Morning Matters

• Geithner wants power to oust more executives.
• This “Sharia law” flap over an Obama State Department nominee may be the stupidest non-issue of his administration. 
• Speaking non-issues, this whole thing about Michelle Obama touching the precious queen? What David Boaz said.
• Hollywood could soon be going Objectivist, “Atlas Shrugged” eyed for a movie. I hope for the best, as Randall Wallace, the writer on other crisis-era, politically themed works such as “Braveheart” and “Pearl Harbor,” has written the latest draft of the screenplay and is also interested in coming on to direct.
• Oregon bill would raise the smoking age to 21

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