How Obama referred to Tea Party protesters as ‘tea-baggers’ in handwritten letter to Texas teacher complaining about health care law  —  Responding to an angry constituent's letter about the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama allegedly used a sexually charged derogatory term referring to members of the Tea Party movement.

Doesn't Eat, Doesn't Pray and Doesn't Love  —  The question of whether for-profit companies can claim a religious identity, one that exempts them from obeying a generally applicable law, is fully worthy of the attention the Supreme Court is about to give it.

White House menu: Turkey, 9 types of pies  —  Thanksgiving dinner at the White House will be heavy on tradition and heavy on pies.  —  For dinner itself, the Obamas will have an assortment of dishes including sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, green bean casserole …

And So It Begins: New York Sending Out Gun Confiscation Notices  —  New York's SAFE Act is a bad, bad thing.  It requires people to register, sell or transfer (out of state) “assault rifles” and “high capacity” magazines.  Many Empire State gun and standard capacity ammunition magazine owners have complied.

Q&A with Ricardo Baca, The Post's new marijuana editor  —  Ricardo Baca has been appointed Marijuana Editor at the Denver Post.  (Craig F. Walker, The Denver Post)  —  As noted last week, The Denver Post is appointing an editor to oversee our coverage of the recreational marijuana law taking effect in January.

Report: London is mediating indirect secret talks between US and Hezbollah  —  Talks reportedly deal with fight against al-Qaida, regional stability and other Lebanese political issues.  —  The US and Hezbollah are in secret indirect talks managed by London dealing with the fight against Al-Qaida …

Kanye West on Obama's Failures: 'Black People Don't Have the Same Connections as Jewish People'  —  You know why Barack Obama is having problems executing his agenda?  —  Rapper Kanye West told 105.1 FM radio in New York City earlier this week that it's because “Black people don't have the same level …

A Realist's Take on Obamacare  —  For years, Obamacare supporters weathered at best tepid support for the President's reform in the expectation that once people experienced the actual law, rather than the right-wing fever dream, opinions would change.  Then they were hit with the wholly unexpected surprise …

College student home for holidays mistakenly arrested  —  Police got him mixed up with man wanted as a witness in Washington  —  Somewhere in the wide world exists a certain Jawan Johnson, who has a warrant out for his arrest so he can be brought to testify in a Washington burglary case.

New Snowden docs show U.S. spied during G20 in Toronto  —  Surveillance during 2010 summit ‘closely co-ordinated with Canadian partner’ CSEC  —  Security expert on NSA's G20 spying 6:34  —  Top secret documents retrieved by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden show that Prime Minister Stephen …

Latest small-business delay another blow to O-Care rollout  —  The White House is delaying the launch of its online small-business exchange by one year, a Health and Human Services (HHS) official confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday.  —  The delay is another setback for the troubled enrollment process …

Mike Tyson hits ‘horrible’ Obamacare  —  Boxer Mike Tyson thinks Obamacare has been KO'd.  —  “The reality of this plan: It didn't work.  So we have to find another plan,” Tyson said Wednesday on CNN's “Piers Morgan Live.”  —  The former heavyweight champion of the world said Obamacare is …

Help!  My hard drive with £4m in Bitcoins is somewhere in that Newport landfill  —  A digital ‘wallet’ containing 7,500 Bitcoins that James Howells generated on his laptop is buried under four feet of rubbish  —  Buried somewhere under four feet of mud and rubbish …