Smarter Times catches the Gray Lady (registration required) in a little bit of hypocrisy:
"The Supreme Court cannot permit cities like Cleveland to violate the Establishment Clause in order to improve education any more than it could allow them to deprive citizens of their free-speech rights, if that were seen as a boon to public education," the Times editorial says.Posted by Jane Galt at February 20, 2002 2:03 PM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound linksWell, that's just rich, given that the Times has just concluded an editorial campaign arguing in favor of Congress depriving citizens of their free-speech rights, on the grounds that doing so would help clean up elections. The Times calls that "campaign-finance reform."