Morning Constitutional – Monday, 29 March 2010

Good morning, folks. Butler, West Virginia, Duke and Michigan State: What in the—? Anyways, here\’s your morning constitutional:

President Obama made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan on Sunday to meet with President Karzai and address the troops stationed there.

Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up on Moscow Metro subway trains this morning, killing at least 36.

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that three police officers were justified in using a Taser on a pregnant woman who they stopped for a traffic violation.

An obituary for \’Cap and Trade.\’

Seven have been arrested in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana in raids by a FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force on the militia group Hutaree, a self-described Christian militia, this weekend. They are expected to appear in court today. ABC News wonders if they were targeted because of threats made to Muslims.

The President made 15 recess appointments this weekend, but one very important post is still empty.

A shortage of slaughterhouses is hampering the local eating movement.

How the noses on Japan\’s bullet trains are made – with hammers.

Trees in a forest an hour outside of D.C. are growing, in some cases, twice as fast as expected.

With so many Tea Party activists out of work, can the movement survive when the economy improves?

New Washington Post finds the public still split on health care reform.

Scientists discover evidence of another species of hominid, which would have lived at the same time as humans, Neanderthals, and the recently discovered Homo floresiensis in Indonesia.

Finally, kids need recess.