Today’s edition of quick hits:
* The debt crisis in Spain continues to roil markets around the globe. There are ample reasons for concern.
* Coordinated car bombs in Iraq delivered the nation’s deadliest attacks so far this year.
* Syria confirmed it has stockpiles of chemical weapons, but said claimed they would only be used “in the case of exterior aggression,” not against Syrian rebels.
* The NCAA imposed some brutal penalties on Penn State’s football program.
* LIBOR: “U.S. prosecutors and European regulators are close to arresting individual traders and charging them with colluding to manipulate global benchmark interest rates, according to people familiar with a sweeping investigation into the rate-rigging scandal.”
* Maybe we shouldn’t have given up on the war on poverty.
* The Affordable Care Act extends coverage to young adults until age 26, allowing them to say on their family plans. As of Friday, the Obama administration includes families with same-sex partners.
* Some states want to approve their own law to prohibit animal cruelty in the food industry. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) wants to pass a law to prohibit states from even having that option. (Republicans love states’ rights, except when they hate states’ rights.) * Former Arizona State Sen. Russell Pearce (R) isn’t above blaming the victims in Aurora. * And it’s a beautiful sight to see Gabrielle Giffords traveling high up into the French Alps. Anything to add? Consider this an open thread.
The place for in-depth analysis, commentary and informed perspectives. Recommended
