Snowden Nominated for Nobel Prize, Atlanta Becomes Frozen Hell, House Passes $1 Trillion Farm Bill: P.M. Links

Two Norwegian politicians have
nominated Edward Snowden for the
2014 Nobel Peace Prize. They should ask to transfer over the
one they gave to President Barack Obama.
The cold weather has turned Atlanta into an
apocalyptic landscape about which several comparisons to
The Walking Dead have been made.
The Supreme Court ordered a temporary
stay of the execution of a Missouri man. Opponents are pointing
to the state’s lack of transparency about the drugs they’re using
to execute prisoners as a problem.
The House has passed the
$1 trillion farm bill. It cuts food stamps slightly and one
farm subsidy but expands the crop insurance program.
Egypt will be putting 20 Al Jazeera journalists, including

four foreign reporters, on trial for aiding members of the
now-banned Muslim Brotherhood as Al Jazeera correspondents.
A White House petition demanding the
deportation of Justin Bieber has reached the threshold of
100,000 to garner a response. I was going to suggest that 100,000
folks should prepare for disappointment, but given the Obama
administration’s reputation for deporting people, they may get what
they want.