Morning Matters

• SWAT team mistakenly breaks into teenagers’ bedroom. Note that they were raiding the neighbor for a nonviolent crime (he was suspected of having child porn on his computer), and that he was released shortly after they confiscated his computer. If one of the teens had a gun in the room, this mistake would probably have resulted in a body or two.
• Dick Cheney says he and he alone will decide which of his official documents get turned over to the National Archives. I wonder what novel legal theories David Addington & Co. will come up with to allow Cheney to continue asserting unlimited power after he leaves office?
• President Bush’s “I had to kill the free market in order to save it” economics continues apace.
• The most inane article you’ll read this week.
• Pitchfork releases its annual list of albums you aren’t cool enough to have heard of.
• The Buckeye Institute has filed suit on behalf of the Christian food co-op raided by the state’s Agriculture Department earlier this month.
• Paul Weyrich R.I.P.
  

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