Huckabee warns GOP could become ‘irrelevant’  —  (CNN) — Days after national Republicans launched a new campaign to broaden the party's outreach, former upstart presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says the GOP is at risk of becoming “irrelevant as the Whigs.”

Name That Party - Special CYA With The CIA Edition  —  The NY Times reports on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's credibility problem with the CIA enhanced interrogation program and gives us a couple of chances to lay “Name That Party!”.  The Times open with some background and a warm-up opportunity to play “Name That Party”:

Obama Favors Limits on Credit Card Fees  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama called on Congress to pass a credit card reform bill, aimed at trying to stop credit card companies from imposing certain late fees.  —  Saying that he is focusing on “clearing away the wreckage of this recession,” …

Obama Set to Revive Military Commissions  —  The Obama administration is preparing to revive the system of military commissions established at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, under new rules that would offer terrorism suspects greater legal protections, government officials said.

THIS WEEK IN GOD.... First up from the God Machine this week is an ongoing source of concern for those interested in religious liberty: the intersection of evangelism and the U.S. military. … The Al Jazeera report is part of the larger phenomenon of blurring the proselytizing line in the military …

THE AUDACITY OF TOKENISM.  —  I think Jonah Goldberg deserves some credit for saying just what's on his mind here.  He thinks “an Hispanic Ward Connerly could do wonders for the GOP.” … This is the general attitude of the GOP, that no changes are needed in their platform or approach …

The Florida Underdog  —  Marco Rubio's uphill race against Charlie Crist.  —  Last Tuesday, Republican Marco Rubio, former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, announced a bid for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Mel Martinez.  At 37, Rubio, a fresh-faced charismatic Cuban American …

Stop ObamaCare  —  The Democrats' plan would displace tens of millions of happily insured Americans and exacerbate the worst elements of the current system.  —  President Obama and the Democratic leaders of Congress have made it clear that health care reform is their top legislative priority this year.

Banks Won Concessions on Tests  —  Fed Cut Billions Off Some Initial Capital-Shortfall Estimates; Tempers Flare at Wells  —  The Federal Reserve at the last minute significantly scaled back the size of the capital hole facing some of the nation's biggest banks, following days of intense bargaining …

Frogs flown from Montserrat to flee deadly fungus  —  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Scientists are airlifting dozens of one of the world's largest frogs off of Montserrat island to save them from a deadly fungus devastating their dwindling habitat.  The dense forest of this tiny British Caribbean territory …

Specter clarifies ‘cancer’ site  —  Sen. Arlen Specter's campaign team has changed the layout of its specterforthecure.com Web site to make it clear that the site is aimed at promoting Specter's reelection to the Senate.  —  The move follows criticism that the site - and Specter's description of it on …

Alexander: Why not probe Congress on briefings?  —  During a scantly noticed exchange in a Thursday Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) asked Attorney General Eric Holder a potentially explosive question — given the furor over Nancy Pelosi's 2002 interrogation briefing.

Religion, agnostics, and the cure for baldness … I'm always on the lookout for religion's latest counter-arguments, the new rhetorical approaches that God People are constantly fine-tuning for use in pimping the righteousness of faith (and for demonstrating the moral dissoluteness of agnostics like myself).

Gov't sticks with Bush-era polar bear rule  —  WASHINGTON - The Obama administration on Friday let stand a Bush-era regulation that limits protection of the polar bear from global warming, saying that a law protecting endangered species shouldn't be used to take on the much broader issue of climate change.