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• Are school lunch subsidies useful?

  
  Economic Logic — Authority: 467
  I have always found it puzzling that so many American children qualify for school lunch subsidies. It seems that in the richest country of the world at a time where the world was never this rich, no children should go hungry. Yet many apparently are. And it seems that these school lunch programs are doing them good, ...
  3 hours ago

• Greyhound racing is done in Wisconsin

  
  ohmidog! — Authority: 528
    Greyhound racing is nearing the finish line in Wisconsin. Dairyland Greyhound Park, in Kenosha — the last operating track in the state –  announced Tuesday it will close its doors after racing ends Dec. 31. Dairyland was one of five Wisconsin tracks that opened after a 1987 amendment to the state ...
  8 hours ago

• The Pig, The CAFO, & The Flu

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 463
  David Cassuto Excellent piece here regarding the pig CAFO/swine flu link and another one here about the inefficacy of the vaccine approach to prophylaxis.  And yet another interesting piece here about the intelligence and social nature of pigs. In light of these developments, let’s consider the American ...
  8 hours ago

• Radicals can still have hope in Cameron

  
  thetorydiary — Authority: 685
  Benedict Brogan uses his Telegraph column to list Tory MPs concerns that Cameron will be a trimmer rather than a radical. My responses are in italics after each paragraph. On tax... "The Tory Right remains disbelieving of George Osbornes decision to accept – for the foreseeable future – Labours new 50p ...
  10 hours ago

• Dead Cat

  
  Infinite Possibility — Authority: 114
  Earlier tonight my daughter and I went out for a bit; we got home around 9 pm, or four hours ago. Kara just went out to go for a walk and found a dead cat on our walk. Our driveway is about 50 yards long and it’s another 15 feet to the porch; the cat was about 3 feet shy of making the porch. It was a small, charcoal ...
  12 hours ago

• Report finds job training by D.C. welfare program lacking

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 963
  At a time when unemployment is hitting the District hard, a new review of the citys welfare program has found that it is pushing recipients to work but is not providing the skills and support they need to land decent-paying jobs.
  13 hours ago

• The claims of the Executive Director of Michigan Federation for Children and Families

  
  Legally Kidnapped — Authority: 453
  Continued Advocacy Efforts of the Michigan Federation The Michigan Federation for Children and Families is working hard on behalf of its member agencies to advocate for the populations they serve in the middle of the budget discussions taking place at the State Capitol. Note: Dont ask.
  13 hours ago

• Reintroduce interest on student loans? No thanks!

  
  frogblog — Authority: 569
  Having just picked up the role of Tertiary Education spokesperson for the Green Party, I was alarmed to hear Otago University Vice-Chancellor David Skegg calling for the Government to reintroduce interest on student loans while students are studying, and using the money to increase funding to Universities. We know ...
  17 hours ago

• Gutting ACC – join the fightback

  
  frogblog — Authority: 569
  The fightback against the Government’s proposed ACC cuts is building. Green Party ACC spokesperson Kevin Hague has developed a submission guide to assist people who want to make submissions against the cuts. Submissions close 26 November 2009 , so get in quick if you want to have your say. There’s also a big ...
  17 hours ago

• Backfire! Health care will put us all into the public option

  
  yeah, right — Authority: 130
  Let’s pretend you run a business.  Let’s pretend it’s located in New York State, and you already pay crippling state and federal taxes that make it hard to compete.   You have 10 employees, 7 with families and 3 who are single, with an annual payroll of $509,000.  Pelosi’s health care system gives you a ...
  18 hours ago

• Its dog eat dog round my way

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Beware those so-called rescue dogs from Battersea . . . No one seems quite sure exactly what form the "crackdown" on "weapon dogs" will take. But at least the excitingly explicit nomenclature is catching on. There are a lot of weapon dogs round our way. But no one calls them weapon dogs. Instead they are called ...
  18 hours ago

• Billy Grahams Prayer for the USA cuts to the heart of all our cultures

  
  080808 On,Now,To the Third Level — Authority: 122
  I do not apologise for again posting something from this saint. He was the one God used to bring me to Himself. Billy Grahams Prayer For Our Nation THIS MAN SURE HAS A GOOD VIEW OF WHATS HAPPENING TO OUR COUNTRY! Bonnie Morris sent this through by email. Bonnie writes: Billy Graham--it never hurts to be a ...
  22 hours ago

• Lessons of November: Politics out of touch with American life

  
  The Indypendent — Authority: 532
  All over America, pundits are spinning the wisdoms and trends revealed by the New Jersey, Virginia, mayoral, and Maine votes. No doubt, much is simple spin, and many fine observations lurk. This short article will try to bend the debate in a very different direction. I believe that hordes of voters went yesterday and ...
  23 hours ago

• David Cameron’s Big Society Speech

  
  ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC — Authority: 524
  David Cameron’s Hugo Young Lecture is the closest any Conservative has come to explaining how they expect reactionary methods to achieve progressive ends. He fails, but the speech should not be written off and it shows that he has – at least rhetorically – broken with the Conservatives of the 1980s and 90s, ...
  1 day ago

• There Is No Market Solution

  
  Vegan Soapbox — Authority: 530
  In an article that attempts to “characterize the current state of the farm animal welfare debate” is some interesting information about public opinion regarding animal agriculture: “Animal rights groups and livestock industries have adopted very different strategies in debating farm animal welfare. Animal ...
  1 day ago

• Meddling Is What Rewards Congressmen With Campaign Funds

  
  Conservative Compendium — Authority: 431
  Single issue organizations are prone to making an effort to tie major news items to their agenda in order to piggy-back on the big issues of the day and gain publicity.  I can hardly fault them for it, but when they use faulty logic in an effort to restrict freedoms , I must call them out. Members of Congress who ...
  1 day ago

• FSIN Looks Forward to Child Welfare Review

  
  Legally Kidnapped — Authority: 453
  FSIN Looks Forward to Child Welfare Review The Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations is looking forward to a meaningful role in the child welfare review.
  1 day ago

• The Harder They Push, The Harder They Fall

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 501
  Democrats in Congress are plunging headlong into their plans to saddle all Americans with yet another unconstitutional welfare program. This time they want to control our health care and insurance and the House has already approved their version of socialized medicine. Despite poll after poll (the ones not spiked with ...
  1 day ago

• Rachael Ray to the rescue

  
  ohmidog! — Authority: 528
  One of the benefits of being ostensibly unemployed is access to all the babes (if I might use that term) a guy could ever want. Just watching “The View” alone, one can get one’s fill, and then some, of females of nearly every stripe – liberal, conservative, shrill, sarcastic, blunt, shrill, smart, not so ...
  1 day ago

• Dom Post on Welfare

  
  Kiwiblog — Authority: 639
  A good editorial from the Dom Post : The Social Development Ministry appears to believe that the increases, which mirror international trends, are beyond its control. An investigation by the auditor-general found the ministry paid little more than lip service to changes made by the last government to improve the ...
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