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Today’s must-reads:
- Not a Joke: Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize (AP)
- Why We Spend So Much on Health Care (MoJo)
- Pullout from Iraq poses daunting challenges (NYT, but MoJo had it in November 2007)
- House votes to expand hate crimes protections (NYT)
- Truther Consequences: Meet Alex Jones, the next Glenn Beck (The New Republic)
- More ethics problems for Charlie Rangel (NYT)
- Ben Adler says “Rangel Should Go.” Indeed. (Newsweek)
- “On The Positive Side, No One Ever Needs To Take Michael Oren Seriously Ever Again” (Spencer Ackerman)
- Does trailing in the Virginia gubernatorial race presage other problems for Dems? (WaPo)
- The Government’s Next Housing Bubble (MoJo)
- Final Defense Budget Mostly Business As Usual (MoJo)
- Awesome Photos of Awesome Street Theater: The Berlin Reunion (Boston Globe)
- <sarcasm> Steve Tuttle, economic prophet </sarcasm> (Reuters)
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