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California only enrolls about half of those eligible, a proportion *less* than any other state. The report breaks the numbers down by county, with several having more than 40% of the total population receiving aid.
Something [...]
A story in yesterday’s New York Times about the rising use of food stamps paints a pretty grim picture of where we are as a nation. For instance, the program,
now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children.
About 20,000 people are added to the program everyday. [...]
Sister Toldjah took the words right out of my mouth. Discussing coverage in the New York Times and Washington Post (home base of the Democratic gusher Sally Quinn) of President Obama’s first state dinner last night, she writes, “Both pieces go in depth as to how ‘hip’ and [...]
On George Eliot’s birthday, Glenn Reynolds linked a Maureen Dowd column which showed that while the New York Times columnist does have a jaundiced view of the GOP, she does at least understand part of Sarah Palin’s appeal, what she calls the “visceral,” her ability to connect with [...]
The New York Times reports that conservatives have been drawing up a 10-point checklist -- to be printed on litmus paper? -- against which the Republican National Committee should measure prospective GOP candidates.
There's nothing surprising about the contents of the proposed creed (for example, opposition to government funding of [...]
The mighty New York Times has abruptly woken from its slumber to discover that President Barack H. Obama hasn't been doing too well recently on the approval front; Adam Nagourney has finally noticed a couple of disturbing facts:
Mr. Obama’s decline a year into his term comes as he struggles' [...]
About the hacked e mails, its reporter/blogger writes:
The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted here.
Apparently this policy does not apply to military secrets. (Hat tip: [...]
Lynne F. Stewart with husband, Ralph Poynter on left, before surrendering on Thursday. (John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times)
She’s 70, and began serving a [...]
The New York Times headline reads: "New Consensus Sees Stimulus Package as Worthy Step." One then reads in the article:
While some conservatives remain as skeptical as ever that big increases in government spending give the economy a jolt that is worth the cost, Martin Feldstein, [...]
No one’s more surprised than we are to find that the New York Times, no less, already has acknowledged the global warming oops of the year:
“Hundreds of private e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who [...]
The New York Times shows what side of the class war they are on by explaining that US workers really are just so overpaid, something Fenian Rising finds obnoxious. So do I.
[...]? Hey, the New York times took some interest in the California's governors race to ... notice that Hollywood supports the Democrat. A big revelation for [...]
The Rose Institute’s Douglas Johnson was cited in an article in Sunday’s New York Times about Congressional redistricting in the San Francisco Bay Area.
“That kind of stretching can help them keep their power, keep them focused on their base in their district,” said Douglas Johnson, who led a study [...]
Bush's last budget year wrapped up last month, leaving us a deficit of over $1.4 trillion. But everyone blames Obama because the right's noise machine has repeated over and over that Obama is "spending" -- and no one shows up to explain the truth.
Yesterday’s New York Times ran an editorial entitled “Gerrymandering, Pure and Corrupt” which explained how New York state legislators have used the process of redistricting in the past to gerrymander state legislature districts in ways that limit competition in elections and help the incumbents stay in office. The editorial [...]
Maybe it's because I'm a long-ago high school newspaper editor, but I was shocked and appalled (nobody is ever shocked but not appalled) by a New York Times report that Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy -- "widely regarded as one of the court’s most vigilant defenders of First Amendment [...]
Physicist and pesky logical trouble-maker Bob Park today reports several lunacies, including:Unemployment at 10% of the job-seeking labor force. When the actual percentage of under-employed and discouraged workers is added to technically defined "unemployed", the "unemployment" rate is probably close to 20% (see The New York Times, David Leonhardt, "Broader Measure of US Unemployment Stands at 17.5%", November 6, 2009 [H/T [...]
