Morning Constitutional – Tuesday, 11 May 2010

Good morning, folks. Bristol celebrated National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy by going to a hot New York club. Here\’s your morning constitutional:

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai arrives in D.C. today for a visit hoped to warm the cold relationship between Afghanistan and the U.S.

Yesterday, RNC Chair Michael Steele slamed Solicitor General Elena Kagan for \”her support for statements suggesting that the Constitution \”as originally drafted and conceived, was \’defective.\’\” Except the statement Kagan supported was from Justice Thurgood Marshall, and he was talking about slavery.

In the U.K., the Liberal Democrats and the Tories have resumed talks for the fourth day on working together to form a government. The Lib Dems have also quietly started discussing the same with Labour. However, a senior Lib Dem official has also told the BBC that the Tory offer is \”the only deal in town.\”

While oil drilling technology has advanced, clean-up techniques have not changed drastically in decades.

Whatever happened to N.W.A.\’s posse?

Suburbs in the U.S. now more likely home to minorities, the poor and the old as young, educated whites move to urban areas.

Statehouse passes bill raising sales taxes…in Kansas.

Fifa general secretary Jerome Valcke has admitted that an extra $100M had to be given to the South African organizing committee to ensure the country would be ready for the World Cup this June.

In China, inflation surges in April on rising house and food prices and easy bank lending, stoking fears that the Chinese economy may be overheating and higher interest rates may be on the way.

The disposable world and the death of Radio Shack.

A Republican proposal to unwind Fannie and Freddie Mac would, according to housing experts, be a disaster: \”Analysts from both sides of the aisle contend that the proposal would unwind Fannie and Freddie so quickly and precipitously that it would destabilize the entire housing market: pushing mortgage prices up, pulling support from low and middle-income Americans and ending the nascent — if at all extant — housing recovery.\”

Finally, a Clarksville, Tennessee man stole some beer at a gas station, only to return it minutes later because it wasn\’t cold enough.