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Bogg’s own footnote:

The phrase "Clear it with Sidney" originated at the Democratic Convention in 1944 when Roosevelt said labor leader Sidney Hillman should be consulted on the choice of a vice-presidential candidate.

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Bogg’s own footnote:

When I speak of "the union" without further qualification, I mean, unless the context indicates otherwise, the United Automobile Workers (UAW). This union displays in clearest form the main trends and developments in the CIO as a whole, and in addition it is the union I know best from long personal experience.

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Necrophilia is a psychiatric disorder typified by a sexual attraction to corpses. The term was coined by the Belgian alienist Joseph Guislain, who first used it in a lecture in 1850.

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A reference to werewolves, which are mythological humans with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf. The transformation into a wolf is often associated with the appearance of a full moon, as popularly noted by the medieval chronicler Gervase of Tilbury, and perhaps in earlier times among the ancient Greeks through the writings of Petronius.

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This is a reference to the Bob Marley song, “I Shot The Sheriff”. When asked about his intentions when writing the song, Marley had this to say:

I want[ed] to say 'I shot the police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I shot the sheriff' instead... but it's the same idea: justice.

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With this sentence, Swift offers judgements and explanations about the rampant beggary discussed in the previous sentence. In short, he believes that the mothers are unable to work because they have been forced to beg. This is worth noting because the language here reverses the sentiment that prevailed at the time A Modest Proposal was written which held that if beggars were poor, it was their own fault.

The remark about Irishmen going to Spain “to fight for the Pretender” (a reference to James II’s son) is (A) a comment on what Swift believed to be a woeful lack of national loyalty among the Irish, and (B) a critique of Ireland as a whole, which Swift believed drove its own citizens to mercenary activity.

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Conducted by Edward Zigler, Sterling professor of psychology at Yale University, and his colleague Sally Horowitz, the study found that, among the many areas of neglect, medical school curricula do not even address how to care for [the mentally retarded].

Federal and state insurance programs also particularly neglect the retarded: Dental care is covered by Medicaid until a person is 21, but after that very limited care is provided, Zigler says.

While this restriction affects all poor people, the developmentally disabled get short shrift because doctors, who resist Medicaid patients as it is because of low reimbursement rates, especially avoid the mentally retarded, says Dr. Stephen Corbin, a dentist and dean of the Special Olympics University.

Source: Mentally Retarded Get Poor Health Care on ABC News

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We looked at data on veterans’ employment compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. We focused on two categories of veterans -- all veterans, as well as those who have specifically served in the post-Sept. 11, 2011, armed forces.

[Ultimately, we found that] whether you’re talking about all veterans or just those who served after 9/11, Obama gets one number right but one number wrong.

Source: Barack Obama touts his record on improving employment of veterans on PolitiFact

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Romney’s term "post-bankruptcy financing" can have two meanings. It can refer to money used during bankruptcy and money used right afterwards. The distinction has great practical significance in this case, because without the loans in the middle of a bankruptcy, there might be no automakers to lend to on the other side.

We can't know for sure which meaning Romney had in mind. However, Obama made a strong assertion. He said Romney would offer no government aid even if the carmakers went through bankruptcy.

Romney’s words were vague and quite limited in number but he did speak of a government guarantee, and that would be the case whether he meant for loans during or after bankruptcy.

Source: Obama says Romney opposed any government help to rescue carmakers on PolitiFact

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(This chart from the Federation of American Scientists projects that Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal (the dotted red line) approaches the size of the United Kingdom’s by 2020.)

Here’s an estimate of the total warheads possessed by today’s nuclear powers, according to the Federation of American Scientists:

Russia: 10,000

United States: 8,000

France: 300

China: 240

United Kingdom: 225

Israel: 80

Pakistan: 90 -- 110

India: 80-100

North Korea: Less than 10

So today, Pakistan’s warhead total is well behind that of the U.K. But Romney said "sometime in the relatively near future."

That’s a vague timeframe, but the experts we contacted said it’s a plausible supposition.

Source: Mitt Romney says Pakistan is on a path to overtake the U.K. in nuclear weapons on PolitiFact

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