If you couldn’t make the distinction between legal immigration and illegal immigration from the get go, and if you can’t see that the criminal prosecutions of Trump were 100 percent motivated by politics and that no other politician would have faced such a judicial onslaught, then you have a LONG way toward a truly open mind. Nevertheless, keep up the good work, and keep striving for that ideal.
Dear Joe: DEI, in its present form, torments and discounts achievement and excellence. It is very difficult to find any organization, deeply steeped in DEI, that tells the truth, and isn't that the foundational element we are seeking?
Joe, you are exactly why I will no longer give you, and the FP, any more $$$. You have grifted off the moral panic induced reporting of "Orange Man Bad" for years. You are not a reporter or columnist, you are a propagandist, using a pre-determined outcome and beleif to shape your words.
Katie Herzog's blatant lies about Candace Owens, Eli Lake's convenient misrepresentation of the immigration process, and the claim of "equal representation" at the FP are anything but. I will support a rag that actually aspires to a higher level of thinking. The FP has demonstrated it is not capable.
Thanks for the tip about A Fatal Inheritance. My family has suffered from this genetic mutation and it is devastating. My wife died of brain cancer, and a daughter has inherited the trait. Cousins have suffered worse. This looks like a great book--the first on this particular disease. I have ordered the book.
Thanks, Joe, for stepping out of your echo chamber and acknowledging that a person can hold conflicting views in his head at the same time. Many readers have come to The Free Press in numbers because the political landscape is complex and one side cannot have the winning arguments all the time. Some folks who frequently post comments on TFP articles should consider following your example (unless they are unicorns who are right every single time).
Joe, I'm really glad you're at Free Press! We Conservatives need good news writing by (non-TDS Liberals), and I value it greatly to better understand aspects of Liberal thought I have missed in the era of "it's all Trump's fault" news. So ignore the naysayers on here -- keep writing.
Joe Nocero is still incorrect. the vast majority of time, but we need him to compare against the rational writers that have become our voices. Don't forget The Free Press was once called Common Sense. If he thinks that this mass migration encouraged by the soon to be prior administration can be sustained by our largess can continue unabated, the his intellect has been dulled immensely.
In the old days, there used to be a "show Jew" in some companies and country clubs. I guess he's the "show liberal".
The first article I read by Joe Nocera was about Boeing, and I took an instant dislike to him. Not that Boeing doesn't have a bloody lot of problems, but Nocera seemed to have BDS - Boeing derangement syndrome, and a hatred of big business in general. Gradually I came to realize that he's an excellent and thoughtful writer. (Though I still don't give him a pass on that Boing article.) As someone who is also pro-immigration, I hope he will write more on that topic. We need immigrants! We are desperately short of engineers, doctors, and other high-skilled professionals. But we should let in anyone who wants to work. If someone is willing to do a job for less, that leads to lower prices and benefits the economy overall. There is no divine right of stagnation, as Ayn Rand put it. You don't get to have your wage protected just because you were born here. To those who defend Trump by pointing out the transgressions of the left, none of the egregious behavior of the Democrats in any way mitigates the behavior of Donald Trump on January 6th. Trump is a would be dictator who doesn't adhere to, or even understand the constitution, or respect individual rights. Anyway, thanks, Mr. Nocera. I look forward to reading more from you! (p.s. I'm the great-grand-daughter of Italian immigrants who landed at Ellis Island in 1905.)
DR. Prasad's article about RFK junior is an excellent example of true journalism and I recommend it. He lays out a reasonable case for understanding that some of the "nutty" ideas RFK espouses is actually common practice in other modern, western countries. He does not give the man a pass for some of his ideas but I came away thinking there could be some value in looking at public health issues with a fresh set of eyes. Good work FP and yes, it is OK to change your mind.
As the daughter of an immigrant it really bothers me when legal and illegal immigration is made out to be the same thing. My father did it legally, it was a process and he was proud to have become a citizen. Illegal immigrants take no pride and scoff at our country. Very few are against legal migration, it's the illegals and the false "asylum" seekers that most of us are against. It's a pretty basic and easy concept to grasp.
To claim that you have shed TDS may be true in the context of your Upper West Side neighborhood.
Unsolicited advice:
Try some of that on the ground experience that you so value in your writers.
Bethlehem PA is a 1:45 min drive from West 96th Street.
Go see how globalization hollowed out middle class America.
Visit the National Museum of industrial history- a Smithsonian. Open until 5pm today. 10-5 weekends. Talk to the volunteers about their careers and families.
