Cecile Richards, The Daily Beast
If you want to see what women’s health care in America will be like if Mitt Romney becomes president, just look at Texas and Arizona.Both states are in the news these past few weeks for trying to prevent women from getting health care at Planned Parenthood. It’s wrong, and it will have devastating consequences for women for years to come—and Mitt Romney wants to do it in all 50 states.

Charlie Cook, Natl Jnrl
By Charlie Cook "Off to the Races" is Charlie Cook's indispensable weekly column on national politics appearing in National Journal Daily.It's unlikely that same-sex marriage is going to push the economy out of the dominant role in this election. Indeed, short of a major international incident, it is unlikely that any other issue will displace the economic ones. But gay marriage was the most discussed issue last week. The most remarkable thing was not President Obama's announcement that he...

Joel Kotkin, The Daily Beast
The map is shifting, and Democrats see the nation's rapidly changing demography putting ever more states in play"”Barack Obama is hoping to compete in Arizona this year, to go along with his map-changing North Carolina and Indiana wins in 2008"”and eventually ensure the party's dominance in a more diverse America, as Republicans quite literally die out.Ruy Teixeira and others have pointed to the growing number of voters in key groups that have tilted Democratic: Hispanics, single-member households, and well-educated millennials. Speaking...

Toby Harnden, Daily Mail
Hilary Rosen's comments were a spectacular own goal by Democrats but also a result of their recent overreach in attacking Republicans for a supposed "war on women" and portraying Rush Limbaugh as the leader of the GOP.Perhaps the most preposterous thing Rosen said on CNN last night was not the foolish "never worked a day in her life" jibe aimed at Ann Romney but her contention that Republicans invented the notion of a "war on women".

Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast
Now that the GOP race is effectively over, just how damaged is Mitt Romney?Romney works the crowd during a campaign event in Broomall, Penn., April 4, Steven Senne / AP PhotoRepublicans had hoped that a long primary contest would energize voters and excite them about the fall campaign. Instead, Romney seems to be the suitor his party doesn't quite want, blamed for the party's failure to win women and Hispanics, caricatured for his flip-flops, and facing an uphill struggle to build a winning coalition.Romney's negatives reached a record high last month with 50 percent of all...

LONDON (Reuters) - A provocative photograph of a near-naked young woman appears among e-mails apparently sent to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and hacked by opposition activists who shared them with Western media. On Saturday, London's Daily Telegraph published an edited version of the photograph, which has been seen by Reuters among the original e-mails. It speculated on the state of his 11-year marriage to British-born Asma al-Assad, who has stood by her husband during a year of protests that come close to civil war. ...

Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast
We're just under eight months away from Election Day now, which means that the GOP is starting to run out of time to think up new ways to ruin the economy so that Barack Obama doesn't get reelected. The Republicans have to do this delicately, of course; they can't be open about it lest it become too obvious that harming the economy is their goal. But they have to be aggressive enough about it for their efforts to bear some actual (rotten) fruit. There are three fronts"”gas prices, jobs, and the budget"”on which we should keep our eyes open...

The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly True | HUD secretary says a homeless person costs taxpayers $40,000 a year

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development upped its cool quotient when Secretary Shaun Donovan appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Donovan and Stewart exchanged small talk about growing up in New York City before turning to the topic of homelessness. "The thing we finally figured out is that it’s actually, not only better for people, but cheaper to solve homelessness than it is to put a band-aid on it," Donovan said in the March 5, 2012, appearance. "Because, at the end of the day, it costs, between shelters ...

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Michelle Goldberg, The Daily Beast
If you're a fan of Sarah Palin, or if you just haven't followed the recriminations from John McCain staffers in the wake of the 2008 campaign, you will likely find Julianne Moore's portrayal of her in the HBO movie Game Change to be sexist. It's not just the depiction of her shocking ignorance""at one point, she has to be told that the Queen of England doesn't conduct that country's foreign policy, while at another, she is confused to hear that Saddam Hussein was not behind the September 11 attacks. She's also absurdly vain, going on the...

Here’s a roundup of this morning’s must-read budget and economic stories:

• The Financial Times says companies are scrambling to sell off “dollar-denominated debt.”

• Reuters looks at AIG’s efforts to find money to pay back taxpayers for the bailout the company received.

• CNBC says businesses are wary of a flat tax.

• Bloomberg takes a look at how wealthy “multinational” families are trying to reduce their tax burdens.

• The Wall Street Journal reports that some companies are asking Congress to reduce the amount they have to contribute to their pension programs.

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Daily Caller - Interest on the federal debt is expected to rival defense spending by 2017, totaling nearly $566 billion annually.

Daily Caller - During an appearance on the “Jay Severin Show” on Boston’s Talk 1200, real estate mogul and media personality Donald Trump predicted that President Barack Obama would start a war with Iran for the sole purpose of winning re-election in November.

Daily Caller - Transportation Security Administration Administrator John Pistole has responded to an incident involving the TSA denying a mother entry on a flight until she could prove her breast pump was real, saying that passengers need to be “better-informed” before flying by “looking at the TSA.gov website.” Pistole also recounted his personal experience receiving pat-downs from TSA agents.

David Frum, Daily Beast
Few things seemed quite so dead in 2008 as the campaign book. The genre"”invented by Theodore White during the election of 1960"”was pushing 50. In the age of blogs and Twitter, who now would want to read a book about an election whose outcome was already known? Obama won, McCain lost, what more was there to say?The answer, it turned out, was: all the best stuff.

Daily Caller - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has already weighed in on the upcoming HBO special based on Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s book “Game Change.” And now her running mate in the 2008 election, former Republican presidential nominee and Arizona Sen. John McCain, is echoing her sentiment.

Daily Caller - Opening his show with a joke about trying to cancel his own products lines’ advertising on his show, conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh went on the airwaves for the time since his online apology on Saturday, this time with a more serious tone.

Daily Caller - Appearing on a February 11 panel titled “The Winter of Our Discontent” at The New York Institute for the Humanities, former long-term Service Employees International Union leader Stephen Lerner spoke in favor of Occupy Wall Street’s anti-capitalist tactics.

Daily Caller - A Nigerian woman who claimed to be three months pregnant was discovered to be a drug mule smuggling $20,000 worth of heroin into the United States Wednesday, the New York Daily News reports.

Daily Caller - Conservative firebrand Ann Coulter and liberal MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell squared off on Sunday before a slightly left-leaning student audience at George Washington University.

Daily Caller - The “Don’t Want You Back” singer from the nineties boy band Backstreet Boys does, however, want his jewelry back.

Daily Caller - The Green Party is demanding that the Supreme Court declare the individual mandate included in President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul unconstitutional.

Daily Caller - Lindsay Lohan’s self-proclaimed “comeback” after years of rehab, lesbianism, court appearances, and jail time began Saturday night when the sometime actress hosted Saturday Night Live for the fourth time.

Daily Caller - Ann Coulter tells The Daily Caller that the United States should “do more” to help resolve the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Syria.