Economy: 'Great deal of the pain' of downturn still to come

“A great deal of the pain of this downturn lies in front of us still,” Douglas W. Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office, told reporters as he laid out a daunting list of challenges on both the budget and the economy."
CBO: 'Great deal of the pain' of downturn still to come - Washington Times

Cancer: Where Is The FDA And Who Are They Supposed To Be 'Helping'?

If you doubt the integrity of the FDA, this will confirm your concerns.

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Rick Santorum Enters The GOP Presidential Race

The former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum has joined the Republican 2012 presidential race, promising to run on a socially conservative ticket.

Santorum's anti-abortion and anti-gay views could attract support in Iowa, where evangelicals are numerous and where the first of the caucuses is scheduled to be held in February.

Although he has been campaigning in Iowa and other key election states for months, he made the formal declaration that he is standing in an interview with ABC television on Monday morning.

"We're ready to announce that we are going to be in this race and we're in it to win," Santorum said.

He has an outside chance in a field in which is still wide open. Mitt Romney, who stood in 2008, leads the polls but there is little enthusiasm for him so far among grassroot Republicans, especially rightwingers.

In a recent Gallup poll Santorum, 53, was placed well down the field, recording only 2%. But a good showing in the debates, with the next scheduled for New Hampshire next Monday, could change that.

He is a stubborn conservative, insisting, long after even the Bush administration had conceded the point, that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Santorum is from a Catholic family in Pennsylvania, his father an immigrant from Italy and his mother a nurse. He has seven children.

He helped pass a bill banning late-term abortions, and caused anger in 2003 when he said states had the right to ban gay sex or other behaviour "antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family".

Judges Challenge Health Care: There Is No Precedent

Democrats pushed the Affordable Care Act through Congress last year without any Republican votes and using extraordinary parliamentary tactics, but the tortuous process damaged the law politically, and opened it up to several attacks in the courts, including over whether Congress was acting under its power to regulate interstate commerce or under its broader tax powers.

Judges seem receptive to health care challenge - Washington Times

Pakistan Taliban: New life from bin Laden's death

Pakistan has been hit by a wave of violence following the death of bin Laden.



Pakistan Taliban: New life from bin Laden's death

Disappointing U.S. Data Confirms Slowing Recovery

Weak US data fuel fears of slowing recovery

The US economy has stumbled deeper into the mud of another soft patch, with revised data showing a weaker pattern of growth in the first quarter.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis kept its growth estimate at an annualized 1.8 per cent, dashing hopes that it would be revised upwards, and said that consumption growth was weaker than it previously thought.

The latest data suggest the recovery will continue to be slow and painful, with average growth of about 3 per cent. That is only slightly above the long-run trend and will mean only a slow reduction in unemployment.

Whole article: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/b53d97b2-8790-11e0-af98-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1NU91eoQP

$2M lottery winner getting food stamps

Michigan officials and legislators are moving quickly to change the rules that made it possible for the winner of a $2 million lottery to keep receiving food stamps, the Detroit Free Press reports.
LINK: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/05/lawmakers-rush-to-block-1m-lottery-winner-getting-food-stamps/1