- Senate Judiciary Committee abandons hope of bringing any real change to the Patriot Act. Julian Sanchez in The Nation: “The Obama administration makes vague, reassuring noises about constraining executive power and protecting civil liberties, but then merrily adopts whatever appalling policy George W. Bush put in place.”
- Cognitive Dissonance: New poll shows rising support for a so‐called public option in health care, even as the public continues to oppose greater government control over the health care system.
- It has been tried before: Why increasing the size of government won’t work.
- Podcast: The real problem with American health care: You are not the customer. More here.