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• Expand the government, increase lobbying interests (Washington Post)

• Obama reads "My Pet Goat" as Chicago burns (Reason)

• Boo hoo, Harvard can't lavish their faculty and students with meaningless perks for now (Boston.com)

• Tough cookies, UAW: $73/hour or not, you're overpaid (NRO)

• Football as metaphor: The pernicious Zorn effect (Econlog)

• Obama as Lincoln II? Well how much did Lincoln preen, strut, and make self-aggrandizing comparisons? (Politico)

• Suddenly China and India fall off their incredible pace of growth, and enter unfamiliar territory (Economist)