Politics in the States

Hey everyone... this is my first post... and looks to be the first post ever on here since it was created 8 months ago.  I have a blog on here as well but want to keep political stuff off of it since my family reads it and I don't want to get into it with them (as we generally have very different views on most things).

So here are a few links I recently found that I wanted to share:

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Goodbye-farmers-markets-C-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole-090303-287.html

This is regarding bills about to go before congress that pertain to "food safety". However, they were written by big agri-business and could possibly destroy local farmers and farmers markets, of which I happen to be a huge fan and someday contributor.
Here is the petition that is going around to support opposition to these bills:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

also, There is a blog I go to called Good Math, Bad Math and it is extremely informative and calling out people's bullshit. This one is in regards to Obama's tax plan. Good ammo to argue with people who are against it because they don't understand tax threshholds...

http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2009/03/tax_thresholds_why_the_horror.php