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Signed sincerely, mid-america crop life association," a pesticide industry trade group made up of former execs from the likes of monsanto and du pont crop protection. see, they didnt like the fact she planted an organic garden, she wasnt using pesticides. so they wrote her that letter. that is my favorite example of michelle obama meeting the buzz usa that is national politics. i think we can all agree the role of first lady is kind of a weird one, its often unspecified, under a microscope, hold...

Crop life association," a pesticide industry trade group made up of former execs from the likes of monsanto and du pont crop protection. see, they didnt like the fact she planted an organic garden, she wasnt using pesticides. so they wrote her that letter. that is my favorite example of michelle obama meeting the buzz usa that is national politics. i think we can all agree the role of first lady is kind of a weird one, its often unspecified, under a microscope, holds no official power. so when m...

>> in the first year of the obama presidency first lady michelle obama enlisted the help of some local elementary school students in planting an organic kitchen garden on the white house grounds, ultimately hosting a lunch for those students featuring veggies from the garden. pretty innocuous, right? wrong. less than a week after the first lady and her elementary school helpers broke ground on the garden a letter arrived to the white house addressed to mrs. obama reading in part and i quote "con...

Mascot. mcdonalds execs they want you to use the hashtag ronald macdonald on twitter. i decided to check out the tweet. here is what theyre saying right now. tim says, i would rather have healthier choices than a sergeant pepper band creepy clown. thats not very nice. peggy says, the new ronald mcdonald is scarier than the old one. fair and balanced. asi central says, welcome to twitter, ronald. oh, and i love the new duds. of back to you. jenna: i dont know how i feel about the hair either thou...

Others employees. a plan allegedly coordinated and enforced by late apple ceo steve jobs. according to the plaintiffs, the agreement lowered competition and suppressed their wage potential. $3 billion in lost wages, it claims. here in court documents an e-mail from google co-founder sergei brig alerts other google execs to an angry phone call from jobs where he warned if you hire a single one of these people -- or that its guilty of any violations. adobe had no comment while the litigation is pe...

♪ my mom works at ge. ♪ the long awaited new season of the acclaimed series "mad men" is tonight. im a big fan of the show personally, and i think one of the best things about the program is how it offers a very accurate time capsule of the 1960s, a very tumultuous decade. one of the things i liked most is peering into the politics of that time period. like in the first season, when the ad execs at sterling cooper were working pro bono on richard nixons first presidential race against john...

An indispensable role in innovation. that is because government risk taking entrepreneurial is an inconvenient fact if your political agenda centers around lowering tax so is that corporations and venture capitalists can keep all of their publicly supported windfall. after all, how can you justify the top nine apple execs making about 15,000 of their retail employee. if you understand the collective nature of apples success, how can you look the other way as apple saves them billions in american...

And then you have michael moore calling for the death penalty for gm execs who knew about this. im opposed to the death pent, but to every rule, theres usually an exception and in this case i hope the criminals of general motors will be arrested and made to pay. >> there is a criminal investigation underway but theres a weird area of law in terms of criminal investigations of companies. because companies cant be put in prison. they can only be fined and barred from federal krabcontrac >> weve se...

"independence" wednesday at 9:00 p.m. on fox business network. coming up tomorrow on "red eye." buck sex ton and kennedy and joe devito. >> e block. last story. thats the last story. >> i love that sound. do too many drinks make jokes sink? a new study found contrary to what you could think booze does not make you funnier. the uh snore of with the the human code gathered numbers. what a classic that was to see if their jokes got funnier as the rounds went down. the ad execs say a sober panel dis...

Sober? >> which is no fun. >> it is funny they say the ad execs are less humorous. who is making these ads on tv? like the adopt me pet commercial. >> those are wasted when they taped it. >> you dont dreck at all. drink at all and you are berrily funny. i didnt write that one. somebody else did. >> this is infuriating. ad executives? they are not funny. that is the fly in the ointment of every jackass. he says my mom giggles when the geico commercial come on. >> i hate the dumb lizard or do i. i...