11 Economic Lessons to Make You a Smarter Shopper This Black Friday  —  The first and last rule of prices is that nobody knows what anything is really worth.  Shoppers are guided by shallow clues ("this is cheaper than that") and latent emotions ("it just feels like a good deal") rather than knowledge and deliberate thinking.

Doesn't Eat, Doesn't Pray and Doesn't Love  —  The question of whether for-profit companies can claim a religious identity, one that exempts them from obeying a generally applicable law, is fully worthy of the attention the Supreme Court is about to give it.

Mormon Bishop Goes Undercover as Homeless Man to Teach about Compassion and Gratitude  —  (KUTV) An LDS Bishop went undercover as a homeless man in his congregation last Sunday.  He wanted to use his disguise as a tool to teach on compassion this Thanksgiving.  —  David Musselman is the bishop of the Taylorsville Fourth Ward.

Congress faces deadline on undetectable plastic guns  —  Guns that cannot be detected by X-ray machines will no longer be banned if Congress does not renew the decades-old prohibition by Dec. 9.  —  The 1998 Undetectable Firearms Act will sunset that day, ending the prohibition …

New Snowden docs show U.S. spied during G20 in Toronto  —  Surveillance during 2010 summit ‘closely co-ordinated with Canadian partner’ CSEC  —  Security expert on NSA's G20 spying 6:34  —  Top secret documents retrieved by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden show that Prime Minister Stephen …

White House menu: Turkey, 9 types of pies  —  Thanksgiving dinner at the White House will be heavy on tradition and heavy on pies.  —  For dinner itself, the Obamas will have an assortment of dishes including sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, green bean casserole …

Cancer Patient Who Spoke Out Against ObamaCare Now Being Audited  —  Bill Elliot was a cancer patient who lost his insurance due to ObamaCare and couldn't pay the expensive new premiums.  He was talking about paying the ObamaCare fine, going without health insurance and “letting nature take its course.”

How Obama referred to Tea Party protesters as ‘tea-baggers’ in handwritten letter to Texas teacher complaining about health care law  —  Responding to an angry constituent's letter about the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama allegedly used a sexually charged derogatory term referring to members of the Tea Party movement.

Kanye West on Obama's Failures: 'Black People Don't Have the Same Connections as Jewish People'  —  You know why Barack Obama is having problems executing his agenda?  —  Rapper Kanye West told 105.1 FM radio in New York City earlier this week that it's because “Black people don't have the same level …

Q&A with Ricardo Baca, The Post's new marijuana editor  —  Ricardo Baca has been appointed Marijuana Editor at the Denver Post.  (Craig F. Walker, The Denver Post)  —  As noted last week, The Denver Post is appointing an editor to oversee our coverage of the recreational marijuana law taking effect in January.

And So It Begins: New York Sending Out Gun Confiscation Notices  —  New York's SAFE Act is a bad, bad thing.  It requires people to register, sell or transfer (out of state) “assault rifles” and “high capacity” magazines.  Many Empire State gun and standard capacity ammunition magazine owners have complied.

Report: London is mediating indirect secret talks between US and Hezbollah  —  Talks reportedly deal with fight against al-Qaida, regional stability and other Lebanese political issues.  —  The US and Hezbollah are in secret indirect talks managed by London dealing with the fight against Al-Qaida …