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   Cain Quits, Newt Preens and Pelosi Threatens

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   12/05/2011

   House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is intimating that she has dirt on Newt Gingrich which will effect how people view him. Meanwhile Howie wondered where will the Herman Cain supporters go now that the big guy has called it quits.
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   Everything but the Kitchen Sink

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   12/02/2011

   Mayor Tom Menino’s patience with Occupy Boston is starting to run thin. Menino said the city has been very patient with the protestors and he says he agrees with them on many issues. But, he is furious that some Occupy members tried to bring an industrial-sized kitchen sink into the Dewey Square site Thursday night. Is it time for them to go?
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   Will it be Mitt Romney, Newt Gringrich or somebody else?

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   12/01/2011

   If Newt Gingrich has become the leading challenger to Mitt Romney, then a basic question is pertinent to their looming duel for the Republican presidential nomination: Where do they diverge on policy?
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   James Sherk from the Heritage Foundation on Enemployment Benefits

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   11/30/2011

   James Sherk, a labor economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation , said many legislators do not want to see the cost of benefits add to the nation’s mounting debt. Many also feel that the benefits have grown too generous and should be cut back. Nearly half of all states currently offer unemployment benefits that can last nearly two years. Sherk said benefits should be pared back to a reasonable level as a way to encourage people to take jobs they would have otherwise shunned because they were unfamiliar, paid less, or were below their qualifications. Such a move would also lower the unemployment rate by one-half a percent, he said. Should unemployment benefits be extended?
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   Should the slaughter of horses resume?

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   11/30/2011

   AWhat to do about growing numbers of neglected and abandoned horses in the US is an ethical conundrum that Congress and President Obama quietly addressed this month via a spending bill: bring back the slaughterhouses. Department of Agriculture bill, signed into law Nov. 18, reinstates federal funding for USDA inspection of horse meat intended for human consumption, which Congress had withheld since 2006. That de facto ban on horse slaughter has now come to an end, to the outrage of the animal rights community, amid reports that US horse owners were simply shipping their animals to Mexico and Canada for slaughter and processing. Should this be making a comeback?