Today, On Good Friday, Here's Why I Remain Catholic  —  text sizeAAA  —  Elizabeth Scalia is a contributing writer to First Things Magazine as the blogger known as The Anchoress.  —  The question has come my way several times in the past week: “How do you maintain your faith in light …

Palestine House Thugs Screams “You need another Holocaust”  —  Update1: We have a new Camel Girl!  Meet Denise Balkissoon crack reporter for the Toronto Star.  This was Ms. Balkissoon's take away - “Each group accused the other of hate, shouting “go home. … Update2: Frumpy has the video - “We love jihad.

CBS poll: Believe it or not, support for ObamaCare still eroding  —  Amazing as it might seem, this elevator may not yet have reached the basement. … More than half think their own health-care costs will go up, but nothing new there.  Consider this a sequel to the earlier post about why The One's …

Asked to Declare His Race, Obama Checks ‘Black’  —  It is official: Barack Obama is the nation's first black president.  —  A White House spokesman confirmed that Mr. Obama, the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, checked African-American on the 2010 census questionnaire.

The great elaborator: Obama gives 17-minute answer to health-care query in N.C.  —  CHARLOTTE — Even by President Obama's loquacious standards, an answer he gave here on health care Friday was a doozy.  —  Toward the end of a question-and-answer session with workers at an advanced battery …

Barack Obama?  Not bothered... Schoolgirl left wondering what all the fuss is about after meeting president amid crowd frenzy  —  One little girl was distinctly unimpressed with all the excitement when President Barack Obama came to town.  —  Many supporters in the crowd in Portland …

Growth of Unpaid Internships May Be Illegal, Officials Say  —  With job openings scarce for young people, the number of unpaid internships has climbed in recent years, leading federal and state regulators to worry that more employers are illegally using such internships for free labor.

Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't, either)  —  I've spent ten years now on Boing Boing, finding cool things that people have done and made and writing about them.  Most of the really exciting stuff hasn't come from big corporations with enormous budgets, it's come from experimentalist amateurs.

ON NEIL CAVUTO, BLOGGER ADAM SHARP explains why I'm always encouraging people to have small cheap videocameras.  —  Here's his blog, Sharp Elbows.

Your Money: Mortgage Aid Elicits Anger, but It May Help  —  The angry comments flooded in after the federal government announced it was expanding its program to assist unemployed homeowners, as well as borrowers who owe more on their mortgages than their homes are now worth.

Authorities Probe Iran Nuclear Ring  —  Western Authorities Investigate China Connection in Export of French Valves  —  An Iranian firm closely linked to Tehran's nuclear program acquired special hardware for enriching uranium, despite sanctions intended to keep such equipment out of Iran …

How Quickly Spread the Tea Party Smear  —  To make the racial smear of the Tea Party protestors at the Capitol clear to anyone with eyes to see, I have assembled this four-minute video.  —  In composing it, I checked with my source on the scene, Greg Farrell, to get a timeline on the passage …