A lot of people still think of Time as a news magazine, as opposed to the more opinionated variety like The Nation, The New Republic, or National Review.

* A lot of people still think of Time as a news magazine, as opposed to the more opinionated variety like The Nation, The New Republic, or NATIONAL REVIEW. A perusal of its recent cover stories proves otherwise. Its most recent cover as of press time featured New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as "the new action heroes ... doing big things that Washington has failed to do." What "big things"? How about banning trans-fats (Bloomberg), using tax dollars to fund embryo-destroying stem-cell research (Schwarzenegger), and pushing for economically burdensome caps on carbon emissions (both)? No wonder Time considers these men heroes; a Time cover last year warned readers to "Be worried. Be very worried" about global warming, and number 5 on its April list of "51 things we can do to save the environment" was "Pay the carbon tax." Time recently ran a cover story titled, "Why amnesty [for illegal immigrants] makes sense," and its editors decided to leave President Bush off its list of the 100 Most Influential People. Sad to see Time going in this direction. The country does not lack for liberal opinion magazines.