Close  —  President Barack Obama on Friday issued a blunt and direct warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin: stay out of Ukraine.  —  If not, he said, there will be consequences — though he didn't say what those might be.  —  “We are now deeply concerned by reports of military movements taken …

How the Clinton White House bungled health care reform  —  Bill and Hillary Clinton understood individual members of Congress just fine.  They just didn't get Congress.  —  That's the picture that emerges from the documents released by the Clinton presidential library Friday on their efforts to pass health care reform in the 1990s.

Rep. Josh Miller, recipient of significant government assistance, opposes Medicaid expansion in Arkansas  —  The enlistment of roughly half the Republican legislative delegation in implementation of Obamacare's Medicaid expansion is remarkable.  Republicans tend to fall by faith in opposition …

Hidden camera footage surfaces of Supreme Court debate  —  Hidden camera footage of what appeared to be Supreme Court proceedings from earlier this week surfaced on Thursday, offering one the of the first public recordings of the High Court's proceedings.  —  A video posted on YouTube …

Homeowner Who Shot Unarmed Elderly Man With Alzheimer's Wandering His Property Won't Be Charged  —  The Walker County, Ga., District Attorney said Friday he will not press charges against the homeowner who shot and killed an elderly man wandering on his property. 72-year-old Ronald Westbrook …

NPR whitewashes past of anti-gay Holocaust-revisionist hate group leader  —  National Public Radio's Michel Martin did a segment on  —  That's it.  —  No mention of the fact that Lively was labeled a Holocaust revisionist by HateWatch for his “thoroughly-discredited” 1995 tome …

When May I Shoot a Student?  —  BOISE, Idaho — TO the chief counsel of the Idaho State Legislature:  —  In light of the bill permitting guns on our state's college and university campuses, which is likely to be approved by the state House of Representatives in the coming days …

Celebrate Gay Marriage—or Else  —  Future historians will likely be flummoxed by the moment we're living in.  In what amounts to less than a blink of an eye in the history of Western civilization, homosexuality has gone from a diagnosed mental disorder to something to be celebrated — or else.

Rudderless Tea Party Searches For Meaning Five Years On  —  Five years after storming the national political stage, the Tea Party finds itself in the same ideological doldrums that killed off the social movements of the '60s and '80s.  —  AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File

Dumb, Uneducated, And Eager To Deceive: Media Coverage Of Religious Liberty In A Nutshell  —  In the aftermath of the abominable media coverage of Arizona's religious liberty bill, an editor shared his hypothesis that journalists care about freedom of speech and of the press because they practice them.

Democrats Land Top-Tier Senate Recruit In Mississippi  —  Former Rep. Travis Childers will be announcing campaign, hoping to exploit GOP divisions in the state.  —  Former Rep. Travis Childers will be announcing he's running for the Senate seat in Mississippi, according to two sources familiar …