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Actor Sean Astin and former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend will join former President Bill Clinton and his daughter Chelsea on their campaign swing through Indiana on Monday. Townsend, the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy and a former Maryland lieutenant governor, will appear with the Clintons at Dyngus Day and Solidarity Day events in South Bend. Townsend lost the gubernatorial election in Maryland five years ago.

During this season, which many Christians call “Holy Week,” I am perversely drawn to Saturday. Perhaps it is because the Saturday between “Good” Friday and Resurrection Day is, for others a sort of relief. For them it is a day off from the relentless grieving and guilt associated with Lent— at least for those who take the Roman faith seriously. For others “Holy Saturday” becomes business as usual or, at best, the last day to buy and sell before Easter.

The Washington Post is aligning its Fact Checker with Rich Noyes of NewsBusters. On Saturday's front page, the Inside box reads: "Four Pinocchios! Hillary Clinton has talked of coming under sniper fire during a 1996 trip to Bosnia. Our Fact Checker shoots that tale down." In the Michael Dobbs "Fact Checker" feature, four Pinocchios means not just fact-shading or exaggerating, but "Real whoppers." (It wasn't prominently featured on the washingtonpost.com home page.) Dobbs wrote on Saturday that "Clinton's tale of landing at the Tuzla airport "under sniper fire" simply is not credible. Photographs and video of the arrival ceremony, complete...

Authorities in Texas believe a two-year-old boy may have been accidentally crushed to death by a morbidly obese relative. The infant suffered from a fractured skull and was pronounced dead on Tuesday. Investigators suspect a woman fell on top of him, said Bobby Contreras, Hidalgo County justice of the peace. "It didn't look like there was any foul play from what I saw," he said. The local sheriff described the death as "suspicious". But Lupe Trevino said he would wait for an announcement on the cause of death before deciding whether to file charges. A post-mortem examination will take place...

Monday and Thrsday mornings, 3/24 and 3/27Kohen--Leviticus 9:1-6Levi--vs. 7-10Yisra'el--vs. 11-16 Strday 3/29--Shabbat Parah/Shabbat Parashat SheminiMORNING Kohen--Leviticus 9:1-16Levi--9:17-23Shelishi--9:24-10:11Revi`i--10:12-15Chamishi--10:16-20Shishi--11:1-32Shevi`i--11:33-47Maftir--Numbers 19:1-22Haftarah--Ezekiel 36:16-38 EVENING Kohen--Leviticus 12:1-4Levi--12:5-8Yisra'el--13:1-5

‘I’m sure,” said Barack Obama in that sonorous baritone that makes his drive-thru order for a Big Mac, fries, and strawberry shake sound profound, “many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests, or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed.” Well, yes. But not many of us have heard remarks from our pastors, priests, or rabbis that are stark, staring, out-of-his-tree flown-the-coop nuts. Unlike Bill Clinton, whose legions of “spiritual advisers” at the height of his Monica troubles outnumbered the U.S. diplomatic corps, Senator Obama has had just one spiritual adviser his entire adult life: the Reverend Jeremiah Wright,...

Hillary Clinton didn't have this kind of problem when she just didn't "recall".... I certainly do remember that trip to Bosnia, and as (Secretary of the Army) Togo said, there was a saying around the White House that if a place was too small, too poor, or too dangerous, the president couldn't go, so send the First Lady. That's where we went. I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our...

Luke 24 He Is Risen Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain other women with them, came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared. But they found the stone rolled away from the tomb. Then they went in and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. And it happened, as they were greatly perplexed about this, that behold, two men stood by them in shining garments. Then, as they were afraid and bowed their faces to the earth, they said to them, “Why do you...

"The alleged gang member accused of killing Los Angeles high school football star Jamiel Shaw is in the country illegally and had been released from jail without anyone questioning his citizenship the day before Shaw's shooting, according to a report by MyFOXLA.com." "Meanwhile, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Saturday afternoon was scheduled to join with Shaw's family to dedicate a memorial honoring the 17-year-old at the spot where he was killed." Police say Pedro Espinoza, the 19-year-old suspect arrested in Shaw's death, has been in a street gang since he was 12. Until this month, he had been in jail on...

On Monday, March 24 at 11am, Wayne County Prosecutor Kim Worthy will announce her decision about whether to bring charges against Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and/or any of his staff in the text messaging scandal.

For all its overwhelming force in the lonely mountain passes, where military convoys toil towards the clouds, or in the dark alleys of Chengdu’s Tibetan quarter, where soldiers stand watch, the sour tang of a debacle for China is in the air. Despite 20 years of iron-fisted security, huge investments and mass migration since the last Tibetan uprising, the roof of the world once again looks like a hostile place to most Chinese. The uneasy sense of psychological defeat emerged from interviews with Chinese citizens and soldiers in Sichuan province, a vast region that includes a swathe of the Tibetan...

