Veep stakes swells; Homelessness down 30 percent

Veep possibilities

• Land: McCain’s VP choice ‘significant’ to evangelicals - FL Baptist Witness
• McCain VP talk turns to 2 female conservatives - Washington Times
  • Sarah Palin, Gov. Alaska - Palin for VP ?
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• Obama’s Governor - Gerson

Homeless down 30%, still prevalent. Media buries the story.

• Reduction in homelessness: Let us pause to praise good news - by Richard Land

The federal government has announced that the country has cut the number of “chronically homeless people” by approximately 30 percent between 2005 and 2007…The new strategy, known as “Housing First,” has succeeded in making the most significant reduction in homelessness in more than a decade. Martha Burt, of New York’s Urban Institute, called the decline in chronic homelessness “nothing short of phenomenal.” - Richard Land

• Good News on the Homeless - David Frum

The “homeless” are a population with severe to extreme mental health problems, substance-abuse problems, or other unusual challenges. They need housing plus some other kind of support - and in recent years, under new Bush administration policies that emphasize treatment as well as housing, those needs have been more and more successfully met. - David Frum

Obama and Iraq

• Obama In Iraq’s Quicksand - Peter Wehner