Today is Tuesday, March 9. This is Panic Day, but don't hit the button. It's also Get Over It Day. Plus, it's National Crab Meat Day.

 
PolitiQuips of the Day

　

Another example of monkey business in the Obama administration's economic stimulus program has come to light in North Carolina. A $71,623 federal grant is being used for a study of cocaine addiction among monkeys. Job creation? One researcher. Critic Brian Balfour says projects like this one "seem completely unrelated to avoiding an economic 'catastrophe.'"
 

If President Obama starts running around with a sword in the air and yelling, "Charge!" there's a good reason. The White House has confirmed that Obama is reading "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" by Edmund Morris, which is about the 26th president's early years, when he led a troop known as the "Rough Riders" in the Spanish-American War.