Sonia Sotomayor Is Our Country's First Disabled Supreme Court Justice  —  Over at the Plum Line, Jonathan Bernstein riffs off a White House infographic on judicial appointments to remind us that although the Senate has been pretty obstructionist when it comes to confirming judges …

It's “Game On” In Chicago  —  One year in, the Obama campaign unleashes itself on America.  Confident, cool, digitally dynamic.  But are they getting cocky?  —  Amy Sly for BuzzFeed  —  CHICAGO, Ill. — On the evening of April 4, campaign manager Jim Messina gathered more than 300 staffers …

Hoopster In Chief Puts Own Image on Ball  —  Using a special basketball festooned with his own image, President Obama shot some hoop today with former NBA players, Harlem Globetrotters and kids attending the White House Easter Egg Hunt.  —  The “Shoot for Strength” activity took place …

Special prosecutor: Won't take Trayvon Martin death to grand jury, still investigating  —  ORLANDO, Fla. — Special prosecutor Angela Corey said Monday she will not take the Trayvon Martin shooting death before a grand jury.  —  Corey said she continues to investigate the case and will not involve …

Why The Supreme Court Will Overturn ObamaCare  —  A fantasy mansion, and a locked room.  —  Via: http://%3ci%3eShutterstock%3c/ i%3e  —  A conservative lawyer explained the logic for overturning ObamaCare as lucidly as I've heard, and on the condition of anonymity.

White House has diverted $500M to IRS to implement healthcare law  —  The Obama administration is quietly diverting roughly $500 million to the IRS to help implement the president's healthcare law.  —  The money is only part of the IRS's total implementation spending, and it is being provided outside the normal appropriations process.

The Gullible Center  —  So, can we talk about the Paul Ryan phenomenon?  —  And yes, I mean the phenomenon, not the man.  Mr. Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee and the principal author of the last two Congressional Republican budget proposals, isn't especially interesting.

Helping the Poor is Now Apparently Anti-Bible  —  I see that fellow Orange Countian Rick Warren — he of Saddleback megachurch and Purpose Driven Life fame — is in the news again.  He was on ABC's This Week yesterday, and Jake Tapper asked him what he thought about President Obama's suggestion that God tells us to

O'KEEFE VOTER FRAUD INVESTIGATION: YOUNG MAN OFFERED HOLDER'S BALLOT  —  U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has declared that there is no proof that in-person voter fraud is a problem.  He's about to see proof that even he can't deny.  —  In a new video provided to Breitbart.com …

Why Obama's JOBS Act Couldn't Suck Worse  —  Boy, do I feel like an idiot.  I've been out there on radio and TV in the last few months saying that I thought there was a chance Barack Obama was listening to the popular anger against Wall Street that drove the Occupy movement …

Wisconsin State Senator Says Women Are Paid Less Because ‘Money Is More Important For Men’  —  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) quietly repealed his state's equal pay law last week, a decision that will make it harder for victims of wage discrimination to sue for lost earnings and back wages.

Dewhurst's 'daddy's money'  —  FreedomWorks is a Washington, D.C.-based 501(c)(4) organization that fights for “for less government, lower taxes, and more freedom.”  The non-profit advocacy group and its associated political action committee made a big splash in the 2010 midterm elections …

The Myth of America's Decline  —  Washington now has added China, India, Brazil and Turkey to its speed-dial, along with Europe and Japan.  But it will remain the chairman of a larger board.  —  The world balance of power is changing.  Countries like China, India, Turkey and Brazil are heard …

How Democrats Are Complicit in the Republican War Against Women  —  The Republican Party's alleged “war” against women is fast emerging as a major trope of the 2012 elections.  And the charge is largely true: As the GOP has become increasingly conservative, so too has it become increasingly hostile …

Herman Cain to Mitt Romney: Pick Allen West for vice president  —  Herman Cain is calling on Mitt Romney to name Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) his vice presidential nominee.  —  Asked on the “Steve Gill Show” on Monday who he would recommend if Romney were to come to him for advice on the running mate decision …

The Taint of ‘Social Darwinism’  —  Given the well-known Republican antipathy to evolution, President Obama's recent description of the Republican budget as an example of “social Darwinism” may be a canny piece of political labeling.  In the interests of historical accuracy, however …

Toddler on Easter egg hunt stumbles on live GRENADE... which has to be blown up by bomb squad  —  By MAIL ON SUNDAY REPORTER and IAN GARLAND  —  Police called in the bomb squad yesterday after a three-year-old boy was spotted standing on a live hand grenade during an Easter egg hunt.

Mitt's Pennsylvania attack: ‘We fired him as senator, why promote him to president?’  —  Mitt Romney's multimillion-dollar Pennsylvania ad buy starts today with a cutting attack that highlights Rick Santorum's 2006 reelection loss, a source monitoring the 2012 air war tells me.

For agency, a loss of technology has had down- and upsides  —  The virus struck in an e-mail 80 days ago, flagged by a federal team that monitors cyber threats.  The target was a small job-development bureau in the Commerce Department.  The infiltration was so vicious it put Commerce's entire computer network at risk.

Obama Campaign Weighs in to Oppose Minnesota Marriage Amendment  —  The Obama campaign has announced its opposition to the marriage amendment that will be on the November ballot in Minnesota that would restrict marriage only to opposite-sex couples there, echoing a theme from its earlier opposition …

WaPo WAY Off on Social Security  —  I was about to go after Robert Samuelson's terribly misleading attack on Social Security this AM—it has become welfare!...FDR would hate it!—when it occurred to me that this is just the type of spurious attack the drives Dean Baker nuts …