While this may reek of "ad hominem", I believe it's important to know that the Wall Street Journal is for conservative audiences by conservative authors. http:

While this may reek of "ad hominem", I believe it's important to know that the Wall Street Journal is for conservative audiences by conservative authors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal#Political_views http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal#Politic.... As such, the editorial pages normally present the truth if and only if that truth conveniently intersects with their ideology. Not saying that liberal outlets don't have the same bias, more so that its opinion pages are not a good source for reasonable, effective analysis of, or solutions for, United States policy shortcomings.