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Along with the rhinoceros and the elephant. But hey, the earth and everything on it are ours to do with as we wish.

Michelle Alexander, in her bestselling book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, indicts the criminalization of drugs, and convicts the criminal justice system of maintaining a war against the black poor in the name of ending drug dependency. Blacks are more likely...

For Leapup: Palestinians Starting To Have Mixed Feelings About Being Used As Human Shields NEWS IN BRIEF • Terrorism • Politics • Middle East • Israel • ISSUE 50•28 • Jul 18, 2014 BEIT LAHIA, GAZA STRIP—Saying they’ve begun to reevaluate their stance as the latest outbreak of...

Programs which benefit business also require the support of taxpayers, and if they believe that business abuses those programs, then taxpayers will be less likely to support them. The government's approach to banks is one example. Subsidies of one sort or another are examples as well. The...

In all fairness, however, we should keep in mind that the roles we are providing for emulation do not encourage honesty and thrift. There is no longer a "rule of law" in this country, nor perhaps in any country. Our government and business and even religious and charitable leaders lie and cheat...

I'm not on food stamps, but I have friends who are. If you really want to know how much I spend on food every month, I could break down my monthly receipts, but why would I want to do that? I don't even know who you are.

Actually I know exactly what I spend on everything every month. That's one reason I was able to retire so much earlier than most. And I don't look for steak at WalMart. In fact, I don't go to WalMart at all.

More like evenly-divided, according to Gallup at the end of May. One could of course find all sorts of polls which provide results which lean one way or the other.

Depends on what you're eating and where you live. A 6oz filet every day would be $210 a month at $19/lb, so, no, it wouldn't be difficult for a single man to eat $180 in groceries in a month. Yes, they could be more efficient, but the food stamp allowance is not a blanket amount. What you get...

I suppose it depends on what you mean by "all the time". If you had steak every day, at $7/lb, a half-pound a day would be $105. That would leave $75 for everything else, or $2.50 a day. Better than eating canned dog food, but a diet one could easily get tired of.

This urgent agenda of historical decoupling offers one reason why the specific details of each case become so fraught with meaning, and why the elaborate character assassination of every victim is so important to TV talking heads and Internet trolls. If Michael Brown was a thieving thug who made...

In one of the most famous passages of the New Testament, the apostle Paul writes to the Christians of Corinth, employing a complicated series of metaphors on the theme of transformation: from childhood to adulthood, from ignorance to knowledge, from sinfulness to a state of grace. “When I was a...

You must have lived in a generous state. Even so, if you think poor people are getting too much money, you must not be spending much time around poor people these days. Or you're living in that same generous state. Our poor are not living anywhere near high off the hog.

More likely he's a grumpy young man. There are a lot of those here. And I doubt that many of them -- if any -- know how food stamps work, that you get only so much money per month and you're only allowed to buy food with it. The anti-helping-others contigent, usually Christians, get all upset...

The Pros And Cons Of Militarizing The Police The ongoing clashes between residents of Ferguson, MO and heavily armed police forces—which are equipped with M16 rifles and armored vehicles—have drawn attention to the increasing militarization of police in the United States. Here are the cases for...

Desperate Earth Begins Accelerating Rotation In Effort To Hurl Humankind Off Surface

ALLEN MCDUFFEE A St. Louis County police officer, who was seen pushing a CNN anchor during protests in Ferguson, Mo., this week, was suspended from duty after a controversial video surfaced, in which he fashions himself as a merciless killer. “I personally believe in Jesus Christ as my lord...

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I still haven't received that check. Maybe Ricter has it.