Morning Matters

• Mancow subjects himself to waterboarding to show it isn’t torture. Like Christopher Hitchens, the experience changed his mind. Wasn’t Sean Hannity supposed to do something like this?
• It seems that an equity firm that includes the pension funds of Los Angeles police officers owns a stake in the San Diego Union-Tribune. So the police union is demanding the paper’s editorial staff be fired, because they don’t like the positions the paper has taken over the years. They’re not even pretending not to be bullies, are they?
• Another call for drug legalization from an unlikely source, this time former Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo.
• Man calls state highway department to report a road defect that gave him a flat tire. Bureaucratic hell ensues, culminating with the state of Ohio threatening to seize the man’s home.
• British Muslims say government agents told them to either become spies or they would be considered possible terrorists.

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