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Social Security Monitor
I have seen you refer to the privatized Social Security system in Chile several times as a model for the United States. I believe that you would not hold this view if you were more aware of the details of the Chilean system. First, you have often claimed that the Chilean system is voluntary.
Madeleine Albright From 1997 to 2001, under President William J.
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Jay Cost responds to the Washington Post’s forecasting model that I helped put together: I find Klein’s model to be particularly unpersuasive, but all these models seem to share a similar problem: they take the blowout elections of 1952, 1956, 1964, 1972, 1980, and 1984 not as historical peculiarities with little relevance to today, but as central tendencies.
The Monkey Cage
Today, I discovered that some of you may have had difficulty posting comments here, because of the new Blogger settings.
American Leftist
Donkeylicious
A few people have asked me what I think about the controversy surrounding Yale-NUS college , so it's probably worth blogging about.
The Contemporary Condition
Patriotism as a normalizing force, presupposing and engendering its own truth, succeeds by continually extending its reach.
Tom Mann and Norm Ornstein, political scientists and (I hope they wouldn't object to the characterization) quintessential center-loving establishment types, take full aim at the Republican Party in a column today at the Washington Post.
A plain blog about politics
LEFT is RIGHT
In fact, it’s likely that the week that photo was taken will prove “the driest first week in recorded U.S. history.” Indeed, it followed on 2011, which showed the greatest weather extremes in our history -- 56% of the country was either in drought or flood, which was no surprise since “climate change science predicts wet areas will tend to get wetter and dry areas will tend to get drier.” Indeed, the nation suffered 14 weather disasters each causing $1 billion or more in damage last year.1 Geostationary satellites
Ramblings
Meghan McCain is in Playboy (google it yourself) quoted as saying "I like sex and I like men." Which leads me to re-run this post I wrote in 2009.
Blue Gal
Part 3—The New York Times, novels v. facts: Thanks to the way modern journalists work, we live in a world with very few facts.
the daily howler
I just finished this MUST READ blog post from Americans United for Separation of Church and State. It seems the US Catholic Bishops have decided to do a "full court press" to compel people to follow their religious doctrine. According to Americans United: "The bishops’ religious liberty is not threatened in the United States, and what they don’t seem to understand is that they aren’t really fighting for freedom of conscience – they’re fighting for the idea that religious “corporate conscience” is more important than individual rights.
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Now that it seems Romney is all set to become the Republican nominee for president, we are beginning to hear more speculation about Romney’s choice of a running mate. Larry J.