Obama's Vow on Chemical Weapons Puts Him in Tough Spot  —  WASHINGTON — Confronted with evidence that chemical weapons have been used in Syria, President Obama now finds himself in a geopolitical box, his credibility at stake with frustratingly few good options.

National Rifle Association Bans Bleeding “Obama” Target, Others Remain  —  Beyond the pale at the NRA convention.  “They thought it looked too much like President Obama,” says a worker.  —  The Zombie Industries booth at the NRA Convention in Houston.  —  HOUSTON, Texas …

James Carville Heaps Praise On Ted Cruz: ‘Most Talented And Fearless’ GOP Politician Of Last 30 Years  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is polarizing, to say the least.  While the likes of Joe Scarborough have found Cruz to be a lying jerk, the senator received praise on Sunday from an unlikely suspect: James Carville.

Cardinal Dolan Denies Catholics Entry at Cathedral Because of Dirty Hands  —  “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.  For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened” (Matthew 7:7-8).

How wrong is Kathleen Parker about Plan B birth control?  Let me count the ways!  —  Kathleen Parker's column in today's Washington Post, which is about over-the-counter sales of Plan B birth control, is a small masterpiece of sophistry.  It's a virtual greatest hits collection …

The Dark Side, Carefully Masked  —  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — On the day after two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev tapped out an early-afternoon text message to a classmate at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.  Want to hang out? he queried.

FBI searches Tsarnaev apartment as uncle arrives  —  By:  —  The FBI returned today to search the Tsarnaev family's Cambridge home, as the uncle of Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev visited a Worcester funeral home where the older brother's body lies awaiting a funeral.

Official: We knew Benghazi was a terrorist attack “from the get-go”  —  (CBS News) “Everybody in the mission” in Benghazi, Libya, thought the attack on a U.S. consulate there last Sept. 11 was an act of terror “from the get-go,” according to excerpts of an interview investigators conducted …

Women who wear revealing dresses cause earthquakes: Cleric  —  Tehran, May 4: Women who wear revealing clothing and behave immorally are responsible for earthquakes, this is what a senior Iranian cleric has to say.  —  The cleric's unusual explanation for quakes follows the prediction …

Poll: Cuccinelli has early lead over McAuliffe in Virginia governor's race  —  Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II has an early lead over businessman Terry McAuliffe in their race for governor, a new Washington Post poll shows, even as most voters in the commonwealth have yet to engage in the nationally watched contest.

House Dem: Benghazi talking points were a ‘victory of hope over reality’  —  The Obama administration's talking points linking last year's terror attack in Benghazi to anti-American protests going on in other countries were a “victory of hope over reality,” a key Democrat said Sunday ahead of this week's hearing.

Howard Kurtz apologizes on CNN for errors  —  Howard Kurtz took to his CNN show “Reliable Sources” on Sunday to issue a lengthy full-fledged apology for his erroneous report last week about NBA star Jason Collins and for a string of past careless mistakes that he admitted he was sometimes slow to correct …

King: ‘Very difficult to believe’ Boston bombing suspects acted alone  —  Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), the former chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, said Sunday that he did not believe the suspects in last month's Boston Marathon bombings acted alone.