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Small businesses care about cutting arbitrary licensing regulations, not taxes. A libertarian attitude I could get behind. http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_hive/2012/05/small_business_growth_depends_on_cutting_red_tape_not_taxes_.html

What President Romney would mean for women. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/what-president-romney-would-mean-for-women-20120515?link=mostpopular5

IMF calls out Cameron's austerity measures. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/britains-blunder/

Super round moon. http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2012/05211206.html

Grover Norquist compares closing tax leaving to Nazis
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/godwinization/

on voluntarily shorter copyright terms
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sj/2012/05/21/copyright-failure-terms-are-much-much-much-too-long-solution-needed/

veteran suicide rates. double the risk, 4x the risk for 17-24
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/opinion/sunday/kristof-a-veterans-death-the-nations-shame.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all

ancient bacteria
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/05/18/millennia-old-microbes-found-alive-in-deep-ocean-muck/

chronotypes and school starting time teenage sleep
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/2012/05/20/when-should-schools-start-in-the-morning/
sleep as simple sit still, evolution of wakefulness
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/2012/05/19/non-adaptive-function-of-sleep/

Heartland Institute in climate change trouble
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/20/heartland-institute-future-staff-cash

euro unemployment rate
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/kings-of-denial/
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/keynes-1921-and-the-euro-crisis/

NAACP endorses gay marriage
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/naacp-endorses-same-sex-marriage/2012/05/19/gIQA5SFSbU_blog.html