Crowley resigns as State Department spokesman  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - P.J. Crowley abruptly resigned Sunday as State Department spokesman over controversial comments he made about the Bradley Manning case.  —  Sources close to the matter the resignation, first reported by CNN …

Madison Rally Bigger Than Biggest Tea Party Rally  —  Police estimated up to 100,000 people turned out in Madison, WI yesterday to protest Gov. Scott Walker's (R) assault on unions, making it bigger than any protests the city has witnessed, even those during the Vietnam War.

Japanese volcano erupts  —  A volcano in southwestern Japan erupted Sunday after nearly two weeks of relative silence, sending ash and rocks up to four kilometres (two and a half miles) into the air, a local official says.  —  It was not immediately clear if the eruption was a direct result …

Sen. Durbin predicts GOP stop-gap to pass, averting shutdown  —  Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate, predicted a House GOP proposal to cut spending by $6 billion over three weeks would pass the upper chamber.  —  “I think it will pass …

Japanese nuclear plants' operator scrambles to avert meltdowns  —  Japanese authorities said Sunday that efforts to restart the cooling system at one of the nuclear reactors damaged by Friday's earthquake had failed, even as officials struggled to bring several other damaged reactors under control.

OBAMA, DANIELS SCORE LAUGHS AT GRIDIRON DINNER  —  Obama, seen here in a 2010 photo, delivered remarks at the Gridiron Dinner on Saturday.  It was his first time attending the dinner as president.  Photo by Reuters  —  President Obama used his first appearance at the annual Gridiron Club Dinner …

Kristol Wants ‘More Than A No-Fly Zone’ In Libya, Says U.S. Should Attack Qaddafi's War Ships And Tanks  —  While the U.S. and NATO allies work with the international community to get consensus on and authorization for a no-fly zone in Libya to prevent Muammar Qaddafi's forces from killing …

Cockroach Ideas  —  Way back, when I spent a year in the government, an old hand told me that fighting bad ideas is like flushing cockroaches down the toilet; they just come right back.  I'm having that feeling a lot lately, on at least two fronts.  —  One is the crowding out issue.

Call an Ambulance for Political Correctness  —  “Life imitates art” is the order of the decade, and unfortunately the “art” life is imitating is Idiocracy.  —  Howie Carr's column in the Boston Herald today sets the stage: … My curiosity piqued, I found the new EMT directive on the Massachusetts state website.

Lost city of Atlantis, swamped by tsunami, may be found  —  (Reuters) - A U.S.-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago in mud flats in southern Spain.

Veering From Peaceful Models, Libya's Youth Revolt Turns Toward Chaos  —  RAS LANUF, Libya — It is a bromide of dictators like Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi that they stand as the only bulwark against forces of chaos and religious militancy.  The tragedy of Libya's uprising …

Pay Teachers More  —  From the debates in Wisconsin and elsewhere about public sector unions, you might get the impression that we're going bust because teachers are overpaid.  —  That's a pernicious fallacy.  A basic educational challenge is not that teachers are raking it in, but that they are underpaid.