Morning Matters

• Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to AIG execs: resign . . . or die!
• Congress now moving to save the newspapers.
• Anne Applebaum on the secret CIA prisons: "The guilty, however senior, should be named, forced to testify and called to account—because the rule of law, and nothing else, is what makes us exceptional."
• Public support for was in Afghanistan is slipping.
• D.C. don’t need no stinking First Amendment.
• Arkansas state house passes an exceptionally stupid underage drinking bill.
  
• Were U.S. Army soldiers patrolling an Alabama town after last week’s shooting spree?
  
• The history of St. Patrick's Day.

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