Tag: Commentary

The already-breakneck speed of chicken slaughter lines leads to botched slaughters and abusive handling by workers who can't kill quickly enough, according to the USDA's own inspection records. Inspectors have documented chickens missing the kill blade and being scalded to death in tanks of hot water and having their legs or wings cut off by the beheading machine while alive and fully conscious. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Big poultry is pushing to accelerate slaughter lines; just say no

Vandhana Bala · November 26, 2017 5:01 am

In certain parts of the country, if you do not have a cookie table -- actually several cookie tables -- you may as well expect nothing short of a revolt by the wedding guests.

Salena Zito: The cookie table and the bonds of traditions in America

Salena Zito · November 26, 2017 5:01 am

"The victims are the ones who do not want this exposed," Speier said, adding that she sees it as her role to protect the victims. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Beltway Confidential

Direct democracy is not the answer to our political problems

Jerrod Laber · November 26, 2017 5:01 am

A loss in the Dec. 12 special Senate election, doesn't mean the end of horseback riding, gun toting, fire-breathing, Republican candidate Roy Moore. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Beltway Confidential

Roy Moore for Alabama governor? (Maybe)

Philip Wegmann · November 26, 2017 5:01 am

As Black Friday begins on Wednesday at some stores, and spills over into Saturday, and probably Sunday and maybe Monday, it has become its own mini-season. It's the season in which you buy "Holiday Gifts." (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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‘Black Friday’ isn’t Christmas, and that’s good

Timothy P. Carney · November 25, 2017 12:38 pm

Piers Morgan seemed to realize that Trump's example offered star-making potential. (Photo by Rob Latour/Invision/AP)

Beltway Confidential

How Piers Morgan copied Trump and found stardom in Britain

Tom Rogan · November 25, 2017 5:01 am

The House's current legislation to reform the National Flood Insurance Program is not perfect. But at this point, it's the least Congress can do to change a broken system.

An accomplishment! House passes good flood-insurance reform

Washington Examiner · November 25, 2017 5:01 am

According to former Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Penn., Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., essentially implied in a back-and-forth with him that a baby must be taken out of a hospital for it to be protected by the Constitution. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Pro-abortion politicians want us to believe the impossible

Frank Pavone · November 25, 2017 5:01 am

The appointment of Rex Tillerson, a businessman with little experience in public diplomacy, as secretary of state confirmed the president's intent on management and reform at Foggy Bottom. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)

Beltway Confidential

State Department employees should look more like society

Robert Moore · November 25, 2017 5:01 am

People are ushered by a police officer down a street in the west end of London after Oxford Circus station was evacuated Friday Nov. 24, 2017. (Isabel Infantes/PA via AP)

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Friday’s Oxford Circus scare shows why terrorism is a problem

Tom Rogan · November 24, 2017 9:17 pm

Malia Obama was photographed smoking and apparently kissing a guy. (Photo by Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP)

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My thoughts on the Malia Obama ‘scandal’

Tom Rogan · November 24, 2017 6:29 pm

At least 235 people were killed and hundreds more wounded as bombers detonated explosives and gunmen attacked first responders as they sought to save the wounded. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

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Egypt attack: why Salafi-Jihadists hate Sufis

Tom Rogan · November 24, 2017 6:03 pm