• Your periodic reminder that Ron Paul isn’t just a cuddly freedom-loving old coot, courtesy of Jon Chait in New York Magazine.
• Michael Barbaro of the New York Times explains how Mitt Romney really made his money at Bain Capital Group: taking over companies and laying people off.
• Jerry Sandusky’s lawyer says his client may simply have been teaching teenage boys to shower in the Penn State locker room. Cleanliness is next to godliness, right? 
• Why can’t Linda Carswell get her husband’s heart back? Marshall Allen of ProPublica continues the newsroom’s series on America’s broken autopsy system.

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