Stories for July 10, 2011

Parsing the posing on the deficit bills

Sun, Jul 10, 9:45 p.m.

By Ted Van Dyk

A guide to splitting hairs. Tax rates won't go up but tax revenues will. Entitlement spending will be cut, but not if you're over 55. And it's really all up to the later Congresses.

Rupert Murdoch has tainted journalism here, too

Sun, Jul 10, 3:36 p.m.

By Floyd McKay

The tabloid king has used properties like the "Wall Street Journal" in the U.S. and the "Sunday Times" in London to give himself a veneer of respectability and real political power.