McCain: ‘Serious mistake’ if car bombing suspect was Mirandized  —  It would have been a serious mistake to have read the suspect in the attempted Times Square car bombing his Miranda rights, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Tuesday.  —  McCain, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee …

Christian right leader George Rekers takes vacation with “rent boy”  —  The pictures on the Rentboy.com profile show a shirtless young man with delicate features, guileless eyes, and sun-kissed, hairless skin.  The profile touts his “smooth, sweet, tight ass” and “perfectly built 8 inch cock …

‘Los Suns’ jerseys set for Cinco de Mayo  —  PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns will wear “Los Suns” on their jerseys in Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals on Wednesday night, owner Robert Sarver said, “to honor our Latino community and the diversity of our league, the state of Arizona, and our nation.”

Washington Post or Huffington Post?  —  The once-cautious Washington Post has begun to invest heavily in the liberal blogosphere, transforming its online presence - a combination of accident and design - into a competitor of the Huffington Post and TalkingPointsMemo as much as the New York Times.

President Obama: GOP Opposition to Stimulus ‘Helped to Create the Tea-Baggers’  —  Three days after he decried the lack of civility in American politics, President Obama is quoted in a new book about his presidency referring to the Tea Party movement using a derogatory term with sexual connotations.

Defending David Brooks From Brad DeLong's Smears  —  David Brooks has a Moynihanish column in which he says people overrate policy and underestimate the role of culture in determining outcomes.  “The influence of politics and policy,” he writes “is usually swamped by the influence of culture …

Luggage damage prompts scare at Bush Airport  —  A hole found on a piece of luggage aboard a flight from Amsterdam to Houston aroused enough suspicion Tuesday that officials ordered it detonated with explosives.  —  Baggage handlers spotted the damaged luggage soon after KLM Royal Dutch …

Black Hopefuls Pick This Year in G.O.P. Races  —  Among the many reverberations of President Obama's election, here is one he probably never anticipated: at least 32 African-Americans are running for Congress this year as Republicans, the biggest surge since Reconstruction, according to party officials.

Former FEMA Director Michael Brown on Obama's Response to Oil Spill  —  This is a rush transcript from “Your World With Neil Cavuto,” May 3, 2010.  This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.  —  NEIL CAVUTO, ANCHOR: Almost three weeks since the slick began …

“Socialism” Not So Negative, “Capitalism” Not So Positive  —  A Political Rhetoric Test  —  “Socialism” is a negative for most Americans, but certainly not all Americans.  “Capitalism” is regarded positively by a majority of the public, though it is a thin majority.

Reading Milton Friedman in Dublin  —  Ireland's politicians spent the '90s and ‘00s imitating the United States’ devotion to unfettered free markets.  Unfortunately for the Irish, they succeeded.  —  When I first came to the United States from Ireland in the early 1990s …

Mr. Cheney goes to Riyadh — mysteriously  —  In a move that is sure to set conspiracy theorists aflutter, former Vice President Dick Cheney popped up yesterday in Saudi Arabia, where he met with King Abdullah.  Accompanying him was former State Department diplomat and its top translator …

JPMorgan Chase Memo Sneers At ‘Ignorant’ Senators, ‘Time For The Grownups To Step In’  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  A top executive at JPMorgan Chase told clients Monday that senators displayed “an unnerving ignorance of fundamental principles of market economics” during last week's Goldman Sachs hearing …

To replace John Paul Stevens, an atheist  —  It's something Thomas Jefferson might have done: nominate a nonbeliever to the Supreme Court  —  As President Obama considers nominees to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, a debate bubbles as to whether religion should play a role in his choice.

Coats, Fisher win; NC-Senate to runoff  —  Former Sen. Dan Coats won the Republican Senate nomination in Indiana tonight in a race that had drawn significant attention from national conservative leaders.  —  Coats beat out two candidates — state Sen. Marlin Stutzman and former Rep. John Hostettler …

Exclusive: Former Congressman Goode Joins the Constitution Party  —  Virgil Goode is a former U.S. Representative from Virginia who was defeated for re-election in 2008 by just a couple hundred votes.  He has now officially joined the Constitution Party, increasing speculation that he might run …

Nonprofit Conservation Group Has Ties to Oil Interests, Gulf Oil Spill  —  With crude oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico every day, the conventional wisdom about last month's explosion and spill has been that this is an environmental disaster of unpredictable scale.