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US lawmakers finished crafting a farm bill this week. And you might want to finish chewing on your breakfast before I tell you how much it is going to cost. Because we don’t want you choking on your Cheerios. 300 Billion dollars. Martha! Get the paddles! He’s fallen over again and he can’t get up!

The judge in the corruption trial of a certain person says that the names of the jurors will be kept secret. Opening statements are set to begin in the trial of someone today. And we won’t say his or her name here because in the past this person was associated with someone else who is [...]

It’s time for some National Briefs. It pays to be current with what’s going on in the world. Someone might ask you a question about something that is happening. And you want to be ready. More than three dozen Duke lacrosse players are suing Duke because they are unhappy. They say they suffered “emotional distress” [...]

I really don’t know too much about what is happening in the world these days. So much of it is just awful and there isn’t much space left in my brain drive for this type of thing. But it’s important to know what is happening. So I was surprised to learn this morning as I [...]