USA TODAY: Netflix has agreed to pay Comcast to ensure that its movies and TV shows stream more quickly, the latest evidence of a shift in the balance of power in favor of Internet service providers and the likelihood of rising prices for consumers.

The proposal, described by several Pentagon officials on the condition of anonymity in advance of its release on Monday, takes into account the fiscal reality of government austerity and the political reality of a president who pledged to end two costly and exhausting land wars. A result, the officials argue, will be a military capable of defeating any adversary, but too small for protracted foreign occupations.

Parliament voted to grant Mr. Turchynov authority to carry out the duties of the president of Ukraine, adding to his authority to lead the government that lawmakers had approved on Saturday.

Halliburton was able to escape the attention of regulators because it maintained it was exempt from provisions of the state’s Solid Waste Management Act. A federal exemption exists for oil and gas companies that handle less than 220 pounds of waste per month. That turned out to be nonsense…

…that is less than half the amount the state would have collected in revenue this fiscal year had the Legislature adopted a 5 percent severance tax on extracted gas as West Virginia has.

The state Supreme Court denied a request by Gov. Tom Corbett’s administration to vacate its decision and send it back to a lower court for a new round of briefs and fact-finding process.

HUFFINGTON POST / REUTERS: Ukraine’s parliament voted on Saturday to remove President Viktor Yanukovich from office, hours after he abandoned his Kiev office to protesters and denounced what he described as a coup.

When we troll for news concerning the Ukraine, we can only find a single reliable American source with reporters on the ground offering almost real time reporting. That source is the New York Times.

Among the many things I’ve learned by studying cannabis through the medical histories of people who have been (illegally) self-medicating with it is that the Medical Profession has remained blind to a lot of helpful information that would have directed research in more useful directions.

Continuing the nearly 29-year streak of above-average global monthly temperatures, January came in as the fourth-warmest such month on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This makes it the warmest January since 2007, NOAA said, and was the 38th-straight January with a global temperature above the 20th century average.

Doesn’t Hoekstra understand that Russia will counter balance or worse any initiative we take in the Ukraine? Has he looked at a map recently?