DAILY READS

• 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!
• Shut Your Bone Box Son!
• Roberts Calls Obama SOTU Showdown “Troubling”
• GOP Targets Blue Dogs in Health Care Fight
• In Search of Supply-Side Financial Reform
• The Time Has Come for Moderate Democrats to Stand Up to the White House
• How a Lawsuit Threatens the Best FPS Ever
• Why is American Education Slipping? Bad Teachers Who Can’t be Fired

MARKETS & POLICY

• 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
• Meanwhile, in Greece…

The WHIP

• 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
• Why Rick Perry Won
• Live from Texas: Perry vs. KBH Election Night Returns

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

• 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
• Any Further Commentary Would Be Superfluous
• The Further Limits Of Rahmism
• Don’t Know Much About Science (Thomas Friedman Edition)
• President Obama’s Friendships With World Leaders