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-- Damon Linker wonders about Christopher Hitchens and the veracity of deathbed confessions.

-- CBPP's Chuck Marr flags an "ominous warning" on the Bush tax cuts from the Senate last week.

-- James Fallows, John Sides, Andrew Gelman, and Matt Yglesias discuss term limits for the Supreme Court.

-- Ezra Klein finds a $500 million coin.