http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/sanjuans/isw/opinionRSS Feed for Opinion - Islands' Weeklyen-usiswopinionhttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with Live.comhttp://feeds.soundpublishing.com/~r/iswopinion/~3/EEAQU9THHzA/101690328.htmlWASHINGTON -- There are times when I flirt with the notion that the country would be better off with divided government. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HHRTCVt5MbeVNgzOFIbJaUi4SH8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HHRTCVt5MbeVNgzOFIbJaUi4SH8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HHRTCVt5MbeVNgzOFIbJaUi4SH8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HHRTCVt5MbeVNgzOFIbJaUi4SH8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.soundpublishing.com/~ff/iswopinion?a=EEAQU9THHzA:MxRZapDZLQI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/iswopinion?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.soundpublishing.com/~ff/iswopinion?a=EEAQU9THHzA:MxRZapDZLQI:4tztiflKsvM"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/iswopinion?i=EEAQU9THHzA:MxRZapDZLQI:4tztiflKsvM" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/iswopinion/~4/EEAQU9THHzA" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/sanjuans/isw/opinion/101690328.htmlhttp://feeds.soundpublishing.com/~r/iswopinion/~3/02V6XMUFEJI/101196729.htmlWASHINGTON — Congress has acted, after a cruel delay, to renew the extension of unemployment benefits. Those who are unemployed through no fault of their own will be eligible to collect benefits for as long as 99 weeks. This is an awfully long time, and it raises the question: Is Congress subsidizing slackers? To put it in a slightly less provocative way, do the beefed-up benefits encourage people not to work? <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cmtaLIz1QZJ01dCjqfioI-sYWTI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cmtaLIz1QZJ01dCjqfioI-sYWTI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cmtaLIz1QZJ01dCjqfioI-sYWTI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cmtaLIz1QZJ01dCjqfioI-sYWTI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.soundpublishing.com/~ff/iswopinion?a=02V6XMUFEJI:Vbem2pRKe2c:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/iswopinion?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.soundpublishing.com/~ff/iswopinion?a=02V6XMUFEJI:Vbem2pRKe2c:4tztiflKsvM"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/iswopinion?i=02V6XMUFEJI:Vbem2pRKe2c:4tztiflKsvM" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/iswopinion/~4/02V6XMUFEJI" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/sanjuans/isw/opinion/101196729.html