• Two completely random European journalists are requesting credit for the fall of the Berlin Wall. See, they were the ones who asked tuff questions about it! No one had even THOUGHT about knocking it down—that is, before the quality of their journalism alluded to it. [WSJ]
• Actual winner of Afghanistan’s election, Abdullah Abduallah, might team up with Hamid Karzai in some sort of coalition of convenience, thus rendering a run-off election unnecessary. [New York Times]
• The latest iteration of the Democrats’ fantasy health care bill is $871 billion. Everyone will automatically love it because of how under Obama’s limit of $900 billion it is. [Washington Post]
• Apple has signaled it’s time for you to get a new computer by designing a much, much cooler-looking laptop than than the one you currently have. [CNN]
• Good—eh, well, relatively goodish—news for widow(er)s: Congress passed this new bill that eliminated the two-year marriage minimum of green card eligibility. [Los Angeles Times]
• Obama demanded that Big Finance JUST DEAL WITH his proposed banking regulations. He said this at a $15,000-a-plate DNC fundraiser at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Manhattan. [The Hill]

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