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...Congressional Pig Book Summary Citizens Against Government Waste 58 pages...
Since 1991, the Citizens Against Government Waste, a non-partisan, non-profit group in Washington D.C., has been publishing an annual list of pork-barrel projects in an effort to shame politicians into curbing their earmark requests. It hasn't worked. This year's Pig Book outlines $19.6 billion in pork barrel projects that will fund more than 10,000 projects in the 2009 fiscal year. (The dollar amount is 14% higher than the previous year, although the raw number of projects dropped 12.5%.) The thing about earmarks is that they make a politician popular at home, but unpopular...
...Projects that make it into CAGW's Pig Book must fulfill one or more of the following criteria: • Requested only by the House or Senate • Not specifically authorized by a piece of legislation • Not competitively awarded based on a bidding process • Not requested by the President • Greatly exceed the President's budget request or the previous year's funding • Not the subject of congressional hearings • Serves only a local need or special interest...
...LaBute (The Shape of Things, Fat Pig, Some Girls) is America's great chronicler of the unbridgeable chasm between the sexes. Men treat women terribly, or are manipulated by them, or simply can't be honest with them. Kent, Greg's friend at the big-box store where they work - the kind of place the people in Impressionism or God of Carnage have probably never walked into - is one of LaBute's signature characters: the brutish user of women, cheating on his wife (a cute security guard at the store) and enlisting the weakling Greg in his deception. LaBute...
...information alone isn't enough. We all know we shouldn't smoke or pig out on fudge, but knowledge isn't as powerful as motivation; even Summers could stand to lose a few pounds. Old behavioralist joke: How many psychologists does it take to change a lightbulb? Answer: Just one, but the bulb really has to want to change. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...