Reason Morning Links: Uncertainty Over the Importance of Uncertainty, Application of Hate Crime Law Jumps the Shark, Demos Challenges UK's "Misuse of Drugs Act"

• Economist Josh Barro says concerns about uncertainty in the debt ceiling debate are overblown.
• Conservative Sage Charles Krauthammer declares Newt Gingrich's campaign "over" after attacks on Rep. Paul Ryan.
• In a new report, Demos asks "whether the assumptions enshrined in the 40-year-old Misuse of Drugs Act are still valid when applied 21st century drugs market."
• Researchers at the University of Washington, including a former Wikileaks associate, are designing a government database for medical marijuana users.
• The Osama bin Laden capture/kill "narrative" changes once again.
• A Saudia Arabian student in Central Florida has been charged with a hate crime for spitting on white people outside a Walmart.

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