Not about who they voted for, but about their lives, what they care about, what they worry about.
(Triangulate those with the actual statements and actions taken by the two Presidential candidates and the actual voting results.)
Guaranteed eye opener.
Lunch at Sibris Restaurant.
Slow drive up and down the hills of the city.
Still time to be back in your enclave by NY dinner time.
Not even a full day rental car.
It might not change your mind but I am pretty sure it will help you better understand why millions of other voters did.
Joe… you are getting closer. When you use terms like crank and conspiracy theory to frame your opinion on JFK, that is not true unbiased reporting. You are still conveying your tribal alliance and holding on to the last clutches of the perceived importance of a place in liberal NY society. Try looking into all the things he has gotten right, listen to his actual words about vaccines and healthcare… and welcome yourself to the new reality of the dawning second quarter of the 21st century
The Biden debacle was the best thing that ever happened to our nation.
Every part of our lives was turned upside-down and our delusional leader told us to stay home or be made a example of.
As this was going on the thugs in the liberal cities were burning police buildings and cop cars and cleaning out stores with the governor's blessings. Every part of our country has suffered from the stupid actions of libturd lunacy but that wasn't enough, now on the way out the back door Biden is freeing the scum of the earth on us. I guess letting 10 or 20 million strangers and possible terrorists in wasn't enough.
By doing all of this insane crap to our nation the commierat's managed to open the eye's of a lot of people who followed them like lemmings to the slaughter house.
The fastest way to keep a person from listening to my or anyone else’s opinions is to try to ram it down another’s persons throat.
I am always respectful of other people’s beliefs and or opinions.
If we can’t agree on certain subjects, I just say that we can agree to disagree.
President Trump does not have that ability. He makes everything personal and hence can’t break through to a large portion of the public..
On the flipside of that is there are many on the left that disagree with him no matter what he says, and then he does not help the situation by his crude remarks.
I can only hope that American citizens can start to help each other again otherwise there won’t be anything left for China to take.
If you couldn’t make the distinction between legal immigration and illegal immigration from the get go, and if you can’t see that the criminal prosecutions of Trump were 100 percent motivated by politics and that no other politician would have faced such a judicial onslaught, then you have a LONG way toward a truly open mind. Nevertheless, keep up the good work, and keep striving for that ideal.
Dear Joe: DEI, in its present form, torments and discounts achievement and excellence. It is very difficult to find any organization, deeply steeped in DEI, that tells the truth, and isn't that the foundational element we are seeking?
Joe, you are exactly why I will no longer give you, and the FP, any more $$$. You have grifted off the moral panic induced reporting of "Orange Man Bad" for years. You are not a reporter or columnist, you are a propagandist, using a pre-determined outcome and beleif to shape your words.
Katie Herzog's blatant lies about Candace Owens, Eli Lake's convenient misrepresentation of the immigration process, and the claim of "equal representation" at the FP are anything but. I will support a rag that actually aspires to a higher level of thinking. The FP has demonstrated it is not capable.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Thanks for the tip about A Fatal Inheritance. My family has suffered from this genetic mutation and it is devastating. My wife died of brain cancer, and a daughter has inherited the trait. Cousins have suffered worse. This looks like a great book--the first on this particular disease. I have ordered the book.
Thanks, Joe, for stepping out of your echo chamber and acknowledging that a person can hold conflicting views in his head at the same time. Many readers have come to The Free Press in numbers because the political landscape is complex and one side cannot have the winning arguments all the time. Some folks who frequently post comments on TFP articles should consider following your example (unless they are unicorns who are right every single time).
Sorry, Joe. You're the only one in The Free Press universe who thinks any investigation into Trump is legitimate.
Joe, I'm really glad you're at Free Press! We Conservatives need good news writing by (non-TDS Liberals), and I value it greatly to better understand aspects of Liberal thought I have missed in the era of "it's all Trump's fault" news. So ignore the naysayers on here -- keep writing.
Joe Nocero is still incorrect. the vast majority of time, but we need him to compare against the rational writers that have become our voices. Don't forget The Free Press was once called Common Sense. If he thinks that this mass migration encouraged by the soon to be prior administration can be sustained by our largess can continue unabated, the his intellect has been dulled immensely.
In the old days, there used to be a "show Jew" in some companies and country clubs. I guess he's the "show liberal".
