What I'm Reading - 1/24/10

"Friday night's star-studded "Hope for Haiti" telethon has raised a record-breaking $58 million, with more donations continuing to pour in from around the world, the benefit's organizers announced Saturday. The preliminary figure is a record for donations made by the public through a disaster relief telethon, according to a news release from telethon organizers." (CNN, here)

Another great post from the "Good Intentions are Not Enough" blog, on how the internet makes it easy to set up a sham organization to "raise money" for Haiti.

George Will on the "silver lining" of the Massachusetts election: "a mandate to be moderate." (here)

After 411 speeches, "the president has decided that he needs to start “speaking directly to the American people.”" National Review's Mark Steyn on how nobody is looking forward to Obama speech #412, here.

The Economist on how government is getting too big. "America now has a quarter of a million people devising and implementing federal rules."

The WSJ on Coburn's amendment asking Congress to cut spending instead of raising the debt limit here. I also recently highlighted the amendment.

Interesting post on the Cato Institute's blog says "42 senators in 2008 voted to spend more tax dollars than socialist Bernie Sanders", and that Obama was "one of the 11 senators who voted for more spending than the socialist senator" in 2007.

Keith Hennessy has an excellent post on the difficulties of dividing health insurance reform into smaller bills.