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  • Shared First Draft of History: 98% of historians call Bush a "Failure" (Public Pulse)
    April 14, 2008 - 8:06am

    U.S. News and World Report reports President Bush "often argues that history will vindicate him.

  • Shared Middle class blues (Public Pulse)
    April 11, 2008 - 2:55pm

    Fewer Americans now than at any time in the past half century believe they're moving forward in life.

  • Shared High prices: food, too (Public Pulse)
    April 7, 2008 - 8:42pm

    The new Gallup poll shows that 51% of U.S. consumers say food prices have increased “a lot” over the past year, up from 28% two years ago, while 24% say the same about healthcare and prescription drugs, down from 34% in 2006.

  • Shared Doctors support universal health care (Public Pulse)
    April 1, 2008 - 8:38am

    More than half (59%) of U.S. doctors now favor switching to a national health insurance program ; fewer than a third (32%) oppose the idea, according to a new survey published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.

  • Shared Social Security Shortfall: In perspective (Fast Fact)
    March 31, 2008 - 8:25am

    Social Security's shortfall over the next 75 years is slightly less than the estimated cost over that period of extending the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts just for the top 1 percent of households.

  • Published Gallup gets it wrong (Blog entry)
    March 27, 2008 - 8:45am

    A brand new Gallup poll reports:

    “Americans prioritize protecting the environment over economic growth by 49% to 42% -- but this seven-point margin is near the low of the past couple of decades.”

    This simple, perhaps disappointing poll, hides as much as it reveals.

  • Shared Mass Layoffs reach new heights (Fast Fact)
    March 21, 2008 - 9:46am

    In February, 1,672 mass layoff events resulted in 177,374 filings for unemployment insurance, seasonally adjusted. Both were the highest since 2003, and the highest in any month since September 2005 (reflecting the impact of Hurricane Katrina).

  • Broadcast Conservatism Is Dying (Blog entry) | March 16, 2008 - 7:35pm
  • Commented The soul of conservatism in a discussion on Conservatism Is Dying (Blog entry) | March 15, 2008 - 6:22pm
  • Published Conservatism Is Dying (Blog entry)
    March 13, 2008 - 8:48pm
    Conservatism as we’ve known it since Ronald Reagan is dying, ground down in the desert of Iraq, drowned in the floods of Hurricane Katrina, foreclosed by the housing crisis and poisoned on toys imported from China.

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  • Shared First Draft of History: 98% of historians call Bush a "Failure" (Public Pulse)
    April 14, 2008 - 8:06am

    U.S. News and World Report reports President Bush "often argues that history will vindicate him.

  • Shared Middle class blues (Public Pulse)
    April 11, 2008 - 2:55pm

    Fewer Americans now than at any time in the past half century believe they're moving forward in life.

  • Shared High prices: food, too (Public Pulse)
    April 7, 2008 - 8:42pm

    The new Gallup poll shows that 51% of U.S. consumers say food prices have increased “a lot” over the past year, up from 28% two years ago, while 24% say the same about healthcare and prescription drugs, down from 34% in 2006.

  • Shared Doctors support universal health care (Public Pulse)
    April 1, 2008 - 8:38am

    More than half (59%) of U.S. doctors now favor switching to a national health insurance program ; fewer than a third (32%) oppose the idea, according to a new survey published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.

  • Shared Social Security Shortfall: In perspective (Fast Fact)
    March 31, 2008 - 8:25am

    Social Security's shortfall over the next 75 years is slightly less than the estimated cost over that period of extending the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts just for the top 1 percent of households.

  • Published Gallup gets it wrong (Blog entry)
    March 27, 2008 - 8:45am

    A brand new Gallup poll reports:

    “Americans prioritize protecting the environment over economic growth by 49% to 42% -- but this seven-point margin is near the low of the past couple of decades.”

    This simple, perhaps disappointing poll, hides as much as it reveals.

  • Shared Mass Layoffs reach new heights (Fast Fact)
    March 21, 2008 - 9:46am

    In February, 1,672 mass layoff events resulted in 177,374 filings for unemployment insurance, seasonally adjusted. Both were the highest since 2003, and the highest in any month since September 2005 (reflecting the impact of Hurricane Katrina).

  • Published Conservatism Is Dying (Blog entry)
    March 13, 2008 - 8:48pm
    Conservatism as we’ve known it since Ronald Reagan is dying, ground down in the desert of Iraq, drowned in the floods of Hurricane Katrina, foreclosed by the housing crisis and poisoned on toys imported from China.
  • Shared Bars not books (Fast Fact)
    March 12, 2008 - 2:24pm

    In the past 20 years, total state spending on prisons increased five times as fast as state spending on higher education (127% v. 21%).

  • Shared New GAO Report: Extra subsidy makes private Medicare Advantage more expensive than traditional Medicare (Fast Fact)
    March 12, 2008 - 10:24am

    The GAO reports that Medicare spends more per beneficiary in private Medicare Advantage plans than it does for beneficiaries in the original Medicare program - a projected $54 billion more from 2009 to 2012.

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