Ron Paul: President Obama Is Not A Socialist  —  Near the end of the third day of this year's Southern Republican Leadership Conference, it was time for Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) to take the stage.  Paul, fresh off his victory in the CPAC straw poll, gave a characteristically fired-up speech …

Worlds Without Women  —  When I was in Saudi Arabia, I had tea and sweets with a group of educated and sophisticated young professional women.  —  I asked why they were not more upset about living in a country where women's rights were strangled, an inbred and autocratic state more like an archaic men's club than a modern nation.

Op-Ed Contributor: Confederate History Month Blurs the Truth about the Civil War  —  IN 1956, nearly a century after Fort Sumter, Robert Penn Warren went on assignment for Life magazine, traveling throughout the South after the Supreme Court's school desegregation decisions.  Racism was thick, hope thin.

Met allows Islamic protesters to throw shoes  —  SCOTLAND YARD has bowed to Islamic sensitivities and accepted that Muslims are entitled to throw shoes in ritual protest — which could have the unintended consequence of politicians or the police being hit.  —  News of the concession …

Lieberman thrilled by prospect that Obama nominee could make Supreme Court ‘slightly less liberal.’  —  The Washington Post writes that, because of “the current political climate,” Justice John Paul Stevens' “decision to step down this summer will almost certainly mean a more conservative Supreme Court …

Testing Influence of the Tea Party in Kentucky Race  —  PIKEVILLE, Ky. — Most any other year, this state's open Senate seat would be Trey Grayson's.  —  The Tea Party movement may aid Dr. Rand Paul in his bid for Kentucky's open Senate seat.  —  The latest on President Obama …

Huckabee Compares Gays To Drug Users, Says They're Unfit To Adopt Kids Because ‘Children Are Not Puppies’  —  Former Arkansas governor and current Fox News personality Mike Huckabee gave an interview with the College of New Jersey's magazine The Perspective in which he made clear …

Interest Rates Have Nowhere to Go but Up  —  Even as prospects for the American economy brighten, consumers are about to face a new financial burden: a sustained period of rising interest rates.  —  That, economists say, is the inevitable outcome of the nation's ballooning debt …

Senate Leader Vows to Take Up Immigration Overhaul  —  The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, told an exuberant crowd at an immigration rally Saturday in Las Vegas that Congress would start work on an immigration overhaul as soon as lawmakers return this week from a recess.

Unlearning Whiteness  —  TDK directs us to Jonathan Kay's account of his visit to a “Thinking About Whiteness” anti-racism workshop, where he struggles to learn the rules of cultivated lunacy.  Among the teachings on offer are, … And, … Ah, very clever.  Guilt in all directions.

Polish leader, 96 others dead in Russia jet crash  —  SMOLENSK, Russia - Polish President Lech Kaczynski and some of the country's highest military and civilian leaders died on Saturday when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in thick fog in western Russia, killing 97, officials said.