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Reason Morning Links: Swine Flu Panic, Regulation Revelations, and More Asset Forfeiture?

Radley Balko | 4.28.2009 9:07 AM

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- Welcome to post-bailout America, where various federal agencies have replaced board rooms in fighting over how to salvage a failed company.

- Two former federal prosecutors argue in the NY Times for expanded use of asset forfeiture.

- Swine flu panic spreads. Actual swine flu spreads too, though much less rapidly.

- Bea Arthur, RIP. To borrow from Andrew Breitbart's Twitter feed, may she be remembered for more than being the target of the greatest joke ever told.

- "Perhaps one of the biggest mainstream business media cliches is the surprising discovery that industry leaders often favor regulation of their industry."

- Americans aren't necessarily less religious, they're just changing religions.

- Do conservatives know that Colbert is joking?

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Radley Balko is a journalist at The Washington Post.

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