The Romney camp's line on Arizona (Updated)  —  Mitt Romney released a statement earlier today emphasizing the right of states to enact immigration policies, but not actually commenting directly on the substance of today's Supreme Court decision on the Arizona immigration law.

Turzai: Voter ID Law Means Romney Can Win PA  —  House Majority Leader Mike Turzai (R-Allegheny) told the Republican State Committee that Voter ID will allow Romney to win PA.  —  State Treasurer candidate Diana Irey Vaughan may have stolen the show at the Republican State Committee meeting …

5 Signs of a Radical Change in U.S. Politics  —  (Midnight update: This item went up three hours ago with a more blunt-instrument headline than it should ever have had: “5 Signs the United States is Undergoing a Coup.”  I used the word “coup” in a particular way in the longer item this was drawn from.

Teen lesbian couple found shot in Texas park  —  Police are investing the shooting of two teenage girls in a small Texas community along the Gulf of Mexico.  KRIS reporter Lindsay Curtis has the story.  —  Two teenage girls in a relationship were found with gunshot wounds to the head in a south Texas park …

How Republicans made it possible for the Supreme Court to rule against the mandate  —  It wasn't easy for Barack Obama to persuade David Axelrod to take him on as a client.  It took years, actually.  But there was a reason Obama wanted Axelord to be the one to run his campaigns.

Romney Bus Circles, Honks Obama — Again Mitt Romney's campaign bus circled President Barack Obama's fundraiser tonight in Boston, the second time they've pulled the stunt in two weeks.  —  BOSTON — For the second time in as many weeks, Mitt Romney's campaign taunted President Barack Obama outside a speech.

Elmo imposter hassles tourists for money and gets booted from Central Park Zoo  —  Man dressed up as furry Sesame Street Muppet gets taken away on ambulance  —  An emotionally disturbed man dressed as Elmo is taken away by ambulance after hassling tourists for money and shouting obscenties at Central Park Zoo.

Eric Holder ‘Fast and Furious’ contempt vote to be held Thursday  —  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. (Chip Somodevilla - GETTY IMAGES) The House is scheduled to vote on recommendations that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. be held in contempt of Congress on Thursday, according to House Republican aides.

An Important Victory For Freedom of Expression  —  First, dear readers, you should expect this post to change radically—or perhaps I will start a new post.  I just wanted to get this off my chest immediately.  —  I am free once again to do something very simple.  I am allowed to say the name Brett Kimberlin again.

Facebook's Lame Attempt To Force Its Email Service On You  —  Please don't email me here.  —  You may or may not realize that you have a Facebook email address.  It's an @facebook.com address you can use to correspond with people on external email accounts from your Facebook inbox.

Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. treated for exhaustion, takes medical leave  —  Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill.) has taken a medical leave of absence because he is being treated for exhaustion, according to his office.  —  In a brief statement released Monday, Jackson's staff disclosed that the lawmaker …

Plane Tows Swastika Banner, Startles New Jersey Beachgoers  —  LONG BEACH, N.J. (CBS/AP) — New Jersey beachgoers were startled over the weekend to see a small plane flying overhead pulling a swastika banner.  —  VIEW: Photo Plane Towing Swastika Banner  —  Twitter was abuzz with tweets …

A Cruel and Unusual Record  —  THE United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights.  —  Revelations that top officials are targeting people to be assassinated abroad, including American citizens, are only the most recent, disturbing proof of how far our nation's violation of human rights has extended.

Study: More Than Half a Trillion Dollars Spent on Welfare But Poverty Levels Unaffected  —  (CNSNews.com) - The federal government is not making much headway reducing poverty despite spending hundreds of billions of dollars, according to a study by the libertarian Cato Institute.

DNC Chairwoman Wasserman Schultz Getting Booted  —  Back in April, the Shark Tank floated the likelihood that Democratic National Committee Chairwoman (DNC) Debbie Wasserman Schultz was perhaps on her way out as DNC Chairwoman.  We now have learned that Wasserman Schultz will not be back as DNC Chairwoman after the November elections.

GOProud Is A Bunch Of Jewish Nazis  —  Ever since the conservative gay group GOProud backed Mitt Romney for President last week—albeit by a very slim margin—the epithets and insults have been hurling at them like taunts at a gay kid.  —  But this time, the outrage is justified.