NPR RACISTS? Hume: Race had role in NPR firing Williams.

“In the culture of NPR, appearing on Fox is a sin,” Hume said on “Fox News Sunday,” with regular panelist Williams sitting a few seats away. “And in the culture of NPR, for an African-American man like Juan, regardless of his personal stature, to be there and be kind of a Bill Cosby liberal, not a down-the-line liberal, is a sin as well. They’ve been gunning for him for years.”

Williams also called the firing a “pretext,” saying he was personally offended by NPR CEO Vivian Schiller’s public suggestion that Williams needed to see a psychiatrist, which he called “character assassination.”

Not a smart move for NPR.

DAN MITCHELL: Can We Trade Obama For Castro? “I’m not serious, of course, but it is rather ironic that Raul Castro is cutting the tax burden on small business at the same time that Obama is pushing for higher tax rates on small business.”

SECRET WAR inside Wikileaks. “At least a dozen key supporters of the website are known to have left in recent months. They say Wikileaks has ignored reams of new exposés because so much attention has been paid to the Iraq and Afghan conflicts. The heavily encrypted arm of the website that allows users to safely send information to the organisation has been offline for four weeks, making new submissions impossible.” It’s as if its purpose has been served now.

OBAMACARE? WHAT OBAMACARE? Manchin distances himself from health care law he once supported.