From RR

• Depression news: household incomes fell in five states in 2008, three of which aren’t surprising as they bought into the housing bubble (giving loans to people who couldn’t afford them, sometimes in the name of equality for minorities), something this corner of Pennsylvania didn’t do so no foreclosure McMansion ghost towns so far; the other two AFAIK have dying industries (Michigan, the traditional home of the American car). How are the Japanese-owned car factories in the South doing?
• Afghan cops: more American soldiers not the answer.
• We have already failed in Afghanistan.
• The equaliser: naked 91-year-old with Rottweiler mix holds burglar at gunpoint. Drunk and trembling... “I think the guy was scared to death; he was screaming.”
• Europe welcomes US dropping missile plan.
• UK: Lib Dems want to soak the rich. Class envy not economic reality.