My friend, Russ (follow Ross on Twitter), posted a link to this article on Twitter. This is some scary stuff. John Pittas’ mother entered a nursing home for rehabilitation following a car crash. After she left the nursing home, she moved out of the country. His mother’s $93,000 bill at the home was left unpaid. [...]

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A person even saw a foetus being fed to the animals…. This is known to everyone in Beed, but the police are not taking action as [abortionist] Munde [is] influential. ~ Varsha Deshpande of Lek Ladki Abhiyan, an Indian anti-sex selection organization, discussing the heinous practice of feeding aborted female fetuses to dogs in order [...]

To fully understand the Eurozone’s financial-debt crisis, we must dig through the artifice, obfuscation and propaganda to the real dynamics of Europe’s “new feudalism,” the Neocolonial-Financialization Model.  Forget “austerity”and political theater–the only way to truly comprehend the Eurozone is to understand the Neocolonial-Financialization Model, as that’s the key dynamic of the Eurozone. In the old [...]

Are leading academic papers really of better quality? – Vox EU Enter, Laffering – Paul Krugman What the Fed fears – The Economist On not taking sides, and forecast uncertainty – mainly macro The relative expansion of central banks’ balance sheets – macroblog The Insane Idea Hidden in the Debate Over Obama's Spending – Rortybomb [...]

Tim Duy: Rumors and Threats, by Tim Duy: From the Wall Street Journal's MarketBeat blog this morning: “We’re now in a very sentiment-driven, rumor-driven, nonsense-driven market that’s prepared to grasp onto anything,” Dow Jones’s Katie Martin said this morning on the Markets Hub. One of the only things holding the euro up, she said, is [...]

As I get ready for an unexpected car trip south for family stuff — a trip I really wish I didn't have to make — here's a quick one via pgl at Econospeak: Romney on Unemployment: 2, 4, 6, 8 – Who Do Appreciate?, by pgl: CNN has a good story on all the fuss [...]

How would you like to fly to Dallas and attend Glenn Beck and Mercury One’s three-day “Restoring Love” event, for free? The Blaze is giving away a fantastic, four day / three-night trip for two to this historic weekend. If you are the lucky winner, you will receive: Two Premium tickets to the Restoring Love [...]

If this does not become the most memorable image of the 2012 campaign season, I don’t know what will. POLITICO reports that the “Dine With The Donald” raffle is apparently Republican New York Jets Owner Woody Johnson‘s retort to George Clooney’s big fundraising event earlier this month for the Obama campaign. The winner of the $3 minium [...]

What started as a one-week sports camp for wounded veterans sponsored by the Wounded Warrior Project has grown into a full-fledged softball club, complete with sponsorship deals, a booked 2012 schedule and a legion of adoring fans.  The Military Times followed the team around the diamond to get a look inside the elite ball club: