Monday's Daily Brief

Monday, March 28, 2011 Libyan Rebels Close In On Gaddafi Stronghold WORLD Obama To Make His Case For Libya POLITICS Republicans Appear Poised To Take On Entitlements GREEN Radiation Found In Massachusetts Rainwater BUSINESS IRS Drastically Increases Its Audits Of America's Richest Taxpayers SPORTS SHOCKING UPSET: No More No. 1 Seeds BLOG POSTS John R. Talbott: Progressives Cry Out: "Obama, Come Home" Barack Obama at times seems to be the unluckiest person on the face of the earth. He just can't catch a break. Or maybe his bad luck is a result of ignoring his progressive base. Lauren Ashburn: We Needed Real Debate Before Bombing Libya Both sides of the aisle have done a miserable job of fostering a national debate about the wisdom of going to war. We are witnessing the same issues that dogged us in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam. Kathy Freston: Eating Vegan On The Cheap We've been aggressively peddled the idea that a healthy diet is an expensive diet, something only for rich folks. And our experience seems to bear that out. John Lundberg: Literature Leaps into the 22nd Century, Lands Awkwardly As scientists improve their ability to manipulate the genome, will a market might emerge for people who want to imprint quotes into their own DNA, or even their children's, as a sort of genetic tattoo? Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Trust David Schwimmer's Trust is a thought-provoking film that manages to incorporate horrifying information without feeling like an after-school special.

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