Morning Consitutional – Wednesday, 17 March 2010

Good morning, everyone. Black Eyed Peas are playing the World Cup Kick-Off Celebration Concert, and that\’s just awful. Now, enjoy your morning constitutional:

Support for health care reform is ticking up, according to some new polls. From the Post, President Obama\’s push for health care reform in Ohio convinces a few skeptics.

The priest at the center of the sexual abuse scandal in Germany has been suspended. Slate has a piece on the Pope in the Catholic Church\’s child abuse problem. The Pope has announced that he will address abuse in a pastoral letter to Irish Catholics on Friday.

Attorney General Eric Holder says what pretty much everybody assumed all along: If we capture Osama bin Laden, it\’s unlikely he\’ll be alive.

Not sure what this has to do with anything.

President Obama picks Kansas, Kentucky, Kansas State and Villanova in the Final Four of the men\’s tournament and Connecticut, Stanford, Tennessee and Notre Dame in the women\’s NCAA basketball championship.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Nepolitano scraps $3M plan for SBInet, a virtual U.S.-Mexico border fence, which has been fraught with cost overruns. “Not only do we have an obligation to secure our borders, we have a responsibility to do so in the most cost-effective way possible,” Napolitano said in a statement Tuesday. “The system of sensors and cameras along the Southwest border known as SBInet has been plagued with cost overruns and missed deadlines.”

The Great British Economy Disaster.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will veto state Democrats\’ deficit reduction plan, which includes savings of $1.1B, larguly though cuts to public transportation.

General David Petraeus: \”I believe the time has come to consider a change to Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.\” Of course, that was right after this.

Justin Fox at Harvard Business Review asks: What should business want out of financial reform?

The economics of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Is it strange that Apple is more highly valued on the public market than Wal-mart?

Finally, record grooves through an electron microscope. Yes, it\’s pretty awesome.

Today, remember, there are two colors on that flag and white for peace. Let it be a peaceful day.