The View from One Prudential Plaza: Why the Obama Campaign Is So Confident About Beating Romney  —  President Obama pauses while speaking at a campaign event in Columbus, Ohio, on May 5, 2012  —  Barack Obama's decision to base his re-election campaign outside of Washington seems to be working pretty darn well.

Those Revolting Europeans  —  The French are revolting.  The Greeks, too.  And it's about time.  —  Both countries held elections Sunday that were in effect referendums on the current European economic strategy, and in both countries voters turned two thumbs down.

Mitt Romney Was Arrested For Disorderly Conduct In 1981  —  The charges were dropped after Romney threatened to sue.  “I was not a disorderly person,” Romney said.  —  Mitt Romney campaigns in Pittsburgh.  —  It's a little reported anecdote, but in 1981 presumptive Republican Presidential …

W.H. won't say whether Obama supports gay marriage  —  The White House wouldn't say Monday whether President Obama's views on gay marriage have changed, even as two high-level members of his administration have voiced support for the issue this week.  —  “The president is the right person to describe his own personal views.

Hillary Clinton : I will see a woman in White House  —  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday the United States will have a female president in her lifetime — but it won't be her.  —  Clinton said at a town hall meeting in Kolkata, India, that she wants to see “that final glass ceiling broken,” The Associated Press reported.

Secret Meeting Has ‘Washington Post’ Buzzing As paper struggles, big-name journalists meet with the paper's top business exec By Lucia Moses  —  Washington Post staffers are buzzing about a secret meeting between some 10 big-name Post journalists including Dana Priest, David Finkel and Carol Leonnig …

Secret U.S. program releases high-level insurgents in exchange for pledges of peace  —  KABUL — The United States has for several years been secretly releasing high-level detainees from a military prison in Afghanistan as part of negotiations with insurgent groups, a bold effort to quell violence …

This 93-Year-Old Grandmother Is Suing Pennsylvania Over Voter ID Laws  —  The first time Viviette Applewhite went to the polls, she cast her vote for John F. Kennedy.  But this year, a strict new voter identification law will likely prevent the now-93-year old woman and many others in Pennsylvania …

Rob Portman: No More Mr. Nice Guy  —  He's polite, smart and a little nerdy.  But as Rob Portman has climbed to the top of the list of potential running mates for Mitt Romney, the political world is now seeing a different side of him: the attack dog.  —  Just over the past week …

Opinion: Vote in French presidential election should be a warning for America  —  The French have now elected a socialist government.  This event should be instructive to us.  —  France currently has a government that absorbs more than 50 percent of its economy.

Brace for Ted Kennedy's revenge  —  The path to national health insurance  —  President Obama and Ted Kennedy championed health care reform — a cause that may, paradoxically, be advanced if the Supreme Court strikes down the Affordable Care Act.  —  “You know, liberals will be the big winners …

Prostitute at center of Secret Service scandal: Agents were ‘stupid brutes’  —  MADRID, Spain — A woman identifying herself as the Colombian prostitute at the center of a scandal involving U.S. Secret Service personnel has called the group of agents “stupid brutes” who put partying above President Barack Obama's security.

Why Colleges Don't Teach the Federalist Papers  —  At America's top schools, graduates leave without reading our most basic writings on the purpose of constitutional self-government.  —  It would be difficult to overstate the significance of The Federalist for understanding the principles …

Why Can't Obama Bring Wall Street to Justice?  —  Despite his populist posturing, the president has failed to pin a single top finance exec on criminal charges since the economic collapse.  Are the banks too big to jail—or is Washington's revolving door at to blame?  Peter J. Boyer and Peter Schweizer investigate:

Pentagon Quit The Avengers Because of Its ‘Unreality’  —  If Thor and Cap were looking for U.S. military backup, a continuity flaw prevented it from happening.  Image: Marvel Studios  —  The Pentagon halted its cooperation with Marvel Studios' blockbuster movie The Avengers …

Josh Dixon comes out as gay, aims for spot on Olympic gymnastics team  —  The United States has never had a publicly out male gymnast participate in the Olympics.  Josh Dixon hopes to be the first.  —  The Stanford grad took a big step toward that goal at the U.S. Men's Qualifier on Saturday …

Look Who's Pushing Homeowners Off the Foreclosure Cliff  —  One of the more confounding aspects of the U.S. housing crisis has been the reluctance of lenders to do more to assist troubled borrowers.  After all, when homes go into foreclosure, banks lose money.