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Social Security: Michael Tanner v. Mark Thoma

Mark Thoma links to a story from the Poughkeepsie Journal where apparently the Poughkeepsie crowd was more impressed by Paul Krugman than Michael Tanner – despite Tanner’s usual spin: Tanner…

Soc. Sec. Debate: Paul Krugman v. Michael Tanner

…W 64th Street, New York, NY 10023 (on the corner of Central Park West) Featuring Michael Tanner, Director of Health & Welfare Studies, The Cato Institute, and Paul Krugman, author…

Michael Scheuer leaves CIA

Dana Priest reports: Michael Scheuer, the author and former chief of the CIA’s Osama bin Laden unit, announced yesterday that he had resigned from the agency so he could speak…

Republicans and Dana Milbank Solve the Unemployment Problem in Germany, Canada, Taiwan and Australia: Those countries just need to repeal their universal-healthcare laws and tie healthcare insurance to full-time employment at large corporations!

…reduce their weekly hours from full-time to part-time because they no longer need to work or to work full-time in order to have access to healthcare insurance insurance. One of…