Barack Obama now can officially be known as the president who did the most damage to a woman’s right to choose… even if the AP thinks it is ‘obscure.’

In an article providing many new details about complaints from CIA about the DOD contractor, NYT’s Mark Mazzetti comes pretty close to admitting that this turf war focuses at least partly on whose contractors — rather than whose officers — are conducting the spying in Pakistan.

Bureaucrats don’t get a pass because they are just cogs in the machine.

Autocrats, plutocrats, authoritarian ideologues and elitists of all stripes speak often of the people’s inability to govern themselves in a complex world that requires expertise – namely, the self-justifying expertise of the elite themselves. With surprising frankness, federal appeals court Judge Richard A. Posner summed up the elite’s paternalistic rationale: Few citizens have the formidable [...]

The latest gambit by BP to plug the underwater volcano in the Gulf has “hit a snag,” according to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. The President has sent in a ragtag bunch of scientists, engineers and MacGruber to brainstorm the mess. It’s depressing that the long-awaited, much-anticipated Apollo Project for energy has been reduced to coming up with a way to stop a fountain of oil at the bottom of the sea. By the way, has nobody thought of my solution, to put the Pacific Garbage Patch to good use by just airlifting it over the floating oil island? Win-win!

Glenn Greenwald is on ABC’s This Week this morning with host Jake Tapper, starting at 10am.

An independent scientific effort, funded by NOAA, has discovered “shocking” amounts of oil underwater, huge plumes that range up to three miles by ten miles wide, and about 300 feet deep, within many columns of the water in the Gulf of Mexico.

It’s a delightful morning here, but that’s overshadowed by the ever growing unending catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, giant plumes of oil have been found underwater. No fix anytime soon.

The spill and the political implications will be a key topic on the Sunday shows, as well as talk about Elena Kagan, and financial reform.

The Wacky Weed starring Andy Panda. This Universal Pictures Walter Lanz Production was released on December 16, 1946.

Conservatism, it appears, is being Reinvented, and this is a Fun Thing.