Morning Matters

• Old photo shows KGB spy Putin posing as a tourist during a visit from Ronald Reagan.
  
• Jack Shafer may well be the country’s best drug war journalist, if only because of his efforts to keep other drug war journalists in line. Here, he takes on a Washington Post piece improbably claiming that PCP is making a “comeback.”
  
• Tucker Carlson blasts John Stewart. And he makes some good points. I’ve always thought Jim Cramer was a clown. But Stewart’s jihad against Cramer made Stewart look like self-righteous bully.
  
• Never thought I’d say this, but good for Maxine Waters.
  
• So there a dog people, and then there are “dog people.”
  
• Washington State officials warning citizens that NCAA tournament pools are illegal. Why not play the lottery instead?
  
• New York State health bureaucrats telling us what we can and, more importantly, what we cannot find out about our genes. GenomeWeb News reports.

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