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Results of the Pick your Pork Wonkathon

by Bruce Webb Disappointing from the point of view of participation, yet not unexpected. Because I just don’t think they have the numbers on their side. On Friday I invited…

…Spending Numbers. Note that the Bush budgets and tax plans were in effect from roughly 2002 onward (Spending in 2001 was authored by Clinton; Bush’s 2001 rebate did cut into…

Diagnosing the Dynamics of Social Security

…sobering, recent numbers show OAS having stalled and DI actually in retrograde. (Biggs has the February numbers in his post Slowdown Slashes Social Security Surplus and they are not pretty)….

…two concerns from liberals in the last few weeks: first, why aren’t Kerry’s numbers going up?; second, why isn’t Kerry speaking up more? I think that Kerry’s numbers have in…