- Oops. Obama’s tale of a man dying because an insurance company rescinded his cancer coverage after an unreported case of gallstone turns out not to be true (Wall Street Journal)
- Newsom to introduce legislation for a soda/sin tax. This regressive tax might work in San Francisco, but is this really a smart move for a candidate for governor in a state with 12% unemployment? (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Office of Congressional Ethics says Jackson Jr. used staff to publicly campaign for Blago’s pay-to-play Senate Seat and that he likely violated House rules (Politics Daily)
- Chinese and Russian oil companies to invest $36 billion in Venezuela over the next three years (Zeenews)
