Trump delivers scorched-earth speech as he tries to regain footing  —  President Donald Trump on Saturday delivered a scorched-earth speech to conservative activists, calling the Russia investigation “bullshit,” adopting a southern accent to mock his former attorney general …

I Testified Against Nixon.  Here's My Advice for Michael Cohen.  —  My appearance before Congress helped take down a president.  Will the same thing happen to Trump?  —  Mr. Dean was a White House counsel under Richard Nixon.  —  There are several parallels between my testimony before Congress in 1973 …

Trump announces executive order that could strip colleges of funding if they don't ‘support free speech’  —  A new executive order from the White House will aim to make federal research funding for colleges and universities contingent on their support for “free speech,” President Trump said Saturday.

How Jeff Bezos Went to Hollywood and Lost Control  —  Jeff Bezos amassed the world's greatest fortune by relying on what he has called a “regret minimization framework.”  He built an $800 billion company with 14 codified principles and a brutally exacting culture.  His annual salary of $81,840 has not budged since 1998.

How a black man ‘outsmarted’ a neo-Nazi group — and became their new leader  —  Without notifying his followers or even his inner circle, the longtime president of a legacy neo-Nazi group has signed over its control to a black civil rights activist from California.

Anti-Muslim Activist Laura Loomer Banned From CPAC After Harassing Reporters  —  Loomer, who has already been banned from Twitter and Uber, was banned from conservative gathering on Saturday shortly before President Trump was supposed to take the stage.  —  The Conservative Political Action …

White House Ambitions Cloud Democratic Hopes to Win the Senate  —  WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders are convinced that Steve Bullock, the popular governor of Montana, would give the party its best shot at unseating Senator Steve Daines, a freshman Republican, when he stands for re-election next year …

Sacramento D.A.: No charges against police officers who shot Stephon Clark  —  One year after Sacramento police shot Stephon Clark to death and sparked a renewed national dialogue over police shootings of young black men, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert declared Saturday …

‘I know where I came from!’:  Sanders begins 2020 campaign with personal speech in Brooklyn  —  Brooklyn, New York (CNN)Bernie Sanders on Saturday spoke about his father's escape from Europe, where “virtually his entire family there was wiped out by Hitler and Nazi barbarism.”

Stay-Puft Socialism, Luxurious Infanticide  —  Old evils continue to reinvent themselves. … Dear Reader (Including the Amy Klobuchar intern kept in a crate in the back office),  —  One of my favorite Twitter accounts is the official Twitter feed of the Socialist party of Great Britain.

UC-Berkeley police arrest suspect in campus attack on conservative activist  —  University of California-Berkeley officials on Friday arrested a suspect who allegedly assaulted a conservative activist on campus last month.  —  Zachary Greenberg, 28, was arrested by university police about 1 p.m. …

No Place for ‘Soy Boys’ at ‘Tribute to Men’ Outside CPAC  —  One organizer, upset that the Boy Scouts now accept girls, dubbed them “the soy scouts.”  —  Some attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference took a break Friday to sing the praises of men.  All of them.

Revealed: Facebook's global lobbying against data privacy laws  —  Social network targeted legislators around the world, promising or threatening to withhold investment  —  Facebook has targeted politicians around the world - including the former UK chancellor, George Osborne …

Judge orders Roger Stone to explain imminent release of book that may violate gag order  —  Republican operative and longtime Trump friend Roger Stone faced fresh legal trouble Friday after a federal judge ordered his attorneys to explain why they failed to tell her before now about the imminent publication …

Inside Raheem Kassam's ‘Transatlantic Right Wing Spring Fling’  —  Cockburn doesn't mind a cocktail or two, but he wasn't sure if he could stomach the ‘Raheem is Daddy’ special on offer at the Nigel Farage party last night at CPAC.  —  Kassam is a particularly proud boy at the moment, and perhaps understandably so.

UPDATE |  W.Va. GOP responds to controversy over anti-Muslim display  —  West Virginia Republican Party Chairwoman Melody Potter is speaking out after a war of words broke out at the West Virginia Capitol Friday over a controversial poster that was displayed during a “Republicans Take the Rotunda” event.

Chelsea Manning Challenges Grand Jury Subpoena, Support Committee Issues Statement in Solidarity  —  Alexandria, VA — Chelsea Manning has been summoned to appear and give testimony before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) on March 5, 2019.