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Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death  and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He said today: “The tenth anniversary of the Iraq invasion comes at a time of chilling statements from the top of the U.S. government. Days ago, speaking of possible actions against Iran, President Obama told an Israeli TV reporter: ‘I continue to keep all options on the table.’ Earlier this month, Vice President Biden told the AIPAC annual conference that Obama ‘is not bluffing’ and declared that ‘all options, including military force, are on the table.’ These statements are similar to the threats uttered by President Bush and Vice President Cheney prior to the invasion of Iraq.” Solomon added: “Despite the myth that just about everyone believed there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, many experts and independent groups in the United States — including the Institute for Public Accuracy — thoroughly debunked such claims during the year before the invasion...

How many candidates for Congress last year won on the following platform? 1. That Social Security cost-of-living adjustments are too generous. Social Security should be cut over the next two decades by more than $1,000 a year for 85-year-old widows living on $1,200 a month.  2. That benefits earned by disabled veterans as a result of losing their arms, legs or eyesight in Iraq and Afghanistan are too generous. Disabled veterans’ benefits should be cut over the next 15 years by more than $1,400 a year. Chained CPI: An economic, moral disaster - The Hill

en  on Mar 7, 2013 at 3:00 pm The US Supreme Court seems poised to invalidate a key section of the Voting Rights Act after last week’s  hostile oral argument . Conservative justices insisted that special protections for minority voters in historically discriminatory districts are now obsolete. While Justice Antonin Scalia brashly attacked the law as  “a perpetuation of racial entitlement,”  Chief Justice John Roberts attempted a more measured statistical argument. Roberts claimed that Section 5′s focus on southern states was outdated because Mississippi has the highest black voter turnout, while Massachusetts has the lowest. Statistics guru Nate Silver  dismantled  Roberts’ argument in his New York Times column today, pointing out that Roberts cherry-picked two states outside the norm: In fact, it would be dangerous to infer very much from Massachusetts and Mississippi.  In 2004, for instance, while Mississippi was reported to have strong black turnou...

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