The 20-lb. swag bag from People/Time's White House Correspondent's party  —  Pictured below: a disgorged swag bag from the Time/People pre-WHCD cocktail party.  It weighed in at 20.6 lbs on an Post bathroom scale (very technical stuff, here).  —  Whoa, isn't the media industry struggling with hard times?

Mississippi man targeted in ricin letters investigation arrested  —  (Reuters) - Federal agents arrested a Mississippi martial arts instructor on Saturday after his home and a former business were searched as part of an investigation into ricin-laced letters sent to President Barack Obama and two other public officials.

Biden: Economic collapse kept McCain from the White House  —  (CNN) - Vice President Joe Biden said Friday that if not for the economic collapse surrounding the 2008 presidential race, Sen. John McCain might have beat President Barack Obama.  —  “The truth of the matter is, Barack knows it …

StudentsFirst Selects Author of Tennessee's 'Don't Say Gay' Bill as ‘Reformer of the Year’  —  Right, Michelle Rhee, CEO and Founder of StudentsFirst, inset, educational “reformer of the year” Rep. John Ragan.  —  StudentsFirst, a very prominent and controversial educational political action …

Justice Breyer Hospitalized After Accident  —  Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has been hospitalized following a bicycle accident yesterday in Washington, D.C., a court spokesperson said today.  —  “Associate Justice Stephen Breyer underwent reverse shoulder replacement surgery …

Tea Party Congressman: Muslim Brotherhood Is Guiding Obama In Boston Bombings Investigation  —  Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) told a conservative radio program this week that the Obama administration “bungled” the investigation of the Boston bombing due to internal guidance from the Muslim Brotherhood.

Police Give ‘All Clear’ After Mandatory Evacuation Due To Explosion At Marathon Refinery  —  DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - 8:37 P.M. Police in Melvindale are giving residents the ‘all clear’ to return to their homes after a mandatory evacuation order was issued due to an explosion at a near-by oil refinery.

APNewsBreak: Russia caught bomb suspect on wiretap  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday, days after the U.S. government finally received details about the call.

The Mind of a Con Man  —  One summer night in 2011, a tall, 40-something professor named Diederik Stapel stepped out of his elegant brick house in the Dutch city of Tilburg to visit a friend around the corner.  It was close to midnight, but his colleague Marcel Zeelenberg had called …

Dems Cave On FAA Sequestration Cuts, Flight Delays  —  The House of Representatives passed legislation Friday giving the Federal Aviation Administration unique flexibility under sequestration to use agency funds to avoid air traffic controller furloughs.  —  The final vote was 361-41 …