• This might be the worst NPR story I’ve ever seen. Pure speculation and conjecture. It’s hard to tell if the reporter even interviewed anyone, or just described what he thought they might say.
• “The Land of No Smiles.” A photo essay from North Korea.
• Feds will only let banks repay TARP money, escape federal micromanagement if doing so would be “in the national economic interest.”
  
• Billingts, Montana passes bill to install red light cameras, makes plans to shorten yellow lights. Because, you know, it’s all about safety.
• Rummaging through the weirdity that is Michael Jackson’s belongings.
  
• Those crazy liberals in the Ninth Circuit are at it again! They’ve incorporated the gun rights protections in Heller to the states.
• Nice, short interview with David Simon on the fiction, journalism, and the drug war.
• “Of course it was torture.
• ”Lawsuit against New Mexico’s alcohol regulatory agency after three men were arrested for videotaping agents as they were checking IDs and giving breath tests at a bar.

with Hit and Run, Reason
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