[Mother Jones]
How the No Child Left Behind Act allowed military recruiters to collect info on millions of unsuspecting teens.

[Grist]
One often hears opponents of clean energy say that renewable sources are too expensive; they can’t get by without subsidies; they can’t compete in a "free market." One of the many reasons this is a daffy argument is that there is no such thing as a free market, certainly not in energy. Existing energy sources, fossil fuels, have benefited from a century of subsidies and supporting infrastructure—and are still subsidized lavishly relative to their scrappy little competitors.

[The New York Times]
A new Obama administration policy has loosened guidelines on federal prosecution of medical marijuana.

[ars technica]
Songwriters and publishers won't be able to collect royalties each time a cellphone plays an annoying musical ringtone in public, thanks to a federal judge's ruling that ringtones aren't public performances.

[The Baltimore Sun]
A new poll shows a substantial majority of Americans have resigned themselves to the reality of our nation's perpetual foreign wars. They don't like it, but they see it happening and know there is nothing they can do about it.

[Gawker]
A handy list of things that are socialist and foreign because Barack Obama has soiled them, by doing them.

[NobelPrize.org]
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.

[Reuters]
The United States is now the most admired country globally thanks largely to the star power of President Barack Obama and his administration, according to a new poll.

[CQPolitics]
A tide of anger and dismay is rippling down K Street as the Obama administration implements a new policy limiting the roles of lobbyists on federal advisory committees.

[Miller-McCune]
The U.S. House of Representatives has been at 435 members since 1911, when the country was a third of its current population. Research suggests that districts may now be getting too big for adequate representation.

[The New York Times]
The rise of Beck, Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and the rest has correlated almost perfectly with the decline of the G.O.P. But it’s not because the talk jocks have real power. It’s because they have illusory power, because Republicans hear the media mythology and fall for it every time.