Source: Charlotte mayor to be nominated for transportation secretary  —  (CNN) - President Barack Obama will tap Anthony Foxx, the mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, on Monday to become his next transportation secretary, a White House official with knowledge of his decision said Sunday.

Democrats ask: What debt crisis?  —  Call them the debt crisis dissenters.  —  The two parties are miles apart on how to cut the deficit and national debt: Republicans want to slash spending even more.  Democrats want to raise revenue.  —  And then there are the other Democrats …

Obama Mocks MSNBC, CNN, Fox, BuzzFeed, His Liberal Critics And Himself In Correspondents Dinner Speech  —  President Barack Obama took the stage on Saturday at the White House Correspondents Dinner night where he fired off a number of quips at his expense and a number of his allies and critics.

McCain: Putting troops in Syria the ‘worst thing United States could do’  —  An international coalition of troops should be ready to go into Syria to secure the country's chemical weapons stockpiles, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Sunday, warning that U.S. troops on the ground would only spark more Mideast anger.

Black Voter Turnout Passed White Turnout For The First Time In 2012  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — America's blacks voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the white turnout for the first time, reflecting a deeply polarized presidential election …

The truth about late-term abortion  —  Are the legal activities of New York abortion clinics really any less horrifying than those of Kermit Gosnell?  —  Is the Kermit Gosnell baby-murder mill in Philadelphia an isolated case?  Consider what happened at Dr. Emily's Women's Health Center in The Bronx on Jan. 11, 2013.

Silver Fox's Pink Slip  —  BARBARA BUSH is a word that rhymes with fright.  —  She's right.  —  Asked on the “Today” show whether she thought her son Jeb should run for president in 2016, as W. has urged, the famously candid and caustic Silver Fox offered the most honest assessment of her oldest son's legacy.

The Great Degrader  —  I've been focused on economic policy lately, so I sort of missed the big push to rehabilitate Bush's image; also, as a premature anti-Bushist who pointed out how terrible a president he was back when everyone else was praising him as a Great Leader, I'm kind of worn out on the subject.

Kentucky woman ordained as priest in defiance of Roman Catholic Church  —  (Reuters) - In an emotional ceremony filled with tears and applause, a 70-year-old Kentucky woman was ordained a priest on Saturday as part of a dissident group operating outside of official Roman Catholic Church authority.

Gun control reform still possible, Manchin says  —  Sen. Joe Manchin was optimistic on Sunday that the Senate could take another shot at passing a narrow gun control bill that focuses specifically on mental health and criminal background checks.  —  “The only thing we've asked for is for people …