Kathleen Sebelius: HHS secretary  —  Kathleen Sebelius, governor of Kansas, has accepted President Barack Obama's nomination as secretary of Health and Human Services, White House sources are reporting this evening.  —  Obama plans to announce the selection on Monday, according to the Associated Press, citing a source.

Limbaugh: “The dirty little secret ... is that every Republican in this country wants Obama to fail, but none of them have the guts to say so; I am willing to say it"  —  *Siggggghhh* Rush is soooooo dreamy!  And he has a fire in the belly!  Who wouldn't love this guy?

Gov. Bobby Jindal fights back against those questioning points in his speech  —  BATON ROUGE — Gov. Bobby Jindal fought back Friday against reports by national media outlets and Democratic-leaning Web sites that he was inaccurate or untruthful Tuesday night in the Republican Party response …

Beating caught on police video  —  Tape shows officer kicking, striking teenager  —  A video showing a King County Sheriff's deputy pummeling a 15-year-old girl in a holding cell was released Friday over the strenuous objections of the officer's attorney.  —  The case goes beyond police misconduct …

Ailing G.O.P. Risks Losing a Generation  —  Republicans have their work cut out for them.  —  Americans identifying themselves as Democrats outnumber those who say they are Republicans by 10 percentage points, the largest gap in party identification in 24 years.

Romney wins CPAC straw poll  —  In one of the opening skirmishes in the long - and almost certainly bloody - GOP battle for the 2012 nomination, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney won the annual Conservative Political Action Convention straw poll Saturday.

The New and Improved “Us vs. Them” Narrative  —  I haven't so far posted any of these weekly YouTube reports by the President that roll out each Saturday morning because, well, they're sort of ubiquitous already on the Internets and I figure folks come here for stuff you won't ordinarily read or see elsewhere.

Obama's Intelligence Blunder  —  Most of President Obama's “missteps” to date have been Washington peccadilloes of the “let's find something to complain about” sort.  But Obama has made one major mistake that has attracted little public attention: his appointment of Charles Freeman as chairman of the National Intelligence Council.

Barack Obama surrounding himself with spivs and chancers  —  GOOD thing for Barack Obama that he isn't George Bush.  He'd have been slaughtered for starting so badly that he's picking a Cabinet of tax cheats.  —  But a month since he was sworn in as President, Obama has lost not a fleck off his golden tongue.

Sharper Downturn Clouds Obama Spending Plans  —  The economy is spiraling down at an accelerating pace, threatening to undermine the Obama administration's spending plans, which anticipate vigorous rates of growth in years to come.  —  A sense of disconnect between the projections …

Newt.  Again.  —  FOR CONSERVATIVES, who have traditionally valued their grand theorists more than their campaign consultants, the buildings that house Washington's premier think tanks are like a second set of grand monuments, symbols of a movement built on brash ingenuity.

Coulter attacks Obama over Afghanistan: Putting more troops there is ‘insane.’  —  During her speech at CPAC today, right-wing loon Ann Coulter said we owe “a thank you to George Bush for keeping us so safe.”  That comment earned a rousing ovation from the audience of conservative activists.

Struggling States Look to Unorthodox Taxes  —  In his 11 years in the Washington Legislature, Representative Mark Miloscia says he has supported all manner of methods to fill the state's coffers, including increasing fees on property owners to help the homeless and taxes on alcohol and cigarettes …

The Heat From a Global Warming Column  —  Opinion columnists are free to choose whatever facts bolster their arguments.  But they aren't free to distort them.  —  The question of whether that happened is at the core of an uproar over a recent George F. Will column and The Post's fact-checking process.

Obama: ‘Tougher for African Americans’  —  “Tough times for America often mean tougher times for African Americans,” President Barack Obama says.  “This recession has been no exception.  The unemployment rate among black Americans is a full five points higher than the rate among Americans as a whole.”