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Nick Kristof of the New York Times has created a new breed of Israeli dogs. There was a time long ago in a distant galaxy when I used to read the NYTimes opinion page. Before Obama, there were here and there some interesting thought pieces, but with the rise of Obama, the articles became unreadable. Thomas Friedman, Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd and the rest became leftist partisans and oftentimes admitted as much. Krugman, the erstwhile Nobel Laureate, wrote a tome, Conscience of a Liberal, as if lefties actually have a conscience. The one person whose work I could not stomach was that of Nick Kristof. I always found his positions

Of all the problems Democrats have created and unleashed on the country, the unwillingness and inability to speak to anyone who disagrees with them is among the worst. They don’t even try anymore, liberals only engage with each other in an agreement-festival that rivals a row of bobblehead dolls double-sided taped to the dashboard of the family truckster all nodding with each other as they ramble down a bumpy dirt road. When was the last time you heard a dissenting voice on MS Now? Anyone who dares disagree with the “progressive” narrative on CNN is spoken over, shouted down or cut off for a “correction” from the host or

America’s left turn in the 1960s delivered a writing on the wall that was clearly read by Randall Terry in 1994: In 1959 it would have been unthinkable to the average American — whether Democrat, Republican or Independent — that children would be murdered by abortion, homosexuals would be indoctrinating our children and demanding ‘marriage’ rights, that our surgeon general would be calling for the legalization of criminal drugs, and the distribution of condoms to ten-year-olds, that our tax money would pay for a crucifix floating in a vat of urine, that prayer and Bible reading would be illegal in government schools, that new-age, one-world, indoctrination would be standard fare.