Santorum says Obama agenda not “based on Bible”  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum challenged President Barack Obama's Christian beliefs on Saturday, saying White House policies were motivated by a “different theology.”

BREAKING: Where Abortion is Available, More Abortions Take Place Than Where It's Not  —  Ross Douthat, the New York Times' conservative columnist, this morning brings us this startling revelation: In states where there are few restrictions on abortion, more abortions take place.  Herewith:

Voting Rights Act under siege  —  In a political system where even the most trivial issues trigger partisan rancor, the Voting Rights Act has stood for several decades as a rare point of bipartisan consensus.  —  Until now.  —  An intensifying conservative legal assault on the Voting Rights Act …

John Fairfax, Who Rowed Across Oceans, Dies at 74  —  He crossed the Atlantic because it was there, and the Pacific because it was also there.  —  He made both crossings in a rowboat because it, too, was there, and because the lure of sea, spray and sinew, and the history-making chance …

Newt Gingrich on resurrecting his presidential campaign; Eric Cantor talks payroll tax holiday  —  Special Guests: Newt Gingrich, Rep. Eric Cantor … CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: Republican presidential candidates prepare for the most important stretch of the 2012 race.

Insurance industry could take hit from birth control mandate  —  The insurance industry is concerned it will take a hit from the Obama administration's mandate that they provide birth control in health plans for employees of religious organizations that object to the coverage.

Lives Forever Linked Through Kidney Transplant Chain 124  —  RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Rick Ruzzamenti admits to being a tad impulsive.  He traded his Catholicism for Buddhism in a revelatory flash.  He married a Vietnamese woman he had only just met.  And then a year ago, he decided in an instant to donate his left kidney to a stranger.

Ron Paul gains votes in delayed Maine caucus, but Romney keeps lead  —  GOP hopeful Mitt Romney held on to his lead in Maine's caucuses Saturday after votes postponed by bad weather were finally tallied.  —  Ron Paul gained 83 votes on Romney following the caucus in Washington county …

Protesters in Austin try to clog pipeline proposal, support North Texas landowner  —  Private property rights advocates rallied Friday in Austin in support of a Northeast Texas landowner who was in court in Paris to defend the taking of her land by pipeline company TransCanada Corp.

Obama's Gas Pains  —  Interesting and complementing lead stories in the Washington Post and New York Times this morning, and neither of them can be good for Obama.  The Post's lead story warns of “Taxmageddon” next year, when the payroll tax cut will expire, along with the Bush tax cuts …

Payroll tax cut package pushes nation closer to hitting debt ceiling  —  The payroll tax package that Congress passed on Friday accelerated the timeline for another battle over the debt ceiling.  —  Last summer's bitter clash over the debt limit took the nation to the brink of default …

Palestinian's Trial Shines Light on Military Justice  —  NABI SALEH, West Bank — A year ago, Islam Dar Ayyoub was a sociable ninth grader and a good student, according to his father, Saleh, a Palestinian laborer in this small village near Ramallah.  —  Then, one night in January 2011 …