When the ground shifts, politicians still standing often are left to explain positions that made plenty of sense on the old terrain but are now more c...
Minnesota Independent | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics
Just days after saying she had requested zero earmarks for her district, Rep. Michele Bachmann admitted to Fox News' Brian Wilson that she had indeed ...
Carl Jeffers | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics
Earmarks will not be abandoned, as they are wanted, needed, and counted on.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics
Despite our president's pledge to ban all earmarks, the Omnibus spending bill is loaded with ridiculous, wasteful projects that have absolutely nothing to do with keeping the federal government operating.
Media Matters | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics
Numerous media outlets have devoted significant coverage to the earmarks contained in the pending omnibus appropriations bill, even though, according ...
Annabelle Gurwitch | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics
We should really think twice about making instant judgments. Sometimes what smells like "pork" is really just smoked tofu.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics
Speaking on the Senate floor on Wednesday evening, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) got under the fingernails of the government watchdog group Taxpay...
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
So there's some pork in the budget, and Republicans want it out, and if some of it comes out then they can claim they made Obama blink, and maybe they'll vote for it? Wow!
ProPublica | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics
Legislators switched from guarded rhetoric about a pork-free package to messages plugged with lardoons to highlight local projects and specific programs squeezed into the bill by individual lawmakers.
Will Durst | Posted 03.16.2009 | Comedy
Citizens of America, stay in your homes. The Minority leadership unleashed their legions of virtual undead to battle the White House's economic stimulus package with a soul sapping single-mindedness.
Craig "Meathead" Goldwyn | Posted 03.12.2009 | Chicago
Can you imagine the city built by the Amalgamated Meat Cutters going meatless for a month? Can you see Da Coach wandering from table to table at Ditka's selling grilled tofu during the playoffs?
AP | AMY LORENTZEN | Posted 02.20.2009 | Green
DES MOINES, Iowa — The National Pork Producers Council said Monday it is suing to challenge the Environmental Protection Agency's requirement th...
Michael Markarian | Posted 11.27.2008 | Green
Factory farm executives see the writing on the wall, and they know they can no longer get away with treating animals like commodities -- like nothing more than meat-producing machines.
Jonathan Neil Schneider | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics
With the election fast approaching and this issue still not getting the attention it warrants, I decided to screen Mr. Schneider Goes to Washington in its entirety for free.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics
[UPDATED -- See part 2 in the Talking Points section.] This week's column will be presented in a sort of semi-liveblogging fashion. What you're getti...
Steve Dolinsky | Posted 10.18.2008 | Chicago
Chicago is home to all kinds of wonderful sandwiches. But it seems like a Cuban immigrant is muscling in on the sandwich front lately. It's called a Cubano, and I tried two decent versions last week that showed promise.
Disgrasian | Posted 10.16.2008 | Style
I love eating pig. If, God forbid, I had to forsake all meats but one, I would cling to pork. And I honestly believe my passion for "the other white...
Simran Sethi | Posted 10.05.2008 | Green
Large, corporate pig farms are home to deep vats of untold tons of pig crap, called "lagoons," which regularly overflow or seep past inadequate lining into the earth.
Eric Schmeltzer | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics
As part of her executive experience that the McCain campaign so highly promotes, Sarah Palin requested $2 million in earmarks that were classified as "objectionable pork" by.... John McCain.
Robert Silvers | Posted 10.02.2008 | Home
The real scandal for John McCain's V.P.-to-be is that Palin has exhibited a voracious appetite for the very congressional earmarks and pork barrel spending that John McCain has made a signature issue of trying to stamp out.
Steve Dolinsky | Posted 09.12.2008 | Chicago
I've always been a big fan of pork. I know a lot of people say that these days, but few of them grew up in a kosher home in St. Cloud, MN and were deprived of swine as children, like I was.
Footnoted | Michelle Leder | Posted 07.11.2008 | Business
As we head into the Fourth of July holiday and what will no doubt be a weekend full of BBQs, I can't seem to get a number that I saw in the 10K that S...
Russ Wellen | Posted 05.06.2008 | Home
"Why can't they work the Internet like Obama? Are they too proud to take $25 donations?" "Sorry, Chelsea. Your email must have got caught in the Spam filter." "Any more pork, Hillary, and I'll puke."
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics