Social Security cuts

Right now Obama, Reid, Schumer, Durbin, Pelosi, and Hoyer are planning how to cut Social Security. The Democratic party of FDR, JFK, LBJ, et al is gone. It is no more. Read below the fold...

A few days ago, Tony Blair cancelled a signing of his new triumphalist book. The motive was to avoid a repeat performance of an unpleasant demo that occurred at another signing a few days earlier. British neocentrist site Harry's place lamented this turn of events in a thread entitled Blair cancels. A wide range of opinions both for and against Blair appeared on this thread, but mostly centering on the Iraq war and how nobodycouldanode the reasons given to fight it were lies, and even so, it was all worth it. Read below the fold...

By

Benjamin I. Page

and

Lawrence I. Jacobs

(Cross-posted from New Deal 2.0) Read below the fold...