CBO deals new blow to health plan  —  For the second time this month, congressional budget analysts have dealt a blow to the Democrat's health reform efforts, this time by saying a plan touted by the White House as crucial to paying for the bill would actually save almost no money over 10 years.

House to consider resolution demanding Obama apologize to Crowley  —  Congress would demand that President Obama apologize to the officer the president said had “acted stupidly” in the arrest of a prominent Harvard professor under a resolution set to be introduced by one Michigan lawmaker.

Acorn Meets Their Waterloo in Commack!  They are NOT Happy Campers!  —  Another Outstanding Day for Tea Party Patriots!  —  ACORN and their new front group Act Now were pwned by Tea Party Patriots again on Long Island!  —  When they couldn't win their arguments with facts …

Palin: “Bigger” Than Obama, or Quitter?  —  GOP Operatives in Heated Exchange, on “The Early Show Saturday Edition”  —  (CBS) Is Sarah Palin still a star, or a fading quitter?  What does the future hold for her?  —  If a three-way discussion among Republican pundits on …

Why markets can't cure healthcare  —  Judging both from comments on this blog and from some of my mail, a significant number of Americans believe that the answer to our health care problems — indeed, the only answer — is to rely on the free market.  Quite a few seem to believe that this view reflects the lessons of economic theory.

Debate Intensifies Over Federal Deportation Policy  —  HOUSTON — The Obama administration is vastly expanding a federal effort begun under President George W. Bush to identify and deport illegal immigrants held in local jails.  But here in the city where the effort got a trial start eight months ago …

Sasquatchian  —  Is the only word to describe the carbon footprint of the Thomas Friedman estate:

A Class of Generals  —  The cadets of 1976 graduated from West Point at a low moment for the Army and its storied training ground.  But that year produced the generals running the nation's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as their key deputies.  What happened?  —  Printer  —  Friendly

Colombia ‘bombs Farc jungle camp’  —  Colombian forces have bombed a rebel camp in the jungle, killing at least 16 suspected guerrillas, officials say.  —  The aerial bombing, south of the capital Bogota, was part of a hunt for the military chief of the Farc rebels, Jorge Briceno - known as “Mono Jojoy”.