Outside the NASCAR Brickyard 400 in Indianapolis, the same track that hosts the famed Indianapolis 500, Marijuana Policy Project, the nation’s largest pro-marijuana legalization advocacy group, has purchased space to air – dozens of times over the weekend – a video that pushes the theme that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol.

In a July 18th article “Hungary Premier Credits his ‘Unorthodox’ Course for Economic Rebound” the Wall Street Journal reported that “Hungary is pulling out of recession, with economic output expanding in the first three months of the year after contracting in 2012.”

SAC engaged in insider trading on an unprecedented scale, becoming a “magnet for market cheaters” who were paid handsomely to deliver “high-conviction” trading ideas that would give the fund an “edge” over other investors, the authorities said.

A new study out Thursday shows consumers are individually paying hundreds of dollars in extra charges each year for services they never wanted or meant to sign up for…

“[Executive Director Herb] Landau noted that some member libraries get more than $8 per capita, while LPL gets $1.83. The problem is so severe, Landau recently announced that he’s exploring options in Harrisburg to sever ties with the county system and go it alone.

“I don’t think anyone’s going to try to disprove it,” Commissioner Haste said. “I think they’re assuming the worst is there. At this point in time I think they feel the best policy is not to disturb it.”

The vast proportion of reputable economists begged the government to increase deficit spending following the start of this great recession in 2008. Instead in 2012 we introduced austerity measures that have slowed recovery. (We did the same fool thing in 1937 and brought about the second phase of the Great Depression, but who now takes note other than historians? )

Apparently good guys and bad guys are off on the beaches or at their summer cottages on a lake.

In an effort designed to cut costs at the cash-strapped agency by up to $4.5 billion a year, Congressman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., is proposing the U.S Postal Service phase out door-to-door delivery and shift service curbside and to neighborhood cluster boxes.

The Pennsylvania Lottery reported Thursday that it had achieved record sales and profits even as Gov. Tom Corbett continued his quest to turn over lottery management to a British company.

The options, which range from training opposition troops to conducting airstrikes and enforcing a no-fly zone over Syria, are not new. But General Dempsey provided details about the logistics and the costs of each. He noted that long-range strikes on the Syrian government’s military targets would require “hundreds of aircraft, ships, submarines and other enablers,” and cost “in the billions.”