Morning Constitutional – Tuesday, 16 March 2010

Good morning, everybody. Beckham\’s Achilles\’ tendon is really torn, Ovechkin is out for two games, and Spencer Pratt is taking some time off to fight cyber crime. Now, enjoy your morning constitutional:

California felt some tremors this morning as a 4.4 magnitude earthquake hit about a mile away from Pico Rivera. The Los Angeles Fire Department has received no reports of damage so far.

Is Rand Paul the wrong shade of blue?

The Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism has released their State of the News Media 2010 report. It claims to be the most interactive it has ever been.

President Obama\’s exhaustive plan for overhauling No Child Left Behind confronts many of the major problems that have crept up since NCLB was passed in 2001. However, both politically and in implementation, it faces its own hurdles.

In D.C., it\’s apparently not illegal for a teacher to have sex with a student, provided the student is older than the age of consent (16). Councilmember Kwame Brown has proposed emergency legislation to at least make it a fire-able offense, but the ACLU and the Washington Teacher\’s Union have…concerns.

Detroit asks city workers to not wear deodorant.

Iggy Pop, ABBA, among others, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Newly released documents from a major Massachusetts insurer show vast inequities between how much some hospitals and doctors are paid for the same types of services.

Why President Grant should be on the fifty-dollar bill.

South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer hires Chip Saltsman, the distributor of the \”Barack the Magic Negro\” CDs, as a political consultant.

And, in happier news, babies are born to dance.