Paula Crossfield writes in CivilEats.com:

This week, the House Agriculture Committee held the first hearing on the 2012 Farm Bill, the main piece of legislation that every five years establishes our nations food and agriculture policy. The Farm Bill affects farm payments, supplemental nutrition assistance programs (SNAP, formally called food stamps), international trade, conservation programs, the opportunities in rural communities, agriculture research, food safety, and more. Currently 70% of farm payments go to the wealthiest 10% of producers of corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton and rice. These kinds of oversights are the result of a Farm Bill that has been largely cobbled together over time.

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WaPo is carrying an A.P. story that says that the Obama Administration is still carrying out a Bush II administration policy to encourage farmers to apply waste generated from coal-fired electrical-generation plants to agricultural fields.

So the mainstream media is in an uproar over over the Salahi's crashing the White House State Dinner.

It says here that 1/2 of all children at some point (not, however, all at once) are on food stamps. Naturally, the story quotes a conservative shill who downplays the significance of that datum as much as possible without actually disputing the validity of the datum itself.

Richard Layman writes here (presumably about Prince George's County AKA "P. G. County") that:

"[T]here isn't a satisfactory road network that moves people east-west and around the County, other than the Interstates"

before digressing a little about Montgomery County:

"So the whole argument about intensification of land use practices (i.e.