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...Tuesday the Senate voted to continue distributing a significant portion of security dollars equally among the states, rather than by likelihood of attack. [That's] good news for smaller states like Wyoming, which only has one high-risk target--the popular tourist attraction, the world's largest pile of homeland-security money...
...There’s Something About Mary”-style gross-out comedy with a bit of love on the side. As charter members of the Ben Stiller posse, co-stars Wilson and Vaughn serve up enough scatological humor to go around, but a large, and better, portion of the movie is devoted to the beautiful path to finding your soul mate...
Although a nice portion of the laughs make it into the Will Ferrell stratosphere—the gold standard for a posse member—many fall to the lowest common denominator (at least of late) of Stiller. Both Wilson and Vaughn can do comedy and, even if the best moments showed up in the previews, there are a few gems worth paying for. And as often as Vaughn’s “I’m-shit-crazy-and-yelling-really-loudly” shtick succeeds, you still wonder whether he has some sort of facial tick...
...households below the poverty line for all 30 OECD countries. In wealthy Scandinavia, the average is less than 5%. Japan's rich-poor divide is particularly worrisome, warns a January OECD report, because of the "lack of movement between the two segments of the work force, trapping a significant portion of the labor force in a low-wage category from which it is difficult to escape...
...Portion of the $1 billion shortfall in the VA's budget--which Congress scrambled to cover last week--attributed to those two wars...