Reason Morning Links: Eight Years of War in Afghanistan, Czar Hearings, Rape Rate Hits New Low

• Afghanistan war enters its ninth year.

• U.S. Senate holds hearings on constitutionality of "czars."

• Reported rapes in the U.S. fall to a 20-year low.

• State laws allowing for mom n' pop marijuana grows cutting into Mexican cartels' bottom line.

• Egypt may ban fake hymens.