Morning Constitutional – Wednesday, 28 April 2010

Good morning, folks. Jenny McCarthy has some medical advice for you and your kids. Now, your morning constitutional:

The Coast Guard will attempt to burn off portions of the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico today that is closing in on Louisiana’s shore and ecologically sensitive areas around the Mississippi River basin. The slick has moved to within nearly twenty miles of the Louisiana coast.R

Clarence Dupnik, the sheriff of Pima County, Arizona says he will not enforce Arizona’s new immigration law, calling it “racist,” disgusting,” and “unnecessary.” His inaction could land him in trouble, as the law allows citizens to sue police officials for not upholding the law. The New York Times on how the immigration issue will be a complex test for both parties.

Thomas Hagan, who shot Malcolm X 45 years ago, was been released on parole Tuesday.

As foreign doctors depart and aide trickles out, Haitians begin to feel left behind on their own.

A Washington Post-ABC News poll finds Americans in the most anti-incumbent mood since 1994. FiveThirtyEight explains how Utah Senator Bennett may be among the first casualties of the anti-incumbent mood.

With Florida Governor Charlie Crist widely expected Thursday to announce an independent bid for the Senate, the race’s math will drastically change. Crist, who has supported off-shore drilling as a means of domestically producing oil, now, in the aftermath of the oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico and subsequent oil spill, says “Rigs are opposite of safe.”

What happened when I went undercover to a Christian gay-to-straight conversion camp.

U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologized Wednesday after he was caught on microphone calling a women with whom he talked on the campaign trail “bigoted.”

Salon’s Gabriel Winant: Republicans happy in their intellectual bubble.

The Hawaii legislature has passed a bill allowing state agencies to ignore duplicative requests for vital records. State officials mention that they get between ten and twenty requests a day for verification of President Obama’s birth certificate.

Many Japanese choose dates and organize offices by blood type.

Eating natural, organic, local, sustainable food is no solution for feeding the world’s hungry.

Five reasons the event music video is big right now.

Following last year’s end of the U.S. travel ban on people with H.I.V., China has lifted their own two-decade ban on visitors with H.I.V. or other sexually-transmitted diseases, as well as a long-standing ban on travel for those with leprosy.

Haitian-born hotel waiter Wadner Trenchant is suing the Ritz-Carlton Naples, after he was dismissed because the British family he was to serve that day had requested to not be served by anyone of color or with a foreign accent.

Finally, a 54-year old woman is alleged to have stolen two bottles of cooking wine from a Bethlehem, Pennsylvania-area grocery store and guzzled them; police found her with a .32 blood alcohol content.

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