Trump fails to produce birth certificate  —  Donald Trump made headlines earlier today when he provided what he said was a copy of his birth certificate — but a quick check reveals it's actually not an official document.  —  The paper that Trump released says “Jamaica Hospital” …

Obama's Libya speech: Full text as prepared for delivery  —  Here is the prepared text for President Obama's address on Libya Monday night:  —  Good evening.  Tonight, I'd like to update the American people on the international effort that we have led in Libya - what we've done, what we plan to do, and why this matters to us.

It's beginning to look a lot like a shutdown  —  (Alex Brandon - AP) Brian Beutler has a nice story running down the state of play on the budget negotiations.  The takeaway is that Republicans aren't just insisting that Democrats cut as deep as the GOP wants, but that they also cut in the way the GOP wants.

You've Come a Long Way, Baby  —  President Obama's unapologetic, freedom-agenda-embracing, not-shrinking-from-the-use-of- force speech.  —  I knew pretty early on during tonight's speech that President Obama had rejoined—or joined—the historical American foreign policy mainstream.

Black Activist Confronts Bill Ayers With Facts  —  Truth to power!  Well done, young lady.

EU to ban cars from cities by 2050  —  Cars will be banned from London and all other cities across Europe under a draconian EU masterplan to cut CO2 emissions by 60 per cent over the next 40 years.  —  The European Commission on Monday unveiled a “single European transport area” …

In an email to The Daily Caller on Monday morning, Huffington Post editor Roy Sekoff alleged that conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart is not telling the truth about discussions they had regarding HuffPo's removal of his blog from its front page.  —  HuffPo removed Breitbart's blog …

Two Christians killed, churches burned: extremists respond to Florida Koran burning  —  In Hyderabad and Lahore, a mob of Islamic fundamentalists targeted the Christian places of worship.  Desecrated several copies of the Bible.  Anti-American slogans and demonstrations in different cities of Pakistan.

Iranian Video Says Mahdi is ‘Near’  —  New evidence has emerged that the Iranian government sees the current unrest in the Middle East as a signal that the Mahdi—or Islamic messiah—is about to appear.  —  CBN News has obtained a never-before-seen video produced by the Iranian regime …

After Paying Zero Income Taxes, GE Plans To Ask Its Union Workers To Make Wage And Benefits Concessions  —  Our guest blogger is Mike Elk, a freelance labor journalist and third generation union organizer based in Washington, D.C. You can follow him for more updates on Wisconsin on twitter at @MikeElk.

Wisconsin Fight Goes to Court  —  As the dust settles in Madison, Wisconsin Republicans face a troubling coda: Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair bill is being tripped up in the courts.  Union heavies smell blood.  And the unruly parade of lefty activists and hulking Teamsters that occupied …

Mansfield school chief pulls plug on ‘anti-Islamic’ tea party event  —  MANSFIELD — A Mansfield North Central Ohio Tea Party Association event featuring a speaker on radical Islam will go on at 7 p.m. today as planned, but in a different location.  —  Usama Dakdok will speak at Premier Office Complex …

11 troops killed in Pakistan attack  —  PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Islamist militants ambushed a convoy of Pakistani troops traveling close to the Afghan border on Monday, killing 11 of them in an unusually bloody attack, a government official said.  —  The dead included a colonel and a captain …

A Birtherism Lexicon  —  Libertarian billionaire David Koch isn't a birther, exactly; he just thinks the president is a Marxist who got all his ideas from his father: … So Koch has his facts basically right; Obama didn't know his father very well.  But he nevertheless insists …

Wisconsin's Cronon Affair: The Power of a Simple Fact  —  More than a million people teach at colleges and universities in the United States, but only one faces a Republican demand for his e-mails: William Cronon, who teaches history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  —  Cronon is a brilliant historian.