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The New York Times had a fascinating, well-reported story Sunday about how many people in a Republican/tea party county north of Minneapolis are dependent on the government they've been rabble-roused to hate.

The indie biopic Lovelace is currently in production, but we've already seen a number of set photos and images from the Linda Lovelace pic.

Hmm. Bloomberg Businessweek -already read. Wall Street Journal -ehh, we'll be asleep before meal service.

The front page of Monday's Business Day featured New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter's oh-so-respectful profile of MSNBC's newest left-wing host, Melissa Harris-Perry : "At MSNBC, A Professor As TV Host ." Harris-Perry is not just another MSNBC host but will soon become, in Stelter's phrase, "the only tenured professor in the United States ... (more)

Well, judging from how many of them it takes to babysit him while he eats dinner, we're guessing: a lot.

Workers are seen inside a Foxconn factory in the township of Longhua in the southern Guangdong province in this May 26, 2010 file photo.

While the New York real estate market has largely come back from the crash, one small segment is doing better than ever: the ultraluxury segment, where homes cost $7 million and up.

We first heard about Google's foray into home-based hardware late last week , when it asked the FCC for Special Temporary Authority to have employees test an "entertainment device" in their homes .

A petrol bomb explodes in front of a riot policeman during clashes in front of the Greek parliament in Athens.

Jennifer Brook is one of the speakers at the annual Webstock conference in Wellington, coming from the US to speak.

If you're wondering why a new poll shows that New Yorkers overwhelmingly support the NYPD, despite the best efforts of The New York Times and the Associated Press to damn the cops as Muslim-bashing brownshirts, consider Thursday's guilty plea by New York jihadist Jesse Curtis Morton on terror-related charges.

The answer, which made New York Times puzzle editor Will Shortz laugh, helped Eagan's Chief Financial Officer Tom Pepper become a published crossword puzzle writer.

The New York Times has an article today about all the rural red-state conservatives who criticize the welfare state while relying on government benefits.

Today's big New York Times story is about the alleged expansion of the the "government safety net" and the implied hypocrisy of anyone right of center relying on it: Older people get most of the benefits, primarily through Social Security and Medicare, but aid for the rest of the population has increased about as quickly through programs for the ... (more)

Any American who want to move to New York City will have to leave the country. Sao Paulo is one possibility .

Media tweets from the Beverly Hilton make it sound as if the lobby is being cleared so the coroner can bring out the remains of Whitney Houston.

In honor of Valentine's Day, Chef Jesse Schenker, chef/owner of Recette , in Manhattan, and his wife, Lindsay, director of operations at the restaurant, joined "CBS This Morning: Saturday" for the first favorite dish from a husband-wife chefs team.

NEW YORK &#8212 "The Phantom of the Opera" is making musical history on Broadway.

Dick Meister, former labor editor of the SF Chronicle and KQED-TV Newsroom, has covered labor and politics for more than a half-century. Contact him through his website, Dina Bakst of the Work and Family Legal Center reminds us of an important fact that few people seem to realize - - that getting pregnant can cause a woman to lose her job, despite ... (more)

Robert Remini is Andrew Jackson's finest biographer - and the finest biographer of Jackson's arch-nemesis, three-time presidential loser Henry Clay.