David Leonhardt has the key takeaways on today’s new unemployment numbers.

4th tier GOP candidates and Tim Pawlenty meet in South Carolina for one of the first debates of the 2012 GOP presidential primary season.

I’ve gotten used to every Trump story being totally bizarre. So I guess this one shouldn’t surprise me. It turns out Trump’s birtherpalooza run has cost him his role as honorary pace car driver at this year’s 100th annual Indianapolis 500.

Sen. Schumer tells House Republicans they won’t let them sweep their Medicare Phase Out vote under the rug.

48 Senate Democrats have sent a letter to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) applauding his decision to drop Paul Ryan’s Medicare Phase Out Plan.

TOP GOP moneyman David Koch (the real one, not a crank caller) says President Obama deserves no credit for the bin Laden raid, but Koch says he does find Obama “scary.”

Cantor says Medicare Phase-Out push falling victim to Obama’s attacking the idea so many times.

The Deputy Leader of Canada’s new main opposition party, the (in American terms) left-liberal NDP, has come up with a whole new angle on bin Laden death conspiracy theories. He doesn’t doubt that bin Laden is dead and that US forces killed him … only that we’ve really got pictures.

Sort of like the commandos had everything figured out but forgot to bring a camera?

#packingfail

We’re doing running updates on today’s events at Ground Zero and at the Pentagon in our TPM Live-Updating bin Laden Wire.