The Great Shame: America's Pathetic Response to the Gulf Catastrophe  —  Shame on us.  —  A calamity is unfolding before our eyes - the greatest oil spill in history - and America's response is little more than a big yawn.  —  Bob Herbert writes: … Where is the outrage?

After keeping us waiting for a century, Mark Twain will finally reveal all  —  The great American writer left instructions not to publish his autobiography until 100 years after his death, which is now  —  Exactly a century after rumours of his death turned out to be entirely accurate …

The Principles of Rand Paul  —  No ideology survives the collision with real-world politics perfectly intact.  General principles have to bend to accommodate the complexities of history, and justice is sometimes better served by compromise than by zealous intellectual consistency.

Sestak confirms WH job offer to get out of Senate race  —  Rep. Joe Sestak, winner of the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary, is refusing to provide more information on what job he was offered by a White House official to drop of that race, although he confirmed again that the incident occurred.

Palin: A Slip on Oil Industry Ties?  —  Former Alaska Republican Gov. Sarah Palin stirred up more controversy over the oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico Sunday when she suggested that the administration's response was linked to “the oil companies who have so supported President Obama in his campaign.”

Out with the Old  —  Don't trust a congressman over the age of 50.  —  As far as I can tell, Sean Duffy is the only world-champion lumberjack and reality television star running for Congress this year.  Duffy is the Republican candidate in Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District.

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Op-Ed Columnist: Obama Versus the Corporations  —  So here's how it is: They're as mad as hell, and they're not going to take this anymore.  Am I talking about the Tea Partiers?  No, I'm talking about the corporations.  —  Much reporting on opposition to the Obama administration portrays it as a sort of populist uprising.

Storm Clouds On the Economic Horizon?  —  Starting sometime last summer the economic numbers started to turnaround, indicating an economic trough was forming.  Since the end of last summer a variety of economic indicators have experienced improvement.  Included in these numbers …

The Night Beat: Admirals and Generals To Watch  —  Charlie Crist Loses A Round  —  Adm. Allen trusts BP, but Congress doesn't  —  The Anti-Obama in Alabama  —  The recent market volatility is scary, unsustainable and sure to further undermine confidence in consumer spending and the euro.

Fighting a War without Bullets?  —  Commanders have ordered a U.S. military unit in Afghanistan to patrol with unloaded weapons, according to a source in Afghanistan.  —  American soldiers in at least one unit have been ordered to conduct patrols without a round chambered in their weapons …

The New Poor: Lack of Aid for Child Care Pushes Some to Welfare  —  TUCSON — Able-bodied, outgoing and accustomed to working, Alexandria Wallace wants to earn a paycheck.  But that requires someone to look after her 3-year-old daughter, and Ms. Wallace, a 22-year-old single mother, cannot afford child care.

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