Reason Morning Links: New Orleans Levees Nearly Done, Primary Day, Judge Blocks Funds for Stem Cells

Radley Balko | 8.24.2010 9:20 AM

• New Orleans levees may finally soon be completed . . . but may still be inadequate.
• Obama may propose new fees to shore up Freddie, Fannie.
• John McCain expected to hold off J.D. Hayworth in Arizona primary today.
• Judge blocks federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
• Billions in foreign aid to Pakistan doing little to improve U.S. image there.

Radley Balko is a journalist at The Washington Post.