". . . a republic, if you can keep it."
Harvard Study: From 1930s-2004,
NY Times called waterboarding torture in 81.5% of articles,
LA Times in 96.3%.
Yet from 2002â€2008,
NYT did so in only 1.4%
and LA Times in 4.8%.
The WSJ? 1.6% (1 of 63 articles)
and USA Today never called waterboarding torture or implied it was torture.
“It injects demand into the economy,” Pelosi said, arguing that when families have money to spend it keeps the economy churning. “It creates jobs faster than almost any other initiative you can name.”
Pelosi said the aid has the “double benefit” of helping those who lost their jobs and acting as a “job creator” on the side.
“It’s impossible to think of a situation where we would have a country that would say we’re not going to have unemployment benefits,” Pelosi said. 
(Read more from foxnews.com)
My reaction:
The inevitable consequence of central planning.
About a quarter of the swine flu vaccine produced for the U.S. public has expired — meaning that a whopping 40 million doses worth about $260 million is being written off as trash.
“It’s a lot, by historical standards,” said Jerry Weir, who oversees vaccine research and review for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The outdated vaccine, some of which expired Wednesday, will be incinerated. The amount, more than twice the usual leftovers, likely sets a record. And that’s not even all of it.
About 30 million more doses will expire later and may go unused, according to one government estimate. If all that vaccine expires, more than 43 percent of the supply for the U.S. public will have gone to waste. (Read more from theintelhub.com)