Bennett Third On First UT SEN Ballot  —  Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT) is in jeopardy of losing his bid for a fourth term as delegates to the UT GOP convention begin casting their second ballots, becoming the first victim of a growing anger at incumbents in DC.  —  Despite a last-minute push …

So Why Am I Already Defending Elena Kagan?  —  Strange.  I'm not sure I support Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court, assuming she is the nominee, but I'm already finding myself having to defend her.  —  If Elena Kagan were a liberal legal hero, with a long record of reaching the correct conclusions …

Don't Mention the War  —  Why does the Obama administration find it so hard to utter the words ‘terrorism’ and ‘jihad’ and ‘Islamic extremism’?  —  On Saturday, May 1, a crude car bomb composed of gasoline canisters, propane tanks, fertilizer, and fireworks failed to detonate in Times Square.

The Left and Economics  —  According to Zeljka Buturovic and Dan Klein, people who self-identify as “progressive” have low levels of economic knowledge whereas those who self-identify as “libertarian” or “very conservative” rank very highly.  For reasons suggested by Tyler Cowen, I think that conclusion is nonsense.

Obama says health care law already helps millions  —  WASHINGTON - The new health care law already is helping millions of people through tax breaks for small businesses and assistance for families with young adults, President Barack Obama said Saturday.  —  In his weekly radio and Internet address …

Op-Ed Columnist: The Tea Party Tries to Outrun Race  —  Racist.  Tea Party.  —  Are those separate concepts or a single one?  Depends on whom you ask.  —  According to an article accompanying a Washington Post/ABC News poll released on Wednesday: “About 61 percent of tea party opponents …

What Every Girl Should Know  —  A thousand years ago, popular birth control methods in the Western world included spitting into the mouth of a frog, eating bees and wearing the testicles of a weasel.  In Córdoba, Spain, which was supposed to be on the scientific cutting edge …

The Crisis Comes Ashore  —  Why the oil spill could change everything.  —  The continuing undersea gusher of oil 50 miles off the shores of Louisiana is not the only source of dangerous uncontrolled pollution spewing into the environment.  Worldwide, the amount of man-made CO2 …

Gates: Military spending should be subjected to harsher scrutiny  —  Defense Secretary Robert Gates is warning Congress and the Pentagon brass that military spending must receive harsh scrutiny in the face of the nation's tough economic times and large deficit.

The BP Oil Spill's Toll On Gulf Coast Wildlife: ‘All Bets Are Off’  —  Orange-colored oil from the April 22 BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico has reached Louisiana's fragile Chandeleur Islands, which are part of the Breton National Wildlife Refuge, an area that officials have now closed …

Verizon Asks to End White Pages for All in N.Y.  —  The digital age may claim another victim.  —  The residential White Pages, those inches-thick tomes of fine-print telephone listings that may be most useful as doorstops, could stop landing with a thud on doorsteps across New York later this year.

Oh the Irony: “America is Back!,” Baby, But The Magazine Proclaiming This Just Might Go Out of Business  —  Remember this?  Of course you do.  It was like three weeks ago.  You're morons, not retards.  —  Well, Newsweek's on the auction block, and the Washington Post Company's sales brochure …

Pelosi leads congressional delegation to Afghanistan to visit Karzai, McChrystal  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) arrived with a congressional delegation in Afghanistan on Saturday to meet with top officials there.  —  Pelosi led a delegation that arrived for meetings …