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.

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.

Buzzkill: The problem with Jon Huntsman Hype  —  From afar, it's easy to get swept up by the hype: Jon Huntsman is accomplished, handsome, smart, and his civility message has appeal beyond the meat-eaters who dominate this early phase of the Republican presidential campaign.

Like Chauncey Gardiner, Obama is profoundly aloof  —  Which past leader does Barack Obama most closely resemble?  His admirers, not all of them liberals, used to compare him with Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.  —  Well, Obama announced his candidacy in Lincoln's hometown two days …

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.

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 …

Atop TV Sets, a Power Drain That Runs Nonstop  —  Those little boxes that usher cable signals and digital recording capacity into televisions have become the single largest electricity drain in many American homes, with some typical home entertainment configurations eating more power …

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 …

Bummer of a Recovery  —  On economic growth, real GDP has risen 0.8% over the 13 quarters since the recession began, compared to an average increase of 9.9% in past recoveries.  —  When a new Bloomberg poll finds that 44% of Americans feel that the economy is “worse than when Obama was inaugurated” …