The Emergence of President Obama's Muslim Roots  —  ABC News' Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller report: The other day we heard a comment from a White House aide that never would have been uttered during the primaries or general election campaign.  During a conference call in preparation for...

CNN Poll: No frontrunner in GOP 2012 presidential race  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - A new national poll of Republicans suggests that there's no front runner at this extremely early moment in the next race for the White House.  —  Three possible candidates are all bunched at the top of a CNN/Opinion Research

In Online Slip, Nuclear Sites Make Rounds  —  The federal government mistakenly made public a 266-page report, its pages marked “highly confidential,” that gives detailed information about hundreds of the nation's civilian nuclear sites and programs, including maps showing the precise locations of stockpiles of fuel for nuclear weapons.

Obama Says U.S. Could Be Seen as a Muslim Country, Too  —  HAHN, Germany — As President Obama prepared to leave Washington to fly to the Middle East, he conducted several television and radio interviews at the White House to frame the goals for a five-day trip, including …

Majority of Americans Favor Sotomayor Confirmation  —  Many more say her views are “mainstream” rather than “extreme”  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Americans are generally supportive of President Barack Obama's nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The 10 Hottest Liberal Women In Politics  —  After the debacle that was Playboy's Hit Piece On Conservative Women, I thought, “Someone should do this right.”  I mean, can't we simply admire the female form without being jerks about it...ehr, much?  —  So, I thought about doing a list …

Likud: US meddling in Israeli politics  —  Article's topics: Barrack Obama, Binyamin Netanyahu, Rahm Emanuel, Moshe Ya'alon  —  US President Barack Obama's administration's criticism of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's policies has crossed the line into interfering in Israeli politics, top Likud ministers and MKs said Tuesday.

Palin links Tiller, Long slayings  —  Sarah Palin today picked up a widely heard theme on the right, using the murder of abortion doctor George Tiller to call attention to the murder of an army recruiter in Arkansas, allegedly by a self-styled Islamic militant:

Bad News for Franken?  —  I hope I'm wrong.  But Gov. Tim Pawlenty's (R) apparent decision not to seek reelection does not bode well for Al Franken's ability to get seated in the senate any time soon.  That's because the most probable next step in the endless Franken-Coleman drama …

Why Don't MSNBCers Question “Morning Joe” About Abortion Doc Killings?  —  Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow devoted much of their MSNBC shows last night to the assassination of George Tiller.  Maddow actually led with a headshot of Michael Griffin, the first abortion-doctor murderer …

Guantánamo Detainee Kills Himself  —  A Yemeni detainee at Guantánamo apparently committed suicide late Monday, military officials said in a terse announcement Tuesday.  —  The death was the first at the prison since President Obama took office, and detainees' lawyers …

Obama to Name N.Y. Congressman the Army Secretary  —  Representative John M. McHugh, a Republican congressman from New York, will be nominated by President Obama to be secretary of the Army, according to officials, as the administration continues to reach into the ranks of the opposition for executive appointments.

Obama says Iran's energy concerns legitimate  —  LONDON — President Barack Obama suggested that Iran may have some right to nuclear energy _ provided it proves by the end of the year that its aspirations are peaceful.  —  In a BBC interview broadcast Tuesday, he also restated plans …

Cheney Edges Away From Claim That CIA Docs Will Prove Torture Worked  —  There's a very revealing moment buried in an interview that Dick Cheney gave to Fox News last night that really gives away his game plan on torture.  —  Specifically: Cheney seemed to edge away from the claim …

“Poor Dan”  —  Christian Brose praises a New Republic profile of U.S. Ambassador Dan Fried, the man tasked with finding homes for Gitmo detainees.  Brose then goes on:  —  What is dawning on the Obama administration is that, in the moral interest of closing Guantanamo, they'll have to cut some moral corners elsewhere.

Turning Japanese  —  Japan's post-bubble policies produced a “lost decade.”  So why is President Obama emulating them?  —  The scenario was eerily familiar.  A long real estate bubble that had expanded extra rapidly for the previous five years suddenly burst, and asset prices came crashing back down to earth.

The Quagmire Ahead  —  On Jan. 21, 1988, a General Motors executive named Elmer Johnson wrote a brave and prophetic memo.  Its main point was contained in this sentence: “We have vastly underestimated how deeply ingrained are the organizational and cultural rigidities that hamper our ability to execute.”

‘Renegade’ cliff notes  —  A Rev. Wright Sit-down:  —  After Obama gave his race speech in Philadelphia primary but before his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, would make his now-infamous appearance at the National Press Club, the candidate went to Chicago to meet with Wright.

A Whole Lot Of Yiffing Going On In The Office Of Pennsylvania GOP Senate Whip, Jane Orie— Gay Yiffing... With A Minor  —  It was like a cross between an episode on MSNBC's Dateline: To Catch A Predator With Chris Hansen and a re-enactment of those heady days in 2006 when Republican Congressman Mark Foley …

A Question for War on Terror Hawks  —  The attack on Dr. Tiller is widely referred to as “terrorism” in the blogosphere.  Agree or not, it is easy to image an ongoing terrorist campaign run by fringe pro-lifers to shut down abortion clinics.  Heaven forbid that this recent murder is followed …

Unwitting Gillibrand Tells 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists She Backs a ‘Fuller Hearing’  —  There's probably a lesson here for anyone new to their office, which is to steer well clear of 9/11 conspiracy theorists with cameras.  Here's Gillibrand after a May 27 event in Midtown …

ON SOCIALISM.  —  Jon Henke highlights a few people wondering “why everybody is afraid to use the S-word” to describe the government's investment in General Motors.  The easy joke is, doye, Saul Anuzis already decided that socialism was played and conservatives have to call Obama's policies “fascist.”

Private William Long's Father in Interview with Little Rock's KATV  —  This is difficult to watch, but you should listen to Daris Long, former Marine and father of Private William Long who was killed taking a break outside of a Little Rock recruiting center.  It's important.  It's about our family.

AP: tech coming to stop “wholesale theft” on 'Net  —  It looks like the Associated Press is getting pretty close to deploying that ‘anti-misappropriation’ technology the news agency has been talking about.  Ars got an AP editor to give us some details.  —  Ever since the Associated Press warned …

Former SBC officer says Tiller murder answer to prayer  —  BUENA PARK, Calif. (ABP) — While most pro-life leaders condemned the May 31 murder of a controversial abortion provider inside his Wichita, Kan., church, one former Southern Baptist Convention official called it an answer to prayer.

Seventh Circuit Rules That, Under Supreme Court Precedent, the Second Amendment Is Not Incorporated Against the States: The case is NRA v. City of Chicago, the challenge to the Chicago handgun ban.  The core argument: … I don't think this reasoning (from Judge Frank Easterbrook …

The Deadly Toll of Abortion by Amateurs  —  BEREGA, Tanzania — A handwritten ledger at the hospital tells a grim story.  For the month of January, 17 of the 31 minor surgical procedures here were done to repair the results of “incomplete abortions.”  A few may have been miscarriages …