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AROUND THE WEB | pages 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21American Prospect BUSH'S HOUSE OF CARDS: The Privatization FraudWhy We Need Social Security: Anthology of continuing coverage and commentary on Social Security. [ link ] Read the story >
The American Prospect There is No Social Security CrisisLet's say that again: There is no Social Security crisis.[ link ] Read the story >
Dwight Meredith Scare TacticsThe tort reform lobby and the media have chosen to scare the bejesus out of the public to promote a "tort reform" agenda. What is worse, they continually lie to generate the fear. [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org Carlson, Wash. Post misinformation on Social Security's "solvency" furthered Bush administration's crisis rhetoricCNN co-host Tucker Carlson and The Washington Post bolstered the Bush administration's crisis rhetoric on Social Security by providing misleading accounts of the federal program's "solvency." [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times Second Report Shows Charter School Students Not Performing as Well as Other StudentsA federal Education Department analysis of test scores from 2003 shows that children in charter schools generally did not perform as well on exams as those in regular public schools. The analysis, released Wednesday, largely confirms an earlier report on the same statistics by the American Federation of Teachers. [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times Most G.O.P. Plans to Remake Social Security Involve Deep Cuts to Tomorrow's Retirees...nearly every leading Republican proposal on Capitol Hill acknowledges that private accounts by themselves do little to solve the system's projected shortfall of at least $3.5 trillion. Instead, those proposals rely on deep cuts in benefits to future retirees. [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org Russert repeated Social Security privatization proponents' crisis rhetoricOn NBC's Meet the Press, moderator Tim Russert repeated the crisis rhetoric of proponents of the administration's plan to privatize Social Security... [ link ] Read the story >
Atrios The Social Security Media Fix Is InDo you know why? Cavuto's Jordan Kimmel of the Magnet Investment group told us. Cavuto asked him: Also see: Political Animal: Man on the street? Not quite. [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times Borrow, Speculate and Hope...it is now apparent that the Bush administration's privatization proposal will amount to [this]: borrow trillions, put the money in the stock market and hope...Once you realize that privatization really means government borrowing to speculate on stocks, it doesn't sound too responsible, does it? But the details make it considerably worse. [ link ] Read the story >
The Nation Anti-Social SecurityThe battle for Social Security's survival is under way. In a key maneuver recently, N. Gregory Mankiw, George W. Bush's chief economic adviser, explicitly floated the idea of cutting benefits, a necessary but unmentioned part of the White House's privatization plan. [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times Inventing a crisisPrivatizing Social Security - replacing the current system, in whole or in part, with personal investment accounts - won't do anything to strengthen the system's finances. If anything, it will make things worse. Nonetheless, the politics of privatization depend crucially on convincing the public that the system is in imminent danger of collapse, that we must destroy Social Security in order to save it... [ link ] Read the story >
MediaWeek Brent Bozell's PTC files 99.8% of all FCC indeceny complaints!In an appearance before Congress in February ... Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell laid some startling statistics on U.S. senators. [ link ] Read the story >
Counterpunch NSC Adviser Abrams reportedly met with Venezuelan Coup plotters before attempt, knew of timing, and called chances of coup's success "excellent"The November 18 car bombing of Danilo Anderson in Caracas brought back vivid memories.... I didn't know Anderson. But like [Orlando] Letelier, he had information on coup plotters, those who tried to oust Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in April 2002. Neither Anderson's nor Letelier's assassination required Sherlock Homes to guide police in their hunt... Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org Horowitz's "racist" habit...Horowitz has a conspicuous record of freely applying the "racist" label to a wide variety of people and organizations, including [Al] Franken; Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai; the Democratic Party... [ link ] Read the story >
Nouriel Roubini Social Security Privatization as the Mother of All Con-Man Smoke-and-Mirrors Shell-Games... when you carefully look at the facts, it becomes clear that the proposed partial Social Security privatization is literally a Con Man Smoke-and-Mirrors Shell Game that - in the form it has been proposed - will not lead to any of the alleged benefits argued by its supporters. It is amazing the amount of misinformation that one reads about social security privatization... [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times Charter Schools Fall Short in Public Schools MatchupA new study commissioned by the Department of Education, which compares the achievement of students in charter schools with those attending traditional public schools in five states, has concluded that the charter schools were less likely to meet state performance standards. [ link ] Read the story >
