Etch-a-Sketch: Limbaugh Edition  —  Good morning.  —  Today, let us try a new game in which I, the Sketchwriter, get you, the Sketchreader, to do my work for me while I go to the gym, eat lunch and listen to Rush Limbaugh on the radio.  I call this Etch-a-Sketch.

U.S. Replaces Commander in Afghanistan in War Overhaul  —  WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is replacing the top American commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David McKiernan, less than a year after he took over, marking a major overhaul in military leadership of a war that has presented President Obama with a worsening national security challenge.

The President's silly health care announcement  —  The President spoke about health care in the cross-hall today, flanked by the heads of several major health lobbying groups ("trade associations," in Washington vernacular):  — hospitals — the American Hospital Association ("AHA");

Sheikh attacks Israel, pope walks out  —  Article's topics: Sheikh Tamimi, Benedict XVI  —  Chief Islamic Judge of the Palestinian Authority, Sheikh Tayseer Rajab Tamimi, launched a poisonous verbal attack at Israel at a Monday night gathering attended by Pope Benedict XVI.

Romney camp hits back at Steele for Mormonism comments  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - In an unusual move for the person tasked with being his party's top cheerleader, Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele is shining a light on the political vulnerabilities of one of the GOP's top figures …

Bob Graham: I Wasn't Told About Waterboarding Or EITs In My Briefing  —  Former Senator Bob Graham, who received a classified briefing on terror detainees during the same month in the fall of 2002 as Nancy Pelosi, was not briefed about the use of either waterboarding or enhanced interrogation techniques during …

U.S. Forced Chrysler's Creditors to Blink  —  President Barack Obama's auto task force heard a blunt message early this spring from J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., the largest lender to Chrysler LLC.  In any deal to remake the troubled auto maker, Chrysler would have to repay its lenders all $6.9 billion it owed.

White House To Declassify “Holy Grail” Torture Report That Could Undercut Cheney  —  There's a big piece of news about Dick Cheney and torture buried toward the end of this big Washington Post piece about the torture wars.  —  Specifically: The White House has decided to declassify and release …

Gay Miss CA Director Goes Nuclear On ‘Henchman’ Carrie Prejean & Traditional Marriage Advocates  —  Openly gay director of the Miss California pageant, Keith Lewis, held a presser today and shamed the heck out of traditional marriage supporters; mark that 7 times.

Jon Stewart to Make History Special  —  ‘The Naturalized’ highlights the network's most ambitious programming slate  —  Jon Stewart, who knows a thing or two about irony, will create a two-hour special on a perfect target—the U.S. naturalization process—for History Channel, to air in the fourth quarter.

Limbaugh agrees with Sessions: Obama's ‘objective is unemployment.’  —  Earlier today, ThinkProgress highlighted NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions' (R-TX) claim that President Obama is intentionally trying to “'diminish employment and diminish stock prices' as part of a ‘divide and conquer’ strategy to consolidate power.”

Biden insults President Obama's dog at Syracuse  —  It was as though Vice President Biden time-warped back to last fall.  Because on Sunday he was in full campaign attack mode.  —  Oh, it was an idyllic setting.  Nobody saw it coming.  The vice president had just finished delivering …

Why Iran Freed Roxana Saberi  —  An Iranian-American journalist, Roxana Saberi, who was tried and sentenced to eight years in prison in April on charges of spying for Washington, was released Monday after an appeals court reduced the sentence.  —  Iran has detained several Western journalists …

Lieberman knocks Cheney  —  Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) on Monday defended President Barack Obama against former Vice President Dick Cheney's claims that the Obama administration has made the country less safe.  —  “We're not less safe,” said Lieberman, who was one of Obama's leading critics …

Kent sentenced to 33 months behind bars  —  Federal judge headed to prison for trying to hinder inquiry into sex offenses  —  Samuel Kent, who wielded power as a federal judge for 18 years, was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison today for obstructing justice.

Congress Pushes Cap and Trade, But Just 24% Know What It Is  —  The gap between Capitol Hill and Main Street is huge when it comes to the so-called “cap-and-trade” legislation being considered in Congress.  So wide, in fact, that few voters even know what the proposed legislation is all about.