Recommended reading/viewing

• Campaign finance: President Obama is dominating the race to raise cash, it's worth wondering where Rick Santorum -- arguably the GOP front runner -- would be without a rich patron, and Dan Abrams explains what the media gets wrong about Citizens United.

• Lefty pundit watch: Updates on Paul Krugman and Jonathan Chait.

• Scott Grannis provides a history lesson from Argentina. You don't have to agree with his premise to find it of interest.

• Health care: possible (likely?) ghosts of Christmas future here and here.

• From our amigos at the CATO Institute: Chile's solution to unemployment fraud, school choice cuts crime and pondering whether Fed policy actually anti-stimulative.