Bill Clinton says economic recovery ahead of pace looking back up to 500 years in history  —  Former President Bill Clinton defended President Obama and his handling of the nation's economic recovery Sunday night, saying “we are beating the clock” historically in comparison to Japan …

The Red Flag in the Flowerpot  —  Four decades after Watergate, there's something that still nags at Ben Bradlee about Deep Throat.  —  One day in early 2007, Bob Woodward poked his head into my office.  He and his wife, Elsa, had been out for dinner the night before with Ben Bradlee and his wife, Sally Quinn.

Twitter suspends another conservative account; Update: Chris Loesch free, flag-spam prog brigade still loose; Update: Loesch suspended again … Just as with @FreeMarket_US last week, Twitter has suspended the account of conservative Chis Loesch.  Chis is the husband of talk radio host …

The Legendary Paul Ryan  —  Mitt who?  —  The implosion of the Newt Gingrich presidential campaign—the first implosion, before the weird resurrection and inevitable second implosion—came because he used four words: right-wing social engineering.  He used the phrase, last May …

No one gets lucky at Washington's prom  —  The White Correspondents' Dinner isn't what's wrong with politics.  It's what's wrong with DC  —  Every year the White House Correspondents' Dinner inspires two competing varieties of coverage: Celebrity-obsessed fawning and angry tirades …

Wasting Our Minds  —  In Spain, the unemployment rate among workers under 25 is more than 50 percent.  In Ireland almost a third of the young are unemployed.  Here in America, youth unemployment is “only” 16.5 percent, which is still terrible — but things could be worse.

The Economist fails the Turing Test again  —  Five years ago I linked to a Bill Emmott column on the impending election of Nicholas Sarkozy thusly: … Now, his successor as editor at the Economist plays the same tune again, but even more crudely, deploring Sarkozy's probable successor.

Solyndra Not Dealing With Toxic Waste At Milpitas Facility  —  MILPITAS (CBS 5) — Three months ago, CBS 5 caught Solyndra tossing millions of dollars worth of brand new glass tubes used to make solar panels.  Now the bankrupt solar firm, once touted as a symbol of green technology, may be trying to abandon toxic waste.

Bigotry on the Ballot  —  North Carolina already has a law barring same-sex marriage, but the state's Republican-controlled Legislature is not satisfied.  It devised a measure to enshrine this obvious discrimination in the State Constitution and placed it on the ballot of the state's …

Mitt Romney's road to presidency this fall looks narrow on electoral map  —  It's no secret that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has a narrow path to win the presidency this fall.  Nowhere is that reality more apparent than when examining the electoral map on which Romney and President Obama will battle in November.

States could be in a bind on mandate  —  If the Supreme Court strikes down the health reform law's individual mandate, the states at the forefront of implementing the law could find themselves like Wile E. Coyote in the Road Runner cartoons: racing ahead only to discover there's no ground underneath their feet.

Large layoffs loom on Wall Street  —  Latest wave of financial industry cuts could eliminate 21,000 jobs, rivaling the financial crisis.  —  FORTUNE —Perhaps the only thing more broken than Wall Street's business model is its staffing strategy.  —  After adding thousands bankers in the past two years …