Joe Lieberman: Democratic hero?  —  If you look back over the past two years, perhaps the most consequential decision made by President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was to give Joe Lieberman his chairmanship, even though Lieberman had endorsed John McCain in the 2008 campaign.

FBI: Spokane bomb is ‘domestic terrorism’  —  In an interview on msnbc cable's “The Rachel Maddow Show,” Spokesman-Review reporter Thomas Clouse said confidential sources told him that the device was equipped with a remote control detonator and contained shrapnel.

BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL  —  Before banning ‘crosshairs,’ CNN used it to refer to Palin, Bachmann  —  CNN's John King is attracting a lot of notice — and some ridicule — in the blogosphere for his on-air apology after a guest used the word “crosshairs” during a report on Chicago politics Tuesday.

Basic Questions, Elusive Answers on Health Law  —  WASHINGTON — As the fight over health care returned to the House floor on Tuesday, the debate could largely be stripped down to four questions that are relatively simple to ask, if not to answer:  —  Will the health care law …

Video Captured ‘Calculated’ Gunman in Tucson  —  TUCSON — The chief investigator for the sheriff's department here has for the first time publicly described the brief and gory video clip from a store security camera that shows a gunman not only shooting Representative Gabrielle Giffords …

Sargent Shriver's Death Severs the Last Major Link to the Kennedy Years … Minutes after Wyoming's 15 votes vaulted him over the top at the 1960 Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, John Kennedy arrived, under police escort, at the cottage that served as his political campaign center.

WikiLeaks has caused little lasting damage, says US state department  —  Claims mean official stance of White House over leaked US embassy cables contradicts that of the state department  —  The damage caused by the WikiLeaks controversy has caused little real and lasting damage to American diplomacy …

Boehner Favorability Jumps; Obama Back Above 50%  —  Ratings for Palin lowest since 2008 GOP convention  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Americans' opinions of House Speaker John Boehner have improved considerably since last fall, rising a total of 15 percentage points, including eight points since immediately after the midterm elections.

Sheila Jackson Lee Says Repealing ObamaCare Violates Constitution  —  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas, said on Tuesday afternoon that repealing the national health care law would violate the Constitution.  —  Arguing that the Commerce Clause provides the constitutional basis for ObamaCare …

Muslim groups nervous about King hearings  —  American Muslim leaders, who have struggled to present a clear public voice or organize politically in the decade since Sept. 11, are increasingly apprehensive about the direction Rep. Pete King will take when he convenes hearings next month on the threat posed by radical Islam in America.

Clinton says she won't commit to serving second term at State  —  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday she hasn't committed to serving a second term in the Obama administration and is looking forward to an eventual return to private life.  —  “That's not something …

What Is Orthodox?  —  I'm a big fan of Matthew Yglesias' blogging, but he does tend to err a little when he talks about Christianity.  For example, here he is commenting on Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley's statement that non-Christians are not his “brother” or “sister”:

‘Baby Doc’ charged with corruption  —  Former dictator faces charges relating to his 15-year rule after being hauled before a judge in Port-au Prince  —  Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier was charged with corruption and the theft of his country's meagre funds last night after the former Haitian dictator …

The damage has already begun  —  Repeal of ObamaCare can't come soon enough — as several damaging provisions are set to take effect this year.  —  For starters, it has effectively stopped the construction of physician-owned hospitals throughout the country.

BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL  —  Obama's SEC hires Goldman Sachs asset manager to regulate asset managers  —  If I wrote this in a movie script, the producers would reject it as over the top.  The President who said he would stop the revolving door between Wall Street and the executive branch …

'Wear the hijab or I'll kill you, cousin told girl': Muslim tells of terrifying phone threats  —  A man threatened to kill his cousin and harm her family after she decided to stop wearing the traditional Muslim headscarf, a court has heard.  —  Mohamed Al-Hakim, 29, allegedly phoned Alya Al-Safar …