Why Democrats Are So Scared of Benghazi  —  They insist we don't need another committee to investigate the attack—but they're really afraid of the incompetence the truth will reveal.  —  I read with interest my Daily Beast colleague Michael Tomasky's column Wednesday …

What Timothy Geithner Really Thinks  —  “This is kind of like a hearing,” Timothy Geithner said, swaying uncomfortably, face scrunched and hair perfectly tousled.  “Do you guys always do it this way?”  —  The former Treasury secretary was looking up from behind a long desk at his audience …

Krauthammer: Climate Change Is ‘Superstition’ Like ‘The Rain Dance Of Native Americans’  —  Charles Krauthammer believes climate change is a mere superstition, just like the “rain dance of Native Americans.”  —  Appearing Tuesday on Fox News' “Special Report,” the conservative pundit rejected …

Monica Lewinsky Is the Perfect Person to Kick Off the Conversation About Hillary Clinton's Presidency  —  My hope was sparked this week that we just might have a more nuanced conversation about gender and the presidency than we did last time Hillary Clinton ran.

CEO Of Biggest Fast Food Chain Comes Out In Favor Of A Minimum Wage Increase  —  The founder and CEO of Subway says a minimum wage increase wouldn't be such a bad thing for his stores and workers and believes it should be changed so that wages rise automatically with inflation.

Hillary's State Department Refused to Brand Boko Haram as Terrorists  —  Under Hillary Clinton, the State Department repeatedly declined to fully go after the terror group responsible for kidnapping hundreds of girls.  —  The State Department under Hillary Clinton fought hard against placing …

Defiant Donald Sterling Unapologetic In First Public Comment Since Scandal, Insists 'I'm NOT A Racist' & WON'T Sell The Clippers — 'You Can't Force People To Sell Property In America!'  —  Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has gone into lockdown mode since tapes of his racist rant went public earlier this month.

How Much Porn Does It Take to Get Fired at EPA?  —  As a U.S. House committee looked at allegations that a special homeland security unit within the Environmental Protection Agency was blocking investigations by the EPA's Inspector General, lawmakers also veered into other internal probes at that agency …

Obama Unleashes the Left  —  How the government created a federal hunting license for the far left.  —  In the U.S., the politics of the left versus the right rolls on with the predictability of traffic jams at the George Washington Bridge.  It's a lot of honking.  Until now.

Four Years in, GOP Support for Tea Party Down to 41%  —  Support for the movement nationwide drops to 22%  —  PRINCETON, NJ — About four in 10 Republicans and Republican-leaning independents classify themselves as supporters of the Tea Party, while 11% are opponents and 48% are neither.

Germans Fight Neo-Nazis by Liking Their Facebook Page and Flooding It With Love This didn't go over very well By Gabriel Beltrone  —  Sadly, there's still a Nazi presence in Germany.  Recently, an organization named Laut Gegen Nazis, or Loud Against Nazis, decided to combat the hate with lots of love—or rather, lots of likes.

Report: Journalists Are Miserable, Liberal, Over-Educated, Under-Paid, Middle-Aged Men  —  Today, the term ink-stained wretches is exactly one-third accurate.  —  Journalists aren't quite so blotched from pens and printers, now that the newspaper die-out has wiped out 50 years of advertising gains in a decade.

Vulnerable Democrat Gives Stunningly Strong Defense Of Obamacare At Hearing  —  In a flipping of the proverbial script, a Senate Democrat facing a tough re-election race used a confirmation hearing of Sylvia Mathews Burwell, nominated to head the Department of Health and Human Services, to advocate forcefully in favor of Obamacare.

Bill Clinton Was Racialized, Too  —  My colleague Peter Beinart rebukes Congressman Bennie Thompson's claim that Clarence Thomas is an “Uncle Tom.”  He then goes on to challenge the explanatory power of racism in understanding some of President Obama's more unhinged foes:

BLM workers on alert after wrangler threatened with gun on I-15  —  Terror ploy?  » Assailants hide behind hoods, mask license plate while making death threat.  —  | The Salt Lake Tribune  —  With anti-government sentiments roiling in the aftermath of Cliven Bundy's Nevada standoff …

Meet the Sex Hypnotherapist Helping the GOP Retake the Senate  —  Loren Parks and other megadonors are trying to make the Oregon Senate race competitive.  —  Loren Parks in one of his many hypnotherapy videos Loren Parks/YouTube  —  As Democrats and Republicans jostle for control of the Senate in 2014 …

Called by Republicans, Health Insurers Deliver Unexpected Testimony  —  WASHINGTON — House Republicans summoned a half-dozen health insurance executives to a hearing Wednesday envisioned as another forum for criticism of the Affordable Care Act.  But insurers refused to go along with the plan …

U.S. criticizes racist North Korean screed against Obama  —  The White House on Thursday sharply condemned a lengthy and racist North Korean screed against President Obama, calling the rhetoric from Pyongyang “particularly ugly and disrespectful.”  —  The rebuke came in response …

Report finds one federal layoff from sequester  —  A new government report has found that last year's sequester led to only one federal layoff, a conclusion that Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said Wednesday was an outrage.  —  Coburn said the finding from the Government Accountability Office …

Harry Reid's claim that the Koch brothers are ‘one of the main causes’ of climate change  —  “While the Koch brothers admit to not being experts on the matter, these billionaire oil tycoons are certainly experts at contributing to climate change.  That's what they do very well.