Dr. Ben Carson apologizes, offers to withdraw from Hopkins speech  —  Hopkins surgeon says he apologizes if he ‘offended anyone’ with comments on gay marriage  —  Dr. Benjamin Carson, the famed Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon, apologized Friday for his “choice of words” and use of examples …

Photo from Kim Jong Un's war room reveals North Korea's ‘U.S. mainland strike plan’  —  North Korea's state media agencies have been releasing a slew of photos showing the country's actual military build-up, which we are meant to understand is a prelude to war.

GOP presses Obama to approve ‘no-brainer’ Keystone XL pipeline  —  Republicans are stepping up pressure on the Obama administration to approve work on the long-delayed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline.  —  Rep. Lee Terry (R-Neb.) called on the White House to help lower the nation's energy costs …

Scalia's gay adoption claim: Even wronger than I thought  —  On Wednesday, I wrote about Justice Antonin Scalia's comment that “there's considerable disagreement among sociologists as to what the consequences of raising a child in a single-sex family, whether that is harmful to the child or not.”

Supreme Court Memo: Supreme Court's Glimpse at Thinking on Same-Sex Marriage  —  WASHINGTON - Why did the Supreme Court agree in December to hear a major same-sex marriage case and then seem to think it had made a terrible mistake on Tuesday when it came time for arguments?

Showing Support for Marriage Equality on Facebook  —  The U.S. Supreme Court this week met to begin debating the future of same-sex marriage in the United States.  To accompany this historic event, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) started urging people on Monday, March 25 to change …

Why Republicans Won't Flip on Gay Marriage  —  There may be no one in the country with a more thorough and granular knowledge of the electorate than Jim Messina, President Obama's data-obsessed campaign manager.  Earlier this week, Messina dropped by Bloomberg's Washington office to talk …

Roland Martin On CNN: White Male Executives ‘Not Enamored’ Of ‘Strong, Confident Minorities’ (VIDEO)  —  Outgoing CNN pundit Roland Martin said on Thursday that executives who were uncomfortable with hiring black people as hosts had held back his rise at the network.

Corporations, pro-business nonprofits foot bill for judicial seminars  —  George Mason University top host of events  —  Conservative foundations, multinational oil companies and a prescription drug maker were the most frequent sponsors of more than 100 expense-paid educational seminars attended …

Democrats seek to tie House Republicans to Don Young's racial slur  —  Democrats are seeking to capitalize on Rep. Don Young's (R-Alaska) use of an ethnic slur to describe Hispanics.  —  The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee plans to put out press releases calling …

Climate Change Endgame In Sight?  —  In my Weekly Standard cover story about the fallout from the “Climategate” email scandal three years ago, I offered the following question by way of prediction: … The article then went on to survey emerging research (U.S. government funded!) …

Video: Planned Parenthood Official Argues for Right to Post-Birth Abortion  —  Florida legislators considering a bill to require abortionists to provide medical care to an infant who survives an abortion were shocked during a committee hearing this week when a Planned Parenthood official endorsed a right to post-birth abortion.

Study puts total price tag for Iraq, Afghanistan wars at more than $4 trillion  —  The final cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars will be between $4 and $6 trillion — and most of those costs have yet to be paid, according to a new study out of Harvard University.