Had Enough “Hope and Change”?  —  One of my daughters drove up north with some friends to stay overnight at a lake cabin earlier this weekend.  Somewhere northeast of Minneapolis they passed a billboard that said, “Had enough ‘HOPE AND CHANGE’?”  The billboard depicted a pair of hands feeding the Constitution into a shredder.

Wall St. plans payback for reg reform  —  With the financial reform bill likely to hit President Barack Obama's desk in coming weeks, Wall Street's top political players are warning Democrats to brace themselves for the next phase of the fight: the fundraising blowback.

NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World  —  Shown here is NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.  (YouTube)  —  NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his “foremost” mission as the head of America's space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.

CNN Editor Mourns Death of Hezbollah's Spiritual Leader  —  How did CNN senior editor of Middle East affairs Octavia Nasr celebrate July 4?  By mourning the passing of Hezbollah's Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah.  Here's what the CNN editor posted on her Twitter account:

Angle Sends Cease-And-Desist To Reid — For Reposting Her Own Website  —  Sharron Angle has resorted to an unusual maneuver to counter Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's attacks on her past quotes and positions, the Reid campaign has announced: A cease-and-desist letter …

Expert: Lockerbie Bomber Could Live Much Longer  —  Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, is visited by a group of African parliamentarians, not pictured, at Tripoli Medical Center in Tripoli, Libya.  —  LONDON — A cancer expert whose medical assessment …

Arizona Candidate: Cut Off Power to Illegal Immigrants  —  Ratcheting up the debate over immigration in his state, a candidate for the Arizona utilities commission is threatening to cut off power and gas to illegal immigrants if he's elected.  —  “It is not a right.

AP owes China an apology  —  (updated below - Update II)  —  From an Associated Press article today on the conviction in China of an American citizen accused of spying and collecting “state secrets”: … A few cigarette stubs into a forearm for a handful of days?  That's it?  That's “torture”?

Environmentalist faces jail for hanging banner in Senate office building  —  A 60 year-old environmental activist who hung two banners in a government building will be sentenced Tuesday — and faces up to three years in prison.  —  Bloomfield, NJ resident Ted Glick will be sentenced Tuesday …

Dow Repeats Great Depression Pattern: Charts  —  The Dow Jones Industrial Average is repeating a pattern that appeared just before markets fell during the Great Depression, Daryl Guppy, CEO at Guppytraders.com, told CNBC Monday.  —  “Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it …

“Losing Our Cool”: The high price of staying cool  —  How air conditioning changed the American landscape, transformed our politics, and is endangering our health  —  In the last half century, air conditioning has joined fireworks, swimming pools and charred hamburgers as a ubiquitous ingredient of an American summer.

Blistering heat expected in Northeast  —  New York (CNN) — A heat wave of historic proportions could strike some Northeastern states as forecasters warn of prolonged triple-digit temperatures that could trigger “a dangerous situation,” the National Weather Service advised Monday.

Senate bill to repeal health reform lacks backing from Republican leaders  —  Although they've called repeatedly for repeal of the Democrats' new health reform law, some senior Senate Republicans have not endorsed a bill that would actually do it.  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell …

Flag mural on Sunol Grade restored to Old Glory  —  The flag is still there.  Or, rather, it's back.  —  After an absence of a few days, a mural of an American flag has returned to a hillside above Interstate 680 in Sunol — just in time for the Fourth of July.

Holiday week but no vacation from politics  —  Washington (CNN) - It's a holiday week and Congress is out of town, but there's no vacation from politics.  —  With less than four months to go until November's midterm elections, most lawmakers up for re-election this autumn are back in their home states …