Morning Matters

• The federal government’s financial rescue plan now stands at about 90 percent of GDP. Yeah. This will end well.
• Senate bill would federalize cyber security, even for private firms. Because everyone knows that when it comes to protecting electronic information, nobody’s better than the federal government.
• Obama: “Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.” Unless, that is, you make personal choices of which he doesn’t approve.
• The House approves the president's $3.6 trillion budget.
• Mark Sanford gives in and accepts South Carolina's cut of the stimulus package.
• How police at the G20 protests "wilfully criminalised and alienated 4,000 innocent people."
• The truth about online sexual predators.
  
• A "social experiment" with UFOs.
  
• Spain's underground economy blooms.
  
• The rise of hyperlocal news sites.

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