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...member in the House. A federal court challenge set to be filed in Mississippi on Thursday alleges that the 400,000-person disparity disenfranchises people living in certain states. They call for the House to increase its size to anywhere from 932 to 1,761 members in order to create districts that are of roughly equal population size...
Furthermore, a larger number of representatives with smaller constituencies and narrower interests would increase the potential for pork-barrel spending and inefficiency. Members of the House, in order to curry favor with their constituencies, generally try to direct federal funding toward their own districts through earmarks in legislation. It follows that having more representatives would likely result in increased spending on numerous projects that are not of national significance. Whatever gains in equity are achieved by expansion would be overwhelmed by losses in effectiveness...
...comes the hard part. What, exactly, does the U.S. talk to North Korea about, and in what order? Other than acceding to the direct talks - which the Administration had hinted upon taking office that it was amenable to - it has hit the same notes that the Bush administration did. Only after a verifiable disabling of Pyongyang's nuclear program - in return for economic and energy assistance, both part of the 1994 agreement - would it move on to discussions about "normalizing relations." Diplomatic sources in east Asia say the U.S., in concert with its allies, is now talking about exactly what...
...case is only coming to light now in Australia after the Herald Sun, a Melbourne daily, broke the story on Thursday. Two years after approaching the police, the victim filed a restraining order against her father, and in June 2008 she pressed charges. Seven months later, in February, the man now referred as the "Australian Josef Fritzl," was arrested. In his 60s, the man is due to stand trial in November for five charges of rape, five of incest, and one of indecently assaulting a girl under the age of 16. Initially, he denied the accusations, but a DNA test...
...only time that the victim had come into contact with government services. In 2007, she was treated for a mental breakdown, spending several weeks in a Melbourne hospital. Hospital staff never investigated her living situation. In the incident that led her to finally file a restraining order against her father, state authorities fined the victim for damage she caused to the government housing unit that she fled. (Read about Stockholm Syndrome...