Plouffe calls out GOP candidates over Obama reaction  —  Washington (CNN) - “Reprehensible.”  “Irresponsible.”  “Hard to stomach.”  —  White House senior adviser David Plouffe did not mince words Sunday when talking about the reaction by Republican presidential candidates Rick Santorum …

Stupid or Lying: Wildly Overpaid Faculty Edition  —  The Kaplan Test Prep Daily has determined that American faculty are overpaid: … Right; the reason for the increase in college tuition is “insufficient teaching schedules,” not the massive increase in administrative costs.

Friend Suggests Zimmerman Used ‘Term Of Endearment,’ Not Racial Slur, Before Killing Trayvon Martin  —  George Zimmerman's attorney Craig Sonner and his longtime friend Joe Oliver have launched a public relations offensive arguing that Zimmerman acted in self-defense.

Toulouse gunman Mohammed Merah had links to Islamic extremists in Britain  —  The Al Qaeda gunman who shot dead seven people in France was in touch with British Islamic extremists as recently as last year, security sources in Paris said yesterday.  —  Mohammed Merah, 23 …

A GOP grows in Brooklyn  —  Hold on to your hats, folks: Brooklyn — or at least a small slice of it — may actually be turning red, politically speaking.  —  Officials this week may formally crown Republican attorney David Storobin the winner in last week's special election for ex …

At CIA, a convert to Islam leads the terrorism hunt  —  For every cloud of smoke that follows a CIA drone strike in Pakistan, dozens of smaller plumes can be traced to a gaunt figure standing in a courtyard near the center of the agency's Langley campus in Virginia.

A Bailout by Another Name  —  ED DeMARCO is a marked man.  —  The acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and overseer of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Mr. DeMarco is a soft-spoken, career public servant — and under fire.  In the thankless job of conservator …

Why Won't They Listen?  —  ‘The Righteous Mind,’ by Jonathan Haidt  —  You're smart.  You're liberal.  You're well informed.  You think conservatives are narrow-minded.  You can't understand why working-class Americans vote Republican.  You figure they're being duped.  You're wrong.

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Police in CA looking into possibility of hate crime in death of severely beaten Iraqi woman  —  EL CAJON, Calif. — A woman from Iraq who was found beaten next to a threatening note saying “go back to your country” has died, and police are investigating the possibility of a hate crime.