With the Draft only 27 days away, multiple lawsuits pending, and the lockout only in force for a few weeks, the NFL announced that an agreement on a new CBA had been reached with players.

The NRSC helpfully provides President Obama with his first campaign ad of the 2012 cycle:

Nor, it would seem, are really tired clichés.

I remain doubtful.

A tribute to my NCAA Bracket:

No matter how the owners and players resolve their squabble, the fans are likely to get screwed.

It’s understandable that the President feels defensive about gas prices, but that’s no excuse for trying to sell the public a bill of goods.

By request of a regular OTB reader:

PP’s intensive effort to recast itself as a preventer of abortions doesn’t bear scrutiny.

Sometimes the most sensible result can be the hardest to reach. This isn’t one of those times.

Google erects some much-needed defenses in the optimization arms race.

Apparently having nothing better to talk about in the world today, Mother Jones‘ David Corn devotes 878 words today to a weird conspiracy theory promulgated by some Israeli you’ve never heard of: [H]ere’s the mother of all right-wing conspiracy theories: Obama is scheming to bring tens of millions of Muslims—perhaps up to 100 million—from the [...]

The Social Security “trust fund” may actually be worse than worthless.

Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum thinks we’ve been too hard on the Crusaders.

Either Andrew Breitbart controls the entire media complex or Crooks & Liars jumped the gun. “Figure it out.”

No, the legislation does not in any way “suggest that some kind of rape that would be okay.”

Dana Milbank’s “No Palin Month” lasted almost 15 hours 45 minutes.

Demanding that the new GOP House hold the line at the current number is satisfying rhetorically, but all-but-impossible politically.

For perhaps the first time ever, I find myself in total and complete agreement with Dana Milbank. Take the pledge: Give Palin a rest.