Slapping a friend  —  For the past couple of months, Democrats and their pundit allies — apparently expecting to lose on ObamaCare in the Supreme Court — have been engaged in a campaign to delegitimize the high court in the eyes of the public.  In a related development …

Hill Poll: Voters: Obama over-reached blocking Fast and Furious docs  —  A clear majority of likely voters believes President Obama has exercised his executive power inappropriately — particularly in blocking the release of documents relating to Operation Fast and Furious, according to a new poll for The Hill.

The Muslim B'Hood takeover in Egypt shows Arab Spring is radical Islamic nightmare.  —  A year ago there were those of us who warned the Obama Administration of a Muslim Brotherhood takeover in Egypt.  We were castigated as alarmists and loose cannons.  Today our predictions have come …

Hispanic Voters Put Other Issues Before Immigration  —  Healthcare, unemployment are tops among six issues tested  —  PRINCETON, NJ — U.S. Hispanics prioritize immigration, healthcare, and unemployment to equal degrees, according to a new USA Today/Gallup poll asking about the importance of six national policy issues.

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.

Obama's Reversals on Executive Power  —  New York Times columnist Ross Douthat has an interesting column describing some of President Obama's evolving positions on executive power.  He now engages in many of the same practices that he and numerous other liberal Democrats denounced …

Lawmakers reworked financial portfolios after talks with Fed, Treasury officials  —  In January 2008, President George W. Bush was scrambling to bolster the American economy.  The subprime mortgage industry was collapsing, and the Dow Jones industrial average had lost more than 2,000 points in less than three months.

Concern troll of the day: Campbell Brown  —  Question: does the New York Times op ed page have any quality control mechanisms?  At all?  —  Okay, we all know that there are major problems with some of their op ed columnists.  First off, there's David Brooks, that shallow …

Shop owners recall more teen Romney pranks: fake stickup, impersonating firefighter  —  On a Friday evening in 1962, or perhaps 1963, Ben Shaw and his sales employees at the Princeton Prep Shoppe in Birmingham, Mich., were watching traffic roll by as an ordinary work day wound down.

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.

‘Gentlemen, take tips’: Obama reveals how he romanced Michelle on first date in toe-curling interview (but it's only a stunt to raise cash for his re-election campaign)  — At the end of the clip, Mr Obama grins, looks at the camera and says ‘Take tips gentleman’ before winking