Morning Matters

Obama nominating hardcore Nanny Statist to head up the CDC. The guy enthusiastically backed the trans-fat, smoking bans and calorie count requirements in New York.

Jack Shafer on the Maureen Dowd plagiarism kerfuffle.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford self-identifies as a libertarian, scolds Sen. Lindsey Graham for mocking them.

U.S. Copyright Office implements new system to speed up process, ends up taking three times as long to approve applications.

Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley move to repay TARP money.

U.S. Supreme Court narrowly rejects lawsuit against former Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert Mueller by man who says he was detained and beaten shortly after September 11 because of their policies.

Facebook shutting down accounts of users with unusual-sounding names. Why?

Canada’s economy getting freer, may soon be freer than the U.S. Might explain something about why they’re handling the recession better than we are.

Speaking of Canadians, police in Montreal recently handcuffed and arrested a woman for not holding on to the handrail while riding on an escalator.

With Reason, Hit and Run
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