Recommended reading

• Matt Welch reconsiders Ronald Reagan. Reagan did a lot right, but he also got a number of things wrong -- a fact the political right would do well to recognize. 

• A Washington Post editorial details a real estate project here in DC whose cost has increased by $20 million due to a Labor Department official's stroke of the pen. Unions win while the rest of us lose. Give the Obama administration this much, they know who butters their bread.

• Another great moment in government-run single-payer health care.

• Fred Barnes poses a question for President Obama that I think every presidential candidate should be asked: How do you think jobs are created?

• Remembering Paul Krugman before he lost his mind.