Justices' feud gets physical  —  Prosser, Bradley clashed on eve of union ruling  —  By Crocker Stephenson, Cary Spivak and Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel  —  Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley late Saturday accused fellow Justice David Prosser of putting her in a chokehold during …

Iowa Poll: Romney, Bachmann in lead; Cain third; others find little traction  —  Illustration by Mark Marturello/The Register  —  Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann sit atop the standings in the year's first Des Moines Register Iowa Poll on the Republican presidential field.

Report: Hugo Chávez in Critical Condition In Cuban Hospital  —  Hugo Chávez extended stay in a Cuban hospital is because he is in critical condition, according to a report in El Nuevo Herald.  —  The Venezuelan president, who was last seen in public June 9 and last heard from on June 12 …

Al Gore: Pushing back on environment  —  Democrats may not exactly be thrilled with the idea, but Al Gore has thrust himself back into the spotlight as President Barack Obama's green conscience.  —  With a frontal attack Wednesday on Obama's environmental record, the former vice president …

GHEI: The return of stagflation  —  Obama's Carter-era policies bring back Carter-era problems  —  The silver lining in the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee Meeting on Wednesday is that quantitative easing seems to be off the table for now.  Once the Fed ends its $600 billion bond-buying program …

Why Is He Bi?  (Sigh)  —  HE was born this way.  —  Bi.  —  Not bisexual.  Not even bipartisan.  Just binary.  —  Our president likes to be on both sides at once.  —  In Afghanistan, he wants to go but he wants to stay.  He's surging and withdrawing simultaneously.

Even for Cashiers, College Pays Off  —  ALMOST a century ago, the United States decided to make high school nearly universal.  Around the same time, much of Europe decided that universal high school was a waste.  Not everybody, European intellectuals argued, should go to high school.

Pelosi demands seat at debt talks  —  House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will demand a seat in the table for the final talks on the national debt limit, putting a strong liberal voice in the room.  —  Pelosi and House Democrats were left out of the negotiations between President Obama …