The first article I read by Joe Nocera was about Boeing, and I took an instant dislike to him. Not that Boeing doesn't have a bloody lot of problems, but Nocera seemed to have BDS - Boeing derangement syndrome, and a hatred of big business in general. Gradually I came to realize that he's an excellent and thoughtful writer. (Though I still don't give him a pass on that Boing article.) As someone who is also pro-immigration, I hope he will write more on that topic. We need immigrants! We are desperately short of engineers, doctors, and other high-skilled professionals. But we should let in anyone who wants to work. If someone is willing to do a job for less, that leads to lower prices and benefits the economy overall. There is no divine right of stagnation, as Ayn Rand put it. You don't get to have your wage protected just because you were born here. To those who defend Trump by pointing out the transgressions of the left, none of the egregious behavior of the Democrats in any way mitigates the behavior of Donald Trump on January 6th. Trump is a would be dictator who doesn't adhere to, or even understand the constitution, or respect individual rights. Anyway, thanks, Mr. Nocera. I look forward to reading more from you! (p.s. I'm the great-grand-daughter of Italian immigrants who landed at Ellis Island in 1905.)
Just out of curiousity, can you please explain what Trump did on J6 and his lack of understanding of the Constitution.
Honest question.
Another person with TDS. Sad.
You mean to tell me, they didn't sneak across the border illegally?
What does a Deputy Managing Editor do? Obviously, he does not edit.
DR. Prasad's article about RFK junior is an excellent example of true journalism and I recommend it. He lays out a reasonable case for understanding that some of the "nutty" ideas RFK espouses is actually common practice in other modern, western countries. He does not give the man a pass for some of his ideas but I came away thinking there could be some value in looking at public health issues with a fresh set of eyes. Good work FP and yes, it is OK to change your mind.
As the daughter of an immigrant it really bothers me when legal and illegal immigration is made out to be the same thing. My father did it legally, it was a process and he was proud to have become a citizen. Illegal immigrants take no pride and scoff at our country. Very few are against legal migration, it's the illegals and the false "asylum" seekers that most of us are against. It's a pretty basic and easy concept to grasp.
The progressives treat illegal aliens who are violent, and take over cities in the same way they denied that Covid 19 came out of a lab in Wuhan.
To claim that you have shed TDS may be true in the context of your Upper West Side neighborhood.
Unsolicited advice:
Try some of that on the ground experience that you so value in your writers.
Bethlehem PA is a 1:45 min drive from West 96th Street.
Go see how globalization hollowed out middle class America.
Visit the National Museum of industrial history- a Smithsonian. Open until 5pm today. 10-5 weekends. Talk to the volunteers about their careers and families.
Not about who they voted for, but about their lives, what they care about, what they worry about.
(Triangulate those with the actual statements and actions taken by the two Presidential candidates and the actual voting results.)
Guaranteed eye opener.
Lunch at Sibris Restaurant.
Slow drive up and down the hills of the city.
Still time to be back in your enclave by NY dinner time.
Not even a full day rental car.
It might not change your mind but I am pretty sure it will help you better understand why millions of other voters did.
Joe… you are getting closer. When you use terms like crank and conspiracy theory to frame your opinion on JFK, that is not true unbiased reporting. You are still conveying your tribal alliance and holding on to the last clutches of the perceived importance of a place in liberal NY society. Try looking into all the things he has gotten right, listen to his actual words about vaccines and healthcare… and welcome yourself to the new reality of the dawning second quarter of the 21st century
The Biden debacle was the best thing that ever happened to our nation.
Every part of our lives was turned upside-down and our delusional leader told us to stay home or be made a example of.
As this was going on the thugs in the liberal cities were burning police buildings and cop cars and cleaning out stores with the governor's blessings. Every part of our country has suffered from the stupid actions of libturd lunacy but that wasn't enough, now on the way out the back door Biden is freeing the scum of the earth on us. I guess letting 10 or 20 million strangers and possible terrorists in wasn't enough.
By doing all of this insane crap to our nation the commierat's managed to open the eye's of a lot of people who followed them like lemmings to the slaughter house.
The fastest way to keep a person from listening to my or anyone else’s opinions is to try to ram it down another’s persons throat.
I am always respectful of other people’s beliefs and or opinions.
If we can’t agree on certain subjects, I just say that we can agree to disagree.
President Trump does not have that ability. He makes everything personal and hence can’t break through to a large portion of the public..
On the flipside of that is there are many on the left that disagree with him no matter what he says, and then he does not help the situation by his crude remarks.
I can only hope that American citizens can start to help each other again otherwise there won’t be anything left for China to take.
Happy new year to everyone 😎