“The New York Times” on The Daily Caller

An editorial in Sunday’s New York Times reminded me of an important issue not much discussed among the dwindling number of candidates for the Republican presidential nomination: the future of the federal courts and particularly of the United States Supreme Court. Newt Gingrich has put out a proposal for how Congress and the president could control what he sees as an out-of-control court system, but none of the candidates has emphasized that the future makeup of the Supreme Court will very likely turn on the outcome of the presidential election. (more)

Conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks has an admirer in the White House, according to a new book. (more)

Just days before President Barack Obama was sworn into the the presidency, Washington Post columnist George Will hosted a party attended by several prominent conservative pundits — CNBC’s Larry Kudlow, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer, Wall Street Journal editorial page editor Paul Gigot and New York Times columnist David Brooks, among others. (more)

The New York Times Company said on Monday it was in advanced talks to sell 16 regional newspapers, another indication the company was divesting itself of assets to concentrate on its core newspaper business. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times Co. is in advanced talks to sell all of its small, regional publications. (more)

In a New York Times interview with Attorney General Eric Holder, published Sunday, author Charlie Savage made use of a factual inaccuracy in what was — in effect — a defense of Holder from his chorus of critics. (more)

A senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the leader has refused an offer to write an opinion piece for the New York Times, accusing the paper’s opinion pages of anti-Israel bias. (more)

Real estate mogul and ever-present TV personality Donald Trump has penned an open letter to President Barack Obama. (more)

Last Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder testified before the House Judiciary Committee about the fatal gun-running scheme known as “Fast and Furious.” The previous Friday, Holder had conveniently dumped 1,400 pages of Department of Justice (DOJ) internal emails that contradicted the DOJ’s February letter to Congress denying that the DOJ’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had “sanctioned or otherwise knowingly allowed the sale of assault weapons” to suspicious people. Holder was even forced to withdraw the letter from Congress due to its blatant lies. As it turns out, not only did the DOJ put 2,000 high-powered guns directly into the hands of Mexican drug cartel agents, but cartel agents used two of these rifles to gun down Border Patrol Special Agent Brian Terry. (more)

On Friday’s “NewsHour” on PBS, The New York Times columnist David Brooks criticized President Barack Obama’s “Teddy Roosevelt” speech from earlier in the week, which Brooks said focused too much on “inequality” and ignored the need for economic growth. (more)

Liberal economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman attacked unnamed pundits in an article published Thursday, and was almost certainly referencing his Times editorial page colleague Thomas Friedman, Slate’s Dave Weigel notes. (more)

Nixonesque cover-ups are not normally associated with Senator Carl Levin, the powerful chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Generals and admirals, secretaries of this and CEOs of that, address him deferentially as “Mr. Chairman,” befitting a man at the top of Washington’s interlocking directorates of money and power. (more)

The New York Times published an op-ed this week entitled, “The Overblown Islamist Threat,” which isn’t surprising since it would never publish an op-ed entitled, “The Islamist Threat is Very Real.” The surprise is the author’s identity: former Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher. (more)

I have something to confess: I’m conservative, and I love The New York Times. (more)

Investigative reporter Susan Bradford has filed a small-claims court lawsuit in Virginia against The Huffington Post and The New York Times, alleging that the publishers plagiarized her work on the Jack Abramoff scandal in 2008. (more)

A spokesperson for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign accused the New York Times on Monday of “pretty deceptive reporting” in a story about the Republican candidate’s flat tax stance. (more)

Promoting her new book, “The Puppy Diaries,” on “Morning Joe” Monday, Jill Abramson spoke about what it is like to be the first female executive editor of the 160 year-old New York Times and her “brusque” style, as partially detailed in a recent Ken Artuletta New Yorker profile. (more)

When former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld canceled his subscription to The New York Times, was it just the angry online ruminations of columnist Paul Krugman, or was that just the straw that broke the camel’s back? (more)

A liberal advocacy group filed an ethics complaint against House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa on Tuesday and is asking the Office of Congressional Ethics to conduct an investigation. (more)

When University of Texas economist Daniel Hamermesh released a book arguing that society may owe “ugly” people a sort of affirmative-action policy because they tend to earn less money than “beautiful” people, The New York Times gave him space to explain himself. (more)