- An audit by the General Accounting Office shows major Pentagon weapons systems are billions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule. [Washington Post]
- Wall Street fat cats approve of the Treasury's proposed regulatory overhaul. Everybody else hates it, including credit unions and lobbyists and Chris Dodd. [Wall Street Journal]
- Oh look another major financial entity is failing! Today the prize goes to Swiss bank UBS, which wrote down another $19 billion in losses. [New York Times]
- The Pentagon has billions of dollars for weapons systems but no space on a military flight for a congresswoman's domestic partner. [Politico]
- Everybody's ignoring poor old John McCain because he's boring, and nobody wants to give him money because they're still sore about Romney. [Washington Post]
- Skyrocketing food and fuel costs mean that, more than ever, the world's hungry are totally screwed. [Los Angeles Times]
