NAACP backs gay marriage  —  CAMP DAVID - The board of the NAACP, one of the nation's oldest and largest African American advocacy organizations, has passed a resolution supporting gay marriage in the wake of President Obama's public endorsement of same-sex unions.

We recommend Walker; his removal isn't justified  —  Scott Walker's policies are controversial, but arguments over policies - no matter how sharp - aren't reason enough to end a governor's term.  —  No governor in recent memory has been so controversial.  No governor in America is so polarizing.

Obama: Stop Condescending to Women  —  WHEN I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.  In numerous appearances over the years — most recently at the Barnard graduation — he has made reference to how women are smarter than men.

‘NATO 3’ had targeted Obama campaign HQ, Rahm's house, police stations, prosecutors say  —  Attorneys for three men charged in Chicago with possession of an explosive device and conspiracy to commit terrorism say they were pulled over by police in Bridgeport last week.  Here is a video circulated by Occupy Chicago.

Drop George Zimmerman's murder charge  —  New evidence suggests Trayvon Martin's killer acted in self-defense  —  A medical report by George Zimmerman's doctor has disclosed that Zimmerman had a fractured nose, two black eyes, two lacerations on the back of his head and a back injury on the day after the fatal shooting.

Lockerbie bomber Megrahi ‘dead’  —  Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing above Scotland, which killed 270 people, has died at home in Libya, his brother has told news agencies.  —  Megrahi, 59, was convicted by a special court in the Netherlands in 2001.

Pelosi: Boehner ‘wants to go over the edge’ in debt-limit debate  —  Pelosi on Sunday said lawmakers could not wait to tackle budget issues until after the elections.  —  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday challenged Speaker John Boehner to move forward …

House Republicans add gay marriage measure to defense bill  —  The chamber passes the annual spending bill 200 to 120, including the provision that would ban same-sex ceremonies at military chapels.  —  Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) wrote one of the gay marriage provisions in the defense spending bill, which passed 299 to 120 in the House.

Charting Obama's Journey to a Shift on Afghanistan  —  It was just one brief exchange about Afghanistan with an aide late in 2009, but it suggests how President Obama's thinking about what he once called “a war of necessity” began to radically change less than a year after he took up residency in the White House.

Group of 8 Leaders Confront German Focus on Austerity  —  CAMP DAVID, Md. — Leaders of the world's richest countries banded together on Saturday to press Germany to back more pro-growth policies to halt the deepening debt crisis in Europe, as President Obama for the first time gained widespread support …

The Great Barry  —  Self-invention on shifting postmodern sands  —  It used to be a lot simpler.  As E. C. Bentley deftly summarized it in 1905: … But that was then, and now Biography is also about maps.  For example, have you ever thought it would be way cooler to have been born in colonial Kenya?