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Running the Numbers

  • 28,000,000
    The number of Americans on Food Stamps. The largest since the program began in the 1960s
  • 33
    The percentage of Americans who believe Barack Obama, who has been a member of Trinity United Church of Christ for 20 years, is a Muslim.
  • 4,105
    The number of American military killed in Iraq since the occupation began on 5/1/03
  • 101,480
    The number of Chinese who died in work place accidents last year. The work-related fatalities were down 10 percent from 2006. That's progress, I guess. “The national production safety situation continues to steadily improve,” said Li Yizhong, head of the State Administration of Work Safety.
  • 6
    President Bush's rogue Department of Justice investigated or prosecuted six times as many Democrats as it did Republicans. A political profiling study by Donald Shields, a University of Missouri-Kansas professor, reports that 631 Democrats were targeted by the president's DOJ while only 142 Republicans were. I thought that sort of judicial disparity was only reserved for black men.

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