U.S. Is Said to Offer $30 Billion More to Help A.I.G.  —  The federal government agreed Sunday night to provide an additional $30 billion in taxpayer money to the American International Group and loosen the terms of its huge loan to the insurer, which is preparing to report a $62 billion loss on Monday …

Brownback backs Sebelius  —  A setback to the attempt to rally conservative Catholics against Kathleen Sebelius at HHS: Conservative Catholic Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas voices his support, in a joint statement with fellow Kansas Republican Pat Roberts:

Gates says Obama more ‘analytical’ than Bush  —  (CNN) — President Obama is more analytical than his predecessor, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday.  —  Gates, the only Cabinet holdover from the Bush administration, initially paused when asked what the difference is between working with President Obama and President Bush.

The Obama Administration Double-Deals On Israel  —  Anti-Semitism, ‘Islamophobia,’ Durban II and the U.N.  —  Barack Obama just added double-dealing to his foreign policy repertoire.  On Friday, administration officials led many Jewish leaders to believe that the president had decided …

Iran, the Jews and Germany  —  So a Jerusalem Post article says that I'm “hardly the first American to be misled by the existence of synagogues in totalitarian countries.”  —  The Atlantic Monthly's Jeffrey Goldberg finds me “particularly credulous,” taken in by the Iranian hospitality and friendliness that …

In Obama, Labor Finds the Support It Expected  —  John J. Sweeney, the nation's top union official, often complains that he was invited just once to the White House during George W. Bush's eight years in office — and even that was at the Vatican's behest during a visit by Pope Benedict.

Culture of conspiracy: The Birthers  —  Bill Clinton had the Vince Foster “murder.”  George W. Bush had 9/11 Truth.  And the new administration has brought with it a new culture of conspiracy: The Birthers.  —  Out of the gaze of the mainstream and even the conservative media …

VOTERS SKEPTICAL OF DEMS' LEFTWARD LURCH  —  Inside the Beltway and the media bubble, Barack Obama is still the man of the hour.  On CNN, his speeches are even compared to sex.  (Someone needs to have a talk with that commentator.  I don't think he's doing it right.)

The special relationship is going global  —  Historians will look back and say this was no ordinary time but a defining moment: an unprecedented period of global change, and a time when one chapter ended and another began.  —  The scale and the speed of the global banking crisis has at times …

Limbaugh, Tea Party Protests show Obama's Star Trek shield has big cracks  —  Two extraordinarily important political developments took place this week right under the noses of the Obama-worshippers in the Mainstream Media and, as so often happens with the real news, most of them barely knew about it, if at all.

Rush to judgment: A media hopelessly divided  —  ANALYSIS/OPINION:  —  The mood at the Omni Shoreham Hotel late Saturday afternoon was off the electrical meter when Rush Limbaugh took center stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).  —  Hundreds of revelers packed …

CPAC: White kids on dope  —  Ah, to be an anthropologist at CPAC, where the kids was smokin' th' political crack.  From the WaPo: … Verily, that's the way to bring the party back: blame the media.  I talked to a conservative the other day who assured me that Obama's success is entirely …

Bloggers Can't Fill the Gap Left by Shrinking Press Corps  —  Packs of lobbyists fill two rooms outside the House and Senate chambers in Richmond every afternoon, watching the proceedings on big video screens, zapping legislators with e-mails the instant the lobbyists sense that one of their bills might be in trouble.

UBS Is Said to Raise Pay Despite Cuts in Bonuses  —  LONDON — A pay raise may be the last thing a bank is expected to offer these days.  But UBS, the Swiss bank, is doing exactly that as it looks for new ways to compensate its investment bankers, two people who have been briefed on the changes said Sunday.