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Has David Brooks Captured Greg Mankiw’s Brain?

…Bush’s proposal for Social Security reform. Literally, of course, that is not true. But the retirement plan Harvard has set up for faculty members like me bears a striking resemblance…

The Performance of Chile’s Retirement Privatization

…Yermo provides more details. Critics of privatization note that the higher expected returns from investing in the stock market come with greater risks. The Chile experiment bears this out as…

Yikes!

…jewel of faith are likely to be delusive, because their outward appearance bears a striking resemblance to that which both the infinite resignation and faith profoundly despise … to Philistinism….

Live Bloggin’

…apparently isn’t in fact a Godless Liberal. – A little fodder for the conspiracy theorists: Bush keeps looking down at his podium. – Scheiffer: “…who bears responsibility for this [rising…

…Jesse, in his inimitable style: Besides watching Illinois Messiah (it was promised that he would ride into the Senate on a horse and an ass, praising the Cubs and Bears)……

…the article.) At one point, the reporter asks an interesting question: … the question still bears asking: At what point does the nationalization of local races tip the scales of…

…crosses, in which case they would represent the faith-based component of the Mars mission. UPDATE: Dwight Meredith astutely observes that this proposal “bears an uncanny resemblance to the ethanol program…

…you get the point. UPDATE: Via corrente, I find this impressive bit of buck-stops-here-ism: Asked who bears the blame for the nation’s growing budget deficit, Bush said “It’s nobody’s fault.”…