For Your Further Enlightenment XVIII

• Ezra Klein: "The Worst Idea in Washington"
• Joseph Stiglitz, Vanity Fair: "Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%"
• Marketplace: "Report: GE will pay taxes after all" (see XVII)
• Dahlia Lithwick, Slate: "Cowardly, Stupid, and Tragically Wrong: The Obama administration's appalling decision to give Khalid Sheikh Mohammed a military trial" (My sentiments exactly.)
• Think Progress: "REPORT: Everything You Need To Know About The Koch Brothers"
• David Frum: "TARP Profit Proves It Was the Right Call"
• Talking Points Memo: "CBO: GOP Budget Would Increase Debt, Then Stick It To Medicare Patients"
• Fareed Zakaria, Time: "Are America's Best Days Behind Us?"
• Think Progress: "Pence Lets Truth Slip On Uncompromising Stance: ‘We’re Trying To Score A Victory For The Republican People’"
• John Cole, Balloon Juice: "I'd Add A Couple of Things"