- A Senate Gang of TBD begins work to disarm Congress’s time bomb.
- In North Dakota, an entirely different kind of fiscal conundrum.
- Presidential elections are mostly a spectator sport in the United States of Battleground America.
- After seeing about 50 of these stories, I figure it’s worth warning you: They’re very, very misleading.
- Spain gets a bailout, which is probably more consequential to our election than the latest kergaffle.
- The Obama Administration appoints two special prosecutors who will not rest until they find out who keeps leaking this stuff about how super awesome U.S. drone strikes are.
- I think this Christina Romer op-ed on the Fed is pretty smart, but I’m really just linking to it for the cartoon of Ben Bernanke on an armored horse.
- John Bryson is being
chargedheld in a bizarre felony hit-and-run incident. Don’t grow up to be Commerce Secretary, kids. (Update: His office says he suffered a seizure.) - A big league donor starts a super PAC for gay-friendly Republicans.
- And local woman runs for the wrong office.
