Morning Matters

• Previous year of federal spending comes to $55,000 per household.
• Pentagon prepares new military command for cyberspace, "to conduct both offensive and defensive computer warfare."
• European countries growing cold to taking in released Gitmo detainees, citing American politicians' refusal to take any into the U.S.
• Oklahoma state troopers pull over ambulance as it was taking a patient to the hospital. Officer is then caught on tape choking an EMT in the ensuing altercation.
• San Diego City official tells couple they must apply for permit to host Bible study sessions in their home.
• Off-duty NYPD officer chasing man he thought was breaking into his car is then shot and killed by other plainclothes cops.
• Government, accounting board give banks the okay to fudge numbers in quarterly reports to make themselves look stronger than they actually are.
• Headline: “Black Hawk chopper to scare shit out of suburban grade schoolers.” It’s the drug war, of course.
• Mixed news on Obama and transparency.

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