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One in seven Americans are on food stamps, but the government is pushing to enroll more — in many instances working to overcome Americans’ “pride,” self-reliance or failure to see a need. “Our common goal is to increase participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,” the United States Department of Agriculture explains on its “Outreach Toolkits” page. “Our purpose is to ensure that those going through difficult times can feed their families healthy, nutritious food. By working as a team, we can accomplish these goals.” The USDA has adopted a range of strategies and programs designed to bring more people...

COOS BAY, Ore. (AP) - A police survey says panhandlers outside a Wal-Mart here can make $300 a day. Inside, it takes a clerk a week to make that much. Police say people who have a problem with that needn't look to the law--asking for money is considered protected free speech. "We are not going to target panhandlers," said Coos Bay Police Capt. Rodger Craddock, who spoke a recent gathering of business owners about panhandling. "We can't do that. But if they aren't getting money from us, they aren't going to stand on that corner." He said most panhandlers are...

Cuba's Fidel Castro welcomed Venezuela's Hugo Chavez to the Karl Marx Theater in Havana and signed an agreement of unity that is designed to be an alternative to the North American Free Trade Agreement. Two documents were signed that the leaders say constitute the highest expression of unity and the will of both governments to increase the range of cooperation and bilateral relations in general -- a joint declaration and a agreement for the application of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, or ALBA. "ALBA is the antithesis of the annexationist Free Trade Agreement of the Americas that the United...

<p>Thousands arrive illegally from Mexico into California each year. Our state is now home to 40 percent of all of America's immigrants, lawful and not.</p> <p>Business profits greatly from the aliens' much-needed labor - even as the brave newcomers are often resented by millions of other Californians for coming in such numbers and under unlawful circumstances. Although illegal immigrants are eager to receive a fighting chance to succeed in America, many are neither immersed into nor prepped for our cutthroat competitive culture.</p>

Should the illegal alien who wants taxpayer subsidized college tuition in Colorado be deported? Click here, then scroll down. The poll is on the right side of page just after another poll on an unrelated topic.