Watching What You Eat
Why has the USDA been plumping up the food stamps program like a factory chicken?
Greg Beato from the January 2011 issue
Possibly the only cultural phenomenon that had a bigger year in 2010 than Justin Bieber was the needs-based entitlement program formerly known as Food Stamps. Now dubbed the Supplemental Nutrition...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is currently being held in solitary confinement within Britain’s Dickensian Wandsworth prison awaiting possible extradition to Sweden. To date, Assange hasn’t been charged with anything; a Swedish prosecutor, Marianne Ny, merely wants to question him about allegations...
A Border Patrol agent from the agency's swat team was shot and killed Tuesday night in a gunbattle with suspected bandits south of Tucson.
Agent Brian A. Terry, 40, was killed when he and fellow agents exchanged fire with a group of five people about 11 p.m. in a remote area west of Rio Rico, said FBI spokeswoman Brenda Nath.
Four of the five...
Senate Democrats have filed a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill that would fund the government through fiscal year 2011, according to Senate GOP sources.
The 1,924-page bill includes funding to implement the sweeping healthcare reform bill Congress passed earlier this year as well as additional funds for Internal Revenue Service agents,...
