The Best Of The Bad Reporting On Obamacare, The CBO And Jobs  —  The Congressional Budget Office issued a new report Tuesday on the federal budget deficit, Obamacare and jobs — and Official Washington exploded.  —  It all centered on one line about how the health care reform law would affect employment.

The Tyranny and Lethargy of the Times Editorial Page  —  Reporters in ‘semi-open revolt’ against Andrew Rosenthal  —  IT'S WELL KNOWN AMONG THE SMALL WORLD of people who pay attention to such things that the liberal-leaning reporters at The Wall Street Journal resent the conservative-leaning editorial page of The Wall Street Journal.

McConnell Pours Cold Water On Immigration Reform: ‘Irresolvable’  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday said immigration reform poses an “irresolvable conflict” between the two chambers and predicted that it won't be completed in 2014.  —  “I think we have a sort …

How A Simple New Invention Seals A Gunshot Wound In 15 Seconds  —  An Oregon startup has developed a pocket-size device that uses tiny sponges to stop bleeding fast.  —  When a soldier is shot on the battlefield, the emergency treatment can seem as brutal as the injury itself.

Rogers: Greenwald illegally sold docs  —  A top lawmaker argued Tuesday that journalist Glenn Greenwald is illegally selling stolen material by asking news organizations to pay for access to U.S. intelligence secrets taken from the National Security Agency.  —  “For personal gain …

LGBTQ Leaders, Allies Call on Mayor to Ban Uniformed City Personnel in Discriminatory St. Pat's Parade  —  Saved under Breaking News, Editor's Letter, Legal, NYC, Politics  —  More than twenty years ago, the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization sought to march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade on Fifth Avenue and was excluded.

Justice Antonin Scalia says World War II-style internment camps could happen again  —  BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL SUPREME COURT ANTONIN SCALIA  —  Justice Antonin Scalia predicts that the Supreme Court will eventually authorize another a wartime abuse of civil rights such as the internment camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II.

Former KKK Leader Pleads Guilty To Cross Burning  —  Steven Joshua Dinkle, a 28-year-old described by prosecutors as a “former Exalted Cyclops of the Ozark, Ala., chapter of the International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan” pleaded guilty Monday to hate crime and obstruction of justice charges for his role in a 2009 cross burning.

500 layoffs expected today at Time Inc.  —  Around mid-morning, staffers are expected to start hearing how deep the cuts will be as Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp unveils what is likely the last big downsizing before Time Warner spins off the publishing group as a separate company later this year.

Sources: Beck finds cops violated policy in Dorner mistaken-ID shooting  —  Police investigators work around a blue pickup truck riddled with bullets in the 19500 block of Redbeam Avenue in Torrance after police fired on it on Feb. 7, 2013.  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

TRANSCRIPT: Full interview between President Obama and Bill O'Reilly  —  BILL O'REILLY - One of my, uh, points on the Factor is that poverty is driven by the dissolution of the American family, that is the prime mover, okay.  On your watch, median income has dropped seventeen percent among working families in this country.

BYU to Undergrads: Self-Love Is A Battlefield  —  The Mormon university is urging its students to narc on chronic masturbators, whose fight against self-pleasure is like rescuing a fallen soldier during war.  —  “The temptations of the Great War are many.  The battles are real, and the strategies are clever.

Netflix Renews ‘House of Cards’ for Season 3  —  UPDATED: Ahead of the streaming series' sophomore debut, Netflix has ordered a third season for the Kevin Spacey starrer.  —  “House of Cards”  —  Netflix is sticking with House of Cards.  A few weeks ahead of the Emmy-winning drama's sophomore debut …

D.C. takes step toward legalizing pot for private use  —  (CNN) - The Washington City Council passed a measure on Tuesday that would move the District of Columbia one step closer to decriminalizing marijuana in most cases.  —  Members approved the bill 11-to-1 in the first of two votes likely this month.

Chu: Decision to build Keystone XL pipeline a political one  —  The decision on whether to permit the construction of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline is a political one and not one of that is scientific in nature, according to former US Energy Sec. Steven Chu.