Should You Ignore Voter Fraud? If you take advice from Emily Yoffe,who writes the "Dear Prudie" advice column for Slate,that's what you'll hear. Seriously. (It's the second letter)If your mother has filled out a ballot for people who are too mentally incompetent to make their own decision,or is she has filled out a ballot that is contradictory to the wishes of one or both and coerced them into signing it—or signed for them—then she is committing a crime. Since the integrity of the voting process is fundamental to democracy,
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Two U.S. officials told The Daily Beast this week that Hagel was not supposed to disclose this information. The Pentagon's spokesman,George Little,
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The gains to leftist and rightist parties,then,
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This country is a joke! Thanks Osborne and Cameron!LouisLou comments:the way we're going with this lot in charge life expectancy will start to fall....is there a contingency that state pension age will drop as life expectancy falls as we're all crushed and the health service that used to make us better is no more?--1.50pm: Did the Budget go too fast for you? You need Katie Allen's round-up of key points from the statement, here.1.54pm: You can read all the budget documents on the Treasury's website.And here's the Red Book, the key document with the charts explaining what everything costs (pdf).1.58pm: Smallprint Alert: Under the headline "simplification" in the Red Book,
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