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Another way not to pay for Social Security

…added resources, Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue told a congressional hearing in May. In a more recent interview with the AARP Bulletin, Astrue said that he is “trying to be…

Foriegners in the US military since year 2000

…thinkers believe the United States should go as far as targeting foreigners in their native countries. “It’s a little dramatic,” said Michael O’Hanlon , a military specialist at the nonpartisan…

To compare or to contrast

Dahr Jamail and Michael Totten are reporting on the same war, the same groups of people, the same country, the same armies. Both are also photographers. Can both be reporting…

Crunch time ahead?

…subject by the Federal Reserve staff economists Dean Maki and Michael Palumbo – that even much of the boom of the late 1990s was built substantially on asset bubbles. [“Disentangling…

Swiftboating Anthony Zinni

…Clinton’s fault. Zinni is some Michael Moore leftie who has flip-flopped. I’m wondering if Hume got this some from this source: Nevertheless, in February of 2000, long before President Bush…

If the Bubble Bursts

Michael Mandel’s piece in Business Week yesterday ended by posing the following question. Suppose the doomsayers are right, and the housing bubble bursts in 2006. Suppose that the fall in…

Is John Shadegg Pro-Growth?

…sizeable amount to Federal spending in the future, let’s see how Shadegg voted via Michael Crowley who first cites this June 2005 passage from Congress Daily: During the marathon vote…