News You Can Use

• Oklahoma is more at risk of corruption than New Jersey, Illinois, or Louisiana.
• Small ball: You've got to take whatever victories you can get.
• State-university presidents have long complained that their schools are slowly being privatized. They say that as if it's a bad thing.
• Art Laffer and beer.
• A Heritage Foundation researcher says "the value of marriage should become part of 'what everyone knows,' much as the unhealthy effects of smoking and obesity are almost universally understood."