Ann Romney Says Campaign Will ‘Unzip’ the Real Mitt  —  GREEN BAY, Wis. - Ann Romney defended her husband's sense of humor today during a radio interview, explaining that if people think the candidate seems too stiff at times as the host suggested, she thinks “we better unzip him and let the real Mitt Romney out.”

Justices Approve Strip-Searches for Any Offense  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled by a 5-to-4 vote that officials may strip-search people arrested for any offense, however minor, before admitting them to jails even if the officials have no reason to suspect the presence of contraband.

Obama 49%, Romney 45% Among Registered Voters Nationwide  —  Obama, Romney supporters equally enthusiastic about voting  —  PRINCETON, NJ — If asked to choose between them today, 49% of U.S. registered voters say they would vote for Barack Obama for president, while 45% would choose likely Republican opponent Mitt Romney.

Why Don't Black People Protest ‘Black-on-Black Violence’?  —  Juan Williams offers a meme that we are seeing repeated in response to the widespread protests around Trayvon Martin: … This is an interesting question.  It's also one that Juan Williams, who's been writing about race for almost three decades, should be able to answer.

Pink Slime Economics  —  The big bad event of last week was, of course, the Supreme Court hearing on health reform.  In the course of that hearing it became clear that several of the justices, and possibly a majority, are political creatures pure and simple, willing to embrace any argument …

Gunman opens fire at East Oakland college  —  Henry K. Lee, Carolyn Jones, Demian Bulwa, Justin Berton  —  (04-02) 11:54 PDT Oakland —  Several people were shot and apparently some were killed when a gunman opened fire inside a classroom at an East Oakland private university, authorities said.

Former President Clinton on Mitt Romney: Etch-a-Sketch “Is What He's Got to Do”  —  Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, currently faces a dynamic similar to the one President Bill Clinton faced during his first presidential run 20 years ago: a long, bruising primary, driving up his unfavorable ratings.

The right's stealthy coup  —  Right before our eyes, American conservatism is becoming something very different from what it once was.  Yet this transformation is happening by stealth because moderates are too afraid to acknowledge what all their senses tell them.

As The Trayvon Martin Walkbacks Threaten To Become A Stampede  —  The media walkbacks in the Trayvon Martin shooting case are piling up.  —  ABC News has pulled the plug on its breakthrough video showing an uninjured Zimmerman being taken to the police station.; their new, enhanced video “Shows Injury”.

Md. woman won't share $105M lotto jackpot with McD's co-workers  —  By EVAN SERPICK and WILLIAM FARRINGTON in Baltimore and BOB FREDERICKS in NY  —  Mega Millions mania has plunged a Maryland McDonald's into a bubbling cauldron of controversy hotter than a deep-fried apple pie.

Shock Poll: Majority would recall Wis. Gov. Walker  —  A new Rasmussen poll finds that Republican Wisconsin Scott Walker is in trouble of being recalled June 5, with a majority, 52 percent, saying they will vote him out less than two years after he took office and immediately went to work to cut the power of public service unions.

Al-Qaeda's online forums go dark for extended period  —  Al-Qaeda's main Web forums have been offline for the past 11 days in what experts say is the longest sustained outage of the sites since they began operating eight years ago.  —  No one has publicly claimed responsibility for disabling the sites …

Where is George W. Bush?  —  George W. Bush is everywhere and nowhere in the 2012 presidential race.  —  Reviled by Democrats and generally avoided as a campaign talking point by his fellow Republicans, the former president is in a self-imposed political exile — an absence that was underscored …

Occupy SF marchers take over vacant building  —  Occupy SF activists put the mostly moribund movement back in the spotlight Sunday, taking over an unoccupied building owned by the Archdiocese of San Francisco with plans to establish a “permanent occupation” that would serve as shelter and a center for services for homeless people.

Romney confronted over Mormon doctrines  —  HOWARD, Wis. - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was confronted at a town hall meeting here Monday by a young man who read from the Book of Mormon and asked Romney whether he agreed with his church's one-time belief that interracial marriage was a sin.