Top Pelosi Aide Learned Of Waterboarding in 2003  —  A top aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attended a CIA briefing in early 2003 in which it was made clear that waterboarding and other harsh techniques were being used in the interrogation of an alleged al-Qaeda operative …

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.

Obama Calls for Bill to Restrict 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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

Obama's ‘symbolism over security:’ GOP  —  President Barack Obama's pledge to close the U.S. military's detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, without a suitable alternative for holding the dangeous terrorists there poses a risk to the nation's security and peace of mind, a Republican senator says.

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 …

Krauthammer's Take  —  From last night's “All-Stars.”  On the “Keep Terrorists out of America Act:” Well, what I love is the name of the bill.  Imagine if you have to vote against the Keep Terrorists out of America Act.  And, you know, the mainstream media portraying this as Republicans desperately seizing …

Obama to cut slain officers program almost in half  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration wants to cut almost in half a benefits program for the families of slain police and safety officers.  —  The president's proposed budget calls for cutting the Public Safety Officers' Death Benefits Program …

Q&A:Huckabee points to religious influence  —  Times-Delta: How has your religious faith inspired or influenced your political career?  —  Mike Huckabee: I believe that if a person is a believe, then you take seriously the word of Jesus when he said you're the salt of the earth, the light of the world ... .

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).