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 …

Romney on OBL: ‘Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order’  —  Mitt Romney, asked if he would have given the order to go after Osama Bin Laden, as President Obama's new video and his campaign aides have suggested he wouldn't have done, per POLITICO's Ginger Gibson: “Of course, even Jimmy Carter would have given that order.”

Top EPA official resigns after ‘crucify’ comment  —  A top EPA official has resigned after coming under scrutiny for 2010 remarks in which he compared the agency's enforcement strategy to Roman crucifixion.  —  Al Armendariz, the top environmental official in the oil-rich South and Southwest region …

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 …

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.

The North Carolina Legislature Really Doesn't Like Gays  —  A week from Tuesday, North Carolinians vote on whether to make gay marriage constitutionally illegal.  This print ad campaign was launched to shock voters into defeating the Amendment.  —  This is how the Amendment One question will appear on the ballot:

Sununu: ‘19 or 20’ names in the VP bowl  —  Portsmouth, New Hampshire (CNN) - The Romney campaign is considering about 20 names for the presumptive GOP candidate's vice presidential slot, said top campaign adviser and former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu.  —  “I know that the bowl has about 19 …

Obama campaign video teases new slogan: ‘Forward’  —  A new Obama campaign video suggests a new slogan for the 2012 election: ‘Forward.’ (YouTube / April 30, 2012)  —  It looks like the Obama campaign may have settled on its slogan for the 2012 election: “Forward.”

State GOP's caucus picks leave Romney slate slighted  —  When Massachusetts Republicans went to their caucuses on Saturday, many didn't vote for Mitt Romney's picks.  Instead, they went for Ron Paul.  —  Having all but locked up the Republican nomination for president, Mitt Romney …

BREITBART'S CORONER POISONED TO DEATH?  —  Police probe mysterious demise of L.A. medical examiner  —  Medical examiners in Los Angeles are investigating the possible poisoning death of one of their own officials who may have worked on the case of Andrew Breitbart, the conservative firebrand …

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.