Where Have All the Neocons Gone? Mar 10, 2010
The reverters who include, among others, David Frum and David Brooks, and are largely based in Washington, D.C. suggest that the GOP needs to get up to speed, to dump overboard the detritus that it has accumulated over the past several decades ... It isn t simply David Brooks s paeans to Obama. (The American Conservative)
March 8 letters Mar 8, 2010
In David Brooks' column "The power elite" (Feb. 28), I think his fifth argument for why our government does not work better today than before is stated incorrectly. (NJ.com -- Times)
Duo set to bring home another successful Festival of the Arts BOCA Mar 8, 2010
Sunday at 7 p.m.: New York Times columnist David Brooks, lecture, Political Outlook. Monday at 7 p.m.: Distinguished Writer in Residence Doris Kearns Goodwin, presidential historian, lecture: The Art and Craft of Biography: Living with Johnson, Kennedy, Roosevelt and Lincoln. (The Palm Beach Post)
Obama's Nanny Care Insults the American Spirit Feb 25, 2010
That is the thinking of what David Brooks calls "the educated class" that favors the Democrats' health care bills. Members of this elite spout tales of woe of people denied coverage or care with the implication that there but for the grace of government go you. (Townhall.com)
Beware 'comprehensive' anything Feb 21, 2010
DAVID BROOKS: What's next, Mr. President. By 2008, Americans were disgusted with their government. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Can a New Manifesto Woo the Tea Party? Feb 18, 2010
"It looks to me like an attempt to reassert that the politics of the Reagan coalition can continue to win elections in 21st century America." By harking back to the past, he argues, the authors are also resisting the efforts of more-moderate conservatives (such as himself and the New York Times's David Brooks) to nudge the party closer to the political center. The Mount Vernon Statement isn't the only manifesto making the rounds on Capitol Hill a preliminary version of the Tea Party Patriots'... (Time.com)
Bioengineering to crop up when science group meets If the titans of agribusiness are right, the world is on the verge of a major breakthrough in the way food is grown. But ... Feb 14, 2010
Bioengineering to crop up when science group meets - SignOnSanDiego. Bioengineering to crop up when science group meets. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
One mans list of the top 25 conservative journalists Feb 12, 2010
Matt Drudge is ranked way too low, David Brooks and George Will way too high. Brooks isn t even a conservative. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
The art of recycling To most people, an empty wine bottle is just that. Feb 9, 2010
David Brooks / Union-Tribune photos. Bottlehood collects bottles from community establishments. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Sunday on MTP Feb 6, 2010
Plus, a roundtable: David Brooks, David Faber, Eugene Robinson, and Mort Zuckerman ... Plus, a roundtable: Tom Brokaw, David Brooks, E.J. Dionne and Doris Kearns Goodwin. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Review favors regions military establishment Amid two ongoing wars and a growing uneasiness about Chinas military ambitions, the Pentagon plans to largely strengthen San Diego Countys Navy and Marine ... Feb 5, 2010
David Brooks / Union-Tribune. The bow of a T-AKE Navy supply ship loomed over a worker yesterday at the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard on San Diego Bay. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Carroll: Laughs aplenty in NY Review of Books Feb 4, 2010
David Brooks, naked and weeping. Article:David Brooks, naked and weeping:/c/a/2010/02/02/DDE61BR1FM.DTL Article:David Brooks, naked and weeping:/c/a/2010/02/02/DDE61BR1FM.DTL advertisement ... Applebaum then adds: "Leaving aside its entertainment value, that particular passage raises some interesting questions. We are not so many years removed from 1946, in the grand scheme of things. Yet much has changed since then, starting with the rules of acceptable public behavior. It is simply not... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
The Dog Who Hates Me, John Moe, New York Times Feb 4, 2010
Gail Collins and David Brooks discuss the terror trial in Lower Manhattan and why dictating policy through security demands may not be the answer. A Room for Debate forum on why Pell Grants have not made higher education more affordable. (Harper's Magazine)
Viewpoints: America's elderly have the power to force great change Feb 3, 2010
David Brooks writes for the New York Times. About Comments. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
Haiti needs a bailout Feb 3, 2010
David Brooks took a similar high tone in the NYT recently under the guise of some tough love. Matt Taibbi did the public service of translating it into non-bullshit language for everyone and highlighting the breathtaking cruelty and racist arrogance it represents. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Meet the Press Feb 2, 2010
We get insights and analysis on all that and more from our roundtable: The New York Times' David Brooks, CNBC's David Faber, The Washington Post's Eugene Robinson, and U.S. News & World Report's Mort Zuckerman ... Plus, a roundtable: David Brooks, David Faber, Eugene Robinson, and Mort Zuckerman ... Plus, a roundtable: Tom Brokaw, David Brooks, E.J. Dionne and Doris Kearns Goodwin. (MSNBC -- Environment)
S.D. police horses to be auctioned Seven prized and highly trained horses that San Diego police officers used in mounted patrol will go up for auction Monday. Feb 1, 2010
David Brooks / Union-Tribune. Junior is one of the highly trained horses that made up the Police Departments mounted unit, which was disbanded at the end of 2009. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Abandoned seal pup rescued Animal-care specialists at SeaWorld rescued a newborn harbor seal pup from the Childrens Pool at La Jolla after the animals mother abandoned him. Jan 28, 2010
David Brooks / Union-Tribune. SeaWorld Senior Animal Care Specialist Kevin Robinson recovered a one-day-old harbor seal from the Children's Pool in La Jolla. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
A million green jobs, cheap! Jan 27, 2010
