For Your Further Enlightenment IV

• Conservativehome, "The Top Ten Pundits Among Republican Activists"
• Slate, "No More Excuses: John McCain has run out of reasons to block the repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'"
• Ezra Klein, "A worst-of-both-worlds health system"
• CBS/AP, "Chicago Cubs Great Ron Santo Dies"
• Think Progress, "Obama Agrees To Extend All Bush Tax Cuts And Cut Estate Tax In Deal With Republicans"
• Ezra Klein, "An imperfect, but not-that-bad, deal on the tax cuts"
• John Cassidy, "Tax Deal is Stimulus 2.0"
• Ezra Klein, "How the White House cut its deal and lost its base" 
• Joseph E. Stiglitz, "This Budget Would Never Pass: A five-part plan to cut the deficit, narrow inequality, and strengthen the economy—and why special interests would block it" 
• Mark Zandi, "Using Unemployment Insurance to Help Americans Get Back to Work," Testimony before the Senate Finance Committee, 14 April 2010
• Dahlia Lithwick and Jeff Shesol, "Repealing Common Sense: The conservative mission to destroy the Constitution in order to save it"