Foreign Policy (blog) For sale on eBay: A vote in Iran's presidential electionForeign Policy (blog)Just how disillusioned have ordinary Iranians become about Friday's presidential election? Enough for one Iranian to sell his vote on eBay. Iranian authorities have vowed to avoid a repeat of the protests that spilled into Tehran's …
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Bills inching through the House and Senate would hack away at the food stamp program, yet protect — or even expand — farm subsidies. As a member of Congress, Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) is proud to stand up for the principles of limited government and individual responsibility. …
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Families on food stamps would suffer while farms get fatLos Angeles TimesWhat makes this process especially worth watching is that the farm bill is a curious hybrid — it covers both the food stamp program, which is one of the nation's most important economic safety-net programs, and farm subsidies, which …
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With Big-Name Backing And Some eBay Flavor, These Startups Are Looking …TechCrunchEbay is generally credited with being the first company to bring auctions — a system that, for nearly 2,500 years, had exclusively taken place live in noisy, public (and offline) forums — into the Digital Era. But, today, in …
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Postal worker unions and their mostly Democratic allies in Congress sometimes portray Darrell Issa as a malevolent figure bent on destroying the U.S. Postal Service. More: continued here
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