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USA becomes Food Stamp Nation but is it sustainable? By Kristina Cooke | Reuters – Mon, Aug 22, 2011 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Genna Saucedo supervises cashiers at a Wal-Mart in Pico Rivera, California, but her wages aren't enough to feed herself and her 12-year-old son. Saucedo, who earns...

Rick Perry faces new flak from the right for suggesting Bernanke is ‘treasonous’ By Rachel Rose Hartman Political Reporter (Charles Dharapak/AP) Republicans across the country are cheering Rick Perry's entry into the 2012 presidential race, regarding him as a candidate with innate star...

That was fast. Ex-Minn. Gov. Tim Pawlenty ends White House bid - Yahoo! News

Pregnant San Francisco woman killed by pit bull By Dan Whitcomb and Greg McCune | Reuters – Fri, Aug 12, 2011 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A pregnant San Francisco area woman was killed by one of her pit bulls, her mauled body found by her husband, police said on Friday. The 32-year-old...

Jon Stewart rips Newsweek's Bachmann cover By Tim Molloy | Reuters – 5 hrs ago NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Jon Stewart says the worst part about conservative complaints of media bias is when they contain "a kernel of truth" -- and that conservatives have a point about Newsweek's unflattering...

US Tea Party at crossroads after debt deal By Olivier Knox | AFP – Tue, Aug 2, 2011 The US Tea Party stood at a political crossroads Tuesday, split by a vote on raising the US debt limit after fractious negotiations that saw them declared both the big winners and losers. At issue was the...

Brian Dickerson: This is no time to cut off the free flow of hypocrisy Jul 14, 2011 Detroit Free Press Afew days from now, unless the two major parties transcend their petty differences and adjust the statutory limit on one of our nation's most vital commodities, much of what we Americans...

Piper Weiss, Shine Staff, Mon Jul 11, 2011 9:41am PDT At McDain's Restaurant, in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, kids don't eat free. And starting next week, they don't get to eat at all. Mike Vuick, owner of the Pittsburgh area eatery has just announced a ban on children under 6 at his casual...

..Jury convicts ex-Ill. Gov. Blagojevich at retrial By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A jury convicted former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Monday of nearly all the corruption charges against him, including that he tried to sell or trade President Barack Obama's old...

Remains Of Korean War POW Identified June 13, 2011 6:30 PM SOUTHFIELD (WWJ)- A Detroit man missing in action from the Korean War has been identified and will be buried with full military honors. The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office announced Monday that the remains of...

40 years after leak, Pentagon Papers coming out Associated Press Calvin Woodward And Richard Lardner. WASHINGTON – Forty years after the explosive leak of the Pentagon Papers, a secret government study chronicling deception and misadventure in U.S. conduct of the Vietnam War, the report is...

Chicago-area man returns bag with $17K in cash AP Thu Jun 9, 5:05 pm ET ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. – Robert Adams craved an ice-cold drink after finishing his shift on a sweltering workday, but not having enough money to buy the burrito he also wanted left him with two obvious choices: Stop...

They showed a pic of Tina Fey on SNL. :eek: Fox News mistakes Tina Fey for Sarah Palin - Yahoo! News

Republican mainstream flirts with brief default Tim Reid and Steven C. Johnson Tim Reid And Steven C. Johnson WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – An idea once confined to the fringe of the Republican party is seeping into its mainstream -- that a brief default might be an acceptable price to pay...

Cities You Don't Want to Live In ... Yet by Cindy Perman Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Piling on is an age-old tradition. People get a whiff of negative air and, like a pack of wolves, turn against it. That has happened to a lot of cities, many of which were struggling to reinvent themselves...

Israel sees Syrian hand in Golan clashes, 23 dead Ari Rabinovitch – 55 mins ago JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel accused Syria on Monday of orchestrating lethal confrontations on the once-quiet ceasefire line between the two countries as a distraction from Damascus's bloody crackdown on an...

Today is June 6th. D-Day. I am urging each and every one of us, to put aside the petty differences we may have with each other, and say a prayer for "The Greatest Generation". Without their bravery and sacrafice, we would not be able to have what we have today. God Bless them, and...

Man cited after paying bill with 2,500 pennies VERNAL, Utah – A Utah man has been cited on a charge of disorderly conduct after paying for a disputed medical bill with 2,500 pennies. The Deseret News of Salt Lake City reports Jason West went to Basin Clinic in Vernal on May 27 prepared to...

John Edwards charged in felony indictment The Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal grand jury has indicted two-time presidential candidate John Edwards over massive sums of money spent to keep his mistress in hiding during the peak of his 2008 campaign for the White House. The...

Judge voids Wisconsin collective bargaining law Associated Press Scott Bauer And Todd Richmond, Associated Press – Thu May 26, 5:41 pm ET MADISON, Wis. – The fight over stripping collective bargaining rights from Wisconsin's public workers will move into the state Supreme Court, and possibly...