Even by North Korean standards, this announcement of Jang Song Thaek’s execution is intense
3 Reasons Why Our Teenagers Can’t Find Jobs - And why this is terrible for America.
Big Farms Are About to Get Bigger:
All of us involved in agriculture will soon have to decide whether we want to occupy the nostalgic niche providing artisanal beets and heritage pork to Cowen’s 10 percent, or whether we’ll roll the dice on surviving the transition to a data-driven agriculture. Farming will be more efficient, more environmentally responsible, and easier to regulate and measure. But it won’t be the same.
Why the circular firing squad from conservatives, and why now?
Snark vs. Smarm
Third EPA Official Implicated in $900K Scam
Chris Matthews Panics About 2014: ‘The Tea Party is Still Growing!’
NYT: Obamacare Debacle Could Kill Big Blue:
Cumulatively, recent developments surrounding the rollout of Obamacare strengthen the most damaging conservative portrayals of liberalism and of big government – that on one hand government is too much a part of our lives, too invasive, too big, too scary, too regulatory, too in your face, and on the other hand it is incompetent, bureaucratic and expropriatory.
Green Weenie of the Week: RI Sen. Whitehouse’s Latest Self-Dealing Scam
Unions Paid MSNBC's Schultz $177,000 in 2012, $75,000 in 2013 - MSNBC host often touts "blue collar workers" and unionized "teachers" on his show.
Philanthropy, stock-picking, and Presbyterian frugality:
Bostonians still tell the story of the respectable society matron who was crossing the Common one day and ran into an old college chum she hadn’t seen for years. The matron was dismayed to see that her friend was obviously engaged in the world’s oldest profession. “My dear,” she said, “whatever has happened to you?” “Well,” said her friend, “it was either this or dip into capital.”
... President Obama told Chris Matthews he had discovered “we have these big agencies, some of which are outdated, some of which are not designed properly.”
"he had discovered..."?
Connecticut's Obamacare Exchange Spends $75K on Murals
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