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Looting Social Security: (the Basics Revisited, Again)

…its costs by looting the Social Security system. They are also targeting Medicare and Medicaid. The pitch sounds preposterous to millions of ordinary working people anxious about their economic security…

Soc Sec XXXVI: $17 trillion backward transfer

…between income and cost as somehow being the responsibility of ‘past participants’ is preposterous special pleading. Or someone can convince me otherwise in comments. But in any event you can…

No room for humans in idealogy

…assented to those preposterous accusations, in a sanitized version suitable for Western consumption. Even in the Western countries, quite a few Muslim liberals, the outspoken ones, live today under a…

Never thought I’ld make it to the aristocrat class

…matter how badly they fuck things up. This is the triumphant culmination of two centuries of flawed white-people thinking, a preposterous mix of authoritarian socialism and laissez-faire profiteering, with all…

1,346 Days (UPDATED)

…Day. (Dec 7, 1941 to Aug 14, 1945) (***CORRECTED FROM Aug 24, 1945***) Most comparisons between WWII and the Global War on Terror (GWOT) have been preposterous: Saddam Hussein was…

…intelligence regarding Iraq’s nuclear capabilities–outrageous if true, but more likely preposterous. So the Rice Resignation Watch starts today. AB UPDATE: Atrios has more, including then and now statements from Rice….

Why does Clinton keep getting away with saying that gun manufacturers are the only industry in America that is immune from being held accountable for criminal acts by the purchasers of their products? Almost NO manufacturers are, by law, accountable for criminal acts by purchasers of their products. Someone should ask her to name one that is.

…classic packaged cleverness. The most brazen and preposterous of her sleights-of hand Tuesday night, though, is one that already is starting to backfire, I think. It’s the one about Denmark….