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Anne Segal

Anne Sorock Segal is a market researcher and president of The Frontier Lab, a nonprofit organization that seeks to increase demand for freedom and revive a unifying American character using cutting-edge behavioral science methodologies.

Chinese bureaucrats are under increased pressure to support Chinese-made car brands instead of the preferred luxury brands such as Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz. Advertising Age reports: The combined market share for Chinese sedans and compact cars fell to a four-year low of 28% in 2012, according...

A series of graphs demonstrate just how disastrous the Obama (failed) Recovery has been for our country, made all the more stark when compared to prior post-war "recoveries." Jacob Goldstein writes on the NPR blog that while this first chart, produced by the blog Calculated Risk,...

Paul McKinley, who had been the presumed winner in the Illinois special election to replace Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., has been confirmed as the GOP nominee by the state board of elections. There had been a few outstanding provisional ballots that precluded the runner-up, Republican...

Progressive and proud DC coffee shop Busboys and Poets, housed in a modern McDevelopment on the city's NW side, turns out to be pretty thin-skinned when its customers balk at their politics. Server Nuria Kalifa-Jackson, wearing an anti-Israel shirt produced by CodePink, received a 10% tip...

Last week. the Alabama legislature passed a bill approving school choice in a speedy series of votes that, according to one report, left the Senate "in chaos" when the Democrats realized what had happened. In reaction to being out-gamed, Democrats in the state House and...

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez died today after fighting cancer for two years. Vice President Maduro's statement: Today, the 5th of March, after participating in the meeting of the council of ministers, we came here to the military hospital to follow the sequence of our comandante president's health....

A professor at Harvard has applied her behavioral science background to the use of the "sequestration" tactic in an article, "The Strange Behavioral Logic of the Sequester Stalemate." She uses the somewhat forced nature of the upcoming automatic spending cuts and compares elements of the situation...

There's a surplus of pretty successful infographics attempting to sway audiences as to the meaning--and import--of sequestration cuts.

From political groups like Third Way and The Democratic Daily to a Quaker organization and the Cato Institute, there are common themes running through many of the depictions that attempt to both explain the term "sequestration," while also selling a viewpoint. The infographics from those opposed to sequestration focus on what, and even more strikingly, who, will be impacted according to their points-of-view. On the other hand, an infographic from the Cato Institute focused on placing the cut amounts in perspective--and using humor.

For example, National Parks Service presents perceived impact on jobs, and converts figures into "equivalents," saying "proposed cuts to NPS budget would be equivalent to close 200 of the smallest park units":

The Third Way attempts to reach out across the aisle to Tea Party activists, choosing issues they think are interesting to them and applying their left-leaning ideological POV:

Democratic Daily goes straight for the jugular, illustrating the impact on children:

A former colleague of mine from Regnery Publishing wrote today to say that our old sister company, Human Events, had shuttered its print edition today. While the digital version will continue, much of the staff will have to seek employment elsewhere, and it may be...

It's clear who made up Soledad O'Brien's niche audience base at her former employer CNN now that "Left Action" has issued an alert and created a petition to save their number one heroine in the media. Left Action, a "network of 1,000,000 progressive," must not...

In a press conference Monday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago expressed his "100 percent" support for Police Chief Garry McCarthy, who recently referred to law-abiding gun owners as agents of political corruption and has been under attack by the black caucus of aldermen for his inability...

Robin Kelly, one of the leading Democrats running in the congressional special election primary to replace Jesse Jackson, Jr., is under fire this week after it was revealed that an internal investigation by the State Treasurer's Inspector General recommended she be disciplined. In response to this...

The petri dish of Democrat candidates in the special election Democrat primary for Jesse Jackson, Jr.'s former congressional seat remains teeming with candidates, despite the Chicago Democratic Machine's heavies being deployed to empty it out. So far only two have caved, Toi Hutchinson who dropped out of...

News this morning that one of the three leading contenders for the Democratic nomination in the special election to replace Jesse Jackson, Jr., Toi Hutchinson, has dropped out of the race and endorsed Machine-pick Robin Kelly. This may or may not be related to news recently surfacing...