Democrats tell House Republicans, Don’t expect any cover from us on privatizing Medicare.

The news coverage of the massacre of 16 Afghan civilians, nine of them children, is now consumed by the details of the American soldier who allegedly committed the crime. His life; his service record; every detail of his existence is being pored over by the press, that the world may better understand what may have brought him to commit so horrific an act. Read More

Harvard grad Mitt Romney bashed the “faculty lounge at Harvard” yesterday, favorably cites Harvard prof today.

You may have heard that Brian Lamb, founder and longtime CEO of C-SPAN is retiring. I sat down for an hourlong interview with him a couple months ago. And he was just the (positive) way you’d imagine him from watching him on TV: courtly, very unfull of himself, genuine but probing in his questions. I came away thinking: wow, what an amazing guy. And I had one word in my mind: facts. Facts. You can’t have a better North Star. Our David Taintor spoke to him about the changed media landscape over the 34 years C-SPAN has been on the air.

Rick Santorum tells press: Stop making me talk about contraception?

Feds open probe of Trayvon Martin death.

Our Nick Martin dives deep into the world of anti-immigrant neo-Nazi extremism in the American Southwest, and finds an increasing number of “concerned citizens” preparing to do battle at the border.

Here’s his report.

Brian Beutler walks us through the first hurdle the Supreme Court has to clear in considering the health care reform law next week: Does a separate federal law preclude federal courts from adjudicating the individual mandate until it kicks in in 2014?

White House asks media to yank stories about Malia Obama spring breaking in Mexico. Media comply.

Karen Santorum on her husband: “Women have nothing to fear when it comes to contraceptives.”