A UN deadline for Syrian troop withdrawal has passed without any halt to the al-Asaad regime's bombing of rebels in Homms and other cities. As with North Carolina, the White House has weighed in against Minnesota's ballot initiative banning same-sex marriage. Florida GOP Senator Marco Rubio is proposing a toned down version of the DREAM Act, but few Republicans seem interested in an election year. Facebook has gone shopping and picked up internet photo sharing service Instagram for an even billion. Iran plans to cut the country off from the net and replace it with the regime's sanitized, nationalized version with no access to the outside world.