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• The House votes to extend the expiring elements of the PATRIOT Act without adding any privacy protections. • Joe Biden proposes new regulations on retirement savings

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Reason Morning Links: Killer Cops, Incompetent Teachers, Joe Biden, and Other Public Servants

That poverty made Haiti’s recent earthquake devastating is a media truism . But what makes poverty? Haiti’s annual per capita income (purchasing power parity) is $1,300 .

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Haiti, Poverty and Earthquakes

What do AOL customers, Netflix subscribers, and abortion seekers in Oklahoma have in common?, asks Senior Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward.

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New at Reason: Katherine Mangu-Ward on Abortion and Data Privacy

Attended an L.A. City Council meeting today in which it was rumored they would actually vote on a proposed ordinance to finalize a set regulatory structure for a situation that both enemies of medical pot and even many of its friends consider an out-of-control free-for-all of allegedly 800-1,000 medi-pot emporiums in the city. (The phrase “wild west” to apply to L.A.

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L.A. Medical Pot Scene: Still the “Wild, Wild West” at Least ‘Til Next Week

Majorities of every demographic except the very old, the very poor, and the very…Hispanic, are hopping online to for health information: These numbers are going to keep going up, too. Two ways to read this:  Optimistic, pro-technology approach: When it comes to health care, Americans are more resourceful than they’re given credit for. Some of those 47 million uninsured are getting their health info somewhere other than a doctor’s office.

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Dear Internet: What Are These Itchy Bumps?

The Washington Post reports that former Bush Justice Department attorney and "torture memo" author John Yoo is waging a high-profile counterattack against his critics: Last month, a federal judge in California refused to dismiss a lawsuit that accuses Yoo of violating a detainee’s constitutional rights. This month, the Justice Department’s inspector general described Yoo’s legal analysis of the Bush surveillance program as "insufficient" and sometimes inaccurate.

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John Yoo Still Defending His Torture Memo

Here’s a fairly dramatic encounter from this afternoon’s Suze Orman Show .

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Suze Orman’s Personal Finance Advice: Quit Your Job