• Rep. Julia Carson (D-Ind.) died this weekend of lung cancer. She was 69. [BS]

• Hillary Clinton won the Des Moines Register's coveted endorsement over the weekend, while Barack Obama picked up the Boston Globe's. [BN]

• Police forces in Philly's mostly white suburbs aggressively enforce nuisance laws and have a high arrest rate for minor crimes. They say that targeting small crimes helps discourage larger ones. The Philadelphia Inquirer says that targeting small crimes helps arrest a disproportionately large number of black people. [CBS3]

• Mitt Romney said that when he found out in 1979 that the Mormon church had decided to allow blacks to be priests, he pulled over in his car and cried. I believe him. [FN]