Morning Matters

• Senators take Sotomayor hearings as opportunity to talk about themselves; Sotomayor gives first of presumably many non-answers, says her judicial philosophy is "fidelity to the law."
• After four months, America may soon finally have a new surgeon general. Unclear how we've avoided mass plagues, epidemics, and inadvertently killing ourselves this long without one.
• Federal budget deficit tops $1 trillion for the first time.
• Obama's "car czar" quits after six months on the job.
• Obama pushing Senate to rush health care bill before August recess.
• Tim Worstall on how India’s government used anti-terror powers to crack down on sexual comic strip.
• Spencer Ackerman cautions against going after the CIA instead of the political appointees who authorized torture.
• A C.I.A. concealed project and Dick Cheney. What could be better? Just a massive surveillance program, far beyond the warrantless wiretapping. 

With Reason, Hit and Run.
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