Rep. Barney Frank said he plans to file a bill to legalize "small amounts" of marijuana. Frank announced his plans late Friday on the HBO show "Real Time," hosted by Bill Maher. "I’m going to file a bill as soon as we go back to remove all federal penalties for the possession or use of small amounts of marijuana," Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat, told Maher. Frank didn’t define "small amounts." Efforts to reach Frank on Saturday were not immediately successful. Frank said he’d filed a similar bill in the Massachusetts Legislature in the 1970s, but hasn’t tried since he was...

Washington Post's Curious Iran Reporting March 22, 2008 National Review Online Michael Rubin William Branigin and Robin Wright have a rather factually flawed Washington Post article on President Bush’s speech on Iran that suggests either extreme sloppiness or that integrity has gone out the window in the news section. (It wouldn’t be the first time with Robin Wright, who earlier turned a deeply-partisan Iran lobby group’s press release into a news story). In today's article, Branigin and Wright assert: In an October 2005 speech to a conference on a "World without Zionism," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted by a...

Saturday, January 26, 2008 Mark Steyn: First, they came for Piglet By MARK STEYN Syndicated columnist My favorite headline of the year so far comes from the Daily Mail in Britain: "Government Renames Islamic Terrorism As anti-Islamic Activity' To Woo Muslims." Her Majesty's government is not alone in feeling it's not always helpful to link Islam and the, ah, various unpleasantnesses with suicide bombers and whatnot. Even in his cowboy Crusader heyday, President Bush liked to cool down the crowd with a lot of religion-of-peace stuff. But the British have now decided that kind of mealy-mouthed "respect" is no longer...

LONDON - The BBC has apologized for significant errors in two recent news reports on Israel. In a news item on March 7, following the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva attack, the BBC showed a bulldozer demolishing a house, while correspondent Nick Miles told viewers: "Hours after the attack, Israeli bulldozers destroyed his family home. Later, mourners set up Hamas and Islamic Jihad banners nearby." The house, however, was not demolished; the BBC was embarrassed when news reports from other broadcasters showed the east Jerusalem home intact and the family commemorating their son's actions. Last week, the BBC apologized live on its...

CHINA IS facing mounting international pressure over its violent crackdown on Tibetan protests. Clifford Coonan in Taipei reports. Chinese officials have admitted for the first time that live rounds were used to quell the protests while hopes of closer ties to self-ruled Taiwan appear to have been dashed by what Taiwanese see as a shocking response. Troops continued to pour into Lhasa and other Tibetan regions in China yesterday. The biggest independence riots in 20 years shook Tibet last week and left the Chinese government dealing with the worst damage to its international reputation since the 1989 massacre of pro-democracy...

Britain and France are to sign a deal to construct a new generation of nuclear power stations and export the technology around the world in an effort to combat climate change.

A Dublin Coffman High School junior is accused of raping a female student in a bathroom of the school earlier this week. DeJuan J. Funches, 17, is charged with a delinquency count of rape in connection with an incident that Dublin police say occurred Tuesday afternoon. Funches was arrested Thursday at school and appeared in Franklin County Juvenile Court yesterday. Police took three pairs of boxer shorts from Funches' home at 2854 Sawmill Ridge Dr. during a search Wednesday. Officers first questioned Funches that same day. A search warrant filed with Franklin County Municipal Court says Funches forced a 15-year-old...

The monks of Kirti monastery in Aba, Sichuan, western China, are said to have found a 16-year-old schoolgirl among up to 23 Tibetan protesters killed when Chinese police opened fire last Sunday. Lhundup Tso, the youngest reported victim of the Chinese crackdown, still had her school satchel strapped to her back. Her body was taken to the monastery with the other dead to document what Tibetan officials claim was a massacre. They fear it may be one of several carried out by Chinese armed police in an attempt to put down the largest Tibetan uprising in almost 20 years. Tso...

Rubio: Delegate Dilemma 'Dean's Fault'State House Speaker Says DNC Should Split Delegates In Half POSTED: 4:50 pm EDT March 21, 2008 MIAMI -- On the same day that a federal appeals court in Atlanta dismissed a lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee about the party's decision to strip Florida of its delegates at the national convention, the state's House speaker blamed DNC chairman Howard Dean for "treating Florida like a third-rate state." "You know whose fault this is? This is Howard Dean's fault," House Speaker Marco Rubio, D-West Miami, said Friday while taping a segment for WPLG-TV's "This Week In...