Nota Bene: Today’s Reading Assignment

• Tyranny of the Old — Will Wilkinson and Kerry Howley, New York Times Video
• Court Will Be Last Bastion of Conservatives — E. J. Dionne, Washington Post
• Obama Faces Netroots Revolt Over FISA — Ari Melber, The Nation
• Hillaryland at War — Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair
• Do the Math: Obama Won’t Win the South — Thomas Schaller, New York Times
• The GOP’s December Surprise — James K. Galbraith, Mother Jones
• Drill Now as the conservative MoveOn? — Avi Zenilman, The Politco
• Women prefer men with stubble for love, sex and marriage – Roger Dobson, London Daily Telegraph
• Can’t Darwin and God get along? — Vincent Rossmeier, Salon Magazine
• Obama Turns Centrist — Ruth Conniff, The Progressive
• Strange Currencies — Eliza Caney, National Journal
• McCain game plan worries insiders — David Paul Kuhn, The Politico
• Free the Fireworks! Can individual citizens be trusted to celebrate Independence Day with a bang? — Greg Beato, Reason Magazine
• Starbucks to close 600 US stores, rein in growth – Jessica Mintz, Seattle Post-Intelligencer