Morning Matters

• Federal judge orders criminal probe of prosecutors in the Ted Stevens case.
• The Economist editorializes in favor of Sen. Jim Webb's (D-Va.) efforts to reform the criminal justice system.
• Brits aghast after learning politicians were charging taxpayers for personal home renovations, $800 sinks, and porn.
• The U.S. Treasury
  Department is planning to delay the release of any completed
  bank stress test results.
• U.S. politicians slobber all over Castro. Let's just hope none of them gives a speech in Chile.
• More news from the U.K.: British government to archive every email, photographers rally to oppose sweeping new anti-terror law they say could prevent them from photographing public officials.
• "Shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays", "artificial trees to suck carbon dioxide" and "seeding clouds" sure sound like SF, but Obama is considering this "radical technologies to cool Earth's air".
  

with Hit and Run, Reason

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