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Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) tried to sneak an amendment to revive D.C.’s voucher program into the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization yesterday

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Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Fails to Save D.C. Schoolkids from D.C. Schools

State prison populations decline for first time in 40 years. The gay terrorist who could have prevented 9/11. Thieves take $75 million in pharmaceuticals from Eli Lilly warehouse.

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Reason Morning Links: State Prison Populations Drop, the Gay Terrorist, Federalism Reborn

A little more than a year ago, Reason ran a cover story on ” Failed States: After a long spending binge, governors go begging for a handout.

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The Permanent State Bailout

The Post ’s headline —”House may try to pass Senate health care bill without voting on it”—tells you all you really need to know about the what of House Democrats’ procedural strategy via the Slaughter Rule (which I explained in greater detail here ). But it doesn’t tell you much about the why .  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi explains that she “like[s] it because people don’t have to vote on the Senate bill.” And presumably that’s what anxious legislators who might want to vote for reform but don’t like the Senate bill are thinking too.

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Pelosi on Democrats’ Likely Health Care Procedure: “I like it because people don’t have to vote on the Senate bill.”

The blogosphere is in a lather after the White House’s rebuke of the Israeli government (see here and here , for a general idea of what the two sides are arguing).

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Dear Muammar: Sorry About Calling That Crazy Speech Crazy

While Reason is busy saving Cleveland , the city’s native son, resident moonbat , and former mayor Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D) is doing his part to save America. Kucinich says he refuses to vote for any of the current iterations of the healthcare reform bill, calling himself ” a firm no .” Kucinich, of course, opposes the bill from the left, lamenting the lack of a public option or protection for state level single payer plans

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Reason Saves Cleveland, Cleveland’s Kucinich Saves America

Via Alan Vanneman comes a link to this interesting Nation story about Mario Savio, the head honcho of the vaguely leaderless force known as the Free Speech Movement (MSM) at U.C.-Berkeley in the mid-1960s. A snippet: Notwithstanding its declaration of victory in 1965, the FSM also left behind a good deal of unfinished business.

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Where Have You Gone, Mario Savio?

The latest InstaVision with Instapundit: Americans, writes famous pollster Scott Rasmussen, don’t want to be governed from the left, right, or center – they want to govern themselves.

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Do You Want to Govern Yourself? Instapundit Talks With Pollster Scott Rasmussen

From our April issue, Senior Editor Michael C. Moynihan reports on the scene in Massachusetts as he followed Republican state legislator Scott Brown and Democratic gaffe master and Attorney General Martha Coakley in their race for the late Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat.

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New at Reason: Michael C. Moynihan on the Revolutionary Takeover of Ted Kennedy’s Senate Seat