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Why does Santa hate poor kids?

More Christmas cheer by Bruce Webb (cross posted at dKos) This is in response to some comments on Kos’s Track Santa post (about NORAD ‘tracking’ Santa and putting it up…

Christmas in Iraq: Not so Merry for Christians

by Bruce Webb Iraq Christians face ‘bleak future’ Christians in Iraq face a “bleak future,” said Kassab, executive director of the Chaldean Federation of America, a nonprofit group that helps…

2008 Financial Report of the United States

by Bruce Webb 2008 Financial Report of the United States Government (Report) provides the President, Congress, and the American people a comprehensive view of the Federal Government’s finances, i.e., its…

Brenda Rosser responds

rdan (Lifted from comments from Bruce Webb’s main post Is it true that foreigners finance our debt? to her main post, with Prof. Rosser’s permission) I have just found and…

Back at you on GM argument

…is about the same. First, Social Security. Writers like Bruce Webb and Coberly here at Angry Bear, plus numerous others, have pointed out many times – there is no problem…

Why the Filibuster Doesn’t Matter (so much)

by Bruce Webb A great deal of ink and untold pixels have been expended ‘explaining’ why a real majority in the Senate requires enough votes to shut down a filibuster,…

Politically Motivated Biased Censoring

…talk with people who don’t want anything to do with me and find links to data to be offensive. Besides, as Bruce Webb has pointed out, this isn’t a free…