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Monthly Archives: February 2016

Yet another post on social security

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Dean Baker once again takes on the folks who are calling for means testing Social Security: Eduardo Porter had a piece this morning about how a group of academics on the left and right came together around a common agenda. It is worth briefly commenting on two of the items on which the “left” made […]

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McKesson running for Baltimore mayor

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Bowdoin alum DeRay McKesson (of whom we left thinking Bowdoinites are very proud) is running for mayor of Baltimore. It’s a job I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy, but he apparently wants it. You can donate here.

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Grifter’s goodbye

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Back in August I drafted a post that I guess I never put up, since I can’t find it on the net. The thrust of it was that the Republican candidates, other than Trump, came in three basic flavors. Here’s how I described one of those flavors: The second group are the grifters. These are […]

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Can’t miss, get rich quick scheme

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Sent to me by a friend from California:    It’s not every day you can make money and perform a public service.

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Trump field organizer totally blindsided

Monday, February 1, 2016

My heart is bleeding for this woman: A former paid organizer for Donald J. Trump who was fired this month has accused his presidential campaign of sex discrimination. Elizabeth Mae Davidson, 26, who was the Trump campaign’s field organizer here in Davenport, Iowa’s third-largest city, said in a discrimination complaint that men doing the same […]

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