Monday morning must-reads

We've been downgraded... and we could be downgraded again

The White House is amazingly quiet

Liberals blame conservatives

Cokie Roberts blames the U.S. Constitution

Barack Obama = Jimmy Carter 2.0

Timothy Geithner: Europe sure needs to get its fiscal house in order

Paul Ryan: Don't count on new debt committee to accomplish much

Mark Steyn: Debt is a threat to liberty

A capitalist economy cannot support a socialist welfare system

China predicts the world will "discard" the dollar

Obama counts on Hollywood in 2012 for October surprise

Michelle Malkin: What were they thinking??

Newest human right: having a satellite dish

Not-so-subtle: Newsweek doesn't seem to like Michele Bachmann.  What do you think?

For love of Christ & country, fallen SEAL was "willing to give his life"

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