Reason Morning Links: Obama OLC Nominee Faces Opposition, Fargo Floods, Post Office Tanks
– Republican senators mounting challenge to Dawn Johnsen, Obama's nominee to head up the White House Office of Legal Counsel. Their complaint? She opposes torture and broad views of presidential power.
– "My grandfather was not a monkey!"
– U.S. Postal Service running out of money, may cut delivery to five days per week.
– U.S. taking over leadership role in the war in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, new evidence that the Taliban's resurgence has been aided by Pakistani government intelligence.
– New study in the American Journal of Public Health finds "no evidence that decriminalization of marijuana leads to increased drug use."
– Fargo braces for historic, icy flooding.
(Correction: "New" study on marijuana use not so new'"came out in 2004. My error.)
