The number of Americans receiving federal aid through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps, soared to a record 40.8 million in May, according to government data released shortly before the Senate voted to cut billions from the food stamps budget.
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Record Number of Americans Receiving Food Stamp Benefits
Thursday, August 5th, 2010Material girl Michelle Obama is a modern-day Marie Antoinette on a glitzy Spanish vacatio
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
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First Lady Michelle Obama smiles while she visits Marbella, southern Spain.
Sacrifice is something that many Americans are becoming all too familiar with during this economic downturn. It was a key theme in President Obama’s inaugural address to the nation, and he’s referenced it numerous times when lecturing the country on how to get back on its feet.
Slouching Towards Athens
Saturday, June 5th, 2010The Obama agenda and the Europeanization of America.
Maine Commission Moves to Ban Gender Specific Bathrooms, Sports Teams in Schools
Saturday, April 10th, 2010The Maine Human Rights Commissions taking heat over a proposal to ban schools from enforcing gender divisions in sports teams, school organizations, bathrooms and locker rooms, saying forcing a student into a particular room or group because of their biological gender amounts to discrimination.
Death Panels And Saving Money
Monday, April 5th, 2010Another interesting Video!
Episcopal Clergy Permitted to Wed Gay Couples in D.C.
Friday, March 12th, 2010Episcopal clergy in Washington, D.C. have been given the green light to preside at same-sex marriages.
Mayo Clinic Bridles at Medicare Payments
Monday, January 11th, 2010The Mayo Clinic, which has been praised by President Obama as an exemplar for the healthcare industry, will no longer accept new Medicare patients at a primary-care clinic in Glendale, AZ, a Phoenix suburb. While this office serves only a small portion of Mayo’s 526,000 patients in Minnesota, Arizona, and Florida, the organization says that the Glendale clinic is part of a 2-year pilot that will determine whether Mayo continues taking care of Medicare patients at other facilities. Meanwhile, the 3,000 Medicare patients who see family doctors at the Glendale office will have to pay nearly $2,000 a year out of pocket if they want to stay with their physicians.
Oil, fuel prices rise as dollar, temperatures fall
Monday, October 12th, 2009Energy prices rose Monday as an October chill across much of the U.S. sent thermometers plummeting along with the weakening U.S. currency.
Gay marriages expected to begin in Iowa April 24
Saturday, April 4th, 2009DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Gay marriage, seemingly the province of the nation’s two coasts, is just weeks away from becoming a reality in the heartland and apparently it will be years before social conservatives have a chance to stop it.
Rapelay virtual rape game banned by Amazon
Saturday, February 14th, 2009Withdrawn from sale: Amazon.com has stopped selling RapeLay, in which players have to stalk and rape a family of women
A PC game that allows players to gang rape virtual women – and then force them to have an abortion – has been banned from Amazon.