Mike Flannery

Pritzker Understated Income, Files Amended Disclosure

bloomberg.com — Chicago billionaire Penny Pritzker substantially understated a portion of her income in a disclosure form required as part of her nomination to be U.S. Commerce Secretary and has amended the document. Forms released online last night by the Office of Government Ethics show that Pritzker earned additional income for consulting work on hundreds of trusts, including family trusts, beyond what she disclosed last week.

The Justice Department and Fox News's Phone Records : The New Yorker

newyorker.com — The Obama Justice Department has seized the phone records of numbers that are associated with White House staffers and, apparently, with Fox News reporters. According to a document filed on October 13, 2011, in the case of Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, a former State Department contractor accused of violating the Espionage Act for allegedly leaking classified information to James Rosen, a Fox News reporter.

Analysis | natsec.newamerica.net

natsec.newamerica.net — The purpose of this database is to provide as much information as possible about the covert U.S. drone program in Pakistan in the absence of any such transparency on the part of the American government. This data was collected from credible news reports and is presented here with the relevant sources.

Learned Optimism: Martin Seligman on Happiness, Depression, and the Meaningful Life

brainpickings.org — by Maria Popova What 25 years of research reveal about the cognitive skills of happiness and finding life's greater purpose. "The illiterate of the 21st century," Alvin Toffler famously said, "will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."