Stanford University What's Not To Like About The Academic Bill of RightsDon't believe the doubletalk; Mr. Horowitz and the so-called Students for Academic Freedom are enemies of free thought and free speech [ link ] Read the story >
Feminist Majority Foundation Online State Department Funds Anti-Women's Rights Group To Train Iraqi WomenSecretary of State Colin Powell announced that the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF), was one of the recipients awarded part of a $10 million grant to train Iraqi women in the skills of democratic public life. IWF’s website states that their mission is to counter "the dangerous influence of radical feminism in the courts" and to combat "corrosive feminist ideology on campus." It was "established to combat the women-as-victims, pro-big-government ideology of radical feminism." Also see: IPS: Jim Lobe: Foe of 'Radical Feminism' to Train Iraqi Women The IWF is the gals' auxiliary to wingnuttery [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Post Norquist: "Any farmer will tell you that certain animals [Democrats] run around and are unpleasant, but when they've been fixed, then they are happy and sedate""They are contented and cheerful. They don't go around peeing on the furniture and such." Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org John Fund's book on voter fraud is a fraudIn his recent book Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Democracy (Encounter Books, September 2004), Wall Street Journal op-ed columnist and author John Fund uses distortions and half-truths to impugn Democrats who, he states in his introduction, "figure prominently in the vast majority of examples of election fraud described in this [Fund's] book." [ link ] Read the story >
Village Voice Educate YourselfA grim conspiracy theory, starting with the destruction of public education. Before the Bush regime destroys public education, you'd better hit the books. [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times Magazine Without a Doubt: George Bush's Faith-based Presidency"The [Bush] aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'' [ link ] Read the story >
Washingtonian Washington Post fires 'DOW 36,000' James Glassman"It was getting to the point that the note at the end of the column might be longer than the column," says one Post editor. [ link ] Read the story >
LA Times Booklet That Upset Mrs. Cheney Is HistoryThe Department of Education destroys 300,000 parent guides to remove references to national standards Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Media Matters Ann Coulter on tour: "I think a baseball bat is the most effective way these days" to talk to liberals[FOX News Channel, DaySide with Linda Vester, 10/6] Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Media Matters Coulter on ABC & FOX - opining that Dems have "all become jock-sniffers for war veterans"Ann Coulter appeared on ABC's Good Morning America on October 5, and on FOX News Channel's Hannity & Colmes the previous evening, to promote her book How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter, released October 5 by the Crown Publishing Group. During those appearances, Coulter disparaged former Democratic Senator Max Cleland as the Democrats' "designated hysteric"; claimed that Democrats have "all become jock-sniffers for war veterans" and that today's Democrats "certainly wouldn't have fought World War II"; and asserted that all Muslims whom "we haven't killed" should be converted to Christianity. [ link ] Read the story >
San Francisco Chronicle Moonies knee-deep in faith-based funds Pushing celibacy, marriage counseling under Bush planPresident Bush has some new troops in his crusade to promote "healthy marriage" and teen celibacy with federal funds -- followers of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the controversial Korean evangelist and self-proclaimed new world messiah. [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org MSNBC yanks GOP "pollster" Frank LuntzUpon hearing that MSNBC planned for Republican pollster Frank Luntz to conduct on-air focus groups as part of the cable network's debate coverage tonight, David Brock of the media watchdog group Media Matters sent MSNBC executive Rick Kaplan a letter of complaint. It looks like Kaplan listened. [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org WABC's Levin compared U.N. to KKKOn the September 23 broadcast of the Mark Levin Show on WABC radio, host and Landmark Legal Foundation president Mark R. Levin likened the United Nations to the Ku Klux Klan. While discussing Senator John Kerry's proposals for the war in Iraq, a caller expressed his disgust for "Kerry's sensitivity to that international house of money launderers on the east side of Manhattan," referring to the United Nations. [ link ] Read the story >
American Prospect Schoolhouse SchlockConservatives hold research on charter schools to a new, low standard[ link ] Read the story >
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