Amazing Art
Esref Armagan is an accomplished painter, and has been blind since infancy. Brain scans show he uses his visual cortex while drawing, but not while imagining an image (as a sighted person does.)
1/31/2005
Bush May Back Curbs on Accounts (washingtonpost.com)
Bush, who plans to make Social Security the centerpiece of tomorrow’s State of the Union address, has privately told GOP lawmakers and aides that he would support phasing in changes to the system to keep deficits under control over the next several years and push individuals who opt for private accounts into more conservative investments, such as bonds, as they near retirement to mitigate long-term risks, the sources said.
LONG-RANGE FISCAL POLICY BRIEF
Social Security Reform: The Use of Private Securities and the Need for Economic Growth
A series of issue summaries from the Congressional Budget Office, No. 7, January 3, 2003
Guantanamo Tribunals Unconstitutional
A U.S. judge ruled on Monday that the Guantanamo military tribunals for terrorism suspects are unconstitutional.
Bush Hits Road After SOTU To Sell Privatization
As you might have guessed, for a White House that claims they don’t use polls to drive policy, they in fact used polls to drive the policy and in typical Luntzspeak/Rovian fashion, polls were used to identify the best words and phrases to be used on citizens to sell them the benefits of privatization.