Pelosi: Lawmakers Should Sacrifice Jobs for Health Care  —  House Speaker Pelosi says lawmakers aren't in Washington for job security but ‘to do the job for the American people.’

POLL: Obama's visit just bounced off Reid  —  Poll shows senator gained little ground in re-election battle  —  WASHINGTON — During his whirlwind visit to Las Vegas two weeks ago, President Barack Obama mentioned U.S. Sen. Harry Reid by name four dozen times, gave him a big hug and talked him up as if he was a long-lost brother.

Who's Obsessed and Deranged?  —  Frank Rich of the New York Times retired as a drama critic in order to take up his new role as the paper's full-time drama queen.  As an op-ed columnist for the Times, his assignment, apparently, is to write in such a hysterical fashion that Paul Krugman seems rational by comparison.

Glenn Beck's eliminationist attacks on progressives: How long before someone acts on this violent rhetoric?  —  David Sirota observes in his column this week the really ugly nature of Glenn Beck's express hatred of progressives, embodied in his CPAC speech:

Edwards epilogue: Does the press really vet presidential candidates?  —  Over the past few weeks, the world has learned quite enough about John Edwards - from the lies he told in trying to cover up an adulterous affair to the compulsive vanity that left some people close to him questioning his judgment and even his grip on reality.

U.S. warns Syria: Stop arming Hezbollah immediately  —  The U.S. administration has asked Syrian President Bashar Assad to immediately stop transferring arms to Hezbollah.  American officials made the request during a meeting Friday with the Syrian ambassador to Washington.

Al Gore would like you to lie back and accept what the government decides is good for you.  —  The other day I said: … Now, here comes big Al Gore with a huge op-ed in the NYT that begins with a fat juicy piece of evidence that I was right: … He wants the policies that are sold under the name …

Kristol: 'I Didn't Watch' The Health Care Summit, But I'll Comment On It As If I Did  —  On the Fox News Sunday roundtable this morning, the panelists discussed President Obama's health care summit.  NPR's Mara Liasson said that while it may have been “political theater,” it was also …

Islamic radicals ‘infiltrate’ the Labour Party  —  A Labour minister says his party has been infiltrated by a fundamentalist Muslim group that wants to create an “Islamic social and political order” in Britain.  —  The Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) — which believes in jihad and sharia law …

Video of Taliban commander leaves fate unclear  —  DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — The Pakistani Taliban released a video of their militant chief, Hakimullah Mehsud, but his taped comments fail to prove he survived a U.S. missile strike earlier this year.  —  U.S. and Pakistani officials …

Quake, tsunamis kill more then 700 in Chile  —  CONCEPCION, Chile (Reuters) - The death toll from a massive earthquake that struck Chile surged above 700 on Sunday as reports emerged of coastal towns devastated by the tremor and tsunamis that followed.  —  President Michelle Bachelet …