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- Holy Schnikes: Afghan President’s brother, a major opium dealer, is on CIA payroll (NYT)
- Is Obama Planning to Shut Down the Internet? (MoJo)
- Bill would put costs of bank rescues on big companies (NYT)
- Sen. James Inhofe, “the last flat-earther” (WaPo)
- Crime and politics: The velvet glove (The Economist)
- How the Angelides Commission can crack open the Wall Street scandal—if it dares. (Slate)
- Is the US Military Presence Driving the Afghan Insurgency? (Matt Yglesias)
- A Number Heard Round the World (MoJo)
- The Lethal Politics Of The Opt-Out Public Option (Andrew Sullivan)
- “The unbearable stupidity of Weekly Standard‘s Matthew Continetti” (Media Matters)
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