DAILY READS

• Wired Magazine, Conde Nast Scoop Breitbart, the ‘Bigs’ — HUD next O’Keefe Video Sting Target
• China Threatens Google
• JP Morgan & Citigroup Complicit in Death of Lehman
• Pelosi Goes Over Bill With Caucus, Plans Vote Next Week
• Obama Delays Asia Trip to Hammer Through Health Care Bill
• What Biden Told Netanyahu Behind Closed Doors
• Dems Consider Drastic Moves to Pass Health Bill
• New York Assemblyman Wants to Ban Use of Salt in Restaurants
• China Takes a Page from MSNBC
• I’m Still for Hope and Change Guys, Seriously!

MARKETS & POLICY

• Coffee and Markets: Financial Regulation and Obamacare
• Healthcare Reform: the Arithmetic Doesn’t Work
• Watch for an upside surprise on Treasury notes today (Updated)
• Destroy the City to Save It
• How Much Credit Should We Have in the World?
• Bart Stupak and Russian Opera
• Finance Wasn’t Designed for the Modern World
• The Unemployment Numbers and America’s Jobs Problem
• The End of Easy Fixes
• Standard Oil Redux

The WHIP

• David Brooks Applies For a Job
• Obamacare’s Two Americas
• How Do You Whip Nonexistent Legislation?
• Cheney in Exile
• How Mitt Romney Blew It (Again)
• Another Democrat Goes Down: Massa to Retire
• Obama’s Four GOP Ideas Myth
• Is Sue Lowden the Next John Thune?
• Ezra Klein and the Underpants Gnomes
• Nancy, Your Slip is Showing

HEGEMON

• Biden in Israel
• Love and Respect
• Putinjugend Website Publishes North Korean Anti-American Propaganda Paintings
• Three Reasonable Questions on Climate Change
• Fisking Foreign Policy’s Guide to Climate Skeptics
• Brennan gets it wrong at NYU
• Iran’s Big Punch – A Nuclear Test?
• The moral bankruptcy of Amnesty International
• The Scottish Islamist and British ‘racism’
• The Future Is Today: China Gets A Preview of Girl-lessness in Guangdong

CHEQUER BOARD

• Not Just A Dictator . . .
• That Stubborn Parliamentary Procedure
• The Very Unpopular President
• Team Obama’s Favorite Economic Myths
• Yet Another Opportunity To Question Why The Atlantic Continues To Employ Andrew Sullivan
• Trade Follies
• Quote Of The Day
• Attention, Bart Stupak
• Thought For The Day
• Good For John Roberts