Budget votes turn from dissent to unity for House Republicans  —  For House Republicans, what a difference a day makes.  —  On Thursday, 59 members of the GOP conference broke with leadership to oppose a 2011 spending compromise, ignoring pleas for support from Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).

President Obama Issues “Signing Statement” Indicating He Won't Abide by Provision in Budget Bill  —  In a statement issued Friday night, President Obama took issue with some provisions in the budget bill - and in one case simply says he will not abide by it.

Climate Change Heads to the Supreme Court  —  Green activists hope to force electric utilities and many others to pay ‘public nuisance’ claims for emitting carbon dioxide.  —  Next Tuesday, the Supreme Court hears American Electric Power v. Connecticut, a case that asks whether America's …

Levin rips Donald Trump to shreds  —  Levin points out many things about Trump that show he is no conservative, but a few of the glaring ones are the fact that he support Charlie Crist over Marco Rubio twice, as well as calling for the impeachment of George W. Bush, accusing him of lying to get us in the war.

Jon Meacham: Let's undo the Birther “horror” by repealing the natural-born citizen clause  —  In case you were wondering what the guy who used to edit Newsweek is up to these days, wonder no longer.  I agree with him about the natural-born requirement, incidentally: It's one of the most antiquated …

Contango Confusion  —  The Think Progress web site is a Soros-funded mouthpiece for the Obama administration.  Someone at Think Progress or its parent, the Center for American Progress, has instructed cub reporter Lee Fang to devote full time to attacking Charles and David Koch and their company, Koch Industries.

Is Yale University Sexist?  —  Allegations about a ‘hostile environment’ for women could cost the university a half-billion in federal funding.  —  Last month, 16 Yale students and recent graduates filed a confidential complaint with the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights alleging …

Questions over Greg Mortenson's stories  —  He has written inspiring best sellers, including “Three Cups of Tea,” but are the stories all true?  —  Some of the most inspiring and dramatic stories in the best-selling book, “Three Cups of Tea,” by Greg Mortenson, are not true, multiple sources tell …

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Blames The iPad For Killing Jobs  —  Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL), who admits to owning an iPad, blames the Apple Inc. product for “eliminating thousands of American jobs.”  “A few short weeks ago I came to the House floor after having purchased an iPad and said that I happened …

The second worst idea in Washington  —  (Ezra Klein/Center on Budget and Policy Priority data) There's talk that the McCaskill-Corker spending cap will be the cost of raising the debt ceiling.  This would be, to put it simply, completely insane.  Spending caps are bad policy …

Civility is the Last Refuge of Scoundrels  —  At the beginning of last week, the commentariat was in raptures over the Serious, Courageous, Game-Changing Ryan plan.  But now that the plan has been exposed as the cruel nonsense it is, what we're hearing a lot about is the need for more civility in the discourse.

Obama meets with young climate change activists  —  A dozen young climate change activists expecting a discussion with White House staffers Friday instead got a meeting with President Obama himself.  —  The surprise meeting came hours ahead of the April 15-18 Power Shift 2011 conference …

FBI Counter-Terror Official: Al Qaeda ‘Thrives’ After Dictators Fall  —  Al Qaeda Releases New Web Video, Official Says Al Qaeda in Yemen More Dangerous Than Osama Bin Laden's ‘Core’ Group  —  On the same day reports emerged of a new al Qaeda video that praised the revolutions sweeping the Arab world …

Chivalry is dead and you killed it, ladies  —  Sitting in traffic sucks, but it's the ultimate observation capsule for people-watching.  Might as well scrutinize while you're stuck between a ditzy chick in a monster SUV and a tourist trying to snap pictures of the White House from the driver's seat.

Tax bills for average homes to rise less than 1% under Walker's budget  —  By Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel  —  Madison — The property tax bill on the typical Wisconsin home would rise by less than 1% annually over the next two years under Gov. Scott Walker's proposed budget …

‘Irvine 11’ plead not guilty to disrupting UCI speech  —  SANTA ANA - Eleven current and former university students pleaded not guilty Friday to misdemeanor charges for disrupting the speech of an Israeli diplomat at UC Irvine last year.  —  Seven of the so-called “Irvine 11” …