Congressional Candidates [in the closest races] Not Supporting Social Security Private Accounts (@ Senior Journal)
Take this with a large grain of salt. Alternate hypothesis: candidates in the closest races this article refers to are simply trying to avoid taking as many potentially polarizing positions as possible in order to maximize their appeal.
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Revival of Social Security Privatization Proposal Threatens Working Families, Says AFGE National Social Security Council (press release)
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) comes out against private accounts.
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Republican Boehner Says Bush Still Faces Social Security Hurdle (Bob Willis, Bloomberg)
Note the article’s identification of Social Security among “other entitlement programs”, and the use o...
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Thursday, March 30, 2006
English Court of Appeal holds that the Security Council has displaced the ECHR
Another English case, and what a remarkable decision it is: the English Court of Appeal (Brooke, May and Rix LJJ) decided yesterday that the Security Council has, by adopting SC Res. 1546 and authorising the Multinational Force to intern people [...]... more
by Mustafa Latif-Aramesh
Preemption is within the law.
It isn’t enough to read a United Nations General Assembly resolution and to conclude that Israel is an aggressor. It also isn’t enough to read an article on Wikipedia. What a person must do is look under every stone and realise the dirt that lies beneath. The Six Day War, a war which unarguably set the agenda of Israel’s future borders, is often used as example of Israel breaking international law, but this is truly a farce.
Custom... more
My son and I were having a deep conversation today. He’s seen the movie "Twilight" (which he claims Mom absolutely, positively MUST see and he would see again) which has something to do with vampires.
And I watched every episode of HBO’s "True Blood" this season, as well as having been an avid Ann Rice fan when Lestat was first published.
Putting aside the variations on the myth for a minute, I pointed out to my kid that a vampire today (if they existed) would have a big ... more
My wife sat down on the couch next to me as I was flipping channels. She asked, ’What’s on TV?’
I said, ’Dust.’
And then the fight started.
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My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary. She said, ’I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 150 in about 3 seconds.’
I bought her a scale.
An... more
Claims managers say they face numerous hurdles when they try to contact illegal immigrants injured at work. Fraudulent Social Security numbers are common, home addresses are wrong, and the workers and their families often are distrustful and unwilli5 Vote(s)... more
The new interest group Scientists and Engineers for America proceeds from a welcome premise:
Scientists and engineers have a right, indeed an obligation, to enter the political debate when the nation’s leaders systematically ignore scientific evidence and analysis, put ideological interests ahead of scientific truths, suppress valid scientific evidence and harass and threaten scientists for speaking honestly about their research.
The SEA’s current agenda leans heavily toward p... more
Klein offers plan at debate to change Social Security (Anthony Man, South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
N.B. the difference. Klein, all by his lonesome. (”He said it took so long to produce because “I’ve been working on a lot of other issues.”") Shaw, subsidized by prepackaged proposals and arguments from Cato, Heritage, NAM, etc.
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Don’t Stick Fork In Editorialists... more
Geraldo Rivera is evidently getting all his information about heredity from 1910s eugenics pamphlets. (The kind from the U.S. eugenics movement some 90 years ago, surely not from that nasty German variant a couple of decades later. Give the poor man some credit.) Via David Weigel at Reason Hit and Run :
O’REILLY: So you do believe in the concept of evil?
RIVERA: Oh, yes.
O’REILLY: Because A lot of secular progressives don’t.
RIVERA: Hitler was evil. H... more
Social Security: Who Will Sign the [For Our Grandchildren / AIFE] Pledge? (Pat Cleary @ National Association of Manufacturers)
“Reps. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) and Sander Levin (D-MI) … blasting the group as “pro-privatization,” and noting “The appearance of this pledge and its carefully-veiled language, shows that the privatizers haven’t given up.” “
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