Most Superb Owl Ever

Feb. 2, 2015

Patriots defeat Seahawks in fourth quarter rout in Super Bowl XLIX Star quarterback Tom Brady led his New England Patriots to a 28-24 victory over the Seattle Seahawks in a Super Bowl that was, for once, as exciting as the much-anticipated ads that have become America's modern sports pastime. + The record-setting Brady threw for four touchdowns, including a last-minute pass to wide receiver Julian Edelman with 2:02 remaining, as New England rallied from a 10-point deficit for their fourth Super Bowl title in the Brady-Bill Belichick era. + Of course, most Americans were watching for the ads. Here are the 7 that everybody's going to be talking about Monday morning. + If you haven't seen it already, Idina Menzel's rendition of the national anthem was damn beautiful. + Missy Elliott completely stole the show from Katy Perry during halftime. + Believe it or not, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is the nation's best Super Bowl commentator. + This is the one empowering Super Bowl ad that every sports fan needs to see. + An aside: Do the NFL's anti-domestic violence initiatives actually even exist? + And finally, from our friends at Vox: 9 superb owl facts you need to know. Get it?  President Obama just announced a corporate tax plan that big corporations are going to hate President Barack Obama's fiscal 2016 budget will seek new taxes on trillions of dollars in profits accumulated overseas by U.S. companies, and a new approach to taxing foreign profits in the future, Reuters reported on Sunday. + In his budget plan to be unveiled on Monday, Obama will call for a one-time, 14% tax on an estimated $2.1 trillion in profits piled up abroad over the years by multinationals such as GE, Microsoft, Pfizer and Apple. +  The 10-year budget "does not seek balance, instead focusing on policies to address income inequality as he adds nearly $6 trillion to the debt," the New York Times reports. + Writes the New York Times' Jonathan Weisman: "The central question that Mr. Obama’s budget will pose to Congress is this: Should Washington worry about what may be the defining economic issue of the era — the widening gap between the rich and everyone else — or should policy makers primarily seek to address a mountain of debt that the White House hopes to control but only marginally reduce as a share of the economy?"

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