pork

Since bloggers at Grist and Biosurveillance first starting pointing to a subsidiary of the U.S. pork producer Smithfield Foods as a possible source of the swine flu everyone’s now so panicked about, the mainstream media has started picking up on the story.
Although Smithfield is still denying that its hogs could possibly have been the source [...]

Last week, CNN published a list of billions of dollars in stimulus provisions that the “Republicans’ congressional leadership” had deemed “wasteful.” The list was actually drawn up by the office of Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), the Senate’s most dedicated foe of pork and earmarks.
“We passed our list onto the leadership, and they passed it on [...]

On the campaign trail, Sen. John McCain frequently decries earmarks and pork-barrel legislation, proudly bragging that he has never requested a single earmark for his home state of Arizona. However, a news article and a scathing editorial from The Arizona Republic during his first-term as the state’s junior senator reveal that McCain did, in fact, [...]

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On the campaign trail, Sen. John McCain frequently rails against wasteful earmarks. There are two examples of pork he points to as particularly egregious.
First, is the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere” in Alaska. Second, is a $3-million study of grizzly bear DNA in Montana. When he mentions the latter, he often jokes, “I don’t know if [...]