Obviously, the adjective “Christian” has gone through a lot of permutations since Jesus died. Now, apparently Christian means purposely not helping people who are down-and-out. That’s the interpretation that Family Research Council fellow Ken Blackwell was going with when he said this week that “nothing is more Christian” than the massive ($40 billion) cuts to food stamps passed last week by House Republicans.
Bill O’Reilly slammed me on his Fox News show last night for mentioning, in a New York Times op-ed last weekend, that he has called me a Communist. In that op-ed I referred to his Communist name-calling as an example of the kind of ad hominem incivility that now passes for political debate in America — of which O’Reilly is a part.
ORBISONIA, Pa. — MIKE FLECK, wholesome country boy, cruised to a second term in the State Legislature in 2008, running unopposed in both the Republican primary and the general election. He got 100 percent of the vote in a largely rural, religious, conservative district. The Log Cabin Republican – NYTimes.com.
Climate change: Finally, at least one conservative gets it By Eric C. Ewert First Published 7 hours ago • Updated 7 hours ago Last week, Bob Inglis, a long-time member of Congress from South Carolina, spoke at Weber State, Westminster and the University of Utah about human-caused climate change. Hailing from what he calls “the reddest district in the reddest state” Bob insists that if he gets it, any conservative should. While Utahns may […]
Greg Kaufmann covers poverty for The Nation and Bill Moyers And Company.
Greg Kaufmann’s brilliant column for The Nation on how the new farm bill punishes children by gutting our food stamps program. This is an absolutely essential article to read.
Food stamp spending is projected by the Congressional Budget Office to amount to just 1.7 percent of federal spending over the next ten years—and people with access to food stamps when they are young have better health outcomes and less dependence on welfare assistance over the long-term. In fact, what the Republicans were attempting to do was toss 2 million people off of SNAP and prevent 210,000 low-income children from receiving free school meals. The bill failed because many Republicans wanted even deeper cuts.Finally, on Thursday, House Republicans took these hunger games to a new level of violence: they passed a farm bill stripped of any food stamp provision.
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