The Beer Barrel

Mon, May 10 2010
By Susan Cornwell

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's request in February for more money to pay for the war in Afghanistan is still snarled in Congress as lawmakers work on other priorities and deal with scarce budget resources.

When Afghan President Hamid Karzai meets lawmakers this week as part of his four-day...

Word is going around the internet that legendary fantasy artist Frank Frazetta has died at age 82, but we haven’t been able to confirm this, despite many tweets and blog postings stating that he has died. At this point it has to...

In a minor case of synchonicity, I was explaining this very afternoon in the Phora ShoutBox to the hopelessly ideologically incoherent person named ville jantti (an ostensible liberal socialist who inexplicably supports Israeli ethno-chauvinist brutality and derides the human rights of Palestinians) that Israel has a snowball's chance in hell of...

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(Reuters) - Nearly 40 million Americans received food stamps -- the latest in an ever-higher string of record enrollment that dates from December 2008 and the U.S. recession, according to a government update

Food stamps are the primary federal anti-hunger program, helping poor people buy food. Enrollment is highest during times of economic...