You know all those lawsuits now pending around the country charging that the Obama administration's rule requiring most health insurance plans to offer no-cost contraception is a violation of religious freedom?

Well, a whole bunch of supporters of the rule are chiming in now to say that argument has no legal merit.

Monday, May 28th: LIL' ED & THE BLUES IMPERIALS - Jump Start

Tuesday, May 29th: EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS - Here

Wednesday, May 30th: TREME: Music From the Original HBO Series, Season 2

Thursday, May 31st: RHETT MILLER - The Dreamer

Monday, May 28th: LIL' ED & THE BLUES IMPERIALS - Jump Start

Tuesday, May 29th: EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS - Here

Wednesday, May 30th: TREME: Music From the Original HBO Series, Season 2

Thursday, May 31st: RHETT MILLER - The Dreamer

Monday, May 28th: LIL' ED & THE BLUES IMPERIALS - Jump Start

Tuesday, May 29th: EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS - Here

Wednesday, May 30th: TREME: Music From the Original HBO Series, Season 2

Thursday, May 31st: RHETT MILLER - The Dreamer

Monday, May 28th: LIL' ED & THE BLUES IMPERIALS - Jump Start 

Tuesday, May 29th: EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS - Here

Wednesday, May 30th: TREME: Music From the Original HBO Series, Season 2

Thursday, May 31st: RHETT MILLER - The Dreamer

The needle and syringe are icons of modern medicine.

The first sneak peak a few weeks back inside journalist David Maraniss' highly anticipated biography of President Obama served up glimpses of the president as a young man in romantic relationships, with information gleaned from early girlfriends.

For South Sudan, 2011 was monumental. After decades of war, South Sudan became its own nation.

But as NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton has told us, that process of emerging from a conflict with its northern neighbor that left it poor and isolated, has been fraught with more fighting.

This week, Ken Rudin and Ron Elving discuss Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker criticizing the president's tactics on Bain Capital, the Tea Party's goals in next week's Texas Senate primary, and general dysfunction in D.C. In other words, it's the Booker "Tea" Washington edition of the podcast.