Today's edition of quick hits:
* President Obama started to sketch out his policy today on U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Senate Republican leaders didn't show up.
* Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner presented Congress with his ideas about re-regulating the financial industry today.
* The administration has some ideas about how to help the U.S. auto industry, but I don't think the companies are going to like them.
* This isn't exactly new, but a secretive wing of Pakistan's military intelligence agency continues to provide direct support to the Taliban.
* The president is poised to sign an important conservation bill, which is "the largest expansion of the wilderness system in 15 years."
* Obama will not legalize marijuana to help the economy.
* "Campaign against extremists who wish to do us harm" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.
* We thought the economy shrank at 6.2% pace in the fourth quarter of 2008. It was actually 6.3%.
* R.I.P., John Hope Franklin.
* Gingrich sees Obama as a "dictator." Limbaugh prefers "tyrant."
* Happy Blogoversary, Blue Girl.
* Why anyone would look to an unlicensed, non-union plumber for guidance on federal labor policy is a mystery.
* I think it's fair to say that ThinkProgress has gotten Bill O'Reilly's attention.
* Quote of the Day: "Two novels can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other involves orcs."
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