Rick Perry (Getty) Texas Governor Rick Perry released a new ad today in which he attempts to spin his disastrous debate performances as a qualification. Governor Perry was ahead of many polls until his poorly reviewed showings in the Republican debates. Now, Governor Perry is threatening to skip future debates and trailing Mitt Romney and Herman Cain in most national polls. In the new ad, Governor… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Politicker Discovery Date : 31/10/2011 15:06 Number of articles : 3
Family Research Council’s Marriage and Religion Research Institute (MARRI) released a synthesis paper today showing that economic well-being in the United States is strongly related to marriage. The paper, entitled Marriage and Economic Well-Being, shows that married couples are better off economically than persons in any other family structure. The paper reports that only 5.8 percent of married families were living in poverty in 2009. “This research clearly documents why marriage is an important and fundamental part of society. Having the security of marriage in which to foster children is vital to reducing reliance on government welfare programs which cost taxpayers at least $112 billion annually. How To Help Your Teen Through Your Divorce “For men, being married proves an economic boon. Married men tend to have more stable employment histories and make, on average, almost 30 percent more than their non-married counterparts. Marriage also affects women and children positively. Married women are less likely to be impoverished, and children from married families have stronger economic mobility as adults. “Despite the disastrous effects of divorce on society, remarriage can have positive economic impacts on broken families. Remarriage tends to increase income and restore some lost wealth. The rate of poverty among children whose mothers remarry after divorce is reduced by 66 percent. Longest Living Married Black Couple Gives Advice
Posted onDecember 2, 2010byBenny Hollywood|Comments Off on Deep Water Corals Dead and Dying; Gulf Oil Spill to Blame (Video)
Photograph via BOEMRE and NOAA OER Lophelia II expedition While the news coverage has died down, the lingering impacts on wildlife of the Deep Horizon oil spill are still being uncovered. That includes what’s going on far under the surface of the water to deep sea corals. Researchers from Penn State have discovered that seven miles southwest of the disastrous wellhead is a huge bed of dead and damaged corals, and it is suspected that the damage is thanks to the spill. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Katherine Heigl then played reporter with Josh Duhamel, and asked about his disastrous dates. “I#39;ve had plenty of awkward moments, but I#39;ve always been in relationships for a long time,” said the Transformers star, 37. “Dating always scared the crap out of me. For that reason I couldn#39;t really date.” Talk about a bad date: Before she married singer Josh Kelley nearly three years ago, Katherine Heigl says she endured a string of nightmare encounters that still makes her cringe. Meanw
Radio silence be damned ! While his fellow co-executive producer Carlton Cuse travels around Europe like some post-college English major, Damon Lindelof has put pen to paper — or fingers to keyboard — on what could be the greatest piece of writing he’s ever done. And yes, I am including Crossing Jordan in that statement. The Lost showrunner took time out from his busy schedule of tweaking the Star Trek 2 screenplay — I’m assuming — to offer up advice on how to stop the disastrous BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Because, if it’s good enough for Kevin Costner and James Cameron, it’s good enough for Damon. What does he have in mind? Well, it all starts with Billy Bob Thornton.
Just because Leno, Letterman and the rest of the network late night hosts are taking a dark week does not mean that last night’s afterhours programming was dull. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert returned from their own hiatuses to compare the disastrous BP oil spill to reality television, Chelsea Handler came onto her guest and Jonah Hill talked about the time he drunkenly startled an Affleck in the bathroom. Click through for those segments as well as the other highlights you missed last night while decompressing from the America’s Got Talent premiere.
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Gordon Brown last night urged EU leaders to back an audacious plan for a new system of world economic government in which the G20 and IMF would be empowered to tell major economies how they should tailor their national policies to secure sustainable international growth.
