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Today’s must-reads are somewhat surprised to see health care reform moving forward:
- Senate Finance Committee to vote next week on health care reform (NYT)
- White House may narrow war effort (WaPo)
- Sen. John Ensign helped aide after affair (NYT)
- Chris Dodd‘s Extreme Makeover (MoJo)
- The Most Powerful Woman in the World: If We Could Read Olympia Snowe‘s Lips… (Hotline)
- Even Hayek Thought Universal Government-Provided Health Care Was A Good Idea (Andrew Sullivan)
- Copy Editing at The New Yorker Magazine. An Interview With Mary Norris (Red Room)
- Jim Henley’s Entry in WaPo’s Next Top Pundit Contest=Epic Win (Jim Henley)
- Judge Confirms That an Innocent Man Was Tortured to Make False Confessions (HuffPo)
- It’s comforting that, with all the uncertainty in the world, at least Ken Lewis (retiring CEO of Bank of America) is going to be okay. (CNN)
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