POLITICO reporter suspended for remarks  —  POLITICO reporter Joe Williams has been suspended pending review of recent controversial comments he made on television and Twitter, POLITICO editors informed staff late Thursday night.  —  On MSNBC today, Williams made a remark suggesting Mitt Romney …

Romney's Bain Capital invested in companies that moved jobs overseas  —  Mitt Romney's financial company, Bain Capital, invested in a series of firms that specialized in relocating jobs done by American workers to new facilities in low-wage countries like China and India.

Obama Asks People Getting Married To Forgo Gifts, Ask Their Guests To Donate To His Campaign Instead...  You can even register your wedding on his campaign website.  Could he be any more pompous?

How My View on Gay Marriage Changed  —  IN my 2007 book, “The Future of Marriage,” and in my 2010 court testimony concerning Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative that defined marriage as between a man and a woman, I took a stand against gay marriage.

On Vacation and Sick?  A Court Says Take Another  —  BRUSSELS — For most Europeans, almost nothing is more prized than their four to six weeks of guaranteed annual vacation leave.  But it was not clear just how sacrosanct that time off was until Thursday, when Europe's highest court ruled …

The Only Nine Things You Need To Know From The Huffington Post Politico Profile That You Can't Read Online  —  We just downloaded The Huffington Post's profile by Michael Calderone of how Politico is supposedly in disarray.  You can't read it online because it's only on the iPad.

Wurzelbacher: Story of ad unfairly spun  —  House candidate says he 'wasn't talking about the Holocaust' in video  —  Facebook Twitter Reddit Digg E-mail Print Rss  —  Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher is not backing down from an anti-gun-control video released by his campaign this week …

New Poll: Obama leads Romney among Latinos in key 2012 battleground states  —  New polling released June 22, 2012 by Latino Decisions and America's Voice finds President Obama maintaining a wide lead over Republican Mitt Romney among Latino registered voters in five key battleground states.

Exclusive: Mary Cheney marries longtime partner Heather Poe  —  Mary Cheney, the openly gay daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, has married her long-time partner Heather Poe, The Daily Caller has learned.  —  Cheney spokeswoman Kara Ahern confirmed to TheDC that the couple married Friday morning in Washington, D.C.

Activists Take Out Frustration on ... Ronald Reagan  —  Victor Fiorillo reports for Phillymag.com:

Obama's White Support Is Too Low to Win  —  President Obama does not currently have enough white support to win re-election even if he retains his minority base from 2008.  At the same time, electoral data indicates Mitt Romney has not yet attracted enough of these white voters to capitalize on Obama's weakness.

Republicans' Voter Suppression Project Grinds On  —  Mitt Romney was in Michigan this week trying to make it competitive in the presidential election.  It's a steep climb for the native Michigander because President Barack Obama's auto bailout, which Romney opposed, has helped bring …

GOP Congressman Calls Pelosi ‘Mind-Numbingly Stupid’ And Suggests She May Be Mentally Ill  —  Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) yesterday called House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi “mind-numbingly stupid” and said that there is something medically wrong with her brain because she believes Republicans …

Kimberlin Vs. Walker: Walker Fights Back  —  Back on May 29th, Brett Kimberlin won a peace order hearing in Maryland District Court against Aaron Walker, claiming that Walker's blogging and tweeting of Kimberlin's violent past and his previous interactions with Kimberlin in court constituted harassment.

Philadelphia's Msg.  William J. Lynn Is Convicted of Allowing Abuse  —  PHILADELPHIA - In the first criminal conviction of a Roman Catholic Church official in the United States for covering up sexual abuses, Msgr.  William J. Lynn was found guilty Friday of endangering children by allowing …

Gas prices could hit $3 by autumn  —  The darkening clouds of the slowing economy could provide a bright spot for consumers: gasoline at $3 a gallon — or less — by autumn.  —  Nationally, regular gasoline averages $3.47 a gallon, down 47 cents from this year's high in April and well below …

The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia  —  How America's biggest banks took part in a nationwide bid-rigging conspiracy - until they were caught on tape  —  Someday, it will go down in history as the first trial of the modern American mafia.  Of course, you won't hear …

The Burden of Disease and the Changing Task of Medicine  —  Comments open through December 31, 2012

Strassel: Axelrod's ObamaCare Dollars  —  Emails suggest the White House pushed business to the presidential adviser's former firm to sell the health-care law.  —  Rewind to 2009.  The fight over ObamaCare is raging, and a few news outlets report that something looks ethically rotten in the White House.

The Snoozeroom  —  Aaron Sorkin's empty critique of cable news.  —  THE RIVETING DRAMA and moral risks that are part of TV journalism offer a fertile field for artists.  Paddy Chayefsky in Network told us the story of “the first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.”

Bad news: Jon Stewart not exactly buying the executive-privilege claim  —  Via Katie Pavlich, that's not the only bad news here for Eric Holder and Barack Obama.  Not only does Jon Stewart tell an audience inclined towards supporting Obama in November exactly why Operation Fast and Furious …

Talking About Why Women Can't Have It All  —  The cover story for the July/August issue of The Atlantic is one bound to stir conversation — as it was meant to.  In “Why Women Still Can't Have It All,” Anne-Marie Slaughter, the director of policy planning at the State Department under Hillary Rodham Clinton …

ABA Picks Sides on Judicial Nominations  —  A decade ago, the Bush Administration caused some controversy when it excluded the ABA from having a formal role in evaluating judicial nominees.  To the Bush Administration, the ABA was just a liberal advocacy group pretending to represent the legal profession as a whole.

Kathryn Jean Lopez: The saddest hack  —  It's time to take the National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez seriously, as depressing as that is … Kathryn Jean Lopez is, as best I can tell, a Heritage Foundation intern who was awarded the job of “National Review Online Editor” …