Obama's unsettling attack on the Supreme Court  —  There was something rather unsettling in President Obama's preemptive strike on the Supreme Court at Monday's news conference.  —  “I'd just remind conservative commentators that for years what we've heard is the biggest problem on the bench …

Three times Obama has said ‘marvelous’  —  President Obama took a dig at Romney today for describing Paul Ryan's budget plan as “marvelous.”  —  “Marvelous... is a word you don't often hear about budgets,” he said.  “That's a word you don't often hear generally.”  —  Except:

Gov. Nikki Haley On The View: 'Women Don't Care About Contraception'  —  Nikki Haley, the young Indian-American governor of South Carolina, was on The View to talk about her new book Can't Is Not An Option, but the segment ended up going in a surprising number of directions.

Divide and Discriminate  —  When a light is shined into the dark corners of American politics, it's never pleasant to see what scurries away.  Last week, a federal judge in Maine unsealed memos from the National Organization for Marriage, one of the most prominent groups fighting against same-sex marriage.

Santorum spokesman blames ‘vitriol’ against candidate for expected primary loss  —  Rick Santorum campaign spokesman Hogan Gidley said Tuesday that he's not sure his candidate will “pick up a single vote in D.C. because of the vitriol D.C. has for a someone like Rick Santorum who wants to shake things up.”

Sarah Palin pokes fun at herself on ‘Today’  —  Kicking off the highly anticipated battle of Sarah Palin vs. Katie Couric on the morning TV shows Tuesday, the former Alaska governor demonstrated that that she is more than comfortable poking fun of herself on national television.

WANKER OF THE DECADE - 9th Runner Up  —  Megan McArdle, aka Jane Galt.  —  I generally resist the urge to pay much attention, even as she's continued to fail upwards, as certain types of people do, though I occasionally peek in on people with sterner stomachs who do pay some attention.

Cold Cut Case?  Wisconsin Democrats Accuse Romney of ‘Subs for Votes’  —  ABC News' Matthew Jaffe, Emily Friedman and Elizabeth Hartfield report:  —  PEWAUKEE, Wis. - When GOP front-runner Mitt Romney and Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., gathered at a sandwich shop in Waukesha today to drum up support …

Remarks by the President at the Associated Press Luncheon  —  Washington, D.C.  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much.  (Applause.)  Please have a seat.  Well, good afternoon, and thank you to Dean Singleton and the board of the Associated Press for inviting me here today.

Suspect identified in Planned Parenthood bomb incident near Appleton  —  GRAND CHUTE — Police say they have arrested the person they think placed a homemade explosive device that went off Sunday and damaged Planned Parenthood's Gillett Street clinic.  —  Police said today they identified the man after reviewing surveillance footage.

STUDY: Traditional Marriage Fosters Anti-Woman Attitudes In Men  —  “Traditional marriage” frequently refers to the idea that marriage should be limited to opposite-sex couples, but for many social conservatives it also means that men work and women stay at home.

The Worst Economic Recovery in History  —  Since the second half of 2009, the U.S. economy has grown at a rate of 2.4%, a full percentage point below average long-term growth.  —  How many times have we heard that this was the worst recession since the Great Depression?

Olympia Snowe: Birth Control Debate Is ‘Retro’ 1950s … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Michael Bloomberg, Emily's List, Heather Wilson, Lilly Ledbetter, Linda Lingle, Olympia Snowe, Sen. Olympia Snowe, Bipartisanship, Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe, Olympia Snowe Birth Control, Politics News

White House and the F.D.A. Often at Odds  —  Nancy-Ann DeParle, the whip-smart and sometimes caustic White House deputy chief of staff, picked up The Wall Street Journal one summer day in 2010 and got an unwelcome shock.  The Food and Drug Administration was proposing as part of the new health care law …

Trump: Obama will start war with Iran for political gain  —  Reality television star and prominent Mitt Romney surrogate Donald Trump said Tuesday that he believes President Obama would begin a war with Iran because it would help him politically.  —  “I happen to think that the President …

Quote of the Day: Narrative Destroying Edition  —  “You will recall the incident of the beating of the black homeless man Sherman Ware on December 4, 2010 by the son of a Sanford police officer.  The beating sparked outrage in the community but there were very few that stepped up to do anything about it.

Obama records intro for 50th anniversary airing of ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’  —  President Obama will record an introduction for the debut of a restored print of the 1962 movie “To Kill a Mockingbird” set to air on the USA cable network Saturday night, some fifty years after the debut of the classic film.

Justice Kennedy's Million Dollar Question  —  by Richard A. Epstein (Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow and member of the Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force)  —  Can you create commerce in order to regulate it?  —  The entire landscape of Congress's constitutional powers changed …