- Oink. Jindal approved $31 million in earmarks in Louisiana budget (Houma Today)
- Scandal-battered Dodd grasping at Obama’s coattails (Washington Times)
- Seven North Carolina men arrested for plotting international jihad (Associated Press)
- Dollar falls to 2009 low — rich Obama supporters doing study abroad in France forced to order small crepes (Bloomberg)
- Watch out Hollywood Liberals, Congress could tax plastic surgery (NationalJournal.com)
- David Brooks’s thought experiment (NY Times)
- Accidental scientific discoveries, blue rat edition (Wired)
