4-2-2009

--April 2, 2009—[Hedge fund criminal] defendants, with assets frozen, find it tough to hire attorneys.---WSJ A15

--Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina ... has told the Obama administration that he would not accept some $577 million in educational stimulus money for South Carolina unless he could use it to pay down state debt. [Secretary of Education] Duncan unleashed a barrage of dismal statistics about the South Carolina schools, noting that only 15% of the state’s black students are proficient in math and that the state has one of the nation’s worst high school graduation rates. NYT A15

--The simplistic dictum of more markets and less government ... has failed on a momentous scale. –Rasmussen, president of European Socialist Party and former Prime Minister of Demarl WSJ A19