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 …

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.

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.

Santorum wins Louisiana, next matchup Wisconsin  —  Rick Santorum won the Louisiana primary Saturday as project, solidify his support from conservative in the Deep South but still faces a tough next few weeks as he competes in Northern states where frontrunner Mitt Romney has done well.

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.