Axelrod: GOP seizing on ‘doing fine’ remark to avoid jobs debate  —  Senior Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod on Sunday punched back at Republicans who have seized on the president's remarks that “the private sector is doing fine,” arguing that the GOP was trying to distract from the president's jobs plan.

Liberals Are Ruining America.  I Know Because I Am One.  —  In the spring of 2006, I quit my job as an adjunct professor at Boston College to protest the school's selection of Condoleezza Rice as commencement speaker.  My resignation letter, published online by The Boston Globe, went viral.

School pulls patriotic song at graduation, but Justin Bieber's ‘Baby’ is OK  —  A Coney Island principal refused to let students sing “God Bless the USA” at a school ceremony — but Justin Bieber's “Baby” was suitable.  —  A controversial Coney Island principal has pulled the plug on patriotism.

Eugenics, Past and Future  —  THE current issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine includes a portrait of Irving Fisher, a Yale economics professor in the 1920s and '30s and a giant of his field.  The author, Richard Conniff, takes note of Fisher's prodigious professional accomplishments …

Obama's campaign asks supporters to grade its performance  —  President Obama's campaign is calling on supporters to grade its performance amid a difficult early June for his reelection bid against presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney.  —  “This campaign is ramping up, and the decisions …

Dylan Ratigan Leaving MSNBC  —  Dylan Ratigan, the opinionated and sometimes hotheaded television host, is leaving MSNBC, the cable channel where he has worked for the last three years.  —  Mr. Ratigan, whose news analysis show is now broadcast at 4 p.m. Eastern time, said in a telephone interview …

Gov. Walker splits with Romney, says firemen, teachers aren't ‘big government’  —  Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.) disagreed Sunday with Mitt Romney's conclusion that the failed recall election in Wisconsin was evidence that American voters want fewer public workers such as teachers and firemen.

Mitch Daniels: Public-Sector Unions Shouldn't Exist … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Mitch Daniels, Scott Walker, Video, Mitch Daniels 2012, Mitt Daniels Unions, Public Sector Jobs, Collective Bargaining, Government Workers, Indiana, Mitch Daniels Mitt Romney, Mitch Daniels Scott Walker …

Poppy Chic  —  I FLEW down to Houston last year to have lunch with George Herbert Walker Bush.  —  “Did you come because you think I'm going to die?” he asked me with a wry smile.  —  Not at all, I replied, adding that I wanted to join him on his planned sky-diving excursion when he turned 90.

“Face the Nation” transcript, June 10, 2012: Walker, O'Malley, Trumka  —  PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO … SCHIEFFER: Today on FACE THE NATION, on the 40th anniversary of Watergate, a new flood of Washington leaks as the president looks for something good to say about a bad election-year economy.