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Down the Drain

Day after day I read stories about how people are scamming the government.  Here’s another example. For the last eight years, a couple in nearby Seattle, Lyudmila Shimonova and her chiropractor husband David Silverstein, received $1200 in monthly public housing vouchers, state and federal welfare checks, state and federal disability checks and food stamps while […]

DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO

When he resigned earlier this month, I thought, with “certitude,” that we’d heard the last of lawmaker Anthony Weiner’s texting, sexting, lying, denying and whining, but I was wrong.  Just when I thought is was safe to go back to Twitter, I read that he didn’t have a current registration sticker on his Nissan Pathfinder.  […]