Ukraine Prepares to Fight Back, Americans Doubt Economic Recovery, Lennon’s Killer Says He’s Sorry: A.M. Links

  • Ukraine is preparing
    to defend itself against Russian forces
     in its eastern
    regions. “The invasion by Putin of the regular Russian army is
    a fait accompli,” said Anton Herashchenko, an adviser to the
    Ukrainian Interior Minister, on his Facebook page Thursday, while
    Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko canceled a visit to Turkey to
    focus on Ukraine’s military response. 
  • Even as
    economic recovery moseys forth
    , most Americans—71
    percent—now
    say the Great Recession
     “exerted a permanent drag on the
    economy.” In November 2009, only 49 percent said the same.
  • Gun tourism is a thing, and
    an increasingly popular one
    .
  • What happens when one half of a California mall
    has an $8 minimum wage
    and the other half must pay $10 per
    hour?
  • Ferguson and other St. Louis-area police
    departments face
    steep overtime costs
     for all that time cops spent out
    pepper-spraying people and playing conquering army. 
  • Let’s talk about Gen X for a change! Overall the generation
    is in
    more debt
    than either millennials or boomers; the single most
    indebted cohort are 44 year olds, who owe on average
    $142,077. 
  • John
    Lennon’s killer says
    he’s “sorry for being such an
    idiot.” 

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