O'Reilly's campaign against murdered doctor  —  The Fox News star had compared Tiller to a Nazi, called him a “baby killer,” and warned of “Judgment Day”  —  When his show airs tomorrow, Bill O'Reilly will most certainly decry the death of Kansas doctor George Tiller, who was killed Sunday …

LIVE BLOGGING THE COLEMAN FRANKEN ORAL ARGUMENT  —  Now that the oral arguments have concluded, here are my tentative thoughts (you can find my earlier live blog below the fold):  —  1. It is always dangerous to guess how a court is going to come out based upon oral argument.

Goodbye, GM ...by Michael Moore  —  I write this on the morning of the end of the once-mighty General Motors.  By high noon, the President of the United States will have made it official: General Motors, as we know it, has been totaled.  —  As I sit here in GM's birthplace, Flint, Michigan …

The 31-Year-Old in Charge of Dismantling G.M.  —  WASHINGTON — It is not every 31-year-old who, in a first government job, finds himself dismantling General Motors and rewriting the rules of American capitalism.  —  But that, in short, is the job description for Brian Deese …

DIVERSE OPINIONS  —  In making nominations to the Supreme Court, Presidents care about diversity, which is a relatively new term for an idea that is nearly as old as the Court itself.  In the early days of the republic, when regional disputes were the foremost conflict of the era, nominees were generally defined by their home turfs.

GM Files for Bankruptcy Protection  —  General Motors filed for bankruptcy protection this morning, marking the end of financial independence for the 100-year-old industrial leviathan that once conflated its interests with the country's and — counting jobs at the company and its suppliers — employed well over 1 million people.

Military Recruiter Killed In Ark. Shooting  —  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) ― One Army recruiter was killed Monday and a second was wounded in a shooting at a recruiting office, and a suspect was arrested, police said.  —  Police Lt. Terry Hastings said the recruiter was shot when a man …

Reagan Did It  —  “This bill is the most important legislation for financial institutions in the last 50 years.  It provides a long-term solution for troubled thrift institutions. ...  All in all, I think we hit the jackpot.”  So declared Ronald Reagan in 1982, as he signed the Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act.

Kristol and Hume Call for Targeted Air Strikes on North Korea  —  As you probably know, a certain number of people are down-the-line pacifists.  They believe that war is wrong, no matter what the cause.  And as you've probably realized, none of them are major newspaper columnists …

Death Penalty Disgrace  —  THERE is no abuse of government power more egregious than executing an innocent man.  But that is exactly what may happen if the United States Supreme Court fails to intervene on behalf of Troy Davis.  —  Mr. Davis is facing execution for the 1989 murder …

Romney: President putting country in jeopardy  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Mitt Romney, eyeing a run at the presidency in 2012, is taking another step in fleshing out his foreign policy portfolio with a Monday speech to the conservative Heritage Foundation on the topic of defense spending.

Air France Jet Is Feared Lost on Flight From Brazil to Paris  —  PARIS — An Air France passenger jet traveling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris disappeared after its electrical systems malfunctioned during a storm with heavy turbulence on Sunday evening, and officials said Monday that a search …

Republican Base Heavily White, Conservative, Religious  —  Democrats are more likely to be moderate or liberal, Hispanic, or black or other races  —  PRINCETON, NJ — More than 6 in 10 Republicans today are white conservatives, while most of the rest are whites with other ideological leanings …

Was Malkin Being Sarcastic?  —  Maybe I got this wrong:  —  That quote by Michelle Malkin that you posted describing the killing of Tiller as “terrorism” wasn't by Michelle.  It was a quote from a post on some other blog and she linked to Google.  She didn't call it terrorism.

Federal Reserve puzzled by yield curve steepening  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve is studying significant moves in the U.S. government bond market last week that could have big implications for the central bank's strategy to combat the country's recession.

The Monday Fix: In 2010 Senate Races, Democrats Beating Up on Bush  —  Dusting off a strategy that proved successful in the 2006 and 2008 elections, Democrats have begun linking Republican candidates in 2010 Senate races to George W. Bush.  —  But can this work nearly two years after Bush left the White House?