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The Nordic countries: The next supermodel

The Nordics cluster at the top of league tables of everything from economic competitiveness to social health to happiness. They have avoided both southern Europe’s economic sclerosis and America’s extreme inequality. Development theorists have taken to calling successful modernisation “getting to Denmark”.

Colin Powell asks O’Reilly: Why do you only see me as an African-American?

Did Powell ask for %$#ing Ice Tea? That might explain it.

Is State Capitalism Winning?

In the age-old contest of economic-growth models, state capitalism has seemed to be gaining the upper hand in recent years. Avatars of liberal capitalism like the United States and the United Kingdom continued to perform anemically in 2012, while many Asian countries, relying on various versions of dirigisme, have not only grown rapidly and steadily over the last several decades, but have also weathered recent economic storms with surprising grace. So, is it time to update the economics textbooks?

Not an easy read, but worth reading.

If you’re 27 or younger, you’ve never experienced a colder-than-average month

But it was cold here, in winter, therefore no climate change. What trend?

Outside that bubble, a fair number of people have noticed that Keynesian economics has performed spectacularly in the crisis — it successfully predicted that deficits wouldn’t drive up interest rates, that monetary expansion wouldn’t be inflationary, that austerity policies in Britain and elsewhere would hit economic growth. And no, don’t tell me that Keynesians predicted… Continue reading Untitled

U.N. Drone Investigator Might Be a Deadly Robot’s Worst Nightmare

That carries the possibility of a reckoning with the human damage left by drones, the first such witnessing by the international community. Accountability, Emmerson tells Danger Room in a Monday phone interview, “is the central purpose of the report.”

So, will the administration agree to UN inspections?

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How Many People Were Shot on Gun Appreciation Day? (by SamSeder) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Rubin said that she was trying to show how easy it would be to commit voter fraud with just a signature and gets arrested for voter fraud.

Democratic Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller, who has called for a photo ID law, slammed Rubin in a statement. “If Ms. Rubin was trying to demonstrate how easy it is to commit voter fraud, she clearly failed and proved just the opposite,”

Is there a political Darwin award? She’s a shoe in.

Freakonomics » We Once Had Self-Driving Cars

The case for high speed rail.