John McCain: Getting Back To Maverick, With An Eye On Retirement  —  WASHINGTON — Last August, a few minutes before GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan took the stage at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., I was hurrying down a flight of stairs to get to the floor to watch.

How the GOP forced President Obama's hand  —  President Barack Obama used to want a grand deficit deal because he philosophically believed it was best for the country, and politically believed it was best for him.  —  Now he needs it because he has no choice.

Juan Williams' plagiarism problem  —  EXCLUSIVE: Fox News pundit blames researcher for word-for-word similarities.  “Unacceptable,” says Hill editor  —  In a case of apparent plagiarism, Fox News pundit Juan Williams lifted — sometimes word for word — from a Center for American Progress report …

Andrew Breitbart and James O'Keefe Ruined Him, and Now He Gets $100,000  —  Former ACORN employee Juan Carlos Vera sued after being wrongly portrayed as a willing participant in an underage sex-trafficking scheme.  Breitbart still hasn't corrected the item!

A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years  —  1College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.  —  2Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

Unemployment rate falls to lowest level since 2008  —  Hiring picked up in February, helping to bring the unemployment rate down to its lowest level since December 2008.  —  The U.S. economy added 236,000 jobs in February, according to a Labor Department report released Friday.

It's time to overturn DOMA  —  In 1996, I signed the Defense of Marriage Act.  Although that was only 17 years ago, it was a very different time.  In no state in the union was same-sex marriage recognized, much less available as a legal right, but some were moving in that direction.

Noonan: The Anti-Confidence Man  —  Just when America needs a boost, we're stuck with Dr. Doom in the White House.  —  It's not a debt and deficit crisis, it's a jobs crisis.  The debt and the deficit are part of it, part of the general fear that we're on a long slide and can't turn it around.

Secret supper  —  President Barack Obama has been hosting a lot of high-profile dinner companions lately, but here's one guest list that didn't leak for a week:  —  On March 1st, the president, First Lady Michelle, former President Bill Clinton and outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton enjoyed …

States With Most Gun Laws Have Fewest Gun Deaths, Study Finds  —  States with more gun laws have lower levels of gun fatalities, according to a new study from Boston Children's Hospital.  While the study, published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, does not establish cause-and-effect …

The Jobs Report Is Wrong  —  What headlines say about the monthly jobs numbers is actually no more accurate than chance.  A BuzzFeed original analysis.  —  Months in red are months where initial headlines said the jobs numbers fell short of economists' expectations, but then the revised …

President Obama is about to lose the PR battle on the sequester |  Harry J Enten  —  The president's numbers on the sequester are falling.  He risks losing his edge if he doesn't change tactics soon  —  The sequester talks drone on while congressional Republicans and President Obama cannot reach an agreement to stop it.

Rand Paul Praises Horrendous Supreme Court Decision, Would Let Employers Ruthlessly Exploit Workers  —  Lochner v. New York is widely viewed as one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in American history.  It is taught in law schools, alongside decisions upholding segregation …

RNC chair says Rove's threatened attack on King “a fool's game” (AUDIO)  —  The chairman of the Republican National Committee made a trip to Iowa today, rejecting calls for the GOP to moderate its message.  Reince Priebus, a Wisconsin Republican, presided over the national party in 2012 …