The man who saved the United States of America [Reader Post]

He is Scott Walker of Wisconsin.

An article in Business Insider listed the Top 6 winners and losers in state budget battles this year. Among the winners are Governors Scott Walker of Wisconsin, Andrew Cuomo of New York, John Kasich of Ohio, Jerry Brown of California and Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania. They all took similar approaches to the financial crises that faced their states- they cut spending and mostly avoided new taxes.

Stannis Baratheon for President! [Reader Post]

If you are among the many who recently finished watching the HBO series based on George R.R. Martin’s “A Game of Thrones” but have not read the following four books (Book #5 has just been released) in the series, stop reading now. This post contains spoilers from one of the subsequent books, so if you’re interested in this post, bookmark this page, go read the books, and come back when you’re done. I’ll wait here.