Recommended reading

• Cash for Clunkers: the gift that keeps on giving.
  
  
• The Wall Street Journal notes a brewing battle over a federal proposal to limit potato intake among the country's schoolchildren. Yet another reason to get the government, and especially the feds, out of the education business.
  
  
• Steve Simpson and Paul Sherman on Steven Colbert's free speech problem. Campaing finance reform -- aka restrictions on free speech -- are a joke on all of us.
  
  
• A new economic study has found that the stimulus bill resulted in the loss of over half a million jobs. More on that study here.
  
  
• Fracking: Ronald Bailey, John Stossel and Michael Benjamin all cast doubt on the alleged threat.