McConnell slams liberal super-PAC for tweet about wife's ethnicity  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Saturday blasted a liberal super-PAC for a tweet targeting his wife's ethnicity.  —  “They will not get away with attacking my wife in this campaign,” …

Pakistan Ulema Permits Suicide Attacks  —  The Chairman of the Pakistan Ulema Council on Friday said that suicide attacks in Afghanistan are permitted as long as US forces are present in the country.  —  “Palestine is occupied by Israel, Kashmir by India, and Afghanistan by the US.

In Voting Rights Arguments, Chief Justice Misconstrued Census Data  —  At the voting rights argument in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, Chief Justice John Roberts tore into Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, grilling him on his knowledge of voting statistics.

Stymied by a GOP House, Obama looks ahead to 2014 to cement his legacy  —  Video: President Barack Obama warned Friday that the pain of the sequester “will be real.”  He called the steep budget cuts “dumb” and “arbitrary” in a news conference following a meeting with Congressional leaders …

CPAC TURNS AWAY PAMELA GELLER  —  For the last four years, Pamela Geller of AtlasShrugs.com and the American Freedom Defense Initiative have held events at CPAC featuring guests she invites to discuss the influence of Islamism on America.  But this year, the American Conservative Union (ACU) has no room for Geller or her message.

100 Years Ago, The 1913 Women's Suffrage Parade  —  Less than a century ago, women in the United States were not guaranteed the right to vote.  Many courageous groups worked hard at state and local levels throughout the end of the 19th century, making some small gains toward women's suffrage.

DHS built domestic surveillance tech into Predator drones  —  Homeland Security's specifications say drones must be able to detect whether a civilian is armed.  Also specified: “signals interception” and “direction finding” for electronic surveillance.  —  The U.S. Department of Homeland Security …

This is why Obama can't make a deal with Republicans  —  File this under “Jonathan Chait is right.”  —  My column this weekend is about the almost comically poor lines of communication between the White House and the Hill.  The opening anecdote was drawn from a background briefing I attended …

Conservatives will battle for Britain's future  —  The Conservatives are determined to win the battle for Britain's future, writes David Cameron in the Sunday Telegraph.  —  There has been a barrage of advice this weekend following the Eastleigh by-election.  Some say the Conservative Party should veer right.

Lawmaker Apologizes for Inviting Teen to ‘Snake’ Under His Desk  —  ABC OTUS News - Lawmaker Apologizes for Inviting Teen to ‘Snake’ Under His Desk (ABC News)  —  A five-time Connecticut state representative issued an apology and was stripped of his leadership post for what some people construed as a lewd remark to a teenage girl.

The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking  —  THIRTEEN years ago, researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum began the grim task of documenting all the ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps and killing factories that the Nazis set up throughout Europe.