SEIU officials: Stern to resign  —  Service Employees International Union President Andrew Stern, one of America's most prominent labor leaders, is set to resign, according to a member of the union's board and another SEIU official.  —  The President of an SEIU local based in Seattle …

Tea Party NY Gov Candidate's E-Mails Exposed: Racism, Porn, Bestiality  —  An online news outlet in New York state has obtained dozens of emails, many of them racist and sexually graphic, which it reports were sent by Carl Paladino, the Tea-Party-backed Republican candidate for governor of New York …

Washington Memo: Baffled by Health Plan?  So Are Some Lawmakers  —  WASHINGTON — It is often said that the new health care law will affect almost every American in some way.  And, perhaps fittingly if unintentionally, no one may be more affected than members of Congress themselves.

King, Bachmann co-opt abortion rights message to attack health reform  —  SERGEANT BLUFF, Iowa — Co-opting the argument advocates of legal abortion have used for decades, two leading congressional conservatives Saturday said health-care reform is nothing short of a federal intrusion …

Jobless benefits clear GOP roadblock  —  Senate Dems kill GOP filibuster of bill to restore payments to unemployed  —  WASHINGTON - Democrats in the Senate won an initial skirmish Monday to restore unemployment benefits to hundreds of thousands of jobless people despite Republican criticism …

Boehner: Repealing healthcare law GOP's ‘No. 1 priority’  —  Repealing healthcare reform will be Republicans' “No. 1 priority,” their House leader said Monday.  —  House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said that repealing the healthcare legislation passed in Congress last month …

Healthcare law to sock middle class with a $3.9 billion tax increase in 2019  —  Taxpayers earning less than $200,000 a year will pay roughly $3.9 billion more in taxes — in 2019 alone — because of healthcare reform, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress's official scorekeeper for legislation.

The Sarcasm of Sarah Palin  —  Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin delivered a well-received speech on Friday at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, an address defined — as almost all of her public pronouncements have been in the 18 months since she emerged on the national political scene — by a stinging sense of sarcasm.

Taking the Fight to the MSM: Andrew Breitbart At the Southern Republican Leadership Conference  —  Andrew Breitbart at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference.  —  On racism: … On the famous Congressional Black Caucus walk through the Tea Partiers on Capitol Hill:

‘BARTER WITH YOUR DOCTOR’.... Once in a great while, we get a peek at Republicans' health care ideals, but rarely do we see them articulated as candidly as Sue Lowden described them last week.  —  Lowden is a former state senator and chair of the Nevada Republican Party.

Obama team is optimistic on deficit  —  The federal deficit is running significantly lower than it did last year, with the budget gap for the first half of fiscal 2010 down 8 percent over the same period a year ago, senior Obama administration officials said Monday.

Miss. Confederate History Month ignores slavery  —  JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour drew criticism for proclaiming April as Confederate Heritage Month without mentioning slavery, the second governor this month to come under fire for the omission.

Vice President Joe Biden  —  Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., was born November 20, 1942, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the first of four siblings.  In 1953, the Biden family moved from Pennsylvania to Claymont, Delaware.  He graduated from the University of Delaware and Syracuse Law School and served on the New Castle County Council.

Will Blanche Lincoln Oppose the Dems Again?  —  Hungry Beast Giving Beast Women in the World  —  Blogs and Stories  —  The White House and some outside experts worry that even seemingly insignificant exemptions could provide room for dangerous exploitation by larger companies.

Bill Kristol: Kagan Would Be Respectable Choice for Supreme Court, But Republicans Should Oppose Her  —  Well folks, here's some of the rhetoric we're going to be hearing from the GOP on this upcoming Supreme Court nomination.  Bill Kristol talks out of both sides of his mouth and while saying …

Immigration reform as Democratic electoral firewall  —  Like health care reform before it, immigration reform has been declared dead more times than Al Qaida's #2 man.  Yet this past weekend, Harry Reid spoke to an immigration rally in Las Vegas and promised action on the issue.

Deal Reached With Ukraine on Uranium at Nuclear Talks  —  WASHINGTON — In a first concrete achievement from the nuclear security summit meeting here, the government of Ukraine said on Monday that it would eliminate its stockpile of highly enriched uranium.  —  Moments later …