Planned Parenthood in the Hot Seat, Edward Snowden Is on the Twitter, Speaker Race: P.M. Links

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  Edward Snowden

  Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richard defended her organization in a speech to Congress.

• Who wants to be Speaker of the House?
• Edward Snowden has joined Twitter. His first Tweet: "Can you hear me now?"
• Carly Fiorina likes waterboarding.
• Today in wildly inaccurate headlines: "Matt Damon Suggests Gay Actors Should Stay in the Closet." Not true!
• Jeb Bush's campaign has its work cut out for it.
• Afghani fighters are trying to retake control of Kunduz.
• It's National Coffee Day, so go have a cup for free somewhere.

New at Reason.com:

• The Martian author Andy Weir on Mars Colonization, Commercial Space Travel, and Going From Programmer to Best-Selling Author
  Q&A with the man who wrote the book behind the upcoming Hollywood film starring Matt Damon.
  By Zach Weissmueller