- 42 year-old banker fired for being too old wins age discrimination case – Telegraph
- FT.com – Obama under fire on national security (This charade only helps beat the drum for further foreign wars. Dems are always beaten up for being weak on national security)
- Deep South calls in Iran to cure its health blues – Times Online (hat tip May)
- Britons saving less as old habits return – Telegraph
- Why powerful people — many of whom take a moral high ground — don’t practice what they preach
- Al Qaeda Takes Credit for Plot – WSJ.com
- Akmal Shaikh: China warns Britain as row over executed Briton intensifies – Telegraph
- FT.com – O2 apologises for snags in London network
- FT.com – Britons vie with French for pessimism
- FT.com – Fed to offer term deposits to banks
- Bob Herbert – A Less Than Honest Policy – NYTimes.com (It seems right to think the Cadillac health plan tax will result in reduced benefits. The corollary is it will reduce costs for unionized companies. Is this a tax on the middle class?)
- Percy Sutton, Harlem political pioneer, dies at 89 – Boston.com
- It’s Debt, Debt, Debt for Australia! | Steve Keen’s Debtwatch
Bread and Circus feature of the day: Granny hang glides for birthday