Morning Matters

• Five much-hyped public safety laws that failed.
• Zero tolerance follies:
  Fairfax, Virginia students faces two-week suspension, possible
  expulsion for taking doctor-prescribed, parent-approved birth control
  bill during lunch.
  
• Tim Carney explains
  how the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's congressional scorecard shows the
  difference between lawmakers who support free markets and lawmakers who
  serve corporations.
• For the first time in 18 years, press and photographers allowed to view and record fallen soldiers returning home to Dover Air Force Base.
• Stuart Varney says Obama is refusing to allow some banks to repay TARP funds so the federal government can maintain control over them.
• Glenn Greenwald on how the Obama administration's newest executive immunity claims go well beyond anything even the Bush administration tried to argue.

with Hit and Run, Reason

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