Recommended reading

• The Cato Institute is expanding.

• Some eyebrow-raising statistics here and here.

• Paul Krugman revels in his left-wing cocoon.

• Sen. Bernie Sanders shows once again why he is the most economically illiterate member of the US Senate. At the other end of the spectrum is Sen. Rand Paul.

• An email I wrote Andrew Sullivan the other day was selected as one of his dissents of the day (my second) for yesterday (I think it's obvious which one is mine). Jeez, had I known it was actually going to get published I would have spent more than 5 minutes composing and wordsmithing it.

• I participated in the House Democrats twitter chat forum today, posing questions here, here, here and here. To their credit, two of my four questions were answered, with responses from Steny Hoyer (or whoever was manning the keyboard) and Mike Honda. I found Honda's answer rather lacking while Hoyer's was actually somewhat encouraging.