Reid says GOP may have helped Russia annex Crimea  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says Republicans may have helped Russia annex Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula.

Justice Scalia's Past Comes Back To Haunt Him On Birth Control  —  When the Supreme Court hears two landmark cases about birth control on Tuesday, few observers doubt that Justice Antonin Scalia's sympathies will be the Catholic business owners who charge that the mandate violates their religious liberties.

Meet Business Insider's Newest Political Columnist — Anthony Weiner  —  Business Insider is very pleased to announce former New York City mayoral candidate and Congressman Anthony Weiner will be contributing a new monthly column to our politics page.  —  The new column, which will be titled …

Aborted babies incinerated to heat UK hospitals  —  The remains of more than 15,000 babies were incinerated as ‘clinical waste’ by hospitals in Britain with some used in ‘waste to energy’ plants  —  The bodies of thousands of aborted and miscarried babies were incinerated as clinical waste …

Taxpayers fund creationism in the classroom  —  Taxpayers in 14 states will bankroll nearly $1 billion this year in tuition for private schools, including hundreds of religious schools that teach Earth is less than 10,000 years old, Adam and Eve strolled the garden with dinosaurs …

Nearly Half of Public Says ‘Right Amount’ of Malaysian Jet Coverage  —  One-in-Three Thinks Coverage Has Been Excessive  —  The public followed news about the missing Malaysia Airlines plane more closely than any other story last week.  While the story has attracted extensive news coverage …

US, allies sideline Russia from G8; Moscow shrugs off summit snub  —  The U.S. and its allies announced Monday that they would, for now, exclude Russia from the G8 and boycott a planned summit in Sochi in retaliation over its Crimea takeover — though Russia's government shrugged off the latest efforts to isolate the country.

DAVID GREGORY:  —  The current, the issue that oceanographers will look at, how formidable is that?  If you're finding some wreckage even now, the way this thing could be moving, how big of a piece is it?  —  BOB HAGER:  —  They've got very elaborate schemes on the computer where they can trace back the currents of the ocean.

Judge Joe Brown Arrested In Memphis  —  (Memphis) Well-known TV court judge and former Shelby County Criminal Court Judge Joe Brown is being held at the Criminal Justice Center at 201 Poplar.  —  A request for bail has been denied.  —  We are told Brown showed up to Juvenile Court to represent someone in a child support case.

Obama Trolls Libertarians And Tea Partiers With New Obamacare Bumper Sticker  —  Don't tread on my Obamacare.  —  theamericanmaverick.com  —  AP  —  Now Obama allies have made their own version of the emblematic banner in support of Obamacare:  —  The sticker replaces …

3 Presidents and a Riddle Named Putin  —  WASHINGTON — Bill Clinton found him to be cold and worrisome, but predicted he would be a tough and able leader.  George W. Bush wanted to make him a friend and partner in the war on terror, but grew disillusioned over time.

Inquiry Is Said to Clear Christie, but That's His Lawyers' Verdict  —  With his office suddenly engulfed in scandal over lane closings at the George Washington Bridge, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey two months ago summoned a pair of top defense lawyers from an elite law firm to the State House …

Years of experience, plenty of talent, completely obsolete  —  have more botox in me than any ten people," Dr. Seth Matarasso told me in an exam room this February.  —  He is a reality-show producer's idea of a cosmetic surgeon—his demeanor brash, his bone structure preposterous.

Read This One Document To Understand What The Christian Right Hopes To Gain From Hobby Lobby  —  2009 was a grim year for social conservatives.  Barack Obama was an ambitious and popular new president.  Republicans, and their conservative philosophy, were largely discredited in the public eye by a failed war and a massive recession.

Libertarian Group Comes Out Against Ron Paul On Russia  —  “Former Congressman Ron Paul, whose views are interpreted by many as wholly representative of the libertarian movement, gets it wrong when he speaks of Crimea's right to secede,” Students for Liberty's founder says.  —  Steve Marcus / Reuters / Reuters

Rick Scott's Top Latino Fundraiser Leaves Campaign After Campaign Staff Allegedly Made Racist Jokes  —  On late Thursday, billionaire Mike Fernandez abruptly resigned his post as the finance co-chair of Governor Rick Scott's (R-FL) reelection campaign.  The prominent Cuban-American health …

‘Downton Abbey’ Democrats May Cost their Party the Senate  —  When it comes to green gentry liberalism, think of an Americanized version of the PBS hit—where everyone knows his or her place, and our betters look best.  —  Last week was a good week for natural gas, but a bad one for green gentry liberalism.

When the Scientist Is Also a Philosopher  —  Do you want to know a dirty little secret of economists who give policy advice?  When we do so, we are often speaking not just as economic scientists, but also as political philosophers.  Our recommendations are based not only on our understanding …