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Steve Benen’s latest fact-checking of Mitt Romney

Posted on 2012-04-29 by GaryMay 5, 2012
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Political blogger Steve Benen has been posting weekly listings of false statements from Mitt Romney for more than three months and they’re worth reading. Benen isn’t a neutral observer (nor am I, for that matter), but his criticisms are valid. … Continue reading →

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Political games actually getting worse

Posted on 2012-04-29 by GaryApril 29, 2012
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I know it’s hard to believe, but things have actually managed to get worse in Congress. As you probably know, interest rates on Stafford loans, a widely used type of college loan, are scheduled to double on July 1 if … Continue reading →

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50th anniversary screening of To Kill a Mockingbird at the White House

Posted on 2012-04-29 by GaryApril 29, 2012
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Mary Badham Wilt (who played Scout), Gregory Pecks’s widow, and students from a local high school were among the audience in the White House theater for a 50th anniversary screening of the classic film To Kill a Mockingbird. I remember … Continue reading →

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Things worth knowing about the U.S. tax system

Posted on 2012-04-27 by GaryApril 26, 2012
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In honor of tax day last week Citizens for Tax Justice released a short list of things worth knowing about the U.S. tax system. CTJ has an agenda, but as far as I can determine its assertions of fact are … Continue reading →

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Obama and the stock market

Posted on 2012-04-25 by GaryApril 24, 2012
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Doug Henwood offers an interesting comparison of the stock market performance of U.S. presidents (1945-present) by this point in each four-year term of office. “Obama’s stock market is the third best,” he concludes, “beaten only by Clinton’s second term and … Continue reading →

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One more bit of misinformation

Posted on 2012-04-24 by GaryApril 24, 2012
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Sometimes the political lies get really blatant. As Steve Benen points out, House Speaker John Boehner’s Twitter account today features the tweet “Student loan rates set to double because a Democratic-controlled Congress voted to double them.” In reality, it’s the … Continue reading →

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Misinformation in the news

Posted on 2012-04-24 by GaryFebruary 7, 2017
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American humorist Josh Billings (pen name of Henry Wheeler Shaw) once wrote, “I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain’t so.” He often used variations on this, and it has been widely quoted and … Continue reading →

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Hindsight: A better alternative to the “individual mandate”

Posted on 2012-04-23 by GaryMay 18, 2015
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The May issue of The American Prospect has a very interesting article by Paul Starr on an alternative to the so-called “individual mandate” in the Affordable Care Act. I write “so-called” because it doesn’t actually require anyone to buy insurance. … Continue reading →

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Give me a hard time and you know what I’ll do?

Posted on 2012-04-22 by GaryApril 20, 2012
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I’ll adopt all three of these kids and move into the apartment next to yours. I’ll have the drummer start rehearsal every morning at 4:00. You have been warned. (Seriously, folks, this is a cool group of kids. Click on … Continue reading →

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Elevator ninjas? Barbershop ninjas?

Posted on 2012-04-21 by GaryApril 20, 2012
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There are some strange ninjas out there: by … Continue reading →

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