Reason Morning Links: A Reporter, a Gangster, and a Surfing Madonna
- Barack Obama announces his troop drawdown plan in Afghanistan.
- Minot, North Dakota, prepares for floods.
- A former Washington Post reporter reveals that he's in the country illegally…
- …and he does it in the Times, because the Post passed on the story.
- Fugitive mobster (and onetime beneficiary of police protection) Whitey Bulger is arrested.
- Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei is out on bail, though strict restrictions on his movements still apply.
- New Age guru James Arthur Ray is found guilty of negligent homicide.
- Geert Wilders is acquitted of hate speech.
- The Gingrich campaign is still imploding.
- The Surfing Madonna comes down.
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