Skip the falsehoods, Mr. President, and give us a plan  —  I had high hopes for President Obama's speech on the economy.  But instead of going to Ohio on Thursday with a compelling plan for the future, the president gave Americans a falsehood wrapped in a fallacy.

AP sources: Immunity offered to certain immigrants  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives.  The election-year initiative addresses …

Obama to Celebrities: 'You're the Ultimate Arbiter of Which Direction This Country Goes'  —  NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama soaked in the support — and the campaign cash — of Manhattan's elite entertainers Thursday as his re-election team sought to fill its fundraising coffers.

Michigan lawmakers barred from floor after ‘vagina,’ ‘vasectomy’ remarks  —  (CNN) - Two state representatives in Michigan were barred from speaking on the floor of the legislature in Lansing Thursday after colleagues deemed their language “failed to maintain the decorum” of the legislative body.

NY1 Exclusive: School Prohibits Fifth-Grader From Giving Speech On Same-Sex Marriage … Kameron Slade worked on his speech with his mother and his teacher after winning a class competition.  He was slated to deliver it in a school-wide contest at PS 195.  —  That's no longer going to happen.

Union of Concerned Scientists Admits It Was Wrong  —  Last week, my column, Union of Concerned Scientists Cooks the Books, Media Swallow It, dissected the artful way in which UCS analysts had used corporate giving data to imply that General Electric executives were climate change hypocrites …

First Thoughts: Obama ‘creates the contrast’ in Cleveland  —  Obama's speech yesterday: creating the contrast... A speech he probably didn't want to give, but which probably silenced antsy Democrats and donors... Romney's rebuttal... Transitioning away from the Silly Season? …

MoveOn Comes Out Against Barron  —  Revolutionary Pan-Africanism is too far left even for the left.  “The kind of thing we've come to expect from the most offensive tea partier.”  —  Barron, then the Freedom Party candidate for governor, in 2010.  —  (Getty Images / Pool)

Americans Upbeat About Local Economy, Down on the World  —  Republicans more negative about economic conditions everywhere  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Americans become progressively less positive about economic conditions the farther away from home they look.  Forty-nine percent rate economic conditions …

Gay judge appointed in Virginia  —  An openly gay prosecutor has been appointed in Virginia to take the bench as a district judge, despite the state General Assembly's rejection of his nomination last month.  —  Tracy Thorne-Begland, whose appointment by Richmond Circuit Court judges will begin July 1 …

‘Moneyball’ Godfather Bill James Tackles Politics In Super PAC Age … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Elections 2012, Video, 2012 Campaign Moneyball, Bill James, Super PACs, Bill James Democrat, Bill James Obama, Bill James Superpac, Moneyball, Moneyball Campaigns, Obama 2012, Obama Moneyball …

Inside the Koch World convention  —  The Koch brothers' political operation has increasingly come to resemble its own political party — and later this month in San Diego, it will hold what amounts to its most ambitious convention to date.  —  Many of the dozens of rich conservative invitees …

Could Pennsylvania Go Red?  —  When Mitt Romney's bus tour pulls into Pennsylvania on Saturday, it will be entering a state no Republican candidate has won since George H.W. Bush in 1988.  John McCain lost the state to Barack Obama by more than 10 points in 2008, and with 1 million …