Obama Administration Kills Contract with Healthcare.gov IT Firm
The Healthcare.gov saga continued Friday, as reports surfaced that the Obama administration has decided to terminate its contract with CGI Federal, the primary IT contractor behind the beleaguered...
View ArticleChristie’s Legal World of Woe
Chris Christie may have expressed many times how “sad” he feels about the punitive George Washington Bridge traffic jam, but, having been pulled over, he has a long way to go before he is given a green...
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Christie in the Corner
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Today in Tabs: Malcolm Godwell
OMG HAX: That giant horrible Target data leak is actually worse than we thought, now affecting "up to 70 million individuals," which is 29% of Americans. A Charleston, WV coal company leaked...
View ArticleThe End of Mass Production
Late last year, Airbnb announced that it’s going after the major hotel chains – which at first sounded kind of cute, like a precocious Little League pitcher saying he’s going to strike out Miguel...
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Robbery on the Silk Road
A few weeks before Christmas, the web’s biggest illegal-drug market announced it was taking a holiday, along with a substantial sum of other people’s money.“Dread Pirate Roberts,” the self-appointed...
View ArticleDumped by Obama, Company That Mangled Healthcare.gov Faces New Questions
The Obama Administration on Friday effectively fired CGI Federal as the main contractor behind the buggy HealthCare.gov website, an embarrassing--and unusual--move that could end up costing taxpayers...
View ArticleDumped by Obama, Company That Mangled Healthcare.gov Faces New Questions
The Obama Administration on Friday effectively fired CGI Federal as the main contractor behind the buggy HealthCare.gov website, an embarrassing--and unusual--move that could end up costing taxpayers...
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Newsweek's Ariel Sharon Covers Through the Years
Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli general, defense minister and prime minister, died Saturday. Sharon had been in a coma for eight years after suffering a stroke. Today, we look back at Newsweek's...
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Dead At 85
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Ariel Sharon, the trailblazing former Israeli general and prime minister who was in a coma for eight years after he had a stroke at the height of his power, died on Saturday aged...
View ArticleThe Thing About Arik
The phone rang and Ariel’s Sharon’s familiar voice was on the other end. In his booming cadence, imitated by a generation of Israeli Defense Force generals (and serving as fodder for thousands of...
View ArticleA Cinderella Nation Is Shut Out of the Olympics
Many feel bitter in the republic of Abkhazia, also known as Apsny, which translates as the Land of the Soul. Five years after the Russian-Georgian war gave the Abkhazians their independence, only...
View ArticleIn Baseball, Everyone’s Famous
If you’re not famous, do you belong in a Hall of Fame?This week the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA), an aggregation of otherwise literate humans who cannot correctly compose their own...
View ArticleThe Magical World of Thailand
KhaosodNews (“Every News Fresh, Every Taste Fulfilled”) is the third biggest newspaper in Thailand. It, like all the other dailies in the country, is feverishly reporting on the political and popular...
View ArticleWho Lost the Middle East?
Three years into what was optimistically called an “Arab Spring,” the burning question now is, Who lost the Middle East? As Arab governments weaken, states disintegrate, old borders disappear,...
View ArticleGadget Lust: Giving in to the Pressure Cooker
Let’s play a quick game. I’ll toss out a phrase and you say the first thing that comes into your head. Ready?“Pressure cooker.”I know that nine out of 10 of you said “kitchen disaster,” and the rest...
View ArticleWhy the IRS Will Love Legal Pot
As 2014 begins, the United States may be ready to call it quits on its second major experiment with Prohibition. With both Colorado and Washington state now offering legalized marijuana use, it may be...
View ArticleSoftening the Blow of Bad Memories
The sweet, searing pain of your first tattoo, and the knowing ache of your second. Your dog limping into the corner of the room, collapsing after a lifetime of dutiful, loving service. The rush of an...
View ArticleA Fine Southern Whine
The locals in Charleston, S.C., must have taken me for disturbed. In restaurants, I persistently requested South Carolina wine, and various well-meaning waiters told me politely – in this city renowned...
View ArticleNigerian President Signs Anti-Gay Bill Into Law
(Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan signed a bill on Monday that criminalizes same-sex relationships, the presidency said, defying pressure from Western governments to respect gay and...
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