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.

Report: Actor to leave Obama administration  —  The White House wouldn't confirm a report Friday that actor Kal Penn is leaving the Obama administration.  —  Washington (CNN) - The White House isn't confirming a report that actor Kal Penn is leaving the Obama administration.

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.

Black Dem Rep. Who Was Reportedly Spit on by Tea Party Protester: I Never Claimed to Have Been Spit on Intentionally, Others Are Making the Claim on My Behalf, Refuses to Confirm it Happened..  (Update) He's Full of S**t...  More proof this claim is 100% bulls**t.

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

Should America Bid Farewell to Exceptional Freedom?  —  Last week, on March 21st, Congress enacted a new Intolerable Act.  Congress passed the Health Care bill - or I should say, one political party passed it - over a swelling revolt by the American people.  The reform is an atrocity.

Mass. rejects proposed health care premiums hikes  —  Making good on Governor Deval Patrick's promise to reject health insurance rate hikes deemed excessive, the state Division of Insurance this morning turned down 235 of 274 increases proposed by Massachusetts health insurers for small businesses and individuals.

Scozzafava writing election memoir  —  New York state Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava (R) is writing a memoir about last year's dramatic special election in the state's 23rd congressional district.  —  Although she was the Republican Party's nominee, Scozzafava was never embraced by conservatives.

Don't let the tea party go Perot  —  Like many influential causes before it, the “tea party” movement appeared on the scene uninvited by the political establishment.  Democrats in the White House and in Congress recognize it for what it is — a spontaneous and pointed response to the Obama agenda …

Welcome President Obama to LA  —  I hope you've already heard the news:  —  President Barack Obama is coming to Los Angeles on Monday, April 19 for an event to support my reelection campaign!  —  I'm really looking forward to the President's visit, and I want to invite you to join us.

Erickson: I'll 'pull out my wife's shotgun' if someone comes to my door for the American Community Survey.  —  Yesterday, ThinkProgress noted that Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) took to the conservative blog RedState to call out “blatant misinformation coming from otherwise well-meaning conservatives” about this year's Census.

Payback  —  Remember when Rudy Giuliani was counting on Gov. Charlie Crist's endorsement in the GOP prez primary?  As Mark Halperin and John Heilemann recounted in “Game Change,” it was a big f'ing deal at the time and the Rudy folks had a plan mapped out on how they would maximize their expected get.

An Absurdist Take On “Both Sides”  —  Charles Lane compares the radicalism of white supremacists with the radicalism of escaped slaves: … Lane is referencing, in rather disrespectful fashion, the awesome Shadrach Minkins.  A Norfolk-area slave, Minkins' unthinking extremism deluded him into believing that he was a human being.