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Gov. Perry Has Love/Hate Relationship with ObamaCare, Feds Snooped at Utah Olympics, Zuckerberg Seeks a Lot More Friends: P.M. Links

Scott Shackford | 8.21.2013 4:30 PM


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  • This little piggy went to the health care exchange.
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    Gov. Rick Perry may hate ObamaCare but it seems as though his administration is quite fond of the federal money they could get out of it.

  • Elsewhere, UPS will be dropping thousands of spouses from its insurance plan because of ObamaCare.
  • Back in 2002, feds snooped on all e-mails and text communications in the Salt Lake City area around the time of the Olympics. Cue the "We're not as bad as Bush" arguments.
  • An American college student in India says she suffered so much harassment and groping there that she developed post-traumatic stress disorder.
  • Mark Zuckerberg has announced an initiative to make the Internet accessible to everybody on earth. But isn't that what the government is for?
  • Pope Benedict stepped down because, he said, God told him to.

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Scott Shackford is a policy research editor at Reason Foundation.