President Obama made a 40-second mention of the Malaysian plane crash in Ukraine, saying, "It looks like it may be a terrible tragedy", before launching a 16-minute speech, joking about being in Delaware and tearing into Republicans again.





Is Vice President Joe Biden starting to put some distance between himself and President Obama with a eye toward trying to become his successor? In 2008 Obama ran a campaign of "hope and change" but Biden admitted to a group of young progressives that "it didn't happen." Ron Fournier of the National Journal called the backtrack "a really bad moment for the White House."

Democrats, Republicans, liberals, the tea party movement -- as if we didn't
already have enough of these labels, here come the "conservatarians", proclaims "Inside the Beltway" in the Washington Times. They represent "a mashup of conservative and libertarian ideas, amped up with cutting edge technology, social media and some attitude," the paper says. Leaders in the group include Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash.