Co-pilot intentionally crashed German plane . . . The co-pilot of the Germanwings flight that crashed in the French Alps, named as Andreas Lubitz, appeared to want to "destroy the plane", officials said. Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin, citing information from the "black box" voice recorder, said the co-pilot was alone in the cockpit. He intentionally started a descent while the pilot was locked out. BBC

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Obama ignores Congress because he thinks it lacks legitimacy . . . Think about how he was elected and reelected president. By drilling down into his base. That is, making the electorate more representative of “the people.” And when Republicans seized all of Congress in 2014, Obama wasn’t the least bit in awe of the event. Rather, he noted, only a third of voters went to the polls, and the views of those who didn’t show up were important too. White House Dossier

Bergdahl charged with desertion . . . U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, a former Taliban prisoner in Afghanistan, was formally charged on Wednesday with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, and could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted of the most serious count, the Army said. Reuters

Five Taliban commanders for a deserter . . . Congressional Republicans continue to complain that Obama had paid too high a price for Bergdahl, that he’d effectively negotiated with terrorists and that he’d kept Congress in the dark about a decision in which it should have played a role. Some Afghanistan veterans charged that soldiers had been killed or hurt while searching for Bergdahl. Politico

Obama had to have known the details about Bergdahl when he arranged the swap and then celebrated it at the White House. Has to be one of the top five disgraces of this administration.

White House readies campaign to defend Iran deal . . . Obama and his top national security and foreign policy aides will defend the deal forcefully to the public and in private talks with wavering senators and representatives. They will emphasize the deal’s intrusive monitoring and verification of Iranian nuclear facilities. Yahoo News

Video || Matt Lee Has a Low Tolerance for BS

Video || Hillary tries to Joke Up her Lousy Press Relations

Obama Schedule || Thursday, March 26, 2015

Iran-backed rebels seize Yemen files about U.S. spy operations . . . Secret files held by Yemeni security forces that contain details of American intelligence operations in the country have been looted by Iran-backed militia leaders, exposing names of confidential informants and plans for U.S.-backed counter-terrorism strikes, U.S. officials say. Los Angeles Times

Allies down with "Islamist extremism" term . . . While President Obama and his aides insist that Muslim extremists have nothing to do with Islam the religion, other world leaders are leaving that approach behind. Washington Times

Reid more deeply involved in Visa controversy than thought . . . The Senate’s top Democrat was more deeply involved than previously known in an effort to secure U.S. visas for Chinese investors in a Las Vegas casino despite the concerns of career federal officials, according to an inspector general report released on Tuesday. Washington Free Beacon

Vitter: Did donor affect Clinton's Nigeria policy? . . . Sen. David Vitter (R., La.) wants to know whether Hillary Clinton concealed communications with a Nigerian donor to the Clinton Foundation during an internal State Department debate over designating Boko Haram a terrorist group. Vitter sent a letter last week to Secretary of State John Kerry requesting all of Clinton’s records relating to Boko Haram and her reluctance to label it as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. Washington Free Beacon​

Cruz looks for likability . . . The Texas Republican has been seeking to soften his sometimes rigid public persona throughout his rollout this week: talking about his family background during his campaign launch at Liberty University on Monday, being candidly photographed with his wife and daughters, and adding non-political TV shows to his post-announcement tour. The Hill

Stopped listening to rock and roll . . . "I actually intellectually find this very curious, but on 9/11, I didn’t like how rock music responded,” Cruz said. “And country music, collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.” Politico

Maybe he'll sign up for Obamacare, maybe he won't . . . Sen. Ted Cruz hasn’t made a final decision on whether he will sign up for Obamacare but will make up his mind “in the coming days,” a spokesman said Wednesday. Politico

House passes a budget . . . The House on Wednesday approved a $3.8 trillion spending plan for fiscal 2016 that balances the budget in a decade, reforms Medicare and Medicaid, and eliminates Obamacare. Washington Examiner

The White House immediately pronounced it a budget designed to help the rich and demanding more spending.

Saudis attack Iran-backed rebels in Yemen . . . Saudi Arabia and a coalition of regional allies have launched a military operation in Yemen against the Houthi rebels, who deposed the US-backed Yemeni president last month. Adel al-Jubair, Saudi ambassador to the US, said on Wednesday that a coalition consisting of 10 countries, including the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), had begun airstrikes at 7pm Eastern time. Al Jazeera

Obama authorizes logistical support for the operation.

Iran may get involved . . . Iran demanded an immediate halt to Saudi-led military operations in Yemen on Thursday and said it would make all necessary efforts to control the crisis there, Iranian news agencies reported. Reuters

Palestinians commit war crimes against their own people . . . In a damning report, Amnesty International said Thursday Palestinian rocket fire during the 2014 summer war in Gaza had killed more civilians in the Gaza Strip than in Israel. AFP

I'm sure the international outrage will be deafening. Can you imagine if Israel specifically targeted civilians?

Cornell open to letting ISIS on campus . . . A top administrator at Cornell University has said that the institution would be open to the creation of a group supporting the Islamic State (ISIS) and to hosting a training camp for militants on campus. Project Veritas sent an undercover reporter posing as a Moroccan student to question Cornell's assistant dean for students, Joseph Scaffido. Newsmax

Global warming alarm running cold . . . Less than a third of Americans are now concerned about global warming and climate change: 32 percent fret about those environmental factors says the annual Gallup Environmental survey, released Wednesday. Naturally, there’s a partisan divide: 13 percent of Republicans are concerned about global warming and climate problems, compared to 52 percent of Democrats. Washington Times

Road proposed connecting London to New York via Russia . . . One of Russia's most powerful tycoons and a close pal of President Vladimir Putin has proposed a long and winding road that theoretically could connect Great Britain to Alaska, via Mother Russia. And while a nearly 13,000-mile highway sounds like a stretch – a really long stretch – the major roadblock is likely money, not feasibility. Fox News  

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