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The top of today's reading list is a smackdown of economist Michael Boskin ........ and the last article calls the F-35A fighter program "treason."  There is a lot of nastiness in between today.

Follow up:

• World’s Wrongest Man Ventures Latest Prediction (Jonathan Chait, The New York Times, 05 March 2013) A colossal smack-down of Michael Boskin.  Boskin has contributed to a Great Debate© at Global Economic Intersection.  GEI contributor Paul Kasriel took the other side.

• EU Calls on Spain to Hike Taxes Again, Economic Stupidity at its Finest (Mike Shedlock, MISH'S Global Economic Trend Analysis, 05 March 2013)

• Our Fiscal Anorexia (J.D. Alt, New Economic Perspectives)  J.D. Alt has contributed to Global Economic Intersection.

• Will Canada’s Proposed Tar Sands Oil Pipeline Muck Up Its Pacific Coast? (Anne Casselman, Scientific American)

• RIGHT NOW: Marco Rubio Joins Rand Paul's Epic Filibuster On Civil Liberties (Grace Wyler, Business Insider)  Things are getting down and dirty.
  

• Melting Arctic Ice Will Make Way for More Ships and More Species Invasions (Lisa Palmer, Scientific American)  See also GEI News article.

• Continued Recovery in Housing Sends New Residential Construction Spending Higher in December (Bernard M. Berksstein, Reed Construction Data)
  

• Niall Ferguson: Paul Krugman's Style Of Debate Suggests He May Have Been Traumatized As A Child (Rob Wile, Business Insider)  Forget about down and dirty - this is nasty.
  

• Ailes Calls Obama ‘Lazy,’ Biden ‘Dumb’ (Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast)  This is also nasty.  Must be the weather this week.
  

• Winslow Wheeler: Treason They Name is F-35A — We Expect Hagel to “Do A Cheney” (Winslow Wheeler, Public Intelligence Blog) Great find! Hat tip to Roger Erickson.