Morning Matters

• A 1,474-megapixel photo of the inauguration.
• The Aryan twin town Joseph Mengele created in Brazil.
• Did Bush have the NSA spy on American journalists?
• We’ve already had the first DEA medical marijuana raids since Obama took office. Let’s hope he keeps his promise to end them.
• Rush Limbaugh pines for an America where the government operates in secret, where high-ranking executive branch criminals are protected by a complete lack of transparency, and where the press is kept ignorant of the government’s improprieties.
• Hillary Clinton silently mouths along to presidential oath.
• Glenn Reynolds asks Obama to repeal the federal drinking age.
• The Daily Beast looks at Mary Beth Buchanan and Alice Martin, the two Bush-appointed U.S. attorneys who are refusing to leave their positions. As far as I’m concerned, Buchanan should be barred from ever practicing law again, much less putting people in prison.
• Woman charged with terrorism, may lose custody of her children after an altercation with a flight attendant who scolded her for spanking the kids. UPDATE: Per the comments, here’s a different account of the airplane incident.

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