The Journal of Steffanie Rivers: Backdoor Government
*Georgia has joined at least two dozen other states that are pushing drug tests for welfare recipients. The mostly Republican state assembly claims it wants to insure welfare benefits are used the way they were intended and not in the commission of criminal activity. Last October a federal judge stopped Florida from drug-testing its residents [...]

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The Forward sits down with a Hamas official
Late Thursday night, the Jewish Forward , a 115-year-old paper that was published entirely in Yiddish until 1983, posted online a 5,000-word piece about Hamas’s second-in-command, Mousa Abu Marzook.