Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog Split, Robert Conquest Dies, Which Republicans Made the Cut? P.M. Links

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  Muppets

  Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog have split, proving that love is an empty, meaningless concept. Bert and Ernie are still together, though. The new normal!

• Al-Qaida or ISIS: Who's worse?
• India's crackdown on porn has come to a premature end, har har.
• Famed anti-communist historian Robert Conquest has died.
• The Fox News Republican debate lineup is set and unlikely to change, according to FiveThirtyEight.
• Ozy ran an interesting profile of Marginal Revolution blogger Alex Tabarrok. (Also, what is Ozy?)

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