Murphy. Video clips. (MSNBC -- Politics)
The reality show that is American politics Jul 10, 2009
Add this to the David Brooks column in the AJC this week and my cultural confusion is summed up. My niece and nephew, in their 20 s, did not know the meaning of the word tacky and had never heard it used. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Letters Jul 5, 2009
" Obviously, this is a subject that needs in-depth coverage and exposure to the world so New Delhi gets sufficient pressure from the United Nations to address the unrepresented voices of the many people directly affected by India's lack of policies. Chrysantha Wijeyasingha Clinton, USA (Jun 25,'09) Israeli propaganda and misinformation (never to be confused with "control of the media", the favorite trigger-words of the Jewish attack-squads) would have the ignorant of the world think of them as... (Asia Times Online)
DAVID BROOKS Jul 5, 2009
Sunday, July 5, 2009. He has been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, a contributing editor at Newsweek and the Atlantic Monthly, and he is currently a commentator on "The Newshour with Jim Lehrer." He is the author of "Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There" and On Paradise Drive : How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense, both published by Simon ter. (The Drudge Report)
Serving California and the other America Jul 2, 2009
David Brooks the conservative columnist for NYT nailed it yesterday. The Republican AG in S.C. has opened a criminal investigation of Sanford s stealing public money to pay for his nookie trips after saying he wouldn t. The move to put Sanford in prison so he can continue his loveletters is ongoing and Sanford will resign soon. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Mystic Recipe: Dislodge Dodd Jun 5, 2009
New York Times columnist David Brooks has stated that Mr. Obama has adopted a "spend now save later" approach, hoping that health-care and entitlement reform will yield considerable savings. Mr. Alpert said that he opposes former Democratic President Jimmy Carter's call for a means test for Social Security recipients who are wealthy enough to live comfortably without the benefits that they have paid for. (Litchfield County Times, CT)
The Culture Gabfest, the Posh New Digs Edition Jun 4, 2009
David Brooks' New York Times about Shenk's article. The Culture Gabfest weekly endorsements. (Slate)
A good justice tempers System 1 Jun 4, 2009
Columnist David Brooks' description of the unconscious processes involved in decision mak ing is admirably well informed but does not tell the whole story ("The empathy issue," May 31). The fast, unconscious, automatic, experience-based systems he describes -- System 1 processes -- are a relic of adaptation to a by gone age when survival hinged on rapid evaluation of uncertain environmental cues. (NJ.com -- Times)
Ceremony honors fallen soldier Jun 3, 2009
Brooks is survived by his parents, Paul and Barbara Brooks of Jonesboro; his wife, Nicole; children, Cody, Logan, Samara, Denver, Haley, Corey and Seth; his grandmother, Georgia Cox of Bono; sisters, Nikki Winn of Paragould and Christy Sharp of Jonesboro; brother, David Brooks of Florida; and nieces and nephews in Jonesboro and Paragould. Donations in honor of Staff Sgt. Paul Faris Brooks can be made to a trust fund in the name of Christy Sharp at any BancorpSouth location. (Paragould Daily Press, AR)
Political Theater In Critics v. Sotomayor Jun 1, 2009
May 31, 2009 1:08 PM. The District Court judge from New York has drawn criticism from some for remarks she made in 2001 about how her background may affect her abilities as a judge compared to that of a white man, as well as her decision to affirm a lower court ruling in a controversial discrimination case. (CBS News)
Meet Rebecca, Jewish American Girl doll May 31, 2009
Goldberg then discovered that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel facilitated the moment: "Clifford Mendelson, who made the nowfamous'Hava Nagila' sign, was seated two rows behind Emanuel (and near David Brooks and Andrea Mitchell and other such luminaries in an apparently all-Jewish section of the Verizon Center) ... Rahm Emanuel turns around and sees it and he loves it and grabs the sign. He hands it to a Secret Service agent, who handed it up to Bruce, and then they played it.". The world... (Boston Globe)
No, You May Not Put My Taxes Toward Your Floating Duck House May 27, 2009
As a result, British MPs came down with a bad case of what columnist David Brooks has called "status-income disequilibrium," a disease whose sufferers hold badly paying but prestigious jobs, jobs that require them to "lunch on an expense account at The Palm, but dine at home on macaroni"or, in British terms, to ".". The problem worsened as the importance of Parliament declined. (Slate)
