Reason Morning Links: Day Two of Sotomayor Hearings, Dems Lay Out Tax Plan To Fund Obamacare; Chicken Fights in the Cities

- House outlines plan to fund Obamacare. Includes an extra $1,500 tax on families making more than $500,000 per year; $9,000 on families making more than $1 million. Employers with a payroll over $400,000 who don't provide health insurance would pay a fine equal to 8 percent of wages.

- In second day of hearings, Sotomayor promises "objectivity," not to let personal experience influence her decisions.

- Obama may do away with Bush administration's color-coded terror alert system.

- Federal toxic assets program moves forward, even though the problem maybe taking care of itself.

- Urban areas see fights over raising backyard chickens.