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With the flood of spending coming from the stimulus bill, several governors have held firm to principle. They don't want to take the federal money if federal strings are attached. In particular, they are reluctant to take, for example, the new money for Head Start and child care subsidies if it means the states have to pick up the programs when the stimulus money runs out. As Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina says, "There's no way politically we're going to be able to push people out of the program in two years when the federal money runs out." In...

WAS THE NEW DEAL A BUST? Burton Folsom certainly thinks so. A professor of history at Hillsdale College in Michigan and senior historian at the Foundation for Economic Education, he claims Franklin D. Roosevelt's programs didn't help end the Great Depression. Worse, he insists income redistribution and regulation by the federal government -- the legacies of the New Deal -- are an albatross for the economy. It's an intriguing theory, especially coming as Barack Obama prepares his New New Deal. But Folsom is unconvincing; he is an invisible-hand ideologue, not an economist. He relies heavily on the fact -- acknowledged...

Here are some reviews I found on the Folsom Street Fair. I found them while debating TheJonesGirl, a liberal from San Francisco, on Newsvine.She makes the claim that it is worse to indoctrinate children into religion and conservatism than it is to take them to see adult men masturbating in public.

Table full of sex toys Homosexuals ridicule Last Supper in ad promoting “world’s largest leather event” Organizers of San Francisco's Folsom Street Fair -- sponsored by Miller Brewing Co. -- have come up with a bizarre and offensive poster to promote the self-described “world’s largest leather event.” The poster depicts Christ and His disciples as leather clad homosexual sadomasochists and instead of sharing bread and wine they are shown with a table full of sex toys. "A picture's worth a thousand words," said Matt Barber, policy director for Cultural Issues with Concerned Women for America. “As evidenced by this latest...

Can you imagine if a group of Christians got together and made a photograph advertising their upcoming rally, and in that photo they deliberately went out of their way to tick off homosexuals? What do you think would happen? Do you think the mainstream media would cover it? Do you think Katie Couric, Chris Matthews, Swill Maher and the other liberal curmudgeons would wade in and condemn the Christians and call ‘em haters…meanies…or…or…something? You and I both know these darling duplicitous Christophobic thugs would be on their TV shows screaming anathemas at Christians louder than Yoko Ono would yell if...

The event was organized by Chuck Colson's PRISON FELLOWSHIP .... ------------------------------------------- Actor's tribute to Cash jail show Joaquin Phoenix, tipped for an Oscar for his portrayal of musician Johnny Cash, has followed Cash by performing at Folsom State Prison in California. More than 50 prisoners watched a screening of Walk the Line, in which Phoenix plays the late country star. Phoenix then played several songs at the prison's Greystone Chapel, including Cash's Folsom Prison Blues. Referring to absent co-star Reese Witherspoon, Phoenix said: "I know you guys would probably rather see Reese." Hit live album Cash famously played in the...

Sharleen Stafford didn't hear about the Islamic Society of Folsom's new 31,000-square-foot mosque until more than a month after the city approved it - too late for an appeal. For the first time in her life, Stafford said, she wrote a furious letter to the mayor. "What is it going to do to our little community?" Stafford said last week. Stafford, 50, said that she is concerned the mosque will snarl traffic in her Sibley Street neighborhood, and that she's angry at the city for not doing more to publicize its public hearings during the planning process. But she also...

FBI probe uncovers a list of potential Southland targets and suggests a connection between prison groups and Islamic extremists. A Pakistani national has been arrested by authorities in connection with a far-reaching investigation of a possible terrorist plot targeting any of nearly two dozen locations in Southern California, including National Guard recruitment centers, law enforcement sources said Monday. The suspect, identified as Hamad Riaz Samana, 21, of Los Angeles, was quietly taken into custody last week by counter-terrorism officials as part of a probe that began with the arrest of two men in Torrance suspected of robbing gas stations. The...

Possible Terror Plot Prompts Call For Better Tracking Of Inmates Call Comes In Wake Of Possible Terrorist Plot LOS ANGELES -- In the wake of a growing probe into a possible Southern California terrorist plot involving prison-based groups, a congresswoman said Tuesday that officials need to do a better job tracking inmate activities. "We need to understand what's going on in the prisons better," Rep. Jane Harman, D-El Segundo, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, told reporters. "If people are being radicalized in prisons and they are radicalized in ways that are going to cause harm to as many...

<p>WASHINGTON - The Bush administration raised the ire of the Sacramento-area congressional delegation this week when it said it is rethinking how to finance a much-needed bridge over the American River at the base of Folsom Dam, an issue the lawmakers thought they settled last year.</p>

<p>The recent storm may have been be the kind that turns the public's attentions to the rivers.</p> <p>The Sacramento is already up, and federal officials have been releasing extra water down the American to maintain some empty capacity up at Folsom Reservoir. A single big storm is typically just a local nuisance, causing street and creek flooding. It takes several whoppers to soak a massive river watershed, particularly one as big as the Sacramento River's, to worrisome levels.</p>

<p>Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, hit with a barrage of negative reports and criticism of the state prison system, Friday asked the U.S. Attorney's office in Sacramento to investigate a 2002 riot at Folsom State Prison.</p> <p>He also reversed course on his earlier move to limit the independence of the Office of Inspector General, which investigates prison corruption and other problems.</p>

<p>The top brass at Folsom State Prison -- from the interim warden down to its captains -- will be re-assigned during a broadened investigation of the facility's management, the director of the California Department of Corrections said Tuesday at a legislative hearing.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON -- The battle to authorize a 7-foot raising of Folsom Dam, regarded by the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency as the last major piece of flood-control work needed to fully protect the city from the American River, appeared to have ended Thursday without the project getting out of the starting gates.</p>