WTW has covered the dire condition of private pension funds both here and in the United Kingdom, as well as the likelihood that many American families are going to be left high and dry (at the mercy of their Social Security benefit).  Now "they" are working on public employee pensions, too.

Just can't get enough of debt?  Feel unwanted without harassing calls from unpaid creditors?  You're definitely living in the right country.

Raw Story reports on a piece from Max Blumenthal at The Nation about meetings at the White House...

Bob Ney has been slowly roasting in a large pan full of Abramoff's Fine Olive Oil.  Today he announced his intention to exit that pan by withdrawing from his bid for reelection to the House of Representatives (though he's still subject to the fire of criminal prosecution for being Jack the Flack's House Flunky).

Lots of progressives voice fears that the kids in the U.S. just don't understand what's being done to the country.  I've probably bemoaned that very thing as I looked around a political meeting to find that I, in my 50s, was one of the youngest people present.  But...

If you wondered where tomorrow's absurdist comedians are coming from, quit wondering; the White House is a fertile training ground.

Here we go again, more proof that those wanting "unrestricted trade" are full of....

Every shill should have an apprentice, don't you think?  Well, O'Reilly has one in Neal Boortz, the talk show host and all-round blithering dunce.

I am somewhat amazed at the furor over a certain celebrity getting busted for DUI, and then, according to the stories, said certain things....

Raw story has obtained a 91-page fantasy put together by the Senate Republican leadership duo of Rick Santorum, Chairman and Kay Bailey Hutchison, Vice Chairman.  It's called "August 2006 Recess Themes: Securing America's Future," and is designed to give Senate Repubs a bunch of coordinated talking points during the Senate's recess (see, the Senators go home then, and have a chance to spread the propaganda directly to their constituents, not just to the propaganda outlets in D.C.).

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