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John Boehner Needs a Dictionary

…“Work will make you free,” remains above the front gate of Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland, a permanent reminder of the deeply sinister nature of extreme semantics games employed in the…

How To Debate Paul Krugman

…make believe, and straw man stuffing. He then hints that we should go back to the gold standard and totally unfettered free markets. Schlichter lists Krugman’s alleged assumptions, condensed here:…

Norquist and LaPierre: Emperors Losing Their Clothes?

…in his “More Guns, More Crime,” Journal of Political Economy, 2001. His recent claims that mass murders happen only in gun free zones, except for the Gabby Giffords tragedy last…

What is the Economic Middle Class?

…$67,950.  But right wingers live in a data-free world, so this is no surprise. Another contention in comments at that site is that the middle class is undefined and undefinable….