Above the fold today...

1. It's not the Obama administration or liberals who are afraid of the free market, writes Harold Meyerson of The Washington Post.  It's health insurers and big banks.
2. Maureen Dowd asks if the same vices that characterized newsrooms in their beginnings can now save them. 
3. The $1.4 trillion debt for fiscal year 2009 is drawing comparisons to the deficit the U.S. coped with after World War II. But the hole may be more difficult to emerge from this time around.
4. Bailouts and near record profits have Americans frustrated with Wall Street.  Still, there is some good news for those pushing for reform.
5. Vice President Biden has been vocal with his views on how to proceed in Afghanistan.  Here is a comparison between his take now and Donald Rumsfeld's in 2002.