Irrational Fear Behind Guantanamo Detainee Decision May 23, 2009
Here s another conservative columnist - this time David Brooks - saying essentially the same thing. Red his recent column at. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Charles Krauthammer: Obama Critic-in-Chief May 21, 2009
"He's the most important conservative columnist right now," fellow conservative David Brooks, a columnist for The New York Times, tells Politico news. Krauthammer has made his opposition to Obama clear along a whole range of policy issues. (Newsmax)
Astronauts Pull Off Tricky Hubble Repair May 17, 2009
Conservative columnist David Brooks says the GOP demand is "insane". And all this GOP whining, despite the fact each of them has pet pork in the stimulus budget. (CBS News)
Obama Offers Security at the Expense of Liberty May 16, 2009
The always thoughtful David Brooks complains in his New York Times column that Republicans learned the wrong lessons from John Ford's classic Western movies ... Brooks makes the moral case against bailout politics and crony capitalism, a case that should appeal to the Western movie folks David Brooks writes about. (Townhall.com)
Upturned Earth">Upturned Earth May 14, 2009
Rather than memorize information, we now store it digitally and just remember what we stored resulting in what David Brooks called the outsourced brain. We wont become books, well become their indexes and reference guides, permanently holding on to rather little deep knowledge, preferring instead to know whats known, by ourselves and others, and where that knowledge is stored. (The American Conservative)
Key Protein Keeps Chronic Infection In Check May 11, 2009
"The CD4 cells are the regulators the generals, if you will," said principal investigator David Brooks, assistant professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. "The CD8 cells go out and kill the invaders; they're like the privates in the field.". To shed light on how CD4 T-cells help their CD8 counterparts clear viruses, the researchers infected mice with one of two strains of a virus. (Science Daily)
M is for mom and medicine May 10, 2009
Unlike so-called astroturf commenters, who carpet-bomb dozens of newspapers with the same canned letter, my mother only responds to specific stories or columns in individual papers, tailors her argument to the issue at hand, and almost always starts off by saying something nice ("David Brooks writes of Hillary Rodham Clinton's new health care plan with considerable warmth, but readers should look at the cold hard facts ..."). What editor wouldn't be cheered to discover that a woman in far-off... (Albany Times Union)
The Center-Right Trap May 8, 2009
Bob Schieffer spoke with New York Times columnist David Brooks about what needs to be done in order for both Republicans and Democrats to support President Obama's stimulus bill. . (CBS News)
DAVID BROOKS: It's what we do that makes us May 4, 2009
By David Brooks Text Size ... David Brooks is a columnist for the New York Times. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Dodd Shores Up Party's Support In The Region May 1, 2009
2 percent of GDP. "Obama imposes hard choices on others but has postponed his own," New York Times columnist David Brooks recently wrote. "He presented an agenda that bleeds red ink a trillion dollars at a time." "I don't disagree with that concern," Mr. Dodd said regarding the recent columns by Mr. Samuelson and Mr. Brooks on the projected surge in federal budget deficits. (Litchfield County Times, CT)
Barack Obama Sent Somali Pirates a Trio of Snipers Apr 30, 2009
Chuck Todd, Jake Tapper, Charlie Gibson, Anderson Cooper, Katie Couric, Matt Lauer, George F. Will, David Brooks, and Charles Krauthammer added the Twitter application. Joe Biden completed the quiz Which sexy man are you. (Slate)
Obama's New Foundation: Change In What We Believe Apr 28, 2009
In his op-ed (New York Times, April 23, 2009), David Brooks cites numerous polls and concludes that the economic crisis has produced a desire for change but not a philosophical shift ... While the values of the American people (faith in people, not in government) might give David Brooks comfort, these same views are not being reflected in the proposals of the Obama administration. (Townhall.com)
McKinney elections: Know how to vote Apr 16, 2009
Candidates in those races include George Fuller and Brian Loughmiller for Mayor, and David Brooks, Gilda Garza and Curtis Rath for the At-Large seat. Only residents of District 1 will vote for their representative out of four candidates running including Don Day, Maurice Malvern, Alonzo Tutson and Randall Wilder. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
