{"id":56644,"date":"2015-12-14T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56644"},"modified":"2015-12-12T18:57:09","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T00:57:09","slug":"compare-and-contrast-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56644","title":{"rendered":"Compare And Contrast"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a nod to Jonah Goldberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Things that did not rate\u00a0a front page editorial in the NYTimes in the past 100 years<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nThings that rated\u00a0a front-page editorial in the NYTimes in the past 100 years<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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  • the Peace of Versailles,<\/li>\n
  • Buck v. Bell,<\/li>\n
  • the Great Depression,<\/li>\n
  • Pearl Harbor,<\/li>\n
  • the Hitler-Stalin Pact,<\/li>\n
  • Roosevelt’s packing of the SCOTUS<\/li>\n
  • the Ukrainian famine,<\/li>\n
  • the internment of Japanese-Americans,<\/li>\n
  • the Tuskegee experiments,<\/li>\n
  • the Holocaust,<\/li>\n
  • The atomic bomb<\/li>\n
  • the Rape of Nanking<\/li>\n
  • the Marshall Plan,<\/li>\n
  • Jim Crow,<\/li>\n
  • the Cuban Missile Crisis,<\/li>\n
  • the Kennedy Assassination,<\/li>\n
  • the 1964 Civil Rights Act,<\/li>\n
  • Kent State,<\/li>\n
  • the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution,<\/li>\n
  • the Tet Offensive<\/li>\n
  • Watergate,<\/li>\n
  • withdrawal from Vietnam,<\/li>\n
  • the Killing Fields,<\/li>\n
  • the Iran hostage crisis, and the collapse of the US military leading up to Desert One<\/li>\n
  • Multiple nuclear close calls in the ’70s and ’80s<\/li>\n
  • the Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward<\/li>\n
  • The cyclone and famine in Bangladesh<\/li>\n
  • The civil war and famine in Biafra<\/li>\n
  • the LA riots<\/li>\n
  • the collapse of Apartheid<\/li>\n
  • the Sadat and Begin reaching the Dayton Accord<\/li>\n
  • the descent of NYC into a criminal cesspool in the ’60s and ’70s<\/li>\n
  • the Contras,<\/li>\n
  • Reagan leaves Helsinki<\/li>\n
  • AIDS<\/li>\n
  • The fall of the Berlin Wall<\/li>\n
  • The collapse of Communism<\/li>\n
  • gay marriage<\/li>\n
  • the Iran nuclear deal<\/li>\n
  • The ongoing collapse of heathcare in America<\/li>\n
  • The dropping of violent crime by half, and in some categories by 2\/3, in 25 years – which under any other circumstances would have been hailed as a criminological miracle<\/li>\n
  • 9\/11<\/li>\n
  • The Global War on Terror<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Read more at: http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/428401\/new-york-times-gun-editorial-hysterical<\/td>\n

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  • “The Epidemic of Guns”, after gun crime has fallen to generational lows.<\/li>\n
  • Warren Harding something something something.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    With a nod to Jonah Goldberg: Things that did not rate\u00a0a front page editorial in the NYTimes in the past 100 years Things that rated\u00a0a front-page editorial in the NYTimes in the past 100 years the Peace of Versailles, Buck v. Bell, the Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, the Hitler-Stalin Pact, Roosevelt’s packing of the SCOTUS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56645,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56644\/revisions\/56645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}