Debating David Brooks or Jonah Goldberg over whether we should help Haiti recover and grow again to build back better as the slogan says scarcely seems worthwhile, especially at a moment when millions of people as well as governments around the world are settling the question with their checkbooks. But neoconservatives who insist that development assistance cannot help, whether macro or micro, and that cultural forces will forever doom the Haitians, are purposely undermining the world s... (Salon)
Voters Spurn the 'Boob Bait' of the Educated Class Jan 26, 2010
When the New York Times columnist David Brooks first sat down with Barack Obama, they talked a lot about Burke. That's Edmund Burke, the 18th century conservative British politician and philosopher. (Townhall.com)
New York Times to charge for articles online Jan 24, 2010
" My my my. I've seen some high horses in my day, but David Brooks is perched on a saddle so far aloft in the clouds of self-delusion that he can't even see the earth, much less reality. Let's examine his thesis more closely. Americans ran up a lot of debt in the last few decades. There's no question about that. But one of the most striking developments of the last year has been how Americans have responded to the financial crisis at an individual level. We made a collective decision to start... (Salon)
Little Guy Sends Message to Washington: Drop Dead Jan 22, 2010
Brown's gains were not as great in areas dominated by what the New York Times' David Brooks called, perhaps archly, "the educated class." Cambridge and Amherst remained solidly monopartisan. But in suburbs with many upward strivers, people who (like Brown) have worked their way from the economic margins to some comfort, turnout was almost as high as in November 2008. (Human Events Online)
Opinion: Obama can get back on track Jan 22, 2010
Keeping Thomas Friedman and David Brooks and the "Gang of 500" political reporters in Washington and New York happy may make for great relationships on the D.C. cocktail circuit, but it doesn't deliver in terms of connecting with the average American who backed his candidacy in 2008. 5. (CNN -- US)
Why Did We Focus on Securing Haiti Rather Than Helping Haitians? Jan 22, 2010
Suffering from "progress-resistant cultural influences" (that's David Brooks finding a polite way to call black people primitive), Haitians were expected to devour one another and, like wounded dogs, to snap at the hands that fed them. As much as any logistical bottleneck, the mania for security slowed the distribution of aid. (Slate)
DAVID BROOKS: Pragmatic Leviathan Jan 21, 2010
By David Brooks Text Size ... David Brooks is a columnist for the New York Times. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Taco Bell founder Glen W. Bell Jr. Jan 21, 2010
Gail Collins wants the health care bill passed now; David Brooks thinks the Democrats should show some humility. (Harper's Magazine)
Student's science project forces evacuation Jan 18, 2010
David Brooks / Union-Tribune. Parents of Millennial Tech Magnet Middle School students waited in line to pick up their children at an athletic field on the campus of Gompers Prepatory Academy yesterday. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The Cohns variety show The son of a grocer from the Midwest, David Cohn first got the restaurant bug when he and his wife, Lesley, opened a small ... Jan 18, 2010
David Brooks / UNION-TRIBUNE. David and Lesley Cohn, owners of the Cohn Restaurant Group, at their restaurant Island Prime on Harbor Island. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
GARY WALKER: Remembering birthday of Ben Franklin Jan 16, 2010
DAVID BROOKS: Picks for Sidney Awards. Every year, I give out Sidney Awards to the year's best magazine essays. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Obama's Rapturous Style Versus Tea Party Substance Jan 14, 2010
In his New York Times column last week, David Brooks contrasted "the educated class," which supports Barack Obama and his liberal worldview, with the tea party movement, "a large, fractious confederation of Americans who are defined by what they are against ... the concentrated power of the educated class.". Many conservatives read Brooks as putting down the tea partiers. (Townhall.com)
When journalists go native on the Net Jan 13, 2010
I've seen some high horses in my day, but David Brooks is perched on a saddle so far aloft in the clouds of self-delusion that he can't even see the earth, much less reality. Let's examine his thesis more closely. (Salon)
George Will Channels Robert Taft Jan 12, 2010
As Will has become more outspoken in assessing the distance between conservative foreign-policy rhetoric and reality, his critics on the Right have tried harder to ostracize him as a pseudoconservative elitist along the lines of New York Times columnist David Brooks. After Will s first column urging U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, Weekly Standard editor William Kristol hit back in the Washington Post: Let s be honest. (The American Conservative)
Colleges offer more green-themed classes Jan 12, 2010
Looks Like Youre using an older version of Internet explorer,for a Better browsing experience upgrade to one of the following, or. Sudden popularity surprises educators. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
A stroke of luck: lifesavers As 19-year-old Claire Cordua went off to college in Tennessee on Friday, she and her family experienced the usual freshman butterflies minor anxieties ... Jan 11, 2010
David Brooks / UNION-TRIBUNE ... Photo by David Brooks - UNION-TRIBUNE. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
DAVID BROOKS Jan 10, 2010
Sunday, January 10, 2010. 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)
Zendough.com Jan 10, 2010
com, whose image seems designed to suit the population niche writer David Brooks labeled "bobos," as in "bourgeois bohemians." But it's not a simple proposition to convey in a TV commercial, and this one (via Cramer-Krasselt, Chicago) is something of a clunker. It gets off to shaky start as the voiceover asks, "Can you control them -- the shifting, changing interest rates that devour what you're worth?" Actually, no -- you can't control them. (AdWeek)
Eventually, Obama has to raise taxes, as Reagan did Jan 10, 2010
They are as irrelevant as David Brooks. If the current leaders consider raising taxes the only answer, it is time for new leaders. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
