Explain to me again why they are called “reporters”?  —  When Neil Munro shouted out a question to Obama yesterday as Obama was reading a statement in the Rose Garden about his unilateral thumbing of Congress and the American people in the eye, a firestorm of condemnation erupted among media-types on both the left and right.

C.E.O. Pay Is Rising Despite the Din  —  YOU call this a revolution?  —  Probably the most-heard complaint about big business these days, one seemingly tailored for the 99 percent, is how much money corporate C.E.O.'s routinely pull down.  Many ordinary Americans probably cheered when stockholders …

Broken Trust Takes Time to Mend  —  PRESIDENT OBAMA caused a stir recently when he said that “the private sector is doing fine” and pinned many of the nation's economic troubles on a decline in public-sector employment.  He cited some interesting numbers, but he didn't draw the right lesson …

‘Angry’ money gives funding edge to GOP and Romney  —  Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the Cornwall Iron Furnace on June 16, 2012 in Cornwall, Pennsylvania.  Mr. Romney continues hs campaign swing through battle ground states …

Tom Friedman, The Musical!  —  I guess “Tommy” has already been used.  Inspired somewhat by this, my long friendship with the man, and some suggests from the Twitter, here's what we have so far:  —  It's the tale of a wealthy white American who travels the world, blissfully unaware …

TPM2012  —  Alberto Gonzales: Obama May Have Violated His Oath Of Office With Immigration Move  —  Former George W. Bush administration Attorney General Alberto Gonzales doesn't disagree with the thought behind President Obama's executive action changing the way immigration policy …

Officials: Hamas ordered Grad attack on Israel at request of Muslim Brotherhood  —  It is unclear whether the rocket was part of an attempt to launch rockets at specific targets within Israel.  —  The remains of a rocket attack on Netivot in southern Israel.  Photo by Eliyahu Hershkowitz

44 Senators urge Obama to cut off Iran negotiations unless progress made  —  Nearly half the Senate told President Barack Obama today that unless Iran gives three specific concessions at this weekend's talks with world powers in Moscow, he should abandon the ongoing negotiations over the country's nuclear program.

DNA Gives New Insights Into Michelle Obama's Roots  —  REX, Ga. — Joan Tribble held tightly to her cane as she ventured into the overgrown cemetery where her people were buried.  There lay the pioneers who once populated north Georgia's rugged frontier, where striving white men planted corn and cotton …

Highway bill running out of gas, as House, Senate negotiations stall  —  Advocates for a new federal transportation bill think even bumping negotiations up to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) may not be enough to save the measure from this year's legislative scrapheap.

The smartest guy in the room  —  JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon went before the Senate Banking Committee this week in what should have been a kind of ritual apology tour.  Dimon has spent much of the last year and a half dismissing and belittling critics of Wall Street and harshly criticizing …