Supreme Court to Hear Campaign Finance Case  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a challenge to federal campaign contribution limits and issued decisions concerning a drug-sniffing dog, an international child-custody dispute and when the police may detain people while conducting a search.

Marco Rubio: The Electable Conservative?  —  Some commentators have expressed surprise upon learning about the very conservative voting record of Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who delivered the Republican response to the State of the Union address last week.

THINGS IN POLITICO THAT MAKE ME WANT TO GUZZLE ANTIFREEZE, PART THE INFINITY  —  Every sportswriter learns one simple rule in a very quick hurry — namely, that nobody out in your readership cares how hard you think your job is.  People, to paraphrase Michael J. Fox's channelling …

A BIPARTISAN PATH FORWARD TO SECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE  —  Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson are co-chairs of the Moment of Truth project and formerly co-chaired the President's bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.  —  The United States faces two big risks …

More Republican Denial  —  Conservatives keep reminding everyone that the sequester was Obama's idea.  But, says Michael Tomasky, that doesn't mean he's to blame for the current crisis.  —  Whose “idea” was the sequester, and why should it matter?  My Twitter feed these last couple of weeks …

Tea party group pictures Rove in Nazi uniform  —  A top tea party group is taking its clash with Karl Rove to a new level, sending out a fundraising email Tuesday featuring a photoshopped image of the GOP operative in an SS uniform.  —  “Wipe the Smirk Off Karl Rove's Face,” …

Missouri Bill Makes It A Felony For Lawmakers To Propose Gun Safety Legislation  —  Yesterday, Missouri state Rep. Mike Leara (R) proposed legislation making it a felony for lawmakers to so much as propose many bills regulating guns.  Leara's bill provides that “[a]ny member of the general assembly …

What Data Can't Do  —  Not long ago, I was at a dinner with the chief executive of a large bank.  He had just had to decide whether to pull out of Italy, given the weak economy and the prospect of a future euro crisis.  —  The C.E.O. had his economists project out a series of downside scenarios …

Aaron Swartz's FBI File  —  When I heard the news of Aaron Swartz's suicide I was deeply saddened or more accurately profoundly irritated.  Why had the government - or should I say U.S Attorney Carmen Ortiz - wasted so much time and resources destroying someone over such an inconsequential act?

Exclusive: Apple, Macs hit by hackers who targeted Facebook  —  (Reuters) - Apple Inc was recently attacked by hackers who infected the Macintosh computers of some employees, the company said on Tuesday in an unprecedented disclosure that described the widest known cyber attacks against Apple-made computers to date.

Report: Hagel Said Israel Headed Toward Apartheid, Netanyahu a ‘Radical’  —  Secretary of defense nominee Chuck Hagel said Israel is on its way to becoming an apartheid state during an April 9, 2010, appearance at Rutgers University, according to a contemporaneous account by an attendee.

Congress Approval Holding Steady at 15%  —  Up one point from January, but at the low end of the historical spectrum  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Americans' approval of Congress is at 15% in February, one percentage point higher than in January and exactly matching the 15% average for all of 2012.

Genius Alabama Rep. Says a Baby is the ‘Largest Organ in a Body’  —  The Alabama House of Representatives is set to vote on abortion legislation Tuesday that would impose a variety of uneccesary restrictions on abortion clinics: providers would need to have admitting privileges at local hospitals …

Donald Trump Threatens to Sue Macy's Protester for $25 Million (Exclusive)  —  “Dump Trump” organizer Angelo Carusone tells THR a cease and desist letter he received shows the “Apprentice” star engages in “bullying and intimidation.”  —  Donald Trump  —  Donald Trump can't fire …

Targeted killings: OK if Obama does it?  —  Salon exclusive: Study finds “liberals” more likely to favor targeted killings once they know it's Obama's policy  —  Civil libertarians have worried that some of President Obama's comparatively hawkish national security policies are silencing …

Southern poverty pimps  —  The “original sin” of the Southern political class is cheap, powerless labor  —  Contemporary American politics cannot be understood apart from the North-South divide in the U.S., as I and others have argued.  Neither can contemporary American economic debates.

WCBS-TV newsman Rob Morrison threatened to ‘kill his wife’ after he was arrested and accused of choking her; Police report paints angry anchorman as a boozy bully with an internet porn habit  —  Rob Morrison has a history of domestic violence and was arrested for assault in 2009 after a confrontation …

59 percent of Americans oppose DOMA: poll  — Stumble upon something good?  Share it on StumbleUpon  — Send via Email  — Send this page to Print Friendly  —  New polls find growing support for marriage equality.  (Blade file photo by Michael Key)

Colorado State Rep. Joe Salazar sorry for rape comment  —  A Colorado Democratic state lawmaker is apologizing for a comment he made about rape after conservatives lambasted him for the remark, saying in a statement that he is “deeply sorry” if he “offended anyone.”

Did Obama supporter vote 6 times in 2012?  Ohio poll worker target of investigation  —  The Obama/Biden lawn sign remains proudly planted in front of Melowese Richardson's Cincinnati home, three months after the presidential election.  —  It seems that President Obama has an especially ardent supporter …

Armen Alchian (April 12, 1914 - February 19, 2013)  —  Arline Alchian Hoel reports that her father, Armen Alchian, “passed away peacefully in his sleep early this morning at his home in Los Angeles.”  He was 98 years old.  —  Armen Alchian was a major figure in the economics profession for more than half a century.