Posts from February, 2005

  • 18
    Feb    1

    Calculator Wars
    With the Senate Democrats’ Social Insecurity Calculator simply enter your salary and birth year to find out how much you will lose under Bush’s plan to privatize social security. With the Bush Social Security Calculator, you can enter your salary, birth year, years worked, and other stuff to find out how the Bush plan will [...]
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  • 17
    Feb    3

    Good News for People who Love Bad News
    You told yourself that it wasn’t just his frat boy, faith-on-his-sleeve, John Wayne temperament that you hated. Your dissent is rooted in a reason-based (but felt-deep-in-the-gut) belief that the Bush Doctrine, US exceptionalism, pre-emptive aggression, and Neocon adventurism ultimately lead to more problems, more destabilization, more suffering, and countless injustices hidden away from the lens [...]
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  • 4
    Feb    3

    The Embrace
    I’m sure the embrace will be all over the blogosphere over the next few days. No matter how one feels about the war, I think you would have to be supremely cynical to have not been moved by it. Sure, it was stagecraft to some extent. The two ladies (an Iraqi human rights activist whose [...]
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  • 2
    Feb    10

    Return the Favor
    Tony Blair has been very courageous to support the war in Iraq despite its unpopularity in the UK, and Continental Europe. And certainly he’s paid a political price for doing so. Obviously, British troops have paid the ultimate price. 10 soliders died just this past Sunday when their transport plane crashed (presumed to have been [...]
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